Movies and Commercials Filmed in the Kamloops Area

 

Lights, Camera...Kamloops!

The vast, rugged landscape of the Kamloops area has captured the attention of filmmakers from as early as the 1900’s and still continues to today.

The first film was created in 1912, the year that Kamloops celebrated the centennial of its founding as a fur trading post and the year Kamloops was visited by the Governor General of Canada , the Duke of Connaught, who was touring British Columbia at the time. In 1918, “The Enemy of the Forest” was filmed in Kamloops , showing the process on how to fight forest fires.

 

 

 

 

Approximately six documentary films were shot in Kamloops in the 1920’s and Fox Movietonews of New York had crews that traveled the world filming events for showings in theaters, which included the 1924 Kamloops “Queen of the May” ceremonies. In1928, the National Museum of Man in Ottawa made a one-reel film about the Shuswap Indians, interweaving scenes of the landscape and wildlife of the Thompson River region. 

In 1937, Kamloops celebrated the 150th anniversary of being a fur trading post with parades and other celebrations being filmed for theatres by Hearst Metrotone News of New York .  This was the first motion picture with sound filmed in Kamloops. 

Since the earlier days, more major feature films have been created in Kamloops such as Cadence with Martin and Charlie Sheen, An Unfinished Life with Robert Redford, Jennifer Lopez and Morgan Freeman and Firewall with Harrison Ford and Virginia Madsen. The 2009 blockbuster 2012, with Jon Cusack and Woody Harrelson was recently released, which was filmed in the Kamloops, Ashroft and Cache Creek region.Stay tuned for the filming of the new movie, The A-Team, in the near future.  

The television miniseries Alice was filmed on the Tranquille Property near Red Lake in Kamloops in 2008, which airs in late 2009 on Showcase. An independent film Rain Down was also filmed in the area.

For more information on films in Kamloops and other stories of Kamloops’ history, contact the Kamloops Visitor Centre at 1-800-662-1994. Research Assistance courtesy of the Kamloops Museum & Archives and the TNRD.

 

Information

Kamloops Visitor Centre: 1-800-662-194-94

inquiry@tourismkamloops.com

 

Thompson-Nicola Film Commission
Victoria Weller, Executive Director of Film
#300—465 Victoria Street
Kamloops, BC V2C 2A9
Phone: (250) 377-8673 Fax: (250) 372-5048
Toll Free in B.C.: 1-877-377-8673
E-mail: vweller@tnrd.bc.ca
Web Site: www.tnrdfilm.com