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.
Shall We Watch a Game? 1:45 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. today at VanCity Theatre. Writer/Producer Tim Carter and Director Zach Lipovsky turned a hit video game into… Read More »VIFF INDUSTRY: How DEAD RISING: WATCHTOWER’s Tim Carter & Zach Lipovsky Turned Video Game into Indiana Jones With Zombies
Small town. Big crime. Dead cold. Warren Littlefield tried to develop the 1996 Coen Brothers classic film Fargo into a TV series for more than… Read More »VIFF INDUSTRY: Executive Producer Warren Littlefield & Fargo Snowglobe Waited 15+ Years for FARGO TV Series
Emma Swan. Emma Swan. Emma Swan. A wired Colin O’Donoghue as Hook called her name for two hours tonight. In take after take after take.… Read More »SHOOT: ONCE UPON A TIME’s Hook (Colin O’Donoghue) on Storybrooke Library Roof in Steveston
Granny’s Diner starred in the opening credits of Once Upon a Time’s season five premiere. After Emma Swan (Jennifer Morrison) absorbed the Darkness in the… Read More »SET: ONCE UPON A TIME’s Granny’s Diner in Camelot Forest Set in Burnaby’s Central Park
Update: Here’s the complete banner with the casts of Supernatural, Lucifer and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow at Canadian Motion Pictures Park. Welcoming some new faces… Read More »STUDIO: SUPERNATURAL Pranks Newcomers LUCIFER & DC’s LEGENDS OF TOMORROW at Burnaby’s Canadian Motion Picture Park
Updated and Revised: VIFF Industry kicks off this afternoon with a panel on the new buzz word – “Discoverability” ”Creators will have to work harder… Read More »VIFF INDUSTRY: Discoverability Day – What’s the Use of Creating the Best Content If No One Sees It?
[sz-youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoebZZ8K5N0#t=137″ /] Updated with details about filming of the Squamish bear attack. Helmed by Oscar-winning Birdman director Alejandro González Iñárritu and lensed by Oscar-winning Birdman/Gravity… Read More »TRAILER: Alejandro González Iñárritu ‘s THE REVENANT with Leonardo DiCaprio & Tom Hardy Filmed in Alberta and BC’s Squamish Valley
[sz-youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1SmJUBT5q0″ /] The Truth is Still Out there. Screenshots. Filmed on Blieberger Farm in Langley. Aerial Video of Blieberger Farm in Langley from Aerobotika… Read More »TRAILER: The Truth is Still Out There. THE X-FILES Premieres in 2016 on FOX
Too Much Television. That’s what John Landgraf, CEO of FX Networks famously said this year. With over 400 original scripted shows airing in the U.S. in… Read More »VIFF INDUSTRY: Too Much TV? How to Break Through & Keep Audience with FARGO’s Warren Littlefield, HALT & CATCH FIRE’s Christopher Rogers & CONTINUUM’s Simon Barry on October 2nd