ECG Productions

A new update from Between Heaven and Earth 🎬✨

Earlier this month, our team filmed at St. Nicholas Serbian Orthodox Church in Hamilton, capturing a rare and deeply meaningful moment of community life — a celebration shaped by faith, tradition, and togetherness 🙏🌿

This documentary follows the life of Father Jovan Marjanac, a Serbian Orthodox priest from Ontario ⛪👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 — offering an intimate look into his family life, spiritual service, and the role of faith in everyday life 💫📖

The Serbian community in Ontario — numbering over 50,000 people 🇷🇸❤️🇨🇦 — is truly unique, preserving centuries-old traditions while building a strong, close-knit cultural identity far from their historical homeland. For our team, it has been a genuine privilege to immerse ourselves in these traditions, and especially to witness the life and journey of Father Jovan from within 🙏✨

These moments remain deeply relevant today — speaking to renewal, memory, and the enduring strength of community 🌱🤍

Directed by Maxim Kravchinsky 🎥
Director of Photography: Artem Borodin 📷

Where Theater Becomes Life

There are people who don’t wait for a space to be created for them — they create it themselves. Lilia Skliar — a poet, director, and the founder of the theater project “The Wonderful Cat” — is one of them. She was born in Birobidzhan, a place where “Yiddish flowed like birdsong in the mornings,” where names like Binyamin, Golda, and Itzik were heard in cramped communal apartments, and where childhood was both a small world and an entire universe.

Her journey is one of multiple migrations, changes of countries, professions, and languages: journalism, Israel, Canada. And each time — an attempt to begin again. But what she truly creates is not just performances, but an environment — a place where people who have lost their footing come: new immigrants, artists, poets, those who never planned this life — and suddenly find themselves there. “When that opportunity doesn’t exist — I don’t wait. I create it myself.”

“The Wonderful Cat” began in a small café, with 20 tickets at $10 each and the idea of staging a performance. Thirty people showed up — some stood outside in the rain, watching through the windows. That’s how something real begins. Today, it is a theater, a laboratory, a meeting space where poetry, dramaturgy, and human lives intersect — where performances are born, and sometimes… love is born too.

But this conversation is not only about theater. It is about memory, about a language that is fading, about a childhood that never quite lets go: “There is no escaping this… the voice of childhood follows close behind me.” It is also about the time we live in — about a war that cannot be ignored, and about the attempt to transform pain into art. Lilia Skliar was among the first in Toronto to stage a charity performance about the war in Ukraine, with proceeds going to support those in need — because for her, theater is not an escape from reality, but a way of confronting it.

Watch the new episode of Hour of Interview with Gregory Antimony — a conversation about theater, freedom, memory, and about how a person can create meaning even when everything around them is falling apart.

Part 1:https://youtu.be/qzVyjYf1eVA
Part 2:https://youtu.be/wOomhigEW8w

While Kolya Is on Stage

Nikolai Terentiev is a mime clown of the legendary Snow Show.
A man who speaks without words.

Vera Pavlova is a poet.
A woman who explains love through language.

While Kolya steps onto the stage,
Vera remains at her desk.

The quiet of a hotel room.
A laptop. Drafts.
Work that requires not applause, but concentration.

She is writing a new book —
365 pages.
365 poems.
365 declarations of love.

One confession a day.
Each poem an attempt to hold a feeling
within the boundaries of a line.

If Kolya speaks through movement and silence,
Vera speaks through rhythm and breath.

He walks toward the audience in the light of the stage.
She walks toward the reader through the page.

Our film is about two ways of speaking about love.
Two forms of vulnerability.
About how play and language are both forms of labor —
daily, disciplined, real.

Sometimes applause fills a theatre.
Sometimes it happens quietly, inside a text.



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