The Founders day festival was filmed in the same grass field as the final battle in the Twilight saga.
In the books, the Flickers can turn themselves and others invisible; in the movie, they have telekinesis.
The character of Reina Carvajal did not appear in the original books; she was created for the movie.
The Sage academy was filmed in the Shawnigan Lake school in Vancouver Island, B.C.