Campbell River · North Island · Film Country
Campbell River Lodge sits on the same river Haig-Brown fished and Bing Crosby cast his line. For film crews scouting the North Island, it's not just accommodation — it's the location itself.
The opportunity
Film crews scouting the North Island through INFilm.ca are already looking for locations with the qualities Campbell River offers — wild rivers, old-growth forests, dramatic coastline, and the cultural heritage of one of BC's most storied fishing destinations.
The gap: location scouting and crew accommodation are currently handled as separate problems. A crew that finds their location on the North Island still needs to find somewhere for 20–80 people to stay, eat, and work for weeks at a time.
Campbell River Lodge is not just a hotel near the locations. It is a location. The outdoor riverbank, the Goose & Gander, the dock, the mountain backdrop — these are production assets that also happen to sleep and feed a full crew.
The channel this page proposes: INFilm.ca surfaces the North Island as a film destination → Campbell River Lodge captures the accommodation booking → a commission flows to the connector who made the introduction.
The partners
Location database · BC Film
INFilm.ca
infilm.ca
BC's film location platform — connecting productions with locations across the province. The North Island is an underdeveloped node in the database: extraordinary locations, limited marketing reach to productions scouting at scale.
INFilm.ca is the top-of-funnel. Productions arrive there looking for locations. Campbell River Lodge needs to be visible as a destination, not just an accommodation option.
Visit INFilm.caVenue · Accommodation · Location
Campbell River Lodge
Campbell River, BC · Goose & Gander
On the banks of the Campbell River — the same river Roderick Haig-Brown wrote about and Bing Crosby fished. The Lodge is a full-service hospitality property with outdoor riverbank space, event catering, and enough accommodation to house a production crew.
The outdoor terrace, dock access, mountain backdrop, and old-growth river setting are production assets. A full-property buyout for a film crew is a viable and significant revenue event for the Lodge.
See the VanIsle nodeThe model
Layer 1 · Location
INFilm.ca surfaces the North Island
Productions searching for BC locations encounter the North Island as a viable film destination through INFilm's existing database and marketing reach.
Channel: INFilm.ca location listing
Layer 2 · Accommodation
Stays bridges to the Lodge
This page — crooney.ca/stays — connects the location discovery to the accommodation booking. Campbell River Lodge is presented as the production base, not just a nearby hotel.
Channel: Stays → Lodge direct booking
Layer 3 · Commission
Referral fee on accommodation
A negotiated referral commission on Lodge bookings sourced through the Stays channel. Scalable across productions and repeatable across seasons — spring/fall being peak film scouting periods on the North Island.
Revenue: Crooney Interactive commission
Most guests come for the show. A keeper stays for the river.
This is a concept in development. The conversation starts with the Campbell River Lodge ownership.