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

 

 

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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.