What’s the hottest filmmaking location currently?

Answer: Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.

French director Laurent Cantet’s English-language feminist drama Foxfire has just finished a location shoot in the northern Ontario town, which doubled as 1950s upstate New York.

And Peruvian writer-director Alonso Mayo has just starting shooting the light comedy The Story of Luke locally for five weeks through Sept. 7. The Lou Taylor Pucci, Kristin Bauer, Cary Elwes and Kenneth Welsh-starrer is from DViant Films and Fluid Film.

Coin from the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund helped hire around 25 local crew members and extras for the The Story of Luke shoot.

Sault Ste. Marie also recently played host to Edwin Boyd, the Nathan Morlando-directed true-life drama about a Toronto bank robber that will bow next month at the Toronto International Film Festival. Scott Speedman, Kelly Reilly, Brendan Fletcher and Kevin Durand top-lined the spring 2010 Edwin Boyd shoot, where the town doubled as 1940s Toronto.

And Sault Ste. Marie earlier this year stood in for 1990s-era Edinburgh when it hosted Rob Heydon’s latest film Ecstasy, based on the cult-classic novel by Irvine Welsh and starring Kristin Kreuk, Billy Boyd, Adam Sinclair, Colin Mochrie and Dean McDermott.

The $5 million Ecstasy picture was also shot in Toronto, Scotland and Amsterdam.