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.
Photos by Sean Koo/@Scoobykoo. Vancouver’s own crime drama Motive began filming its second season after the Labour Day weekend, which marks the effective end of… Read More »YOUR SHOOT: MOTIVE’s Kristin Lehman & Louis Ferreira Start Filming Season 2 Premiere
Almost Human lit up its futuristic police command centre in Vancouver’s Business District last night for scenes of part-robot Los Angeles cop John Kennex (Karl… Read More »SHOOT: ALMOST HUMAN Night Shoot With Karl Urban & Michael Ealy in Vancouver’s Business District for 1×03 Are You Receiving?
Some cops are born. Others are made. How do you recognize an Almost Human set? The new J.J. Abrams/J.H. Wyman sci-fi procedural is set 35 years… Read More »SHOOT: Karl Urban & Michael Ealy Film ALMOST HUMAN in Vancouver’s Business District for 1×03 Are You Receiving?
Falling Skies crew painted an exterior wall of the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden robin-egg blue a few weeks ago in preparation for three… Read More »SHOOT: FALLING SKIES Films at the Chinese Cultural Centre & Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden
Arrow had a wide open shoot on the north plaza of the Vancouver Art Gallery today. I almost collided with Willa Holland (Thea Queen) skipping… Read More »SHOOT: Dylan Bruce (Hot Paul), Katie Cassidy & David Ramsey Film ARROW at the Vancouver Art Gallery – Updated
Sunday, September 22nd – Bates Motel‘s Vera Farmiga among Best Actress nominees at the Emmy awards. [Update: Claire Danes won for Homeland]. Sunday, September 22nd… Read More »WEEK: September 16-22, 2013
Photos by Larry/@bastardsonvan. “It’s fairy-tale Avengers on Captain Hook’s boat going to Neverland to rescue a kid from Peter Pan.” — co-showrunner Adam Horowitz’s description… Read More »YOUR SHOOT: ONCE UPON A TIME in Vancouver as Neverland
Update: This is Cody’s hide-away tree house. Norman (Freddie Highmore) shinnies up the rope after her and they have sex in the ground level tree house… Read More »SHOOT: Freddie Highmore Shinnies Up Rope To Burnaby Treehouse For BATES MOTEL 2×06
Published September 19, 2013 on Vancouver is Awesome. Vote for whichever BC film or documentary you want to see at a red carpet screening of… Read More »BIG READ: Vote for BC Film/Doc (#mustseeBC) To Be Awarded Red Carpet Screening at Vancouver International Film Festival