Reopening Hollywood North
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Christmas in July.
Not even a pandemic can stop this BC Film industry tradition.
Chateau Christmas starts filming at the Chateau Whistler resort today with Christmas decorations, warmly dressed backgrounders and social distancing.
Cast: Merritt Patterson and Luke Macfarlane.
Related: Hallmark & Other TV Movies First To Resume Production in Hollywood North After 3-Month Shutdown
It’s one of seven Christmas movies — Christmas Forgiveness, Chateau Christmas, A Christmas in Nashville, Deliver it by Christmas, Jingle Bell Bride, A Christmas Tree Grows in Brooklyn and The Christmas Yule Blog — in production so far with new Covid-19 safety protocols.
Related Seven TV movies Filming in Hollywood North This Summer in Covid Era.
And that’s not all. There are at least seven romances (mostly Hallmark) on the production lists plus Lifetime movie Practice to Deceive and Hallmark’s latest Aurora Teagarden Mystery.
Related: Aurora Teagarden Mystery & 11 Other TV movies Filming in BC This Summer.
One TV romance — For Better or Worse — has already wrapped in Kelowna.
Almost all of the TV movies have Canadian directors and crews. Any cast, directors, creators or crew from outside Canada have to do the government-mandated 14-day quarantine before heading to set.
TV Movies.
Wrapped.
For Better or Worse.
Director: David I. Strasser from Vancouver.
Dates: June 8th to 23rd.
Six more TV movies — Christmas Forgiveness, Kite Festival of Love, Wedding Every Weekend, Beverly Hills Wedding, Love N Romance, Oregon and My One True Love — started shooting in June.
Christmas Forgiveness
Director: Lucie Guest from Vancouver.
Dates: June 22nd to July 10th.
CF signs on mt. Lehman rd!! @WhatsFilming @yvrshoots
— ChefB (@chefbk11) June 22, 2020
Wedding Every Weekend
Director: Kevin Fair from Vancouver.
Dates: June 22nd to July 15th.
Circus for Wedding Every Weekend.
Ok it’s Wedding every weekend I litterly yelled at the PA from my car 🤣 guy was so nice, I welcomed them back on there first day 😁 @WhatsFilming @yvrshoots
— ChefB (@chefbk11) June 22, 2020
Kite Festival of Love
Director: Christie Will Wolf from Toronto.
Dates: June 26th to July 17th.
Beverly Hills Wedding
Director: Paul Ziller from Toronto.
Dates: June 29th to August 19th
Love N Romance, Oregon
Director: Danny J. Boyle from the U.S.
Shooting in Kelowna.
Dates: June 29th to July 15th.
And two other romances — Destination Wedding — got underway on July 2nd.
Destination Wedding
Director: Jason James from Vancouver.
Dates: July 2nd to 17th.
My One True Love
Director: Heather Hawthorn Doyle from Vancouver.
Dates: July 2nd to July 17th.
Six Christmas movies — Chateau Christmas, A Christmas in Nashville, Deliver it by Christmas, Jingle Bell Bride, A Christmas Tree Grows in Brooklyn and The Christmas Yule log — start production in July.
Chateau Christmas
Cast: Merritt Patterson and Luke Macfarlane.
Director: Michael Robison from Toronto.
July 6th to 25th
A Christmas in Nashville
Tibor Takacs from Toronto.
July 8th to 28th
Deliver it by Christmas
Director: Terry Ingram from Vancouver.
July 13th to August 1st.
Jingle Bell Bride
Director: Allan Harmon from Vancouver.
July 16th to August 3rd.
A Christmas Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Director: Jason Bourque from Vancouver.
July 20th to August 8th.
The Christmas Yule Blog
Director: David Winning from Vancouver.
July 20th to August 8th.
Lifetime’s Practice to Deceive
A small island is community turned upside down when a local businessman is found dead the day after Christmas. The film follows an investigation into his death that looks at everyone in his life from neighbors to his wife to his best friend.
Director: Ashley Williams.
July 8th to 24th.
And the Aurora Teagarden Mysteries series is back filming mid-July.
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Reunited and It Feels So Deadly
Director: Martin Wood from Vancouver.
July 16th to 29th.
Source: DGC-BC Production List.
