Meet the creators championing British Columbia’s Creative Industries

Creative Industries Week 2022

Celebrating B.C.'s Dynamic Creative Industries. The seventh annual Creative Industries Week is bringing industry stakeholders together to showcase and celebrate B.C.'s dynamic creative sector the week of May 16, 2022. The…

DigiBC Launches Games from British Columbia on Steam

Beautiful British Columbia, Canada’s West Coast that is home to lush rainforests, beautiful beaches, rugged mountain scapes, and some of the finest game developers in country! BC has one of the largest game development communities in the world,…

Video Games Produced in B.C. Celebrated

Congratulations to the talented B.C. game studios that received accolades at this year's Canadian Game Awards! Celebrating the best in video games in Canada, the 2022 Canadian Game Awards and Canadian Indie Game Awards were held on April…

B.C. Games Studios Nominated for 2022 Canadian Game Awards

The 2022 Canadian Game Awards and Canadian Indie Game Awards return again, celebrating the best in video games in Canada. The awards will take place April 7 and April 8 for two back-to-back awards shows dedicated to Canadian games, the people…

Finding a cyber-utopia at Transgender Expression Haven, a Q+A with Angelic Goldsky

The Transgender Expression Haven (The Haven) is Vancouver's first Trans Art Gallery and virtual performance art venue for transgender, non-binary, Two-Spirit, intersex artists and other artists transcending gender. A radical cyber-artistic creative…

Meeting Mel D’Souza: Founder of SILO Entertainment

Mel D’Souza is an Executive Producer, a Creative Producer, and ex-television executive who was born in Bombay, India and raised in Vancouver. He oversees SILO Entertainment, a content development and rights-holding company which was founded…

Celebrate International Women’s Day with these B.C. films at Vancouver International Women in Film Festival

The 17th annual Vancouver International Women in Film Festival (VIWFF) hosted by Women In Film and Television Vancouver (WIFTV) takes place virtually from March 8-13, 2022! Kicking off on International Women's Day, the festival includes 33 films…

B.C. artists and projects nominated for 2022 JUNO Awards

The nominees for the 51st Annual JUNO Awards were announced by The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. This year’s winners will be revealed during the closing weekend of JUNO Week, at The JUNO Opening Night Awards on Saturday…

Actor, Singer-songwriter, Audiobook Narrator, Podcast Co-founder, and Career Consultant: Kristina Lao

Kristina Lao (she/her) is a Vancouver-based nationally touring actor, singer-songwriter, audiobook narrator and co-founder of the podcast Bombshell Brunches. She is an artist-advocate and career consultant with over 15 years working in front…

British Columbia projects and creators nominated for 2022 Canadian Screen Awards

The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television revealed 145 nominations across television, film and digital media categories for their 2022 awards. British Columbia projects and creators are recognized across each category, with Danis Goulet’s…
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NFB/imagineNATIVE Digital Project Prize presented in the 2022 Sundance Film Festival New Frontier Program

The National Film Board of Canada VR experience This is Not a Ceremony, written and directed by Ahnahktsipiitaa (Colin Van Loon) had its world premiere at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. The winning submission of the NFB/imagineNATIVE Digital…