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.
[sz-youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MWfsE1ZEQQ” /] Adapted from the Gayle Forman novel, If I Stay is about 17-year-old musician Mia (Chloe Grace Moretz) who lies in a coma after a… Read More »TRAILER: IF I STAY with Chloë Grace Moretz, Jamie Blackley & Mireille Enos
Update: So the Freelancer gulag was in the historic Marine Building downtown? Kiera Cameron (Rachel Nichols) & John Doe/Brad (Ryan Robbins) storm the building to… Read More »SHOOT: Rachel Nichols & Ryan Robbins Film CONTINUUM S3x12 at the Marine Building Downtown
The frantic but fun American TV Pilot season in Vancouver is over for another year and now we wait until mid-May for the networks to unveil… Read More »TV PILOTS: American TV PILOT Season 2014 Wraps in Vancouver
Broadchurch–inspired series Gracepoint stars David Tennant of timey-wimey Doctor Who fame, reprising his role as the lead detective investigating a boy’s murder in a small seaside town, a murder… Read More »SHOOT: David Tennant Films GRACEPOINT at the Police Station Set in Sidney
Sunday, April 13th – Once Upon a Time 3×17 The Jolly Roger airs on ABC and CTV. Ariel (JoAnna Garcia Swisher) begs Hook (Colin O’Donoghue) to help… Read More »WEEK: April 7-13, 2014
Continuum’s on-and-off-again Liber8 couple Travis (Roger Cross) and Sonya (Lexa Doig) sat together on a bench today outside the “Future Home of SadTech Corporation”. They looked… Read More »SHOOT: CONTINUUM’s Roger Cross & Lexa Doig of Liber8 in Oceanic Plaza
CBS named Stephen Colbert as David Letterman’s successor on the Late Show today. It triggered memories of February 2010 when Colbert brought his show The Colbert… Read More »RETRO-SHOOT: Stephen Colbert Brings THE COLBERT REPORT to Vancouver in 2010
Report by Michelle Jung. Follow her on Twitter/@michellejung. And check out her Tumblr blog/YouWillGoFar. Had it not been for the lights, cameras and film crew,… Read More »SHOOT: ONCE UPON A TIME in Burnaby’s Central Park with #CaptainSwan, The Charmings, Little Red & the Big Bosses
Published April 8, 2014 on Vancouver is Awesome. Vancouver filmmakers Clif Prowse and Derek Lee developed their feature film debut Afflicted as a web series… Read More »IN THEATRES: Vancouver’s Own Horror Thriller AFFLICTED from Filmmakers Clif Prowse & Derek Lee