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.
Winnipeg is cold. So cold but I loved it. I have so much respect for the people of Winnipeg who bike and ice skate to… Read More »AMERICAN HOSTAGE at TIFF Premiere: Shoutout to Winnipeg! It’s Cold!
Filmmaker Andrew Haight’s A Long Winter, starring Fred Hechinger, Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Caitríona Balfe, gets its Canadian premiere at TIFF, after glowing reviews at the… Read More »A LONG WINTER’s Canadian Premiere at TIFF: Filmed in Alberta
What a difference a year makes! — Midnight Madness programmer. A year after Obsession’s explosive World Premiere at TIFF’s Midnight Madness, writer/director Curry Barker and… Read More »OBSESSION One Year Later: Curry Barker & Inde Navarrette Return to TIFF
Prime’ Video’s Rules of Prey, an adaption of John Sanford’s Prey crime novels, starts filming in Toronto next week. Who has been cast as the… Read More »Prime’s RULES OF PREY: Adaption of John Sanford’s Crime Novels Filming in Toronto
Prime Video’s Things We Never Got Over, starring Molly Griggs and Matthew Noszka in an opposites-attract love story set in the small town of Knockemout,… Read More »THINGS WE NEVER GOT OVER With Molly Grigg & Matthew Noszka in Production in Vancouver
Netflix’s rowing romance Crew Girl, starring Bet’s Miku Martineau as a teen girl who becomes the coxswain on the dysfunctional bays rowing team, filmed in… Read More »Netflix Rowing Romance CREW GIRL With Miku Martineau: Where Did it Film in Victoria?
All I ever wanted was to go to school. Mike Flanagan’s series adaption of Stephen King’s debut horror novel Carrie will close Primetime at TIFF… Read More »Mike Flanagan’s BC-Filmed CARRIE Series Closes Primetime at TIFF
The Iceberg is not your friend. Get back! Newfoundland sea creature saga Below, starring Josh Harnett, opens this year’s Primetime at TIFF (Toronto International Film… Read More »Newfoundland Sea Creature Saga BELOW With Josh Harnett Opens Primetime at TIFF
There’s something wrong with that boy. Casey Affleck’s gothic western Company tells overlapping stories: including one about of a frontier farming couple in 1903 who… Read More »Casey Affleck’s COMPANY Premieres at Venice Film Festival: Shot in Whistler BC