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.
A scientific breakthrough will give him a second chance. Now their creation will come to life. Updated: Second Chance (formerly Lookinglass/The Frankenstein Code) — starring… Read More »SHOOT: SECOND CHANCE’s Frankenstein Character (Rob Kazinsky) Gets Mad in Downtown Vancouver
Was that the Arrow — in his new sleeveless suit — on The Flash set in downtown Vancouver last night? The Green Arrow, as Oliver… Read More »SHOOT: ARROW — In His New Suit — Rides THE FLASH Set in Downtown Vancouver
iZombie season 2 debuted last night on The CW with Grumpy Old Liv. And today the zombie procedural is filming a motorcycle shooting at the… Read More »SHOOT: iZOMBIE’s Malcolm Goodwin Films Season 2 at Vancouver Public Library
Oliver Queen in a leather jacket. That’s what I’ve seen of Arrow season four filming so far. Plus a stunt and a spoiler. This photo… Read More »SHOOT: ARROW’s Stephen Amell as Oliver Queen in Leather Jacket in Kerrisdale
Courtesy of Eadweard: director Kyle Rideout, writer/producer Josh Epstein and star Michael Eklund. Filmmakers Kyle Rideout and Josh Epstein returned home to the Vancouver Playhouse… Read More »VIFF: Filmmakers Kyle Rideout & Josh Epstein Screen EADWEARD At Vancouver Playhouse Where They Performed in Play Six Years Ago
Update: Fear the Walking Dead set a record as the highest-rated first season in American cable history, averaging 11.2 million viewers for its six episodes… Read More »TONIGHT: Filmed-in-Vancouver Zombie Herd on FEAR THE WALKING DEAD Season Finale
Resurrection is a Bitch Image: Film Divider. MIPCOM hasn’t started yet but there’s already news. A female Van Helsing series billboard is mounted outside the… Read More »MIPCOM: Resurrection is a Bitch. New Female VAN HELSING Series to Film in Vancouver?
BBC America image: Tatiana Maslany & Kristian Bruun. Helen Shaver could run #CloneClub for Orphan Black. Her favourite television episode of the many she’s directed in… Read More »VIFF INDUSTRY: Helen Shaver’s Favourite TV Episode She’s Ever Directed Is ORPHAN BLACK With Twerking
How did writer/director Patricia Rozema adapt the Jean Hegland novel Into the Forest about two sisters in a post-apocalyptic world into such a compelling feature… Read More »VIFF INDUSTRY: INTO THE FOREST Writer/Director Patricia Rozema Talks About the Art of The Arc This Afternoon