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.
Update: Ronald D. Moore’s Outlander won the category. Vancouver’s own timey-wimey Continuum is considered the best of the best in international science fiction, nominated for… Read More »ROCKIE AWARDS: Banff World Media Festival Sci-Fi & Action Nominees CONTINUUM & THE FLASH
So that weighted dummy crashing through a windshield on Homer Street last February was Vancouver whydunit Motive’s season three finale Victim Maria Snow (Luisa D’Oliveria).… Read More »TONIGHT: Vancouver Whydunit MOTIVE’s Victim Stunt Fall for Season 3 Finale
What did Vancouver whydunit Motive do to its signature car — detective Angie Flynn’s [1984 Oldsmobile Hurst]? Bad guys firebombed it in the penultimate episode… Read More »TONIGHT: What did Vancouver Whydunit MOTIVE Do to Angie’s Oldsmobile Hurst At The End of Season 3?
Leo Awards Ceremony One hosts Veena Sood and Paul McGillion gratefully thanked the off-screen nominees who provide the “smoke and mirrors” that make on-screen actors… Read More »LEO AWARDS: Night One With Hosts Veena Sood and Paul McGillion
[sz-youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fLl-DMzxrk” /] Stopping crime before it happens. New Fall series Minority Report takes place a decade after the events of the Steven Spielberg blockbuster… Read More »NEW SERIES: MINORITY REPORT With Meagan Good & Stark Sands to Start Filming Series in Vancouver July 21st
Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity. Updated: With casting of Graham Greene. Faith-based big-budget movie The Shack with Avatar star Sam Worthington as a grieving father Mack,… Read More »NEW MOVIE: Faith-based THE SHACK With Sam Worthington & Graham Greene/Octavia Spencer as God Starts Filming June 8th in Vancouver
[sz-youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J8vyBMJUkk” /] Nurse Pam demands that the new Sheriff Ethan Burke (Matt Dillon) reckon a citizen for defacing public property with subversive graffiti.
What do you think of the casting for Lifetime’s The Unauthorized Full House Story? Justin Mader as Dave Coulier; Garrett Brawith as Bob Saget; and Justin Gaston as John… Read More »CASTING: Lifetime’s THE UNAUTHORIZED FULL HOUSE STORY Filming in Vancouver
See what all the buzz is about. Stream #HighCastle now: https://t.co/QHLe9NPYuB pic.twitter.com/hhSuO2xGg4 — High Castle (@HighCastleTV) December 14, 2015 Amazon Prime series The Man in… Read More »SHOOT: THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE’s Rupert Evans at University of British Columbia as Japanese-Controlled San Francisco Circa 1962