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The first part.

I didn't mean so much that he's a person who tried and didn't get a part on a Vancouver-produced TV show, but that his video production efforts are part of the whole general Vancouver and Toronto "hollywood north" industry scene of people who act, do camera work, set decoration, costume, cinematography, sound, rigging, grips, etc.

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No, it's more "roll your own" but has worked well.

From an outsider's perspective it looks like a "roll your own" using some of the existing knowledge base, talent pool and resources that exist floating around in the Vancouver video production industry... Undoubtedly some of what he's done in the past 3-4 years with a serious studio, cameras, editing, sound and lighting would be more difficult if he were not in Vancouver, but were in some location with much fewer constantly ongoing video productions (random example: Portland).

I never really thought of it that way, but I suppose you're probably right to some extent. Though I'd wager you could achieve similar technical/artistic results with a decent local college that has an arts program or an engineering school. I always thought it was a suprising success, because he's actually located quite a distance from Vancouver proper, in kind of a suburb called Langley. As a local, I've been there about once, but there have been locals that have made there way onto bigger productions like Silicon Valley. It would be too far for me to realistically work there even if I had a car, not that they're knocking at my door, but surely some of their staff have attended schools quite a distance from there.

As a person in the Vancouver area: a lot of the film industry is out in east Burnaby, the industrial area of New West/Poco/Coquitlam, Surrey and the Fraser Valley for access to lower cost warehouse space, for sound stages/sets, and parking spaces... I don't know precisely where the Linus studios are but I wouldn't be surprised if they're in the industrial area near the south side of the golden ears bridge.

Most of the Hallmark Christmas movies are filmed around Langley and Fort Langley. All of them maybe. :)

LTT is probably only 20 minutes away, not that there's any association.

Oh, I forgot about those areas. Used to work in South Burnaby and there was definitely some filming happening there. I guess I normally think of North Shore studios, and areas more directly around Van, but certainly you'll save money going further out. Forgot about the Coquitlam areas as well, with such places as the well-known mental hospital. In east-van now, so as is tradition, I assume nowhere else exists ;)

>Vancouver-produced TV

Many shows now make sense.

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