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Susan Gittins

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.

FALL TV: ARROW Season 4 with Stephen Amell, Emily Bett Rickards, David Ramsey, Katie Cassidy, Willa Holland, Echo Kellum, Jerri Ryan & Neal McDonough

[sz-youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPXHDB6-QMk” /] Fun Felicity is back in season 4 of Arrow. And Oliver Queen is happy. “The Arrow’s dead. I couldn’t be that person… Read More »FALL TV: ARROW Season 4 with Stephen Amell, Emily Bett Rickards, David Ramsey, Katie Cassidy, Willa Holland, Echo Kellum, Jerri Ryan & Neal McDonough

SHOOT: DC’S LEGENDS OF TOMORROW’s Arthur Darvill, Wentworth Miller, Caity Lotz, Brandon Routh, Dominic Purcell, Ciara Renee, Falk Hentschel, Franz Drameh & Victor Garber at Vancouver Waterfront

An Ocean’s Eleven or Dirty Dozen-style caper series with time travel? That’s DC’s Legends of Tomorrow which started filming its series today on Vancouver’s waterfront… Read More »SHOOT: DC’S LEGENDS OF TOMORROW’s Arthur Darvill, Wentworth Miller, Caity Lotz, Brandon Routh, Dominic Purcell, Ciara Renee, Falk Hentschel, Franz Drameh & Victor Garber at Vancouver Waterfront

VIFF: Deepa Mehta’s BEEBA BOYS About Vancouver Indo-Gangster Gang to Screen at Vancouver International Film Festival This Fall

Meet the boys who gave crime a new style. Remember Vancouver’s Indo-gangster “Bindy” Johal?  He and his Punjabi Mafia gang known as the Beeba Boys… Read More »VIFF: Deepa Mehta’s BEEBA BOYS About Vancouver Indo-Gangster Gang to Screen at Vancouver International Film Festival This Fall

VIFF: Filmed-in-BC INTO THE FOREST with Ellen Page & Evan Rachel Woods Screens at Vancouver International Film Festival This Fall

Two teenage sisters —  Nell (Ellen Page) and Eva (Evan Rachel Woods)  —  living with their father in a forest must survive in the near-future… Read More »VIFF: Filmed-in-BC INTO THE FOREST with Ellen Page & Evan Rachel Woods Screens at Vancouver International Film Festival This Fall

VIFF: Eleven BC Films Led by CHARLOTTE’S STORY, THE DEVOUT, EADWEARD, MY GOOD MAN’S GONE And NO MEN BEYOND THIS POINT at Vancouver International Film Festival This Fall

Update: Jordan Paterson’s docudrama Tricks on The Dead: The Story of the Chinese Labour Corps in WWI is this year’s #mustseeBC audience winner and red… Read More »VIFF: Eleven BC Films Led by CHARLOTTE’S STORY, THE DEVOUT, EADWEARD, MY GOOD MAN’S GONE And NO MEN BEYOND THIS POINT at Vancouver International Film Festival This Fall