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Media Casting Group is now accepting non-union submissions for the following roles in "The Reaching." Auditions will be held on June 16th.
To submit: Email your headshot and resume (a small jpeg is best) to [email protected] with "The Reaching" and the name of the character for whom you are submitting" on the subject line.Include your best contact phone number in the body of the email.
Absolutely no phone calls!
Synopsis and Supporting Character Breakdown for "The Reaching"
Synopsis -
Elouise is a small town girl that has returned home from the big city to take care of her ill grandmother and move into her mother's childhood home. Her job at the local watering hole is a mundane task daily seeing to the few towns people that come in regularly. Suddenly, she starts to think her mind is playing tricks on her after a terrible car accident changes her perception of reality forever. When in fact, reality has only just begun to take it's toll on her in this dark, demented, psychological thriller in the woods of northern California.
Characters Needed:
Grammy - A little old lady who moves just as slowly as the small town she grew up in so many years ago. She resents Elouise having to take care of her, and shows it daily. She has long straggly grey hair that generally doesn't seem washed.
Running Woman - Mid 30's good looking brunette. Scared, and confused as she runs for her life.
Frank - A mid 60's man who loves his wife, but not enough to stop drinking every day at the local bar despite also being the only tow truck driver in the entire county. He's a nice old man, but also knows something isn't right in this small town.
Police Officer - Friendly, shy, nervous cop who takes his job seriously, sometimes too seriously. He's a mid to late 20's fairly good looking guy that has had a crush on Elouise for some time.
"The Collector" - A 40's man, pale, short black/dark brown hair in a black suit from the early 1900's. He is very sure of himself, very precise, calm, and low-tempered.
Collector's Wife - A mid 40's woman, pale, long brunette hair, does not speak, but very calm and collected, dressed in a pale, burnt wedding gown.
Collector's Daughter - An early teen girl, pale, long brunette hair, does not speak, but very calm and collected, and dressed in a pale, burnt dress generally used for funerals in the early 1900's.
Collector's Son - An early teen boy, pale, short dark hair, dressed in an early 1900's black suit with a look of pure terror.
Old Men at Bar 1/2/3 - Three random older men who just won't go home!
Submit your headshot and resume according to the guidelines above.
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Courtesy Casting Announcements
Casting for the 2011 PCS winning script "Buddies."
We are completing our casting of the film, but we still haven't found
our lead male actor yet. We need a male, age 25-40, who is in excellent
physical condition. Here's the synopsis:
Brad returns from Iraq only to lose his girlfriend. Depressed,
nothing seems to help until a gift re-opens his heart and reminds
him that sometimes you need a little help from your friends.
Actors interested in the role should email a headshot and resume
to me:
[email protected]
Also, my cell is
530-383-1711
We also need an apartment or house in the midtown Sacramento
area to shoot many interior scenes. Thank you!
Judith Plank
Writer/Director
"Buddies"
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Sorry for the late notice, I thought I had covered all my grounds last week as far as getting the word out on my auditions for "Piecework", a short film I am doing for my senior project.
Here is the logline of the story and general character info.
RAY, a 43 year old recently divorced man who lives life out in the country finds himself bleeding on a hospital gurney, remembering important events in his life up to the event of him being shot.
Characters
Ray
42 years old. Born in the country, will always be in the country and is perfectly content with living a simple life out where he's always been. He enjoys the little things in life. Grew up with a strict father, that's where he learned to take pride in his work and his mom died when he was young. He is lonely, his wife has left him and his daughter barely knows him. He finds solitude and refuge in his work. Looking for housing and work he bunks up with an old man who allows him to stay in his house as long as he fixes the place up. He doesn't always know how to express how he feels or his emotions. Man of few words, but thinks a lot.. almost always talking to himself, thinking. Very cerebral. You might say he has a lack of ambition to be something greater than he is, but Ray doesn't have a problem with that.
What does he want?
Externally, he just wants to have some kind of role in his daughter's life.
Internally, he just doesn't want to be alone.
Flaws: Lack of emotional expression/ambition, aloofness, indifference
Breaking Point: When he finds out he isn't the father.
Sandra
Ray's ex-wife and mother his child. 35 Years old, but is beautiful and looks young for her age. She is very ambitious and wants better things in life and feels entitled to this. She loved Ray because he is a good, honest man. A decent human being, but she wanted more. This is also influenced by the fact that her parents HATE Ray. And years of persuasion from them have taken a toll. But the biggest factor in the Rift between her and Ray is the fact that she has been keeping a secret, the secret is that Ray is not the father of her child. She grew up in the upper-middle class of the countryside. Parents are loving, but pretentious. She is very emotional and sometimes acts on emotional rather than rationality.
Old Man Dodge
Joe is 72 years old. He's an old timer. Lives by himself on his small farm. He, like Ray, is lonely. He is in great shape for his age, but could use some help around the farm. Ray fulfills both needs. Joe has a sense of humor of a man who's been in the military. He loves finding humor in every day situations and loves discovering life's small ironies. His wife died 12 years ago. He and Ray become great friends.
Keegan
Ronny is 32 years old. He is bliss's new boyfriend. He grew up in and out of half-way houses and he is not educated. He is very insecure about his intelligence and how he was brought up. He was a troubled kid. Now as an adult he is very immature, cocky and arrogant, and in general not a very nice person to people he doesn't know or like. He is not afraid of confrontation and as they say, if your gonna be dumb, you better be tough. And he is. He has a quick temper and sometimes he can't control it and will do some very dumb , sometimes violent acts. He doesn't think about the repercussions of his actions. Ronny is an asshole. And he's unpredictable, that's why Bliss likes him, total opposite of Ray.
DATES:
Friday, June 10th, 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Saturday, June 11th 11:00am - 4:00pm
Thanks
Pay is negotiable. As of right now we are raising funds so most likely we are looking at just CCM or at the very least deferred payment.
Brandon J. Garcia
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