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Film set to shoot Wednesday

Producers of the feature film Tomato Red will be shooting in Kelowna on Wednesday.

Okanagan Film Commissioner Jon Summerland said the film is produced by Octagon Films of Ireland, which has produced many high-profile television series (Foyle’s War, The Vikings, The Borgias, Penny Dreadful) and feature films (Calvary, Becoming Jane, As If I Am Not There, The Door).

Those on cast for the shoot have not yet been revealed.  

Tomato Red was adapted for the screen by Juanita Wilson from the novel by Daniel Woodrell. It tells the tale of two siblings, Jamalee and Jason Merridew, and their ex-con sidekick Sammy Barlach. 

For Jamalee, her tomato red hair, suitably matching her rage and ambition, their small-town American life just won’t do. Her dreams are made in Hollywood, among tuxedos and palm trees. Jason, blessed with drop-dead good looks, is the local object of female obsession and their ticket out of town. 

However, the hills and hollows of the Ozarks can be a dangerous place. Sammy is meant to be the muscle Jamalee and Jason need to get out, but not even he can protect them from everything.

“We are very pleased to have such a prestigious production company ... choose the Okanagan as a location for Tomato Red," said Summerland. "It will profile our region and location internationally.”



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