Thoughts on the Vancouver Film Industry and Some Advice for Beginners

For starters, I’m just going to clarify for anyone who doesn’t know, I’m talking about Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Yes, Canada. Not Vancouver, Washington or anywhere else. I mean the city that hosted the 2010 Winter Olympics; the city with a [mostly] cool Skytrain system (it’s a train! in the sky! like the Disney monorail but for mass-transit!); the city nestled between the Salish Sea (formerly Georgia Strait) and the tall coastal mountains; the city at the mouth of the mighty Fraser River; the city that’s home to beautiful Stanley Park with its towering trees; the city that is - yeah, I suppose you get the point now.