Filming underway in the Kamloops area. (Photo via Thompson Nicola Film Commission)

It’s shaping up to be a busy 2024 for the film and TV industry in the Kamloops area, after a slower 2023 in part because of strikes by both writers and actors in Hollywood.

Thompson Nicola Film Commissioner Terri Hadwin says she’s been in contact with a number of people who are looking for places in the Kamloops-area to shoot both movies and TV shows.

“We’ve been approached by another production that is looking to film one of their romantic type movies and then there is also five other big ones that are on my radar right now,” Hadwin said.

“There have been others ones that have been asking me to put together some look books so that they can have a peak through what we in our database, to see if we have got the right locations for their upcoming productions.”

There have been some major productions shot in the Kamloops-area in the past couple of years including Season 2 of The Last of Us, as well as Tracker, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, and Jurassic World Dominion.

“Anytime we bring film production into our area and they see what we have for locations and how we have exceptional hospitality here and how we love working with the film industry, its just going to snowball every single time,” Hadwin said.

“It’s definitely going to be a far busier year in 2024.”

The Kamloops-area film industry brought in about $18 million in revenue in 2022, and Hadwin previously told Radio NL that was figure expected to be doubled by the end of 2024.