I find this in my mailbox for the 4th time yesterday.....
Date: Aug 25, 2005 3:25 PM
Subject: Short Film CASTING CLOSING
Body: REFLECTION
Short Film
CASTING USA & UK
Short Film / 35mm
*NO travel necessary for casting or auditions*
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Character Descriptions and Storyline
A psychologically driven journey through the unraveling beauty and perfection of a woman obsessed with her lover's infidelity unfolds in a suspensfully dramatic, film noir style.
Dates (EARLY WINTER 2006)
Submission Instructions
Please submit via email to:
info@johndoeentertainment.com SUBJECT: Reflection
Pics / Contact Info (including City) / D.O.B. & Stats (measurements, sizes, height, credentials, etc...) via email.
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Roles
1. Valerie: (Female) (Lead)
A Powerful role for beautiful and talented actress. Lots of range and depth for this character who's perfection unravels as she becomes obsessed with her lovers infidelity.
2. Alexandra: (Female) (Starring)
Great character involved in the plot twist and the movies critical plot peak that unfolds into a violent and dramatic result.
Non-Union
*Will go SAG if needed for right talent*
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Shoot Location: Miami / NY or LA (t.b.d.)
ALL TRAVEL expenses provided by PRODUCTION
1. Submit pics and info to: info@johndoeentertainment.com
2. Selected talent video audition
3. Call backs regionally (depending on casting)
Franco Parente
John Doe Entertainment
REFLECTION writer/ director
My answer is...............
NO THANKS.
The VIOLENT ending sounds pretty nifty tho.
Maybe there's some hawt chick-on-chick action too ;0p
One thing I am finding that comes fairly easily out here (in the UK) is 'networking', given you fall in with all the right reputable group(s) of people (I wonder if that term even exists in the business anymore). I look at things from a technical point of view....and prefer doing things behind the scenes. I'll *never* be comfortable in front of the camera, unless I'm fucking off,
of course ;0p
I now realize I'm standing at the platform/launch pad for my creative work, and it's nice knowing that. I really do have my mothers' luck =0)
I'm still seriously tossing around the idea of pursuing criminal/behavioral profiling, especially after the conversation Brad and I had yesterday. It's wonderful to have such a supportive husband =0)
We shall see......
.....and finally, something from Lance:
There is a well known Buddhist story: a Tibetan master's son died suddenly from illness. Hearing him weep inconsolably, the master's disciples came and confronted him with their surprise. "You taught us that all is illusion, and that we should not be attatched, " they admonished him. "Why are u weeping and wailing?"
The master answered immediately, "Indeed, all is illusion. But the loss of a child is the most painful illusion."
The master did not attempt to inhibit his attachment or his mourning. He was able to embrace grief as wholeheartedly as beauty. By pushing away the painful aspect of experience, Freud observed, his friends were isolating themselves from their own capacity for love. As the Tibetan master's reaction made clear, love and grieving, like separation and connection, are co-constitutive. Opening oneself to one emotion deepens the experience of the other. The heart can open in sadness as much as it does in joy.
Everything is always changing. When we take loved objects into our egos with the hope of having them forever, we are deluding ourselves and postponing an inevitable grief. The solution is not to deny attachment but to become less controlling in how we love. It is the very tendancy to protect ourselves against mourning that is the cause of the greastest dissatisfaction. As the great thirteenth-century Japanese Zen master Dogen wrote in his discussion of what he called "being-time, " it is possible to have a relationship to transience that is not adversarial, in which the ability to embrace the moment takes precedence over fear of it's passing....... =0)
Subject: Short Film CASTING CLOSING
Body: REFLECTION
Short Film
CASTING USA & UK
Short Film / 35mm
*NO travel necessary for casting or auditions*
--
Character Descriptions and Storyline
A psychologically driven journey through the unraveling beauty and perfection of a woman obsessed with her lover's infidelity unfolds in a suspensfully dramatic, film noir style.
Dates (EARLY WINTER 2006)
Submission Instructions
Please submit via email to:
info@johndoeentertainment.com SUBJECT: Reflection
Pics / Contact Info (including City) / D.O.B. & Stats (measurements, sizes, height, credentials, etc...) via email.
--
Roles
1. Valerie: (Female) (Lead)
A Powerful role for beautiful and talented actress. Lots of range and depth for this character who's perfection unravels as she becomes obsessed with her lovers infidelity.
2. Alexandra: (Female) (Starring)
Great character involved in the plot twist and the movies critical plot peak that unfolds into a violent and dramatic result.
Non-Union
*Will go SAG if needed for right talent*
--
Shoot Location: Miami / NY or LA (t.b.d.)
ALL TRAVEL expenses provided by PRODUCTION
1. Submit pics and info to: info@johndoeentertainment.com
2. Selected talent video audition
3. Call backs regionally (depending on casting)
Franco Parente
John Doe Entertainment
REFLECTION writer/ director
My answer is...............
NO THANKS.
The VIOLENT ending sounds pretty nifty tho.
Maybe there's some hawt chick-on-chick action too ;0p
One thing I am finding that comes fairly easily out here (in the UK) is 'networking', given you fall in with all the right reputable group(s) of people (I wonder if that term even exists in the business anymore). I look at things from a technical point of view....and prefer doing things behind the scenes. I'll *never* be comfortable in front of the camera, unless I'm fucking off,
of course ;0p
I now realize I'm standing at the platform/launch pad for my creative work, and it's nice knowing that. I really do have my mothers' luck =0)
I'm still seriously tossing around the idea of pursuing criminal/behavioral profiling, especially after the conversation Brad and I had yesterday. It's wonderful to have such a supportive husband =0)
We shall see......
.....and finally, something from Lance:
There is a well known Buddhist story: a Tibetan master's son died suddenly from illness. Hearing him weep inconsolably, the master's disciples came and confronted him with their surprise. "You taught us that all is illusion, and that we should not be attatched, " they admonished him. "Why are u weeping and wailing?"
The master answered immediately, "Indeed, all is illusion. But the loss of a child is the most painful illusion."
The master did not attempt to inhibit his attachment or his mourning. He was able to embrace grief as wholeheartedly as beauty. By pushing away the painful aspect of experience, Freud observed, his friends were isolating themselves from their own capacity for love. As the Tibetan master's reaction made clear, love and grieving, like separation and connection, are co-constitutive. Opening oneself to one emotion deepens the experience of the other. The heart can open in sadness as much as it does in joy.
Everything is always changing. When we take loved objects into our egos with the hope of having them forever, we are deluding ourselves and postponing an inevitable grief. The solution is not to deny attachment but to become less controlling in how we love. It is the very tendancy to protect ourselves against mourning that is the cause of the greastest dissatisfaction. As the great thirteenth-century Japanese Zen master Dogen wrote in his discussion of what he called "being-time, " it is possible to have a relationship to transience that is not adversarial, in which the ability to embrace the moment takes precedence over fear of it's passing....... =0)