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.
On Friday, iZombie filmed at its regular Downtown Eastside location Meat Cute Butchers (Big Lou’s Butcher Shop)– where zombies buys BRAAAINS. Former medical resident-turned-zombie Olivia “Liv”… Read More »SHOOT: IZOMBIE Films at Big Lou’s Butcher Shop in the Downtown Eastside
Update: Nyssa al Ghul (Katrina Law) and the League of Assassins capture Malcolm Merlyn (John Barrowman) and plan to get him out of Starling City… Read More »SHOOT: ARROW Films Stephen Amell, John Barrowman & Katrina Law on the HeliJet Pad Near Canada Place
The Flash filmed a quick scene of Detective Joe West (Jesse L. Martin) entering the Metropole Pub on Abbott Street in Gastown this morning. Then… Read More »SHOOT: THE FLASH’s Jesse L. Martin and Rick Cosnett Film in Gastown
Update: Supernatural filmed scenes at the Gas-N-Sip for 10×15 The Things They Carried with Cole (Travis Aaron Wade) asking the Winchesters for help with an… Read More »SHOOT: SUPERNATURAL Films at Gas-N-Sip in Foggy Fort Langley
Update: The Flash time travels to a past where Iris (Candice Patton) hasn’t declared her love for Barry yet and Reverse Flash (Tom Cavanagh) hasn’t… Read More »SHOOT: THE FLASH (Grant Gustin) Speeds to a Halt in Gastown
[sz-youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3gRjvsiySw” /] Six months after it was shot in downtown Vancouver, Jeep Cherokee’s River in the City commercial finally debuted last weekend. It’s wonderful. Two unsuspecting drivers… Read More »COMMERCIAL: Jeep Cherokee Commercial that Turned 400 Granville into Flowing River in Winter
Monday, January 5th Production resumes on The 100 season 2 (wraps January 23) for The CW, Falling Skies season 5 (wraps January 27) for TNT, iZombie season 1 (wraps January 27)… Read More »WINTER 2015: FIFTY SHADES OF GREY Release, BACKSTROM, THE RETURNED, iZombie Premieres & SUPERNATURAL, ONCE UPON A TIME, ARROW, THE FLASH, BATES MOTEL, PROOF, TV Pilot ROADIES Filming
VIFF Industry Conference: Specific Voices-Episodic TV from VIFF on Vimeo. Moderator: Tim Goodman, The Hollywood Reporter. Jack Amiel, co-creator and writer of Cinemax’s The Knick about… Read More »VIFF INDUSTRY: THE KNICK’s Jack Amiel & THE WIRE/SONS OF ANARCHY’s Chris Collins on 2014 Writers Room Panel
VIFF Industry Conference: Genre Smash! sponsored by ACFC West, Local 2020 Unifor from VIFF on Vimeo. One Marvel screenwriter. Three Homegrown Showrunners. Panel moderated by… Read More »VIFF INDUSTRY: GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY’s Nicole Perlman, BONES/BACKSTROM’s Hart Hanson; CONTINUUM’s Simon Barry, & MOTIVE’s Dennis Heaton on 2014 Genre Writers Panel