If you’re in B.C., you’re part of the motion picture industry! ⭐️🎞️
#BCFilm 🎬 #MadeInBC #BCCreates #FilmInBC #MotionPictureIndustry #CreativeBC #IATSE891 #BehindTheScenes #FilmAndTV #BCProud 🌲🎥
#BCFilm 🎬 #MadeInBC #BCCreates #FilmInBC #MotionPictureIndustry #CreativeBC #IATSE891 #BehindTheScenes #FilmAndTV #BCProud 🌲🎥
December 18, 2025 at 1:15 AM
If you’re in B.C., you’re part of the motion picture industry! ⭐️🎞️
#BCFilm 🎬 #MadeInBC #BCCreates #FilmInBC #MotionPictureIndustry #CreativeBC #IATSE891 #BehindTheScenes #FilmAndTV #BCProud 🌲🎥
#BCFilm 🎬 #MadeInBC #BCCreates #FilmInBC #MotionPictureIndustry #CreativeBC #IATSE891 #BehindTheScenes #FilmAndTV #BCProud 🌲🎥
The pitch was poignant, heart-wrenching, and a beautiful exploration of the afterlife. I can’t wait to see this come to life next year! 🌟🎞️
#WhistlerFilmFestival #The5Pitch #ScreenBC #BCFilm #EmergingFilmmakers #Storytelling
#WhistlerFilmFestival #The5Pitch #ScreenBC #BCFilm #EmergingFilmmakers #Storytelling
December 14, 2025 at 11:20 PM
The pitch was poignant, heart-wrenching, and a beautiful exploration of the afterlife. I can’t wait to see this come to life next year! 🌟🎞️
#WhistlerFilmFestival #The5Pitch #ScreenBC #BCFilm #EmergingFilmmakers #Storytelling
#WhistlerFilmFestival #The5Pitch #ScreenBC #BCFilm #EmergingFilmmakers #Storytelling
Congratulations to our 2025 UBCP/ACTRA Awards Winner – Kevin McNulty
Best Performance – Short
‘Attendance’
@ubcp_actra #kevinmcnulty #bcfilm
Best Performance – Short
‘Attendance’
@ubcp_actra #kevinmcnulty #bcfilm
November 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Congratulations to our 2025 UBCP/ACTRA Awards Winner – Kevin McNulty
Best Performance – Short
‘Attendance’
@ubcp_actra #kevinmcnulty #bcfilm
Best Performance – Short
‘Attendance’
@ubcp_actra #kevinmcnulty #bcfilm
A huge thank-you to the team for the warm welcome. Grateful to see the innovation, passion, and creativity happening on set every day.
#BCFilm #ReelShort #VerticalFilm #MicroDrama #BCArts #CreativeBC #FilmInnovation #FilmProduction #OnSet #BCCreates #CanadianFilm #Storytelling #VFFSA
#BCFilm #ReelShort #VerticalFilm #MicroDrama #BCArts #CreativeBC #FilmInnovation #FilmProduction #OnSet #BCCreates #CanadianFilm #Storytelling #VFFSA
November 14, 2025 at 5:05 AM
A huge thank-you to the team for the warm welcome. Grateful to see the innovation, passion, and creativity happening on set every day.
#BCFilm #ReelShort #VerticalFilm #MicroDrama #BCArts #CreativeBC #FilmInnovation #FilmProduction #OnSet #BCCreates #CanadianFilm #Storytelling #VFFSA
#BCFilm #ReelShort #VerticalFilm #MicroDrama #BCArts #CreativeBC #FilmInnovation #FilmProduction #OnSet #BCCreates #CanadianFilm #Storytelling #VFFSA
Screen BC represents 140+ members across the film ecosystem—driving strategy, advocacy & success for BC on the global stage. 🌎✨
#ScreenBC #BCFilm #Burnaby #CreativeEconomy
#ScreenBC #BCFilm #Burnaby #CreativeEconomy
October 23, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Screen BC represents 140+ members across the film ecosystem—driving strategy, advocacy & success for BC on the global stage. 🌎✨
#ScreenBC #BCFilm #Burnaby #CreativeEconomy
#ScreenBC #BCFilm #Burnaby #CreativeEconomy
Screen BC represents 140+ members across the film ecosystem—driving strategy, advocacy & success for BC on the global stage. 🌎✨
#ScreenBC #BCFilm #Burnaby #CreativeEconomy
#ScreenBC #BCFilm #Burnaby #CreativeEconomy
October 23, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Screen BC represents 140+ members across the film ecosystem—driving strategy, advocacy & success for BC on the global stage. 🌎✨
#ScreenBC #BCFilm #Burnaby #CreativeEconomy
#ScreenBC #BCFilm #Burnaby #CreativeEconomy
Background meeting at the UBCP ACTRA office today! Nice that we can participate in person and via zoom. Great to discuss issues with the staff & members!
#ubcpactra #backgroundcommittee #bcfilm #extras #vancouver
#ubcpactra #backgroundcommittee #bcfilm #extras #vancouver
October 16, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Background meeting at the UBCP ACTRA office today! Nice that we can participate in person and via zoom. Great to discuss issues with the staff & members!
#ubcpactra #backgroundcommittee #bcfilm #extras #vancouver
#ubcpactra #backgroundcommittee #bcfilm #extras #vancouver
It's Day 7 of the #ReelThanks25 Challenge and we have a $5,000 sponsor donation from ICG 669 and MBS Equipment Company Canada Ltd. up for grabs! The team to raise the most funds between 9AM and 5PM will receive the donation.
#BCFilm #BCFilmIndustry #YVRFilm #VancouverFilm #GVFB
#BCFilm #BCFilmIndustry #YVRFilm #VancouverFilm #GVFB
October 9, 2025 at 6:44 PM
It's Day 7 of the #ReelThanks25 Challenge and we have a $5,000 sponsor donation from ICG 669 and MBS Equipment Company Canada Ltd. up for grabs! The team to raise the most funds between 9AM and 5PM will receive the donation.
#BCFilm #BCFilmIndustry #YVRFilm #VancouverFilm #GVFB
#BCFilm #BCFilmIndustry #YVRFilm #VancouverFilm #GVFB
Something's not right with this picture. I'm in Hollywood North alright. @tilton #hollywoodnorth #bcfilm
September 30, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Something's not right with this picture. I'm in Hollywood North alright. @tilton #hollywoodnorth #bcfilm
In mid-1940s Vancouver, a suite in an old mansion near Stanley Park was a social hub for creative people in the film society. Dorothy Burritt's film "Suite Two: A Memo to Oscar" (1947) records her home and the circle of friends that came to parties & film nights there. #bcfilm tinyurl.com/2z9baupm
“A cedar panelled billiard room”: Suite 2, 1960 Robson Street
Oscar [Burritt] mentioned that, in the hallway adjoining their apartment, [there] was a large walk-in refrigerator that also had a substantial freezer section. Oscar reported that this latter was i…
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September 17, 2025 at 5:42 PM
In mid-1940s Vancouver, a suite in an old mansion near Stanley Park was a social hub for creative people in the film society. Dorothy Burritt's film "Suite Two: A Memo to Oscar" (1947) records her home and the circle of friends that came to parties & film nights there. #bcfilm tinyurl.com/2z9baupm
In August 1940 Ortus Films shot Vancouver scenes for the British feature "49th Parallel" (1941). An 8mm fragment depicts the shoot. Filmed across Canada, the picture was directed by Michael Powell & written by Emeric Pressburger—later famous as “The Archers.” #Cdnfilm #BCfilm tinyurl.com/3jsvz54u
49TH PARALLEL (1941): Feature film scenes shot in Vancouver — and never shown
Music: “Kura” by Maarten Schellekens (evocativesoundtrack.com)1 The above video clip comprises 8-millimetre amateur footage from August 7, 1940. It shows a production unit from Ortus Fi…
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September 14, 2025 at 2:35 AM
In August 1940 Ortus Films shot Vancouver scenes for the British feature "49th Parallel" (1941). An 8mm fragment depicts the shoot. Filmed across Canada, the picture was directed by Michael Powell & written by Emeric Pressburger—later famous as “The Archers.” #Cdnfilm #BCfilm tinyurl.com/3jsvz54u
"Bats Out of Hell," Oscar Burritt's first film, shows start of midget car racing @ Vancouver's Hastings Park. He shot it in 1937, hand-processed the footage, & never finished it. 88 years later, it's been organized, edited, cleaned up, & given an original musical score. #BCfilm tinyurl.com/yrvyayjc
Bats Out of Hell: A “Lost” Vancouver Film from 1937 by Oscar Burritt, Now Given a Fresh Coat of Paint
In 1990, I was doing some archival film research under contract for the BC Archives’ audio-visual unit when I got in touch with Douglas S. Wilson, a Toronto film buff and collector. I was res…
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August 3, 2025 at 5:10 AM
"Bats Out of Hell," Oscar Burritt's first film, shows start of midget car racing @ Vancouver's Hastings Park. He shot it in 1937, hand-processed the footage, & never finished it. 88 years later, it's been organized, edited, cleaned up, & given an original musical score. #BCfilm tinyurl.com/yrvyayjc
A film trove: video of 1937 footage that Oscar Burritt shot & hand-processed (but never edited/finished), labelled "Bats Out of Hell." It shows midget-car-racing (6-ft-long cars) at Hastings Park, Vancouver. The source film had many processing & exposure issues, & MANY TAKES! #bcfilm #silentfilm
July 30, 2025 at 10:26 PM
A film trove: video of 1937 footage that Oscar Burritt shot & hand-processed (but never edited/finished), labelled "Bats Out of Hell." It shows midget-car-racing (6-ft-long cars) at Hastings Park, Vancouver. The source film had many processing & exposure issues, & MANY TAKES! #bcfilm #silentfilm
I'm reposting this 1940 Stanley Theatre/Vancouver Film Society story from my blog. I've cleaned up some edits, bumped up the light levels, and (most importantly) added new musical tracks by David Mattison. (Some right pretty tunes, sir!) #silentfilm #BCfilm #Cdnfilm tinyurl.com/323wm6th
Sunday Afternoons at the Stanley Theatre (Vancouver, April 1940)
This amateur movie records a Sunday afternoon film screening at the Stanley Theatre on Granville Street in Vancouver on 14 April 1940. The occasion was the ninth screening of the fourth seaso…
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July 25, 2025 at 11:50 PM
I'm reposting this 1940 Stanley Theatre/Vancouver Film Society story from my blog. I've cleaned up some edits, bumped up the light levels, and (most importantly) added new musical tracks by David Mattison. (Some right pretty tunes, sir!) #silentfilm #BCfilm #Cdnfilm tinyurl.com/323wm6th
Here's another mash-up of "Pro-Rec" (Provincial Recreation) footage from Vancouver. The footage comes from annual public displays at Stanley Park and Maple Grove Park in 1945 & 1951. For this incarnation, it's been made jiggier with original music by my friend DAVID MATTISON. tinyurl.com/4m473sm6
“DANCE, GIRL, DANCE!”: Another Pro-Rec Mash-Up
Here’s another mash-up of “Pro-Rec” (Provincial Recreation) footage from Vancouver — this time, from their annual public displays. The footage featured here is drawn from de…
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July 23, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Revisiting my 2009 video mash-up JUMPING JILLS, which reworks unusual 1950 amateur footage of "Pro-Rec" (Provincial Recreation, a BC gov't program) instructors in training at a Vancouver summer school. TRIGGER WARNING: includes footage of folk dancing and human pyramids! #BCfilm tinyurl.com/2tcuw2sv
JUMPING JILLS (Vancouver, B.C.): A Cyclone Newsreel Film Story (1950/2009)
This clip is my own mash-up, based on some 1950 amateur footage shot at a Vancouver summer school for “Pro-Rec” instructors. They were being trained to lead classes in British Columbia&…
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July 20, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Revisiting my 2009 video mash-up JUMPING JILLS, which reworks unusual 1950 amateur footage of "Pro-Rec" (Provincial Recreation, a BC gov't program) instructors in training at a Vancouver summer school. TRIGGER WARNING: includes footage of folk dancing and human pyramids! #BCfilm tinyurl.com/2tcuw2sv
From 85 years ago: a fascinating amateur film made by three Vancouver cinephiles. "Three There: Galiano Island 1940," an "experimental travelogue/memoir," was shot by the trio during a long weekend on one of BC's Gulf Islands.
#Silentfilm #BCfilm #Cdnfilm
STORY/VIDEO LINK: tinyurl.com/3vrzksud
#Silentfilm #BCfilm #Cdnfilm
STORY/VIDEO LINK: tinyurl.com/3vrzksud
July 19, 2025 at 5:00 AM
From 85 years ago: a fascinating amateur film made by three Vancouver cinephiles. "Three There: Galiano Island 1940," an "experimental travelogue/memoir," was shot by the trio during a long weekend on one of BC's Gulf Islands.
#Silentfilm #BCfilm #Cdnfilm
STORY/VIDEO LINK: tinyurl.com/3vrzksud
#Silentfilm #BCfilm #Cdnfilm
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Speaking of Vancouver films ca. 1940: here's a 1939 documentary about Vancouver citizens enjoying Stanley Park, captured in the brilliance of pre-war Kodachrome stock. It was made by a group of five amateur filmmakers under the name "Coast Films." #silentfilm #cdnfilm #BCfilm tinyurl.com/bdcsjhca
STANLEY PARK (Coast Films, 1939)
In 1939, five Vancouver film enthusiasts joined forces under the name “Coast Films,” and produced a silent colour documentary on Stanley Park, Vancouver’s celebrated urban oasis. …
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July 6, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Speaking of Vancouver films ca. 1940: here's a 1939 documentary about Vancouver citizens enjoying Stanley Park, captured in the brilliance of pre-war Kodachrome stock. It was made by a group of five amateur filmmakers under the name "Coast Films." #silentfilm #cdnfilm #BCfilm tinyurl.com/bdcsjhca
Here you can view a Canadian experimental film from Vancouver [ca. 1940] that hasn't been seen publicly for decades. It's "and--", by Dorothy Fowler & Margaret Roberts of Vancouver. #silentfilm #cdnfilm #bcfilm tinyurl.com/yw2n357b
July 6, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Here you can view a Canadian experimental film from Vancouver [ca. 1940] that hasn't been seen publicly for decades. It's "and--", by Dorothy Fowler & Margaret Roberts of Vancouver. #silentfilm #cdnfilm #bcfilm tinyurl.com/yw2n357b
You can now watch over 65 short drone location videos by going to our YouTube channel. These have been added to enhance our film locations database site. #filmvancouverisland #filmintheregions #BCfilm
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The Vancouver Island North Film Commission provides liaison and location scouting services to productions interested in filming on northern Vancouver Island, from Nanaimo to Cape Scott, including the ...
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May 29, 2025 at 6:41 PM
You can now watch over 65 short drone location videos by going to our YouTube channel. These have been added to enhance our film locations database site. #filmvancouverisland #filmintheregions #BCfilm
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Nominees for the 2025 Leo Awards are LIVE! Congratulations to all the incredible talent recognized this year. Let the celebrations begin!
#LeoAwards2025 #BCFilm #FilmAndTelevision #AwardSeason #SupportLocalTalent #CanadianFilm #LeoAwards #BCProud #FilmCommunity #RedCarpetReady #NomineeAnnouncement
#LeoAwards2025 #BCFilm #FilmAndTelevision #AwardSeason #SupportLocalTalent #CanadianFilm #LeoAwards #BCProud #FilmCommunity #RedCarpetReady #NomineeAnnouncement
May 27, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Nominees for the 2025 Leo Awards are LIVE! Congratulations to all the incredible talent recognized this year. Let the celebrations begin!
#LeoAwards2025 #BCFilm #FilmAndTelevision #AwardSeason #SupportLocalTalent #CanadianFilm #LeoAwards #BCProud #FilmCommunity #RedCarpetReady #NomineeAnnouncement
#LeoAwards2025 #BCFilm #FilmAndTelevision #AwardSeason #SupportLocalTalent #CanadianFilm #LeoAwards #BCProud #FilmCommunity #RedCarpetReady #NomineeAnnouncement
BC has the best talent, the best crews, and the best creatives! So proud of the Film Commission team at CreativeBC for their win at the Cannes Film Festival for best Film Commission at the 2025 Film Production Awards. Go BC! #bcfilm
May 20, 2025 at 7:22 PM
BC has the best talent, the best crews, and the best creatives! So proud of the Film Commission team at CreativeBC for their win at the Cannes Film Festival for best Film Commission at the 2025 Film Production Awards. Go BC! #bcfilm
