The southern portion of Glen Canyon Regional Park(Where Powers Creek runs) in West Kelowna will be closed on Sunday, March 18th for the filming of the movie ‘Daughter of the Wolf’ a film starring ex-MMA fighter Gina Carano.
The parking area off Gellatly Road and the lower trail to the first set of stairs will be closed between 8:00 am and 7:00 pm.
Signs advising of the closure will be in place at the Gellatly Road and there will not be any public access via the trail leading into the filming area. A trained wolf with multiple handlers will be interacting with actors in the movie shoot in this area. The production team asks anyone with a pet in the park to keep them on leash at all times.
The synopsis of the movie from Vantage Media International:
"Clair McKenna, an ex-military specialist, comes home to the recent news of her fathers passing only to find herself at odds with her defiant 13-year-old son, CHARLIE. With the news that Clair has inherited a large sum of money from her fathers business Charlie is kidnaped for a ransom. Instead of seeking help Clair takes one of the kidnappers, Larsen, as a hostage and forces him to lead her on a perilous journey to rescue her son from the mysterious figure only know as the Father. The trek takes Clair deep in the mountains of the Yukon, near the US – Canadian border as a winter storm approaches. As the odds of survival start to mount against Clair she has no choice, but to form an unlikely alliance with Larsen in order to save her son and survive the wild of the far North."