ANGELS (behind the scenes)

 

 

I am sharing great news, friends for you.
,,Angels,, won its second award yesterday.

 

This is an award at the festival in Munich  New Wave Short Film Festival   and I am proud of it.
The film received an award in the category Religion & Faith .

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I thank the jury for evaluating the film and am very proud for this award.
When a film is recognized by the jury, it is the greatest joy for the producer, for the filmmaker.
This is a victory for perseverance and creativity, for the set and completed task, for efforts, for motivation, for overcoming difficulties, for the love of cinema.

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I would like to celebrate the victory with you and tell you how the shooting took place and show the frame-process of filming.Behind the scene

 

I already told you about this amazing film
By the way, you can watch it online

https://thinkshorts.com/6788/angels

 

 

The film starred a 3-year-old girl Maya, who received an award in the nomination TINY SUPERSTAR  at ROMA SHORT FILM FESTIVAL a month ago.

 

The girl is really very talented. She remembered text well, behaved perfectly and calmly in front of the camera.

In this video you can see how easy it is for her in front of the camera.This is final shot.Final scene.

https://youtu.be/6SmY2Y2_ups

 

There were many interesting moments in the film.
At least the one when the actress was supposed to draw an angel, but did not want to.
I had to give her a ready-made drawing and turn on the TV so that she was relaxed and played herself.

Well, and another interesting moment, for the first time in her life, during the filming , in front of the camera, she took a mobile phone in her hands.

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Before that, her parents did not allow her to play with  mobile phone.
During the filming , Maya picked  mobile and not only took, but she needed a mobile phone to photograph her drawing.
And the  did it !
From the first shot.
For her, it was innovation, discovery and pleasure.
In general, the film was shot easily for me.
Let me remind you, this was my first film.
I have been preparing for its creation for a long time, studied and tried a lot.
Therefore, I am pleased with every victories of this film ANGELS

 

There is a film screening ahead  at the festival and I hope that soon it will be free to go to the festival as a filmmaker after a year and a half.

 

 

 

How to create three short films in a year and half

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Hi, I’m back and this is great news not only for me but also for you.

 

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So, my website has been updated and, as you can see, it has become more thoughtful and interesting

 

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I’ll give you a short tour to my website right away, and I’ll create a video late.

In the meantime, I will briefly tell you about the website. This is a personal site and there you can reed not only the first posts about how I learned English, learned to write blogs,how I drew and tried to sell through the website my paintings,how I shared my thoughts and reflections with you.

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Now I released  share for you news from the world of cinema on the front pages,in my blog and in my future posts.

Yes, I am a filmmaker, my last third of my life is associated with making films.

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And here, on this site, I will tell you about the news from my world of cinema. Here you will not only hear an interview with me, watch my films, read publications about me, but you will also discuss with me on the most pressing topics about movies, even share your thoughts .

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Together we are strong.

 

So let’s go.

We stopped in 2020. Yes, it has been an unpredictable year.

 

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Suddenly, we became hostages of our own fears and found ourselves in conditions completely unknown for us.

At point A, where the last post stopped, my first film was still being created and I sat day and night at the editing. How much strength was in me then !!! All the past years, drop by drop, step by step, I went to say one day, tomorrow there will be filming. The script has already been written, the actors have been selected, the shooting scheme has been worked out.

But the insecurity  was sat in me.

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But I overcame it.

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The film was shot. I sweated on editing – I had not created films before. I had to learn a lot of new things – editing, color correction, voice acting. When the film was ready, I found a festival of children’s films in Kiev, wrote to them and prepared to fly to Kiev. But upon arrival, quarantine began, the festival was closed unopening and I was in quarantine for a month and a half. This was my first quarantine.

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Of course, since that period there have been changes that have affected not only me, but all the inhabitants of the planet.

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Sitting on the bed, closed from communication, I wrote a comedy with inspiration about the situation I was in, about quarantine and an epidemic.

With the increase in quarantine and the addition of my experiences to the script, the comedy turned into a tragicomedy, and the script had to be folded and finished, because I found a way to still return between the quarantines in Toronto, to my family.

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With a finished tragicomedy, with Angela’s useless short film, left without work, I flew to Toronto.

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And then that second and very interesting stage began, after which everything around me changed. Despite the failures, the second and not the last quarantine, I found funds and create a comedy about a dog. Why? I wanted to paint the tragedy and panic in society. I wrote a comedy script, shot and edited a film about Mimmy.

Mimmi’s Adventures,comedy about small dog.

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I sent out both films to festivals through the FilmFreeway  platform and my films started touring the festivals. You can watch the trailers of my films at the beginning of the website on the main page.

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When the films began to be selected for festivals and receive awards, I realized what the festivals needed and created the dream of every American to make a film about fear. Horror.

I created Fear.

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You will find a trailer for it on the main page too. Please write to me, you see the picture, the image of the video or it is not of high quality to you.

It is important for me to show you quality

 

 

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So one and a half years passed unnoticed.

 

And here I am again with you in point B (not at the end)page

Helen Polishuk

Toronto

May 2021

 

 

ANGELS

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Again in touch with you, my readers
I didn’t close my site as planned.
I stay here until 2020  ends with its curiosities
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Over the past year, I have released a short film,,Angels,, I wrote  you about earlier.

This short film is about the support of Ukraine and the warmth of family ties between Ukraine, Latvia and Canada.

This is the debut of a small but strong team and Astra Production Center

Really strong team for this time.
In general, the first pancake flew out. And it is called ,, Angels ,,
I  presented the film at many festivals in 2020.
I admit I was delighted to receive the awards for him.
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My team that worked on the film is worth such awards.
Little 3-year-old Maya played her role perfectly. She calmly kept herself in the frame, posed, read her text well.
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5-year-old Sonya, a wonderful skater and an excellent student, the second main character in the film, also played her role perfectly.
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And we can already say with confidence that both girls in the future, if they continue their career as actresses, will be successful.
Now the film runs through the festivals, as it should be with.

Today I was officially invited to New York Istanbul Short Film Festivale by a letter from the organizers of the festival.
I hold my fists, I want to get a prize, because it is worth the awards.
Here is a link to my Instagram, where by subscribing, you can follow all my news about me  in the world of cinema and art.
Instagram @polishukelena

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There is a difficult period in the world, many productions have stopped, but I have launched the second film MIMMIS ADVENTURES
New short film  being prepared for the release. 

It is a comedy about a mini dog chihuahua Mimmy.
I have already written about her and will write further.

Post quarantine

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What  I feel when I open my site after six months of quarantine to write a post?

Zeroed

 

This is the name of my new work, which I share with you
After spring 2020 with quarantine?with disrtoy in futures plane,we will not be able to live as before.
As the main thing, we are motivated by caring for the family, the observance of today and the recognition that everything must be treated with distrust

 

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What’s new in my angels paintings?

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The background of the paintings has become darker.
I express not transparency, hopelessness, anxiety
This is the background of ourselves, me too.
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 My signature still  at the corner in lower right as before
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I continue the 2020 cycle about angels
If the previous pictures are interesting, you can find them on the fb page : https://www.facebook.com/helenpolishukart
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If you are interested in cooperation with me and online exhibitions of my works, write
helen.polishuk@gmail.com
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Unfortunately,email on my site does not work and I am working on its restoration
Due to financial costs that are difficult to maintain and pay, I am thinking of closing the site.
If you want to help in its content, I will gladly accept it.
Email me about it.
 As I already reported, this painting refers to post-quarantine paintings dedicated to angels and is called, “Zeroed”
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materials: oil on canvas
Size: 5’x7′
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I am pleased to receive feedback from you,my readers.

I am pleased to receive your feedback from you in,,COMMENTS,,
I always read all the reviews
Now there is a lot of work to be done, about 5 thousand of them have accumulated together with bots…and its waiting for read
I promise to read and answer to all readers of my blog
Really looking forward to hearing from you comments and stories, how are you doing
Helen
July 16,2020 Toronto
 

The story about my angels

I know that I will not write anything new for you, but this story really just happened with me.
I am preparing for my exhibition 2017 year.
The exhibition will be in the Eastern Europe, in the northern city of art and beauty.

I am very worried about it.This is my first exhibition in Eastern Europe.
I’ll fly there, the catalogs are already printed there, advertising is already coming from the spring.
Because the flight from America to Europe to far, it is very difficult to carry many original paintings by air.
So I agreed with the administration that I will reproduct some of the big paintings in Europe(print in canvas) and transport large paintings by land transport throughout Europe.With myself from Canada I will take away small pictures that I will carry in hand.

So it’s easier to transportation.
Next time I’ll fly to Europe and where I’ll draw and sell or prepare for exhibitions.
It is not easy to transport paintings with air without damaging them. To roll into rolls and  carry it is idea, but the canvas can be damaged and pulling it over again takes away part of the painting.

I am sure of the quality of Canadian mail and transportation, but it is impossible to send it to the exhibition by post. I have to carry in my hands and choose sizes.
I stopped at small paintings of different styles and drew for the exhibition four paintings in size
14″ x 11″ , six in size 7″x 5″ and four in size 9″x7″.

We are talking today about small pictures of 7″ x 5″.

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Painting,,Angels also get tired,,(2017)

I painted them with the image of angels.

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Painting,,Angel,,(2017)

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Painting,,Angels are also arguing,,(2017)


I published them on the site artfinder.com

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Painting,,Angels are also friends,,(2017)


Not passed a day, they received a lot of views and put five from six in the basket.

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Painting,,How is it there?,,(2017)
I woke up today in a two-digit state.

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Painting,,Two angels,,(2017)
I have to draw something else again today for exhibition
and my angels fly next month in America separate.

Here is such a small amazing story that the things  what you create live a separate  life  🙂
I have very little time before flying  and not ready for exhibition  🙂 again

I am very worried and although I always treat things optimistically and positively.

I’m just nervous and worried today.I come up with new ideas for pictures in my head   🙂


 Worries -what is it …….or it is already old age 🙂  or in this state some work is created   🙂

Thanks for everything that happens in life, for difficulties and joys, for strength and pleasure.

Thanks that according to the statistics of my site www.helenpolishuk.com,I have almost 44 thousand subscribers.

I will continue to work for you……

25 Aug 2017 Toronto