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.
Update: On June 25th, a North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman warned the United States that the release of Seth Rogen and James Franco’s political spoof The Interview — about a… Read More »TRAILER: North Korea Warns U.S. That the Release of THE INTERVIEW Would Be An “Act of War”
Young BC Film actors and filmmakers are finding work and kicking ass, judging from the recent crop of Leo Awards nominees and winners. For once… Read More »YOUNG BC FILM: Richard Harmon, Jaren Brandt Bartlett, Genevieve Buechner, Paloma Kwiatkowski, Kat de Lieva, Dylan Playfair, Keenan Tracey, Brett Dier & Backward Fall
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Sunday, June 8th – Continuum 3×11 Three Minutes to Midnight airs on Showcase. Kiera (Rachel Nichols) learns the truth about John Doe (Ryan Robbins). Saturday, June 7th… Read More »WEEK: June 2-8, 2014
Sunday, June 1st – Leo Awards gala dinner at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver. Leo for Best Dramatic Series goes to Continuum. Team Simon Barry on… Read More »WEEK: May 26 – June 1, 2014
[sz-youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOMNIlRYvAc” /] Did you spot the Dancey Ballroom and Dance Studio near downtown Vancouver’s Victory Square in the Step Up All In trailer? Most… Read More »TRAILER: STEP UP ALL IN Filmed in Dancey Ballroom and Dance Studio Downtown
WolfCop the movie premieres in western Canadian theatres today and Vancouver indie producer CineCoup already green lit a sequel, with a shoot planned this Fall in… Read More »CINECOUP: WOLFCOP in Theatres Today & Sequel Starts Shooting This Fall
Grace Travis (Thandie Newton) avenged her son’s death in the first season of Rogue and said goodbye to her crime boss lover (Marton Csoskas). Season… Read More »SEASON PREMIERE: ROGUE Season Two with Thandie Newton, Andrea Roth & Cole Hauser
Published June 5, 2014 on Vancouver is Awesome. What a difference a year makes in the BC Film industry. 2013 got off to such a… Read More »LEO AWARDS: Gala Night With Hosts Zak Santiago, Pascale Hutton & Christopher Heyerdahl