Called a “modern-day renaissance man” by the Vancouver Sun, Pete McCormack is an award-winning novelist, screenwriter, musician, poet, producer and director.

One of Pete's most recent projects was as writer and co-director (with Jesse James Miller) of the documentary Uganda Rising, about the plight of the Acholi people in Northern Uganda.

Narrated by Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey, the documentary features interviews with Noam Chomsky, Betty Bigombe, Samantha Powers, Mahmood Mamdani, Lloyd Axworthy and others.

Uganda Rising won a Jury Prize at the Paris Human Rights Film Festival and best documentary at the Os International Film Festival in Norway. It has also aired on the Discovery Times Channel in its forty-five minute format.

Another recent project was Pete's co-directing (with Tim Hardy) and writing of the 25 minute film Hope In The Time of AIDS, narrated by Pierce Brosnan. Interviews included Stephen Lewis, Romeo Dallaire and Nigel Fisher.

Pete wrote and directed the independent See Grace Fly in 2003, about a woman’s battle with schizophrenia. The film received a Special Jury Citation and won for the Women In Film Best Actress Award at the 2003 Vancouver International Film Festival.

See Grace Fly was also nominated for nine 2004 Leo Awards (winning for Best Actress: Gina Chiarelli), won the Audience Choice Award in Portugal's 2004 Fantasporto Film Festival, and was nominated for a 2005 Genie Award, again for best actress.

Pete has written several other produced films and has had the privilege of working with Academy Award Winning producer Jim Wilson (Dances With Wolves) as the writer on Wilson’s Whirlygirl, and with producer Francine Allaire on Lea Pool’s Blue Butterfly,  and other great and generous spirits.

Pete's two novels, Shelby  (1995) and Understanding Ken (1998), both received critical acclaim, in particular Understanding Ken, which was short-listed for the Stephen Leacock Award for Canadian Humour and the Word On The Street People's Choice Award and was named one of the years ten best books by the Ottawa Citizen. Both books have been optioned for the screen, yet still remain only available in book form.

Pete has produced, written and performed (with the skill of many great musicians) two original CDs, Breathe and Trust, that made top ten lists for Best Independent Albums the years they were released, followed by a mind-numbing lack of sales.

Pete's third CD, at least in its guitar/vocal form and temporarily entitled Wide Open, has just been completed and is available on-line in its entirety for listening and downloading.

As a performer, Pete has toured solo, sometimes in his long-deceased Toyota Van, town to town, and has toured with and opened for artists as diverse as impressionist Andre Phillipe Gagnon, jazz singer Holly Cole, the legendary Classic rock band Little Feat, and former Payola$ frontman Paul Hyde.

Pete’s poetry is only available on his website, by popular demand. Okay, not by popular demand. So what. A few of his essays, which sometimes have trouble getting to the point, will also be posted front and centre on the site, and repeatedly on his blog.

Recent projects also include a just finished (fifteen year old) eight person play called Thanks For Coming, about a dinner party gone wrong, but still in search of higher meaning, love, tantra, and a possible revolution.

A three-quarter finished screenplay about love and divorce, still seeking both a title and an ending, remains on the horizon, as does the filmed version of Understanding Ken.

Pete’s also in the editing process of an interview book he did with spiritual teacher Jeffrey Armstrong, temporarily entitled Beyond Emptiness, based on the wisdom of Armstrong’s ancient Vedic/Hindu lineage and how that wisdom may apply to the modern journey.