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Whistler gets storm of Canadian films
A handful of big names from Canada and overseas are involved in the six films nominated this year for the Whistler Film Festival’s Borsos Competition for Best Canadian Feature Film. Named after the...
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Cronenberg’s latest, Smallville pair among Whistler films
Former Smallville regular Allison Mack teams with Vancouver’s Ryan Robbins — with onetime Smallville producer Chris Petry in the director’s chair — for the crime drama Marilyn, about an armoured car...
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Skiing on marbles over to the peanut gallery
Vancouver producer Trish Dolman has been touring North America and Europe this past year with her Paul Watson documentary Eco-Pirate, and she also found time to produce the road movie Foreverland,...
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Stephen Amell in Arrow, Mamie Gummer in Emily Owens among new B.C.-filmed shows
As the American networks, especially the youth-skewed CW network, are finalizing their fall line-ups, we’re getting an idea of what Vancouver TV production is going to look like for the summer and...
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Backstage at the Leos goes from indie to mainstream
Big-budget American TV and movies meet low-fi Canadian indie – often in the same person – when you go backstage at Vancouver’s Leo Awards for B.C. film and TV. Actor Ryan Robbins was nominated as best...
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Space has room for six degrees of TV separation
It’s always a six-degrees-of-separation thing – sometimes with a side of Kevin Bacon — for Vancouver viewers when we cast our eye around the TV dial. Familiar faces from Vancouver projects show up in...
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B.C.’s Greyston Holt has bite on new horror series
Vancouver-based actor Greyston Holt (Alcatraz) has been announced as one of the leads joining former Smallville regular Laura Vandervoort in the Ontario-filmed werewolf series Bitten for Canada’s...
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Join our Monday morning online chat with Continuum’s Lexa Doig
Our weekly online chat with the cast of the B.C.-filmed sci-fi series Continuum returns on Monday, with cast member Lexa Doig joining us on my blog at 10:30 a.m. Doig plays Sonya Valentine, an armed...
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UBC’s Christine Schreyer speaks the language of Superman’s Krypton
You’d expect a professor of linguistic anthropology to do some travelling — Christine Schreyer’s specialty took her all the way to the planet Krypton. Schreyer, an assistant prof at the University of...
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Rainn Wilson goes grumpy as a cop, Grant Gustin speeds up for B.C.-filmed TV...
Some early 2014 news on the Vancouver TV production front kicks off with comic star Rainn Wilson taking a dramatic turn in Backstrom, a character-driven crime series for the Fox network. The show...
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B.C. Day special: 50 fun facts about our fascinating province
To mark B.C. Day, we’ve rounded up an eclectic array of 50 facts about our province. From the origins of the grey squirrels in Stanley Park to colourful characters, from record breakers to natural...
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Superheroes: Anything but a Deadpool of ideas for filmmakers
BY GLEN SCHAEFER AND NICK EAGLAND THE PROVINCE Images of two-fisted warriors and vivid action explode out of a home office in a Vancouver suburb, from the pen and brush of one of the most in-demand...
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