Some secrets are best to share, like the Berkshires as a budding destination to make a movie.

For the past year, the Berkshire Film and Media Commission has been in talks with filmmaker Swamy Kandan about bringing a script to shoot in Berkshire County. Together, this spring, they are making it happen. This week, Kandan and his actors and crew began the primary shooting for a psychological thriller film called "The Secret Village." Though only carrying a Screen Actors Guild ultra-low-budget classification (under $200,000), the film stars actors with some well-known credits: Ali Faulkner ("Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn"), Jonathan Bennett ("Mean Girls"), Richard Riehle ("Office Space," "Glory"), Stelio Savante ("Ugly Betty"). Two year's ago, Diane Pearlman, executive director of the Berkshire Film and Media Commission, told The Eagle that, while the region would welcome major motion picture productions, the commission was developed with smaller, independent film and video commercial projects in mind. This week, she said she couldn't be a happier liaison between the film crew and the community. "This is what we envisioned. This is happening. We're having a film here, created here, and it's fabulous," said Pearlman. Kandan said he has also been pleased with the process. "It has gone very well, and I think any genre [of film] that matches this place should definitely come here," he said. Parts of the crew arrived on March to begin scouting locations, and various cast and crew members will stay in the Berkshires until May 12 or 13.