Rhiannon Fish is quickly becoming the queen of Hallmark’s destination movies. On June 28, 2025, Hallmark Channel premiered her latest Hallmark Channel rom-com, “A Machu Picchu Proposal,” filmed almost entirely in Peru.
It’s Fish’s fourth Hallmark movie in the last two years that was filmed in a destination far from Vancouver, home to a majority of Hallmark’s productions, and she’s got another on the way. In 2023, Fish starred in “My Norwegian Holiday,” 2024 brought “A Costa Rican Wedding,” and for January 2025’s “Polar Opposites,” the cast filmed in Patagonia and Ushuaia, Argentina.
Ahead of her latest premiere, Fish, 34, told Swooon she’s already set her sights on a new destination: Japan.
Rhiannon Fish Has Heard Rumblings That Hallmark’s Considering Filming in Japan & She Wants In
Hallmark has never filmed a project in Japan, but Fish told Swooon she has heard rumblings that the company is considering a future shoot there. So she wants to make sure to throw her name into the hat early.
“I’ve never been and I know it’s sort of loosely in discussion, so I’m just openly talking about it that I want to do that next,” she said. “And I hope I get to do it with that crew before someone else takes that location.”
Hallmark has a long history of filming in Vancouver, which has widely become known as “North Hollywood.” But the company has branched out in recent years. Locales in the United States have included Utah, where the “Haul Out the Holly” movies and “Finding Mr. Christmas” have been filmed, Kansas City for 2024’s hit “Holiday Touchdown” movie, and the upcoming “Newport Christmas” with Wes Brown and Ginna Claire Mason, filmed on the East Coast.
Europe has also become a popular spot for destination rom-coms, including Hallmark’s “The Wedding Veil” movies in 2022 and 2023, a set of three “Love on the Danube” movies that premiered on Hallmark Channel in May, and the two “To Barcelona” movies starring Ashley Williams and Alison Sweeney that premiered as part of Hallmark’s Passport to Love movies in June.
Rhiannon Fish Admits She’s a ‘Homebody’ When She’s Not Traveling for Movie Shoots
HallmarkFish is no stranger to world travel. A native Canadian who was born in Calgary but moved with her parents to Melbourne, Australia, at age four, per Us Weekly, she still jumps between the two countries.
However, she admitted to Swooon that despite all the traveling she does for work, she’s “very much a homebody.”
“I like to stay at home, so to get to explore the world doing what I love with this incredible crew of people and tell these lovely stories, it’s just an absolute dream come true,” she told the outlet.
In late October, as Fish was preparing to head to Peru for the “A Machu Picchu Proposal” shoot, she said on the Unbuttoned Suspenders podcast, “I just feel so grateful. I’ve been so lucky with that aspect of Hallmark that so many of the ones I’ve been lucky enough to do have been these destination ones, which mean that we get to go to places that in my wildest dreams I never would have thought I would go.”
She also noted that after filming that movie, she was heading to another undisclosed location to film yet another Hallmark destination movie, which has yet to be officially announced.
“I was looking at my suitcase and I was starting to get stressed about it,” she said on the podcast. “I’m not a good packer. It makes me a little bit anxious. But the thing is, I try and remind myself, ‘As long as you’ve got your passport, everything else you can always figure out.'”
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Where Hallmark’s Destination Movie Queen Rhiannon Fish Wants to Film Next: ‘I’ve Never Been’