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.
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, the third and final installment of the billion-dollar museum franchise, is back in Vancouver to shoot five more… Read More »RE-SHOOTS: Ricky Gervais & Others Back for NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM – SECRET OF THE TOMB Reshoots
Writer-director Kris Elgstrand, Cast Arabella Bushnell, Brad Dryborough and [correction Ross Smith] and Producer/Director of Photography Amy Belling. Revenge Songs Left on Voice Mail. How… Read More »VIFF: SONGS SHE WROTE ABOUT PEOPLE SHE KNOWS Has Vancouver International Film Festival Debut
Sometimes You Shouldn’t Go Home. Don’t leads Dakota Daulby and Matthew MacCaull look good clean and suited-up at Saturday night’s world premiere of director Jason Bourque’s bloody… Read More »VIFF: World Premiere of Jason Bourque’s BLACK FLY at Vancouver International Film Festival
Mid-season FOX series Backstrom closed the north square of the Vancouver Art Gallery yesterday to film Portland Serious Crimes Unit Detective Nicole Gravely (Genevieve Angelson) and District… Read More »SHOOT: BACKSTROM’s Genevieve Angelson & Ben Hollingsworth at Vancouver Art Gallery
Mid-season CW series iZombie shot more scenes at the Vancouver Film School as its Seattle Morgue, Coroner’s office and Police Station last night of former medical resident-turned-zombie Olivia… Read More »SHOOT: iZOMBIE’s Rose McIver at Vancouver Film School as Seattle Police Station & Morgue
One Marvel screenwriter. Three Homegrown Showrunners. Panel moderated by one of the snarkiest TV critcs ever, Tim Goodman, aka @BastardMachine. Equals VIFF Industry’s Can’t-Miss Panel on… Read More »VIFF INDUSTRY: Genre Mashup with GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, BONES/BACKSTROM, CONTINUUM & MOTIVE Screen Writers on October 4th
.@JustEatItFilm takes audience anticipation award #MustSeeBC Congratulations @Vancouverfilmer! pic.twitter.com/042O37CmdM — Vancouver Film Fest (@VIFFest) September 26, 2014 After two weeks of previewing and voting —… Read More »VIFF: Documentary JUST EAT IT: A FOOD WASTE STORY Wins #mustseeBC Award & Coveted Gala Screening
Upcoming Fox series Backstrom does some inventive camera work, like last Friday’s shoot on the upper walkway of the curtain wall at the central Vancouver… Read More »SHOOT: BACKSTROM’s Genevieve Angelson & Ben Hollingsworth on Vancouver Public Library Curtain Wall
