Tag: Edward Parks

31
Oct

BREAKTHROUGH CASTING- Hudson Valley NY Region: LOVE COMES LATER- RUSH CASTING!!! (Role revision- PEACHES)

*RUSH CASTING FOR ROLE, PEACHES (REVISED).  SUBMIT ASAP!!!
*Deadline to submit self-tape- 11pm Thursday.
*Callbacks- this Friday, 11/3 in Poughkeepsie, NY
 
LOVE COMES LATER
Feature Film
SAG-AFTRA Modified Low Budget Diversity
WRITER/DIRECTOR:  Sonejuhi Sinha
PRODUCERS:  Edward Parks and Charlotte Rabate
LOCAL PRINCIPAL CASTING DIRECTOR: BreakThrough Casting
AUDITION:  Self-Tape/Headshots or Pics/Resume and Reels (if applicable)
CALLBACKS:  11/3 in Poughkeepsie, NY
SHOOT DATES:  starts 11/16/17 (22 days)
SHOOT LOCATION:  Poughkeepsie, NY (LOCAL HIRE ONLY)
RATE:  $335/8 hours + fringes + credit (Non-Union talent will receive Taft-Hartley)

 

Written and directed by Sonejuhi Sinha, LOVE COMES LATER, the short film, was one of ten short films chosen in official competition at Semaine De La Critique at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival and screened at over 70 festivals around the world.  https://youtu.be/HYtQiKVYaqk
 
SYNOPSIS: 
Love Comes Later is a subversive crime, thriller with some pulp undertones. A young woman comes to America to start over again. She is forced to steal in order to get her personal belongings back but one petty theft spirals into the next – setting off a domino of violent events, ultimately causing her downfall.
 
SEEKING PRINCIPAL: 
Union and Non-Union talent. DIRECTOR IS GIVING PRIORITY TO AUTHENTIC, LOCAL TALENT WHO ARE A PERFECT FIT FOR THESE ROLES.
 
[PEACHES (REVISED)]
Female, 20’s, African American, all body types, STRONG CHARACTER FACES THAT CAPTURE THE QUALITIES OF WORN, WEATHERED, BROKEN, DISPLACED- A HUGE PLUS. She’s a prostitute who buys drugs from Jimmy and also sleeps around with him. At the end, she’s caught in bed with Jimmy when he gets shot, and helps him deal with his injury. This role requires semi-nudity (wearing brassiere and panties) while performing a simulated sex under a blanket…5 scenes, 10 lines

 

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:

*Email the required info below AND your self-tape to dana@breakthroughcasting.com (please send as a downloadable link i.e., dropbox, wetransfer, google or upload with no restrictions for download to Vimeo or YouTube)

*Deadline to submit required info and self-tape is 11pm THURSDAY, 11/2/17

  1. name/email/cell/city you are based
  2. union status
  3. agency name/email/cell (if applicable) OR self-represented
  4. current height/weight/age (age for minors only)
  5. attach jpegs of current headshots or pics & pdfs of updated resumes (if applicable)
  6. links to acting clips/reels (if applicable)
  7. submit TWO self-tapes (slate and audition separate- MANDATORY)

SELF-TAPE 1: 

*Make sure to film horizontally on smart devices
*Double check that you are:  in focus, are well lit, clearly heard without background noise
*Before self-taping, CAREFULLY READ THE ROLE DESCRIPTION ABOVE, as you will improvise as that character.  

Mainly set in a transient motel, wherein most of the cast is part of its community, we get the sense that its prison-like construction both encages and provides refuge for the people who find themselves there.   Stained, sinister, sad; it invites the darker, baser instincts in our characters to thrive.  These are real people, albeit disenfranchised and lost to normal society, and each have the same hopes and American dreams that only money can buy.

*Look the part of your character, as authentic as possible”

  1. state your name and agency (if applicable)
  2. state your height/weight/city base
  3. state “I confirm that I can self-report BY CAR to Poughkeepsie”
  4. zoom out- full body shot and profiles
  5. zoom in- headshot (shoulder to top of head)

 

SELF-TAPE 2:

[ROLE, PEACHES- REVISED]

  1. Improvise a 1-2 minute monologue on how you (as your character) came to live in a transient motel.  Examples:  addiction(s), your struggles, who you blame, hiding from an abuser, runaway, mental illness, illegal immigrant, etc., Be loud, quiet, angry, thrilled, uncontrolled, stoic, depressed, strung out, silly, OCD, nervous tics, etc.  FEEL FREE TO EXPLORE YOUR OWN REASONS. 
  2. Perform this scene (if the link is not hot on your browser, contact us at dana@breakthroughcasting.com and we’ll email it to you):  LCL PEACHES SIDE 1

 

 

EMAIL:  dana@breakthroughcasting.com
SUBJECT LINE:  LOVE COMES LATER- PEACHES (Revised)
30
Oct

BREAKTHROUGH CASTING- NY Hudson Valley Region: Seeking Non-Union Talent, LOVE COMES LATER (Featured BG/BG)

LOVE COMES LATER (SAG-AFTRA Feature Film)

 

*SEEKING NON-UNION TALENT ONLY (Featured BG/BG)

*SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ARE FOUND AT THE BOTTOM OF PAGE

 

LOVE COMES LATER

Feature Film

SAG-AFTRA Modified Low Budget Diversity

WRITER/DIRECTOR:  Sonejuhi Sinha

PRODUCERS:  Edward Parks and Charlotte Rabate

LOCAL PRINCIPAL CASTING DIRECTOR:  BreakThrough Casting

AUDITIONS:  Direct Booking Only

CALLBACKS:  N/A

SHOOT DATES:  starts 11/16/17 (22 days)

SHOOT LOCATION:   Poughkeepsie, NY  (LOCAL HIRE ONLY)

RATE:  See Roles Below

SYNOPSIS:

Written and directed by Sonejuhi Sinha, LOVE COMES LATER, the short film, was one of ten short films chosen in official competition at Semaine De La Critique at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival and screened at over 70 festivals around the world.

https://youtu.be/HYtQiKVYaqk

LOVE COMES LATER is a punk version of the immigrant story, about a woman who is forced into a life of crime in order to become American. She is forced to steal in order to get her personal belongings back but one petty theft spirals into the next – setting off a domino of violent events, ultimately causing her downfall.

LOVE COMES LATER is about the flawed idea of the “American Dream” – one that sets people up to fail regardless of how hard they try. It’s a look at how America treats immigrants and the poor, with the hope of inspiring honest, important conversations.  But at the heart of it – this is a story about love and fear: two of the most primal emotions that drive us all as human beings.

 

SEEKING:

 

*TRANSVESTITE PROSTITUTE (Featured BG)

Male, 30s-40s, any ethnicity.  As RIZ and DALLAS wander through the motel, RIZ sees that one room is lit with an open curtain where a TRANSVESTITE PROSTITUTE is performing oral sex on SAL.  *PLEASE NOTE, THIS ROLE WILL BE SIMULATING ORAL SEX.

RATE: $125/8 hours CASH PAID ON SET + meal

 

IMMIGRATION OFFICERS (Featured BG)

Males, 40s-50s, any ethnicity, great character faces a huge plus.  The POLICE or IMMIGRATION OFFICERS escort ANGEL to their car to eventually deport him…1 scene

RATE: $70/8 hours CASH PAID ON SET + meal

 

POLICE OFFICERS (Featured BG)

Males and Females, 40s, any ethnicity.  POLICE OFFICERS are making their way up the steps to the motel as RIZ and DALLAS are leaving a party where they just attacked the TRUCKER IN BUNNY COSTUME who tried to rape RIZ.  They are trying to dodge and hide from the POLICE OFFICERS…1 scene

RATE: $70/8 hours CASH PAID ON SET  + meal

 

KIDS (Featured BG)

Girls, 7-10 years old, Caucasian, ethnically ambiguous.   Two disheveled KIDS draw on empty pizza boxes with chalk, both kids snicker at UNA…1 scene

RATE: $70/8 hours CASH PAID ON SET  + meal

 

 3 KIDS (Featured BG)

Girls and Boys, 7-10 years old, any ethnicity.  THREE KIDS playing the “freeze game” next to the construction site.  They look like statues but suddenly break into laughter…1 scene

RATE: $70/8 hours CASH PAID ON SET  + meal

 

MAN IN DINER (Featured BG)

Male, 40s-50s, any ethnicity, great character face a huge plus.  A MAN passes by and checks out Dallas who browses the oversized menu…1 scene

RATE: $70/8 hours CASH PAID ON SET  + meal

 

TRUCKER IN BUNNY COSTUME (Featured BG)

Male, 40s, Caucasian, BULKY AND TALL, great character face a huge plus.  TRUCKER IN BUNNY COSTUME gets a bloody face trying to rape RIZ…2 scenes.

RATE: $70/8 hours CASH PAID ON SET  + meal

 

POLICE OFFICER (Featured BG)

Male, 40s-50s, African American.  The POLICE OFFICER sees fresh dirt, exactly where the dead body has been buried, and digs his fingers into it to inspect…1 scene

RATE: $70/8 hours CASH PAID ON SET  + meal

 

CROSS DRESSER (Featured BG)

Male, 30s, any ethnicity.  CROSS DRESSER is passed out by the ice machine, bucket still in hand…1 scene

RATE: $70/8 hours CASH PAID ON SET  + meal

 

MAN WATCHING JEOPARDY (Featured BG)

OVERWEIGHT Male, 40s, African-American.  RIZ and DALLAS walk past a portly MAN WATCHING JEOPARDY sitting in front of the TV with a can of beer…1 scene

RATE: $70/8 hours CASH PAID ON SET  + meal

 

TRUCKERS & PROSTITUTES AT PARTY (Featured BG & BG)

Females and Males, 20s-40s, any ethnicity.   TRUCKERS and PROSTITUTES dressed in ragged Halloween costumes sit in the tiny room, drinking and dancing.  The party is pumping…1 scene

RATE: $70/8 hours CASH PAID ON SET  + meal

 

LITTLE PERSON MAN (BG)

Male, 40s, all ethnicities.   Crude LITTLE PERSON MAN fighting with the MIDDLE- AGED AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMAN…1 scene

RATE: $70/8 hours CASH PAID ON SET  + meal

 

MIDDLE-AGED AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMAN (BG)

Female, 45-65 years, African-American.   Crude MIDDLE-AGED BLACK WOMAN fighting with the LITTLE PERSON MAN…1 scene

RATE: $70/8 hours CASH PAID ON SET  + meal

 

KARAOKE MAN (BG)

OVERWEIGHT Male, 40+ years, any ethnicity.   KARAOKE MAN croons along while drunk UNA passionately sings…1 scene

RATE: $70/8 hours CASH PAID ON SET  + meal

 

TRACKSUIT WOMAN (BG)

Female, 20s, Caucasian.   TRACKSUIT WOMAN sprints out of her room to avoid UNA as she owes weeks of rent money…1 scene

RATE: $70/8 hours CASH PAID ON SET  + meal

 

MAN IN HOT DOG COSTUME (BG)

Male, 30s- 40s, Caucasian…A MAN IN HOT DOG COSTUME eats a burger alone in a corner booth of the diner…1 scene

RATE: $70/8 hours CASH PAID ON SET  + meal

 

DINER PATRONS (BG)

Males and Females, 30s-50s, any ethnicity…Diner scene half-full of DINER PATRONS where DALLAS introduces her thieving plan to a reluctant RIZ…1 scene

RATE: $70/8 hours CASH PAID ON SET  + meal

 

OVERWEIGHT COUPLE MAN (BG)

Male, 40s-50s, any ethnicity.  An OVERWEIGHT COUPLE trickle out of a motel room and go to separate cars…1 scene

RATE: $70/8 hours CASH PAID ON SET  + meal

 

OVERWEIGHT COUPLE WOMAN (BG)

Female, 40s-50s, any ethnicity.  An OVERWEIGHT COUPLE trickle out of a room and go to separate cars…1 scene

RATE: $70/8 hours CASH PAID ON SET + meal

 

MIDDLE-AGED COUPLE MAN (BG)

Male, 40s-50s, any ethnicity.  RIZ sees a MIDDLE-AGED COUPLE in dark sunglasses exit their car and waddles towards their room…1 scene

RATE: $70/8 hours CASH PAID ON SET  + meal

 

MIDDLE-AGED COUPLE WOMAN (BG)

Female, 40s-50s, any ethnicity.  RIZ sees a MIDDLE-AGED COUPLE in dark sunglasses exit their car and waddles towards their room…1 scene

RATE: $70/8 hours CASH PAID ON SET  + meal

 

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:

Email the following required materials:

  1. name/cell/email/agency (if applicable)/location base (mandatory)
  2. include age for minors only
  3. current height and weight
  4. attach jpegs of headshots or pics, pdf of current resume and media links to acting work (if applicable)
  5. attach selfie of yourself,  looking the part of role(s) you are interested in (MANDATORY IF SUBMITTING FOR FEATURED BG)

 

EMAIL:  johanna@breakthroughcasting.com

SUBJECT LINE:  LOVE COMES LATER FBG/BG

 

23
Oct

BREAKTHROUGH CASTING- ALBANY, NY: RUSH OPEN CALL, LOVE COMES LATER- Tomorrow 10/24!!!!

BREAKTHROUGH CASTING- ALBANY, NY:  RUSH Open Call, LOVE COMES LATER- Tomorrow 10/24!!!!

 

(other audition locations TBA soon…)
 
*Rush open call for union and non-union talent
*Sides will be provided at the audition, arrive extremely casual, no makeup, the more unkempt your appearance, the better 
*Seeking strong character faces that capture the qualities of worn, weathered, broken and displaced.  
*Please carefully review character breakdown below.
*AUTHENTIC TALENT WITH LITTLE TO NO EXPERIENCE ARE ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND.
 
 
LOVE COMES LATER
Feature Film
SAG-AFTRA Modified Low Budget Diversity
 
WRITER/DIRECTOR:  Sonejuhi Sinha
PRODUCERS:  Edward Parks and Charlotte Rabate
LOCAL PRINCIPAL CASTING DIRECTOR:  BreakThrough Casting
AUDITION DATE:  TUESDAY (tomorrow), 10/24/17
AUDITION TIME:  10:30am- 3:30pm
AUDITION LOCATION:  Albany County Convention & Visitors Bureau, 25 Quackenbush Square, Albany, NY 12207
CALLBACK LOCATION:  Poughkeepsie, NY
SHOOT DATES:  starts 11/16/17 (22 days)
SHOOT LOCATION:  Poughkeepsie, NY (LOCAL HIRE ONLY)
RATE:  $335/8 hours + fringes + credit (Non-Union talent will receive Taft-Hartleys)

 

Written and directed by Sonejuhi Sinha, LOVE COMES LATER, the short film, was one of ten short films chosen in official competition at Semaine De La CriRque at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival and screened at over 70 festivals around the world.  https://youtu.be/HYtQiKVYaqk
 
SYNOPSIS: 
Love Comes Later is a subversive crime, thriller with some pulp undertones. A young woman comes to America to start over again. She is forced to steal in order to get her personal belongings back but one petty theft spirals into the next – setting off a domino of violent events, ultimately causing her downfall.
 
SEEKING:
Union and Non-Union talent. DIRECTOR IS GIVING PRIORITY TO AUTHENTIC, LOCAL TALENT WHO ARE A PERFECT FIT FOR THESE ROLES.
 
[BETTY]
Female, 60’s, Caucasian, overweight, STRONG CHARACTER FACES THAT CAPTURE THE QUALITIES OF WORN, WEATHERED, BROKEN, DISPLACED- A HUGE PLUS. Motel maid, she’s a not-entirely-there resident of the motel who chats with Riz and Dallas in several scenes…5 scenes, 1 speech, 10 lines
 
[PEACHES]
Female, 30’s, African American, overweight, STRONG CHARACTER FACES THAT CAPTURE THE QUALITIES OF WORN, WEATHERED, BROKEN, DISPLACED- A HUGE PLUS. She’s a prostitute who buys drugs from Jimmy and also sleeps around with him. At the end, she’s caught in bed with Jimmy when he gets shot, and helps him deal with his injury. This role requires semi-nudity (wearing brassiere and panties) while performing a simulated sex under a blanket…5 scenes, 10 lines
 
[SANDY]
Male, 20s-30s, STRONG CHARACTER FACES THAT CAPTURE THE QUALITIES OF WORN, WEATHERED, BROKEN, DISPLACED- A HUGE PLUS.. any ethnicity. A transvestite prostitute at the motel room party that Riz and Dallas attend…2 scenes, 2 lines
 
[DOREEN]
Female, 60’s, Caucasian, STRONG CHARACTER FACES THAT CAPTURE THE QUALITIES OF WORN, WEATHERED, BROKEN, DISPLACED- A HUGE PLUS. A waitress at the seedy diner, unsmiling, look of despair, she serves Dallas and Riz when they go to the restaurant she works. Later she appears in a hallucination of Riz’s…2 scenes, 2 lines
 
[PROSTITUTE]
Female, 30s-40s, any ethnicity, STRONG CHARACTER FACES THAT CAPTURE THE QUALITIES OF WORN, WEATHERED, BROKEN, DISPLACED- A HUGE PLUS. Riz and Dallas run into her when they are trying to get rid of Sal’s body. She may or may not know their secret. Later Riz catches Floyd talking to her from afar…2 scenes, 1 line
 
[MIKEY]
Male, 40s-50s, African American, REAL POLICERS OFFICER A HUGE PLUS. A cop who is called in by Una to investigate after she’s robbed by Riz and Dallas…1 scene, 1 line
 
[KID 1]
Girl, 8 yrs old, Caucasian, ethnically ambiguous. Riz runs into a group of kids playing a game in the motel hallway and one includes her in their game…2 scenes, 1 line
 
[ANGEL]
Male, 40’s, Hispanic, laborer, STRONG CHARACTER FACES THAT CAPTURE THE QUALITIES OF WORN, WEATHERED, BROKEN, DISPLACED- A HUGE PLUS. Close friend to Manuel, possible Karaoke singing, gets taken away by immigration officers…5 scenes.
 
[MANUEL]
Male, 40’s, Hispanic, laborer, STRONG CHARACTER FACES THAT CAPTURE THE QUALITIES OF WORN, WEATHERED, BROKEN, DISPLACED- A HUGE PLUS. He makes out with Una, close friend to Angel, possible Karaoke singing involved…3 scenes