Longtime mainstream media (MSM) journalist and author Susan Gittins began writing about and photographing Vancouver’s many film and TV location shoots in the summer of 2010 after the Winter Olympics put the city and its beauty on the world stage. Movies and TV series often showcase the Vancouver area in similar fashion. Vancouver is Awesome commissioned her YVRShoots series in the fall of 2010 and it ran regularly for three years. She launched her own daily YVRShoots blog in the spring of 2012.
Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity. Updated: With casting of Graham Greene. Faith-based big-budget movie The Shack with Avatar star Sam Worthington as a grieving father Mack,… Read More »NEW MOVIE: Faith-based THE SHACK With Sam Worthington & Graham Greene/Octavia Spencer as God Starts Filming June 8th in Vancouver
[sz-youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J8vyBMJUkk” /] Nurse Pam demands that the new Sheriff Ethan Burke (Matt Dillon) reckon a citizen for defacing public property with subversive graffiti.
What do you think of the casting for Lifetime’s The Unauthorized Full House Story? Justin Mader as Dave Coulier; Garrett Brawith as Bob Saget; and Justin Gaston as John… Read More »CASTING: Lifetime’s THE UNAUTHORIZED FULL HOUSE STORY Filming in Vancouver
See what all the buzz is about. Stream #HighCastle now: https://t.co/QHLe9NPYuB pic.twitter.com/hhSuO2xGg4 — High Castle (@HighCastleTV) December 14, 2015 Amazon Prime series The Man in… Read More »SHOOT: THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE’s Rupert Evans at University of British Columbia as Japanese-Controlled San Francisco Circa 1962
[sz-youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HubDZBQuI-A” /] There’s something very real about these children’s imaginary friends. What is using Washington, D.C. kids against their powerful parents? Inspired by Ray… Read More »TONIGHT: Mystery Thriller THE WHISPERS With Lily Rabe, Barry Sloane and Milo Ventimiglia Premieres on ABC
[sz-youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5hQmHRKfbA&feature=youtu.be” /] Welcome to the world of bad people making good TV. Everyone will be exposed. Marti Noxon’s dramedy UnReal is about a Bachelor-esque… Read More »TONIGHT: Dating Show Dramedy UnREAL With Shiri Appleby Premieres on Lifetime
We can never be sure about the true nature of people sitting across from us or lying next to us in bed. — Chris Haddock. Still… Read More »UPFRONTS: Chris Haddock’s Vancouver Spy Serial THE ROMEO SECTION to Premiere October 14th on CBC
UP Network’s first scripted series Ties That Bind is about a married suburban Seattle cop (Kelli Williams) juggling the demands of the job and four… Read More »NEW SERIES: UP Network’s Police Procedural & Family Drama TIES THAT BIND With Kelli Williams & Luke Perry
Apart from the occasional putrid corpse has there ever been a TV series that showcased Vancouver’s beauty more than Motive? Known for its bold cinematic… Read More »LOCATION: Vancouver as Vancouver on MOTIVE Season 3