Update: Ronald D. Moore’s Outlander won the category.
Vancouver’s own timey-wimey Continuum is considered the best of the best in international science fiction, nominated for a Rockie Award for the second consecutive year at the Banff World Media Festival today. Doctor Who — the original timey-wimehy series — won the category last year and like Continuum is nominated again this year, along with Vancouver-shot DC adaption The Flash, Marvel’s Agent Carter, Outlander and Utopia 2.
Created by Simon Barry, Vancouver’s homegrown sic-fi series Continuum is a ripped-from-the-news saga about future police officer Kiera Cameron (Rachel Nichols) who gets swept up in an escape from 2077 by “terrorists” Liber8 who set out to change the future from the present by targeting the corporations that will come to rule the world. Always the good soldier in the future. Kiera adjusts her moral compass in the third season and comes to the conclusion that her beloved future is not a great future at all and perhaps not worth protecting. Continuum co-stars Victor Webster as Kiera’s present-day police partner Carlos Fonnegra and Erik Knudsen as young tech genius Alec Sadler.
Filmed-in-Vancouver DC adaption The Flash is about geek charming Barry Allen (Grant Gustin), a Central City assistant police forensics investigator who becomes super fast, aka the Flash, after a seemingly freak explosion at S.T.A.R. labs. The scarlet speedster is haunted by the murder of his mother by a man in a yellow suit — the Reverse Flash — who turns out to be time-travelling Eobard Thawne in the guise of S.T.A.R. labs founder Harrison Wells. The two face off in the season finale, with the Reverse Flash seemingly vanquished.
Jason Priestley hosts the Rockie Awards ceremony today at lunchtime, with Shiri Appleby and Constance Zimmer from Vancouver-shot dramedy UnREAL among the presenters.
Our host for the evening @Jason_Priestley has taken the stage! pic.twitter.com/OzPjPXKGZm
— Banff Media Festival (@BanffMedia) June 8, 2015