A Port Alberni roadway damaged by a film crew’s vehicles has been repaired.

Jamie Donovan of AV Little Digger and Hauler spent several days in early November restoring a portion of the Log Train Trail on Maebelle Road that was used as a movie set. Crews were using the road to reach the shooting location, at the same time the area was experiencing an “atmospheric river” of heavy rain and wind.

Stolen Child A fantasy epic directed by Sebastian McKinnon. Magic: Meeting reputation. In this film based on William Butler (WB) Yeats’ poem of the same name, a brave Poet must lead three mystical heroes deep into the Faerie State to find a lost prince, restore him to the throne, and restore peace. According to the filmmakers, the forested Rogers Creek trail was the perfect location. But the weather was not like that.

Representatives for the film quickly apologized on social media and promised to repair the scars at their own expense.

More than a kilometer of dirt roads were trampled by wheeled vehicles, as was the private driveway used by film crews to access the trail. “It was kind of punctured and rotted,” Donovan said. He and his crew laid a thin three-quarter-inch layer of rock along the length of the trail using a skid steer and mini dump truck on rails. One resident whose property abuts the trail said he has some equipment to smooth out ruts as the winter progresses.

Donovan was hired to do track work because of another connection he had to the film. He met location manager Jane Victoria King through another business he planned to open in the Beaufort Hotel building in South Harbor, Next Level Nightclub. “I met him in July and he was scouting locations to shoot movie scenes. He thought he could do a few shots at the bar that opened. They decided not to.”

When track damage occurred, King contacted Donovan for assistance. “Turns out I had some openings.

“We probably made this better than before.”

Neighbors Rick and Terry Hebert agree. On November 8, when the rain had stopped, they brought their grandchildren to walk on the trail. Rick Hebert said he usually walks the trail with his dog every day.

Stolen Child It is one of three films shot in the Alberni Valley: McLean Mill National Historic Site was closed to the public for several weeks to allow for filming. One Mile And One More Mile From Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment.

Metafilm’s producer Catherine Boily said that the movie will be shot Stolen Child Despite the trail mishap and the pouring rain, it went well in Port Alberni. “The whole community was very welcoming, understanding and cooperative,” he said. “Shooting in this environment was a joy for the entire cast and crew.

“We were mostly there on the last day with the sun shining through the forest; it was truly magical.”

Boily said this is the first time Metafilms has shot in Port Alberni. But this isn’t the director’s first time on Vancouver Island.

“Our film director, Sebastian, has been enjoying family vacations on Vancouver Island since he was a teenager, and the green, luscious forests inspired him to create this unique film,” said Boily. “It’s such a magical fairy world that it couldn’t exist anywhere else but those forests.

“So in a way, that’s why it really made sense for him to come back to these places after 10 years of development and try to make it happen.”

He said the cast and crew visited the Port Alberni area and “had a great time.”

He hopes the company will be able to arrange a screening once the film is completed. Stolen Child In Port Alberni.