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KINDRED
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ID # 14254
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TV Show
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Submission Type |
SRN
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| Location |
BROOKLYN,NY |
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Non-union
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| Rate/Pay |
n/a
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Release Date |
08-11-05
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| Audition Date |
12-31-69
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Submission Deadline |
08-11-05
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| Shoot Date |
09-06-05
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| Casting Category |
Internet
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| Market(s) |
New York City, NY |
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Kindred (Television)
Double EE Productions (D'EE'P)
Brooklyn
approx. I month, starts September 6th, 2005
Non-Union. Director: Nonso Christian Ugbode. Kindred is an internet-based serial dramatic comedy that deals with topics that relate to the relationships, politics, sexual orientation, religious morals and parental issues of the African-American community. We want each episode to stir-up controversial viewpoints on most of our topics in order to create conversation, thought and response.
Each character is looking to find themselves within the community, as an American in the world of racism, gender-ism, sexism and fanatism. As a unit the characters have their own intr-group dramas but more often than not come together as an adopted family unit.
Kindred is a project focused on shining light on the deserving, diverse characters and circumstances we all know exist inside the black community; relevant issues we plan to tackle include neighborhood gentrification, which is at the center of the pilot episode we are currently casting for.
This experience is set to be ground-breaking and exciting and we are looking for actors willing to challenge themselves with a socially conscious project that is also very fun.
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Female / 25-30 yrs. / African American. Robin Schwartz is a conscious bohemian-esque black woman, half jewish/half black who 'escaped' a future of become her mother by running from the Hamptons to live in Brooklyn with her grandmother. She can overdo her militancy, which gets her teased in the group, but she is a sister with an open mind who brings a progressive view point to the Kindred family.
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Gender: Female
Age: from 25 to 30
Ethnicity: African - African American - |
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Female / 11-14 yrs. / African American. Stacey Anderson is a rambuctious little girl helpful to her mother and appreciative of the life she is given, she does deal with her own issues of wanting a perfect/complete family, but more often than not her mother is her best friend and more than enough to her.
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Gender: Female
Age: from 11 to 14
Ethnicity: African - African American - |
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Female / 25-30 yrs. / African American.Dayna McCoy is an event planner party-queen with her own company, she is a strong business woman who also approaches life with a diva attitude. She is deeplyt in love with Tyrique and does her best to carry him financially, but it often puts strains on the relationship.
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Gender: Female
Age: from 25 to 30
Ethnicity: African - African American - |
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Male / 31-40 yrs. / African American. Kenneth Shaheem, is a Muslim, divorced man with two young boys. Kenneth is driven by his love for his boys and a desire to make a better world for them, raised by black panther revolutionaries, he holds a soft spot in his heart for Robin.
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Gender: Male
Age: from 31 to 40
Ethnicity: African - African American - |
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Female / 31-40 yrs. / African American. LaQuin Jackson is a professional executive secretary, raised in a middle-class family in NJ, LaQuin is Stacey's mother and she is driven by a desire to make a good home for her since she is living without a husband who is somewhat in the picture.
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Gender: Female
Age: from 31 to 40
Ethnicity: African - African American - |
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Male / 31-40 yrs. / African American. Jordan Randall is a lawyer, a self-assured, professional black man from a Christian family, raised middle-class and built with traditional values which make him successful but often makes it difficult to for him to find the right woman. His perspective also makes his eternal love for the free-spirited Robin, complex and always on the edge of impossible.
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Gender: Male
Age: from 31 to 40
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Male / 25-30 yrs. / African American. Tyrique Johnson is our poet/musician who often expresses his soul on stage. He was brought up in the projects and has his ears to the streets, but transcends stereotypes in his pure passion for poetry and music. Tyrique is also Jordan's best friend and Dayna's live-in boyfriend.
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Gender: Male
Age: from 25 to 30
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Female / 22-40 yrs. / African American. Sandra Cantrell is a beautiful talented rising vocalist (stage age 22) who realizes the mainstream isn't for her and longs for the old days of the music business. Sandra also often clashes with Robin as she is in love with Jordan who, aside from a brief previous relationship, has no concrete feelings for her.
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Searchable talent specs:
Gender: Female
Age: from 22 to 40
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Paul is not only marrying a woman who picks out his clothes for him, he's working for her father One and a half stars out of four
Afraid even to enjoy his bachelor party, Paul nonetheless manages to wake up the next morning with Becky (Stiles) in his bed Playing the jilted bride is easy pickings for Blair, a brave, vanity-free performer whose willingness to be degraded and humiliated on screen goes untapped
The premise requires that Paul and his wife-to-be, Karen (Blair), are a terrible mismatch, but these two don't even seem to know each other
Stiles brings plenty of energy, but she's a bit earnest to play a "free spirit," and her timing is off
R â€â€? Restricted An angry guy behind Paul at a toll booth, a tuxedo salesman, a customer at a record store â€â€? they're all doing schtick Running time: 101 minutes
NC-17 â€â€? No one under 17 admitted You have to wait patiently at times while she scrunches her face into the proper kooky expression Some material may be inappropriate for young children
His character, Paul, behaves like an idiot 's musings on NBC's "Scrubs" without the visual invention, Paul envisions himself being berated with far greater intensity than what he's actually subjected to After he's beaten up by Becky's rogue-cop ex-boyfriend (Lochlyn Munro), Paul offers an impossibly specific, entirely made-up description of his attacker â€â€? and then the cops find someone who matches it exactly How they managed to get engaged is a mystery; they don't function as a couple, allowing Paul ample time for further hijinks, many of which involve getting to know Becky better He's at his worst putting together elaborate sequences in which Paul's lies improbably come true And just so we're sure nobody will end up heartbroken, Paul's divorced brother (a vaguely amusing Thomas Lennon) is clearly in love with Karen
"A Guy Thing," an MGM release, is rated PG-13 for language, crude humor, some sexual content and drug references
Koch must have at least had a sense that his set pieces weren't exactly gut-busters, because everyone's been instructed to mug for the camera
After "A Guy Thing," it still would D "A Guy Thing" has been left entirely in the hands of the actors, and Stiles and Blair are at least pleasant to watch Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian
Paul can't even take refuge in his mind: In occasional fantasy sequences that resemble J Besides Lee, it manages to waste the talents of the vivacious Julia Stiles and the always game Selma Blair
Maybe these three leads will get together again sometime, but they can't make a movie by themselves
A milquetoast and a congenital liar whose worst fear is asserting himself, he spins ridiculous falsehoods to avoid situations that wouldn't be that bad if he met them head-on
But motives aren't necessary when the formula is so obvious
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Motion Picture Association of America rating definitions:
G â€â€? General audiences
But then, it might have helped if she'd been working with filmmakers who noticed such things PG â€â€? Parental guidance suggested At the Movies: 'A Guy Thing'
Jan 16, 10:33 AM EST
Casting Jason Lee as the lead in a romantic comedy would be a great idea To make matters worse, she's his fiancee's cousin, whom he's never met or even heard of Some material may not be suitable for children He has no idea how she got there Meanwhile, Becky tries a new job every day and enjoys sending cars airborne when she hits a bump in the road All ages admitted There wasn't any hanky-panky, but he panics as if he's cheated
It's an indication of the general laziness of the four screenwriters that the movie never explains how or why Becky got into Paul's bed â€â€? the episode, if dramatized, could perhaps explain her attraction to him
This indifferently made, slack-jawed nothing of a movie disqualifies itself from the genre; it has neither comedy nor romance
PG-13 â€â€? Special parental guidance strongly suggested for children under 13
Lee, whose sharp and vivid work in a series of third-wheel roles made him more appealing than his big-name co-stars, has been stripped of one of his greatest strengths: his incisive intelligence
Director Chris Koch ("Snow Day") lends a consistent tone of artificiality
