Vancouver has become the third largest film and television production centre in North America behind only Los Angeles and New York. The BC Film Commission logs over one billion dollars of dramatic production each year.

This is great news for the people who shoot films here. It’s also great news for people like us who visit their sets to shoot behind the scenes for EPK, 'making of....' and DVD projects.

We shoot on-set interviews and B-roll for electronic press kits (EPK's) and for documentaries for A&E Biography, Entertainment Tonight, Intimate Portraits, BBC Movie Connections etc.

We have been fortunate to have private interviews with some of the biggest names in showbiz including  Angelina Jolie, Johnny Depp, Richard Gere, Tom Hanks, Nicole Kidman, Barbara Walters,  Quinten Terantino, Homer Simpson(Don Castellaneta),  Kermet  the Frog and Miss Piggy.

We've been busy working on behind the scenes projects for The 6th Day, Millennium, Star Trek IV, and a number of other shows for DVD release.

We also service this market by shooting video insert material to be used for playback within the film as news footage, computer displays and surveillance video.

Our experience in sport coverage proved valuable when we went ring-side and supplied a 5 camera Betacam crew to feed the jumbotron for the boxing sequences in Eddie Murphy's "I Spy".

For Robert Redford's Spy Games, we worked with Tony Scott to record the "Live from Hong Kong" news report (at the corner of Burrard and Pender).

Recent feature projects shot here which we have been able to play a supporting role include:

1. X-men 2 - Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Patrick Stewart - Bryan Singer dir.
2. I Spy - Eddie Murphy, Owen Wilson, Sugar Ray Leonard - Betty Thomas dir.
3. Spy Games - Robert Redford, Brad Pitt - Tony Scott dir.
4. White Chicks - Shawn, Marlon and Keenen Wayans dir.
5. I Robot - Will Smith.
6. The 6th Day - Arnold Schwarzenegger, Robert Duvall
7. Antitrust - Tim Robbins, Ryan Phillippe
8. Scary Movie 3 - Leslie Nielson, Charlie Sheen - David Zucker dir.
9. Elf - Will Ferrell, James Caan, Ed Asner

Other high profile visitors include: Brian de Palma, John Frankenhamer, Roger Spottiswoode, Mel Gibson, Jack Nicholson, Sharon Stone, Sean Penn, Morgan Freeman and Jackie Chan.

We actually spent two days on the Canal Plus – “Day in the Life of Jackie Chan” project. We were  with him both on and off set.  He is a ‘force of nature’.  It was amazing witnessing the variety and volume of work that he produced in just 48 hours.

Television Production

The Outer Limits, the X-files, Millennium, Stargate SG-1, Smallville, the Highlander, Cold Squad, The L Word, the Chris Isaak Show and DaVinci's Inquest are just a few of the TV series which have been produced here. Gene Rodenberry's Andromeda is one of the most popular shows in syndication. We shot on-set promos with Kevin Sorbo in both PAL and NTSC digibeta.

For ABC we’ve gone behind the scenes on Kyle XY, Reaper and Samurai Girl.  Disney recently completed production on a live action version of Snow White and the TV movie Ladies and the Champ featuring Olivia Dukakis.  We've also helped out on other high profile shows such as Steven Spielberg's Taken and Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital.

Often these shoots require multiple camera setups. We shot a two camera PAL Digibeta widescreen session with the BBC's Michael Buerk interviewing Jim Caviezel on Mel Gibson's controversial project "The Passion of Christ". In the BBC documentary on "The Making of Kingdom Hospital" we featured a cameo appearance and interview with author Stephen King.

We crewed a three camera shoot for an ABC Primetime feature interview of Hollywood power couple Will and Jada Pinkett-Smith while Will was here shooting I Robot.

 
Masters of Horror

We shot EPK /dvd special features material for this Vancouver shot series that invited 12 directors acknowledged as Masters of the horror genre.  John Landis, John Carpenter, Joe Dante, Toby Hooper and Italian Dario Argento were among the directors invited by creator/director/series producer Mick Garris.

Music

Audiences love to be taken behind the scenes in the music business. We interviewed Sarah McLachlan for Intimate Portraits, Nick Cannon for MTV Diaries, did a promo spot for Ice Cube and spoke with Snoop Dog on a recent music video shoot.

For Germany’s Viva 2 we went to Seattle to interview Eminem for Germany's Viva 2, Work for record companies includes promotional interviews for Nickleback's Long Road CD/tour and spending a week with Janet Jackson preparing the EPK to launch her All For You tour.

In 2007, BBC Breakfast TV asked us to cover the Spice Girls on the first night of their World Wide Reunion Tour.  We also shot The Police kicking off their 2007 World Tour for ARD Germany.

Other recent projects include:

1. Tour promotions for U2, the  Rolling Stones, Nickleback and Michael Buble
2. Behind the scenes coverage of studio recording sessions with Shakira
3. backstage interviews with Beyonce before her final appearance with Destinys Child
4. Sir Paul McCartney - concert video and promo interviews for European tour  at the  Millenium Dome, London.
5. U2’s Bono - interview prior to G-8 Summit in Scotland
6. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards - Stripped - promo interviews, Virgin Records
7. The Cure - studio recording and interviews, Yahoo web-cast, London
8. Brian Adams/Sheryl Crow - Fashion Awards - Royal Albert Hall, London
9. A private concert by Sarah McLaughlin for  AT&T’s Blue Room
10. A segment with Elvis Costello for Jimmy Kimmel Live

Animation and Electronic Games
Vancouver is now a world center for computer animation. Mainframe Entertainment produced Reboot, the first completely computer generated children’s series here. They continued with Beast Wars and are now doing Gulliver’s Travels which will be shown in IMAX theatres.

Electronic Arts, the world leader in video game production, has a huge production facility here. We’ve gone behind the scenes at their Vancouver Motion capture studios to see "how they do it" for ESPN, German Television and many Gaming shows.