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.
Welcome Back to the Crossing, America. The wait is over for season 2 of the popular Nova Scotia-filmed Sullivan’s Crossing, starring Morgan Kohan, Chad Michael… Read More »SULLIVAN’S CROSSING Season 2 Premieres on CW: Maggie Returns
Surprise! Charli XCX of Brat Summer fame plays a role in Benito Skinner’s college comedy Overcompensating which has wrapped filming in Toronto. Not only is… Read More »Charli XCX Guests on College Comedy Overcompensating Filmed in Toronto
Crime thriller Tuner, starring Leo Woodall and Dustin Hoffman, is in production in Toronto. A piano tuner (Leo Woodall) with a rare hearing condition discovers… Read More »Crime Thriller TUNER With Leo Woodall & Dustin Hoffman in Production in Toronto
Fargo set in the Thousand Islands. Crave’s new crime drama Underbelly, starring Arrow’s Stephen Amell and Transplant’s Hamza Haq, starts filming in Toronto and in… Read More »1000 Islands Crime Drama UNDERBELLY With Stephen Amell & Hamza Haq Filming in Ontario
Melanie Lynskey hosts a “very fun nearly-the-end-of-the-season dinner’ for the Yellowjackets season 3 cast at Vancouver’s acclaimed Hawksworth Restaurant. View this post on Instagram A… Read More »YELLOWJACKETS Season 3 Dinner in Vancouver: Production Wraps Later This Month
MGM+’s Billy the Kid series, inspired by the life of America’s most infamous outlaw, is renewed for a third and final season of filming in… Read More »BILLY THE KID Renewed For 3rd & Final Season of Filming in Alberta
The REEL Thanks Challenge, an annual two-week fundraising event by the BC film and television industry for the Greater Vancouver Food Bank, kicks off on October… Read More »REEL THANKS Fundraising For Vancouver Food Bank: October 1st – 11th
Hilary Swank is back in Vancouver for a recurring role late in season 3 of Yellowjackets. What part Swank plays in everyone’s favourite cannibal show… Read More »Hilary Swank Back in Vancouver for Role on YELLOWJACKETS
Before & After. A teaser for season 2 of HBO’s smash hit adaption of The Last of Us video game reveals the completed Jackson, Wyoming… Read More »THE LAST OF US Season 2 Teaser Reveals Completed Jackson Set Built North of Vancouver