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Films boast Mattawa's natural beauty.


For the second time in two weeks, the Mattawa-Bonfield area is playing host to the Canadian film industry.

About 60 workers and actors were in Mattawa for the production of a Terry Fox movie. Shaftesbury Film Production, a Toronto-based company, is producing a two-hour drama for CTV CTV Canadian Television (Network Limited)  to be aired this September.

The crew was scheduled to use part of Rochon Hill on Highway 17 coming into Mattawa and the Lion's Club Park for two scenes on June 25.

It is a budding relationship that economic development officer David Thompson wants to build upon.

"We are working very closely with the film industry to showcase our natural beauty and to illustrate that we can compliment the Greater Toronto Area The Greater Toronto Area (widely abbreviated as the GTA) is the most populous metropolitan area in Canada. The GTA is a provincial planning area with a population of 5,555,912 at the 2006 Canadian Census.  film community," says Thompson in a June 22 news release.

In early June, two production companies were in Mattawa to film a documentary reality series on the Voyageurs. A crew of nine women and men are retracing a 2,500-km canoe expedition from Montreal to the Red River Valley
See also the Red River disambiguation page.


The Red River Valley is a region in central North America that is drained by the Red River of the North.
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Date:Aug 1, 2005
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