The Christmas Ornament ready for premiere

The adventures of Santa and the Finch in a Vernon shopping mall are making a return engagement just before Christmas.

Bentall Green Oak, which manages the Village Green Shopping Centre, has partnered with Kelowna-based media production company Media Button for a second year to create a cinematic short film called The Christmas Ornament.

“The eight-minute short film featured eight-year old Okanagan-based aspiring actor Gemma Gibson as Quinn, who embarks on the Christmas adventure of a lifetime, meeting holiday prankster Finneas E. Finch (Paul Rossetti) and Santa (Vince Walzak) along the way,” said Darren Robinson, marketing manager for BGO.

The film is a follow-up to last year’s Finch in the Village, a short video that had nearly 100,000 views and won silver in the International Council of Shopping Centres Maxi Awards in 2021.