The Winnipeg connection to Hallmark holiday movies [Video]

A television network needs a quaint Christmassy setting where a leading lady can come back home to save Christmas and fall in love.

Enter Winnipeg.

Over the past several years, the city has been the backdrop for dozens of Hallmark holiday movies and this year several more are being added to the growing list of feel-good, seasonal films that are Manitoba-shot.

Manitoba Film and Music told CTV News Winnipeg that six Hallmark movies were shot in the province this year, and a seventh is in production right now.

• Top entertainment headlines, all in one place

“We’ve got all the right kinds of places that they like to see,” said Lynne Skromeda, Manitoba Film and Music’s CEO & Film Commissioner. “We can dress up as Christmas time in the middle of summer and everything and they really like that.”

Skroemda said the draw to shoot here is a trifecta of a good film tax credit, the low cost of living …