After months of dark studios, there's Christmas lights at the end of the Canadian industry's shutdown tunnel. American TV director Marita Grabiak hadto quarantine for 14 days after crossing a closed U.S.-Canadian border in order to return to work on the TV movie Christmas on Wheels shooting in Ottawa. "It was a fairly sad day on March 16 when I was last here, and after (Prime Minister Justin) Trudeau gave his speech that led to shutting down our production," she tells The Hollywood Reporter.
In March, Grabiak and her producers abruptly stopped work on Ice Hotel Holiday, the sequel to Hallmark's 2019 TV movie Winter Castle, to allow American cast and creative to swiftly return to the U.S.
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