Deer Lake Park offers unique and exciting film options with its surrounding rolling fields, marshlands, and cultural facilities. Deer Lake Park contains formal gardens and walking trails. It is centrally located in the heart of Burnaby, just off the highway.
Burnaby Village Museum and the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts offer unique opportunities for filming within the natural setting of Deer Lake. Both these facilities are available for exterior filming and interior scenes.
Burnaby Village Museum offers a fenced 10-acre site depicting a typical 1920s tram stop village. The location includes a heritage estate home, a log cabin, one-room school, bank, farmhouse, working blacksmith and print shops, a Chinese herbalist, a chapel, and a general store. Adjacent to the village is an indoor restored 1912 carousel, and large grassy meadow. This venue is perfect for a western village or a period town. Call 604.293.6515 for more information and availability of the museum.
The Shadbolt Centre for the Arts is an award-winning, multi-purpose arts facility located in Burnaby's picturesque Deer Lake Park. The facility includes a large atrium overlooking the lake, 6 dance studios, a 285-seat theatre, a 150-seat studio theatre, music rehearsal rooms, a scene shop, pottery studios and kilns, an art store, and a café. The centre is also the production and support centre for the 10,000-seat outdoor amphitheatre located on the edge of Deer Lake. Call 604.205.3020 for more information and the availability of the Shadbolt Centre.
For more general information about filming in Burnaby see: www.burnaby.ca/business/filming.html
“I auditioned and was extremely happy to be able to go to the Shadbolt and dance my heart out.”
- Camille, age 10
