PETER EVANCHUCK article GLEBE REPORT - INDIE FILMmaking & Corona

IMAGE NEWSPAPER ARTICLE by PETER EVANCHUCK

PETER EVANCHUCK's 'IN SANE' - FINALIST at GLASGOW INT FILM FESTIVAL

FINALIST BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY - FLORENCE FILM AWARDS - Congratulations Peter Evanchuck & Helene Lacelle

Dear Peter Evanchuck & Helene Lacelle, filmmakers

Congratulations! Your unique documentary IN SANE 2020  is a Finalist for the Florence Film Awards.

This means that your project received a very high score from our jury and is eligible for further award consideration.

We appreciate the high quality and serious content of your documentary. Mental Illness is a severe and toll taking illness with repercussions that affect entire communities. The personal approach your documentary offers the viewer is distinctly different from the usual psychological distant view so many other documentaries take.

GLEBE REPORT NEWSPAPER - article by Peter Evanchuck - IN SANE

NB FILM CO-OP NEWSLETTER - CLICK HERE

IN SANE - Official Selection in MOSCOW Shorts Internation Film Festival

Using our own limited resources what started as a home movie 20 years, 20,000k's later IN SANE becomes a real and raw documentary: not rehearsed or scripted, we shot what unfolded as MARCO revealed his life as a bi polar, photographer travelling across Canada photographing UNESCO world heritage sites  living the life he loved as healing therapy.

the title IN SANE indicates that SANITY AND INSANITY are combined in the life of a bi-polar.

 congratulations again on your official selection 'IN SANE'! 
Your project has been listed on our website and social media accounts. Here are the links:

http://www.moscowshorts.com/2020/03/09/february-2020-moscow-shorts-official-selection/

https://www.facebook.com/moscowshorts

https://twitter.com/MoscowShortsFF

https://www.instagram.com/moscowshortsfilmfestival

https://vk.com/moscowshorts

OSCAR ARTICLE - * InSane* - new documentary by PETER EVANCHUCK & HELENE LACELLE

Glebe Report Newspaper - article by Peter Evanchuck Jan. 2020

OSCAR NEWSPAPER Article 'Searching for a Beautiful Bachelor'

'Searching for a Beautiful Bachelor' SILVER AWARD Winner - Atlanta Spotlight FilM Festival

2019 ATLANTA SPOTLIGHT FESTIVAL 

Congratulations to Film Co-op members Peter Evanchuck and Helene Lacelle. Their SWFF screened short Searching for a Beautiful Bachelor was selected by judges at the Atlantic Spotlight Festival as a Silver Award winner in the documentary category. This win means an automatic place in the awards ceremony in Atlanta, Georgia.

PETER EVANCHUCK - The Daily Gleaner - 06Nov.2019 - article

Posters for - Searching For A Beautiful Bachelor & A Short History of Poverty

Peter Evanchuck & Helene Lacelle - Canadian Film Premiere - Tilley Hall, UNB NOV.9

Peter Evanchuck & Helene Lacelle - OSCAR Article - Festival Success for 'BEautiful Bachelor'

'Searching For a Beautiful Bachelor' - HUGE FESTIVAL SUCCESS !

NBFC WEEKLY THURSDAY E-NEWS

Director/cameraman Peter Evanchuck tries to convince a zombie to be in the Bachelor movie WITH no luck. (photo credit HELENE LACELLE)

CONNECTING MEMBERS - LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION

Making a docudrama on the run - theSEARCHforaBEAUTIFUL BACHELOR.

The low budget and almost no budget filmmaker seeks to create a reasonable atmosphere that gives a desirable quality and feel to the film that makes it ‘watchable.’

Since I believe in the location search and like ‘run&gun’ filmmaking and love traveling, the two can help this ideal filmmaking experience happen.

‘Money ain’t everything,’ said the Hatter to Alice.

Beauty shots enlighten the eyes of the viewer, and at times, they might help the viewer to behold an entirely new world that appeals to them.

  Helene Lacelle hugs 'yeaRofPIG' in NiagaraFalls, Ontario. (Photo by Peter Evanchuck)

Eyeball attractive locations that enhance your film and get bums in the seats, so the people at WARNER take notice. Did you know that the Warner brothers originated in Hull,  Quebec?

PS: keep your eyes open in case our film snags a spot in the upcoming  NB Silver Wave Film Festival.

A SHORT HISTORY OF POVERTY - poster

Maureen Korp Article - ART BEGAT- Image Newspaper - June 2019

OSCAR NEWSPAPER - article by PETER EVANCHUCK - The Search For A Beautiful Bachelor

GLEBE REPORT Article - by PETER EVANCHUCK - The Search For A Beautiful Bachelor

NBFC WEEKLY THURSDAY E-NEWS - PETER EVANCHUCK

 Helene Lacelle and ZOLTAR, her mentor helping her find a Beautiful Bachelor in Evanchuck's docudramedy, 'THE SEARCH FOR A BEAUTIFUL BACHELOR.' (Photo by Peter Evanchuck)

YOU CAN’T ALWAYS GET WHAT U WANT – FILMMAKING IN CANADA
By Peter Evanchuck
Recently Soderbergh’s ‘UNSANE’ created a stir in the film community since his half dozen or so DOP’s all used iphones to create the media and after spending a million on making it, he released it.
It’s release wasn’t to his satisfaction since it sort of bombed at the box. His response to this was rather remarkable to we Canadian filmmakers.
He had only $20 million for marketing/promotion of the feature. That he states, wasn’t enough. He assures his readers that at least $30 million is necessary to create the buzz needed to get the bums in the seats of theatres across the U.S.
These costs are absurd to any Canadian filmmaker since no one ever or seldom gets that kind of money – even to make the feature.
My little movies struggle like I do with my cancer to get out and about in a very controlled American domination of our theatres and media outlets.
All that aside, I and others have used digital to continue to ‘tell our stories’ and use whatever outlets we can to expose those tales to interested viewers. The problem of course is how to make some rent money to pay the bills.
At the present I’m roaming from Ontario to Nova Scotia shooting scenes for my latest docudramedy ‘THE SEARCH FOR A BEAUTIFUL BACHELOR.’
The story is revealed partly with documentary footage, dramatic footage all with a sensible sense of humour.
And that my fellow videographers is where this filmmaker stands firmly in the grip of low budget movie making like so many other Canadians who have a yearning to understand life around them.
PS: i just heard that Netflix intends to open a major studio in Toronto. Perhaps taxfree Netflix might have to pay some taxes into the media fund and fund more Canadian storytellers.

  Helene Lacelle on location in Moscow (Ottawa's Lansdown Park Pavillion plays Red Square) in scene from 'CanadianPIGgirl,' Evanchuck's feature drama now in post. (Photo by Peter Evanchuck)

  Director Peter Evanchuck on location in Niagara Falls sitting with a bachelor Zombie discussing life (Photo by Helene Lacelle)

THE BIG EASY how america feeds it's filmmakers - Soderberghs UNSANE shot by 8 dop's on iphone 7's

The fim Unsane. shot with an iPhone 7. was Soderbergh entering into a completely new era... sort of.
Those of us who are low or no budget filmakers viewed digital as our miracle creative helper - we could get access to the equipment through the Film Co-op for a steal of a deal or buy it used at a very reasonsble price, and make movies for peanauts and some chicken feed. Which for some of us meant no more chasing the beaurotcrats at various funding agencies pleading for money to make our films to create our dreams, thoughts and ideas of Canada to Canadians... how novel, eh?
For we low/no budget filmakers the film, Unsane became our flag raised high. Here was a great director making movies with an iPhone 7 or so I thought. Ok, making films with 7 iPhones and 7 camera people but making them for a million dollar budget...well well.
I was saddened when I found out on IMBD that the financing for Unsane is 1.5 million budget. I was disppointed because a million bucks in Canada means an enormous budget that few of us ever manage to raise to make our films.
Soderbergh of course has such a great track record and the fact that he’s a US filmmaker means that he has financing and distribution  and promotion with one phone call. Something that would never happen to a Canadian filmmaker since we never get the opportunity to create a track record of such huge proportions .... we don’t have Hollywoody North only beaurocrats and a very diminished NFB. We don’t even have talk shows where independents can voice their creative projects while the US has hundreds of promotional shows that highlight creative people.
I wondered, how did Soderbergh use all that money since he was using rented iPhone 7’s? Since much of the money for digital is in post and I can’t find out how all that money was spent on post. I surmised it was probably locations, actors, crew and post but a million bucks, that ain’t chicken feed.
Anyway you look at it, being famous before going for money is very helpful, being UNfamous like most Canadians isn’t. How the hell are we ever going to convince Netflix to pay taxes and support Canadian films which I think would be good for everybody.
That’s not INSANE that’s UNSANE...

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my life B.C.. i.e. before cancer ....COURAGE &. CREATIVE LIVING WITH CANCER is my LIFE

O f course like so many others i was hoping my elder years would be spent in a reasonably healthy manner creating my legacy ..... so to speak i.e. doing creative work for the love of creative art.

Well the best laid plans of 'mice and men' as that adage goes- cancer has taken over a major portion of my life as i find it more and more difficult to make movies .... most are on standby.

Instead i've returned to my writing and my photography creating Marveous Realism with my partner H.L. - a series of very unique art  works are made where both hi tech and tradional methods are used to  give the viewer an outstanding way of seeing the worl around us.

Of course my spinal cancer and lower back cancer isn't making things easier.

I no longer can hold my larger camera outstreched to get a shot so i've purchased smaller ones that allow me to continue shooting but slower and less often than when i was healthy i.e. B.C.

Depression is a hard journey and one must work hard not to fall into that terrible state - i keep exercising and healthy living and resting as my daily life. As most know, exerecise is vital to a helathymind . Combined with the creative life one can life as successfully as possilbe - stress is a killer.

People often tell me how good i look for someone that has had 4 major surgeries,  can hardly turn my neck from the two neck surgeries, my shoulders are seperated and require replaement surgery , I've had so much radiation that i can no longer tolerate it and now am on chemo.... my future looks bleak given all that but i do't see it that way - creative work and a positive attitude, exercise, rest all have contributed to help me still see the world as a positive place that i want to contribute to and live in.

I welcome each morning regardless of my pain or soreness or my diminishing energy. That i can rest well and face my illness with courage and live as fully as i can .. is my gift or so a nurse told me.

here i am after my 4th surgery - 2 neck surgeries: trach in for a year - life goes on cancer with me for life now on chemo

'CREATIVE PARTS' - MARVELOUS ART SHOW @ Chez Lucien - July 31 - Aug 31

 

HELENE LACELLE & PETER EVANCHUCK at CHEZ LUCIENE with 'CREATiVEparts'

HELENE LACELLE & PETER EVANCHUCK at CHEZ LUCIENE with 'CREATiVEparts' - curators, artists, filmakers, photographers

Two&half shows for ya'll on walls at Chez Luciene 'The Art of Marvelousness' , 'Abandoned & Creative parts' new & not-so-new creative works by HELENE LACELLE and PETER EVANCHUCK

opens 31July to end of August - PART ONE ( PART TWO all Sept )
Chez Luciene, 137 Murray Street, Ottawa all day to last call

LACELLE and EVANCHUCK have been life and creative partners for decades making all sorts of creative works like marvelous realism ( using modern&traditional methods of media soft&hard ware films like 'pigGIRLinWONDERLAND', docs like 'A SHORT HISTORY of POVERTY', numerous art and photo shows in Canada, USA and Europe and presently in group; show at 'theTATEexchange' in Liverpool,

their films can be seen at movieshandmade.com they curate at goopmailart.blogspot.ca ( an international free art exchange ) their creative photography/art at marvelousrealismcanada.blogspot.ca

they presently are travelling middle and eastern Canada recording using varous media the sights and sounds that interest them - like worldheritage sites, small towns, nature and people

hope u can drop by have a brew and mull around out creative workings

PETER EVANCHUCK's article in the NB FILM CO-OP Newsletter July 2018

July 19, 2018

Peter Evanchuck likes to be free flowing and in the moment to keep the purity in his art. (Photo by Helene LAcelle)

CONNECTING - PETER EVANCHUCK 

'KEEP IT SIMPLE, STUPID.''
By Peter Evanchuck
I was recently in Toronto watching a buddy, and his musician pals lay down tracks of their original music. These guys are all, and most were, in their day quite famous.
Shawn O'Connor, (originally from Saint John ), gathered all the musicians for the event and hired the sound studio.
Very pro, very impressive I thought as my gaze drifted over the sound mixing board. These days, I seldom get to 'sit in' on significant studio events. Even in today's world of everyone having a mini-studio connected to their computer. I thought this was unusual -  seemed too big; looked like a setup more for established pop musicians feasting in the glory of fame and fortune than these guys who had their day.
Anyway, there they were laughing, joking and tuning up their instruments in one of Toronto's major sound studios.
Shawn, bless his creative soul, was at 60 still plugging away not giving up the creative life for the humdrum life of safety, security and a large RRSP.
It starts, it goes. We all enjoy the atmosphere, the skills. All the guys are looking and sounding so pro. At 1G a day it sounded fine.
Then, the catastrophe that so often destroys the spontaneous originality of exceptional music 'of the moment' began. One musician wanted to tweak a riff then tweak more and a bit more until the unique quality of the spontaneous originality was gone.... more tweaking and more tweaking. The hours built up and, the overtime started and the 1G became 1.5G and grew.
'Keep it Simple Stupid' was gone ... gone into the oblivion of intellect of too much thinking that led to too much tweaking and well the day was over, and I had gone back to my little world where tweaking is not allowed in my original work anymore. Yes, long ago I tweaked too like all tweakers and ruined many a scene.
Here in Chipman, New Brunswick, my partner Helene Lacelle and I are keeping it very simple (I'm living with cancer ).  We create small art films, significant short docs, larger simple films crew of two (me and her) and ideas that float through my head like stories that need to be told. No fluff, no silly derivative stories - pure and simple images, sounds and, in a way, some are full of fury.
for those interested, please go to 4 of our sites: 

movieshandmade.com, goopmailart.blogspot.ca, neonmatisse.com   marvelousrealismcanada.blogspot.ca

OSCAR Newspaper article in NB FILM CO-OP Newsletter

CONNECTING MEMBERS - PETER EVANCHUCK
OOS residents who have enjoyed seeing the work of artists and filmmakers Peter Evanchuck and Helene Lacelle on display at Life of Pie, 1134 Bank Street, now have another opportunity to look at more of the artists' quiet, thoughtful compositions. "Looking Back, Looking Forward" is the current Evanchuck and Lacelle exhibition at Cafe Nostalgica on the University of Ottawa campus, running until June 20th.
The artists have chosen eight framed works for the exhibition, and have hung them on the walls of the cafe. The imagery is likely to prompt a big of conversation among cafe patrons seated underneath the pictures: "What is that? Do you remember...? Isn't that the Chateau Laurier? Aren't they going to build..."
To read the full article: HERE

New Animated LOGO for MOVIESHANDMADE

Helene Lacelle Reviewing Images for Peter Evanchuck's up-coming comedy 'Goodie Meets Happy'

THE ARTIST LIFE

HELENE LACELLE listens to the gypsy ZOLTAR in Niagara Falls for her
role in  EVANCHUCK's 'GOODIEmeetsHAPPY' - an absurd comedy

One of the many great things digital technology offers the creative filmaker is 'cheap'. It brings out the creative artist since one does NOT have to run around looking for money to start or complete a project.  Shooting film always forced money concerns on the creative artist - so many became CFO's instead of filmmakers.
CFO's  were forced to make long lists of financial needs and ways. So, whatever creative artist they had in their blood was eradicated slowly over time and they became show business producers instead. They would revel in the money instead of the art.
Helene Lacelle and Peter Evanchuck prefer the creative artist approach to filmaking so digital is their miracle. They make creative flipbooks, shorts and most recently Lacelle used iMOVIE on her iMAC 21.5 to create personal docs she entitled, "Petit Voyage avec Pierre".

"Peter and I make numerous road trips so, using my simple mini digital camera enables me to use footage not in a traditional movie way but more in a creative artist way." - Helene

As a result, Helene's jaunts with Peter become these odd, remarkable and very personal mini documentaries.

Check out her videos at: https://vimeo.com/user74700468

Check out: movieshandmade.com

Check out: bookshandmade.com or marvelousrealismcanada.blogspot.ca or neonmatisse.com ( Lacelle was called the Neon Matisse of Canada; a name that stuck with her.)

THE MIRACLE OF MONTREAL during LUMIERE/NUIT BLANCHE a couple days ago

 SEE THE MOVIE 1:16

Well i guess we've all had this miracle happen - well at least those who get off the couch and into a real living life.

Left Ottawa for Montreal to experience LUMIERE and NUIIT BLANCHE  Saturday a couple day ago and to shoot some image/sound for my drama-documentary BEAUTIFUL BACHELORS.

Came up with a new inclusion to make B.B. slide from a pure Doc. into a dramatic doc with a story line. So HELENE is now a character looking for a 'new life' with some interesting bachelors like she lived before her life changed into seclusion and 'aloneness'

Her first encounter as she travels Canada is with ZOLTAR a gypsey fortune teller and from there she get clues on her life and how to aquire what she wants. ZOLTAR is a fortune telling machine that gives fortunes for money.

So there we are in Montreal and i'm shooting a scene using the background of 'the village' and a large display of Quebec artists mounted in the snow on large blocks of white walls. HELENE talks about her life with Jano both living to the fullest having a great time the years they spent together.

The foootage is good and so we're returning to the van and i'm shooting some cover shots when i hear HELENE yelling after me - there she was calling out, 'It's JANO'

So hugs and excited words and we can hardly believe that after 25 years we found each other again at the exact time i'm shooting a scene where HELENE is talking about her wonderful life living with him in Toronto.

Since when friends meet after decades apart usually the connetion is immediate like no time has past and what amazes me is that JANO recognized us walking on the street like it was yesterday.

He tells us we haven't changed and i can hardly beiieve is since i've been going thru a decade of Cancer treaments with 4 major surgeries, radiaitons, etc .... but he did recognize us immediately.

So it seems that somehow that movemenet of 'getting out there' created a miracle for us and for the movie - we now have a cetral character for the 'new' dramatized story version of BEAUTIFUL BACHELORS - now that's what i call a MONTREAL MIRACLE and certain put a LUMIERE on my life.

All's always well when miracles happen, eh Canada?