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.
355 Films From Over 65 Countries. Opening Night Gala: Canadian filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallée (Dallas Buyers Club)’s Wild, starring Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern, is the opening… Read More »VIFF: 355 Films From Over 65 Countries at VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Bravo’s upcoming hour-long dramedy Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce from showrunner Marti Noxon is a contemporary and fun take on a woman tackling life after divorce with the… Read More »SHOOT: Lisa Edelstein Films GIRLFRIENDS’ GUIDE TO DIVORCE with a Ferret in Kitsilano
Adorable, furry Grumpy Cat returned to Coquitlam Centre Sunday to continue filming her Lifetime movie Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever. IM AT WORK AND THEYRE… Read More »SHOOT: GRUMPY CAT’S WORST CHRISTMAS EVER Returns to Coquitlam Centre
Felicity Smoak (Emily Bett Rickards) on Arrow season 3: from #Olicity to Origin Story. From her long-anticipated tryst with Oliver (Stephen Amell) revealed in a… Read More »TEASER: #OlicityKiss (Stephen Amell & Emily Bett Rickards) in ARROW S3
Falling Skies goes into space in its season four finale tonight on TNT in the U.S. and Thursday night on Super Channel in Canada. [sz-youtube url=”[sz-youtube… Read More »SNEAK PEEK: 2-Hour FALLING SKIES Season 4 Finale Tonight on TNT
Lexi (Scarlett Byrne) appeared to turn against the Espheni and join her human family last week in the tenth episode of season four entitled Drawing… Read More »BTS: FALLING SKIES Films Scarlett Byrne & “Monk” on Stilts in Surrey’s Tynehead Park
[sz-youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i90Qr0Qi6w&list=PLjIVFPJg7hgCVfHSBds_KCeSXEDg5SX0Y” /] Adapted from Joseph Delaney’s The Wardstone Chronicles series, dark fantasy Seventh Son is about a Falcon Knight named Master Gregory (Jeff Bridges),… Read More »TRAILER: SEVENTH SON with Ben Barnes, Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore
Vancouver’s own feel-bad comedy Lawrence & Holloman takes Toronto tonight, with a premiere at The Royal Cinema on College Street followed by a Q&A with… Read More »TORONTO DEBUT: Twisted Bromance LAWRENCE & HOLLOMAN at Royal Cinema Tonight
Published August 28, 2014 on Vancouver is Awesome. Fake pregnancies. Transgender two-for-one pregnancies. Bloody thrillers. Romance in Hope? Mother-daughter con-women. Changing Chinatown. Discarded food experiment. Three… Read More »VIFF: Thirteen BC Films Led by PREGGOLAND, TWO 4 ONE, BLACK FLY & SITTING ON THE EDGE OF MARLENE