[Capdist-auditions] INDIE FILM CASTING & FILMING IN BERKSHIRES

Fri Jun 30 11:49:21 EDT 2006

Please forward to all theatres & actors!

Film seeks local actors for shoot in the Berkshires.  AUDITIONS July  
8 & 9

A 35mm short film to shoot in the Berkshires July 28-30th.  NYC based  
producers and local director looking for local talent to fill all  
roles.  Seeking a wide range of age, sex, and ethnicities.  Theatre/ 
film experience not necessary but helpful.  This is a great piece to  
build a reel with as the tone is dark and all of the main roles are  
challenging.  There is no pay.  Actors will be given copy of film.   
Please visit http://www.visitfilms.com/shorts/candy or email  
bc at visitfilms.com for more information.

CANDY (18 – 21 yrs old to play younger, Caucasian) Lead. A small town  
girl desperate to leave.  Slightly awkward.  Emotionally withdrawn,  
quiet and extremely vulnerable.  Dreams of escape; a different life.

JOANIE (40 - 44 yr. old, Caucasian) A former high school beauty whose  
looks have long since weathered.  Suffers from kidney failure and a  
heavy cigarette addiction.  Candy's mother, and the town's only  
prostitute.  Loves her daughter but relies on her too heavily to let  
her go.  Thin and pale.

PAM (18 – 21 yr. old to play younger, Any Race)  Bland but ambitious.  
Works at a convenience store to save money for college.  She is  
sympathetic to Candy's situation, but not overly so.  Internally  
wants to distance herself as much as possible from anyone like Candy  
and the mistakes that she has made.
MARK (18 - 21 yr. old, Any Race) A small town boy who wants to be  
Candy's hero.  Maybe to give life a little more meaning for  
himself.   Naive but good-natured.  A momma's boy.

BOY #1 (17 - 19 yr. old, Any Race) Cocky and arrogant.  Leader of the  
pack.  A jock.

BOY #2 (17 – 19 yr. old, Any Race) Follower of BOY #1.  Tries to be  
much the same.

FRANK (40 – 49 yr. old, Any Race) A man's man.  Can be intimidating  
when needed.  Drinks often.

ALEXANDRA (approx. 4 month old infant. Caucasian.  Male/Female  
submissions accepted).  Joanie’s infant daughter.

EXTRAS OF ALL AGES NEEDED

Please send a headshot or recent photo, current phone numbers and a  
resume (if applicable) to:

bc at visitfilms.com

OR snail mail to:

“Candy”
O’Haver & Company

64 Castle Hill Ave.

Gt. Barrington, MA   01230

You will be contacted to schedule a time if your profile matches one  
of the listed characters above.

The filmmakers are also seeking local crew to fill various roles on  
set.  For a listing of available positions visit http:// 
www.visitfilms.com/shorts/candy or contact bc at visitfilms.com.

Key crew biographies:
Ryan Kampe – Director
A partner in the emerging NYC production company Visit Films, Ryan is  
also currently employed at Focus Features. He is the co-Producer of  
the feature film "The Big Bad Swim" which premiered at the 2006  
Tribeca Film Festival and the producer of the short film "Dunny"  
which was recently screened at the Berlin Film Festival's talent lab.  
His last short film "My African Giraffe" has been selected to screen  
at The Danville International Children's Film Festival and The Flint  
Film Festival.  Previously he has worked on a number of productions  
including "Dark Water", "The Forgotten", and "Laws of Attraction".  
Ryan grew up in Pittsfield and Lenox, attended Macalester College,  
has traveled extensively and would like to live on a beach with a  
typewriter, a surfboard, and a camera.

Danielle Blumstein – Producer
Having worked in the New York production community for over 5 years,  
Danielle Blumstein has had the experience necessary to take her from  
big budget features to independent films; with studios such as  
Paramount, Revolution, New Line Cinema, and directors like Oliver  
Stone, Woody Allen, Chris Columbus, Todd Field and James Burrows.  
Favorite projects include Kip Williams’s “The Door in the Floor” and  
the soon to be released “Trust The Man” starring Julianne Moore and  
David Duchovny. Danielle hopes to continue to be involved in work of  
a significant and evocative nature, with the ultimate goal of  
producing in this capacity.

Betsy Custer – Producer
As Manager of Physical Production for Focus Features and Rogue  
Pictures, Betsy Custer manages day-to-day activities with producers  
and production offices, seeing films from pre-production through  
post. She serves as a liaison with unions, financiers and production  
teams. Within the studio, Betsy focuses on creating feature budgets  
and schedules and supervises assets, audits and production practices  
and policy. With Focus, Betsy has worked on film sets in locations  
ranging from Toronto to Romania. Favorite projects include Ang Lee's  
“Brokeback Mountain” and Michel Gondry's “Eternal Sunshine of the  
Spotless Mind.”

Ruben O'Malley– Director of Photography
Ruben O’Malley had been waiting for a project like Candy and a  
director like Ryan for years. A native of San Francisco, he studied  
to be a film critic at SFSU while designing lights and special FX for  
rock and roll shows. As soon as he could he got a job at San  
Francisco’s Colossal Pictures which led him to shooting special FX  
for numerous commercials and films such as “Tank Girl” as well as a  
chance to work with some established DP’s like John Else and Don  
Smith. Not content with shallow commercialism, he then clawed his way  
into shooting independent work much too interesting and vibrant to be  
seen by more then a thousand people. Shortly thereafter Ruben moved  
east to study cinematography at NYU (where he met Adrienne Weiss),  
where he shot numerous award winning short films (Confection, Go  
Army, Ana & Christina, and Silent Treatment, among others). Since  
NYU, he has lensed numerous TV shows and movies, among them Queer Eye  
for the Straight Guy, ITVS’s Taking The Heat, IFC’s Fabulous and 2nd  
Unit for features War Within, Flannel Pajamas, and ‘Tis Autumn, the  
Jackie Paris Story, DP for American Standard, For Real, Love Ludlow  
(Sundance 2005). He looks forward to making Candy with Ryan and knows  
that it will be a remarkable addition to the film world.

Jenny O’Haver – Casting Director
Jenny O’Haver has nearly 20 years in the entertainment industry as a  
producer and casting director.  Her business O’Haver + Company has  
cast scores of projects including national and international  
commercials, music videos, voice-overs, print, television and  
independent films.  Some of her television clients include HBO, MTV  
and AMC.  Her indie films have been seen at Sundance and Cannes and  
their commercial clients read like a Fortune 500 list.  Jenny also  
writes and develops television and film projects.  She has  
collaborated on a number of ventures as a ‘creative’ producer,  
getting Co-Producer and Associate Producer credits on projects for  
AMC and HBO.  The advent of collaboration tools and high speed  
Internet enable Jenny to cast virtually out of Los Angeles and New  
York from her home in New England.  For more information log onto  
http://www.ohaver.net.

Jenny O'Haver
Casting Director
O'Haver + Company

CA  Office:  323 650-9010
MA  Office: 413 528-6728
FAX: 413 528-6389

jenny at ohaver.net

http://ohaver.net

Jenny O'Haver
Casting Director
O'Haver + Company

CA  Office:  323 650-9010
MA  Office: 413 528-6728
FAX: 413 528-6389

jenny at ohaver.net

http://ohaver.net

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