Reeling Back

When the late Chuck Davis asked me to update my article on feature film-making in Vancouver for the second (1997) edition of his urban encyclopedia, The Greater Vancouver Book, our city had become a major film production centre. With a significantly larger number of pictures to deal with, I decided to organize the material as if I were programming a series of film festival packages, each keyed to a different film genre. The result was an article that included more than 200 titles organized into 20 lists. As Davis's focus was specifically on Vancouver, the finished piece excluded those B.C. features not filmed in whole or in part in the Lower Mainland (now known as Metro Vancouver). In an attempt to make this Reeling Back restoration a more useful historical resource, the 20-part series has been edited, expanded and updated to include additional information that I've learned since the original publication. Part of that process has been the creation of this Greater Vancouver Book Feature Film Festival INDEX. It lists all of the feature film titles alphabetically. Each title is a hyperlink to the "program" in which the film is described. Clicking on the title Timecop, for example, will take you to the program called Cybercity, a list of science-fiction features shot on Vancouver-area locations. At the bottom of the page is a second list of links connecting to the 20 programs by their names.