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The Stoop
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ID # 31862
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Doc. Short Film
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Submission Type |
SRN
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| Location |
New York, NY |
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Non-union
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| Rate/Pay |
n/a
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Release Date |
04-27-06
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| Audition Date |
12-31-69
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Submission Deadline |
04-29-06
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| Shoot Date |
06-03-06
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| Casting Category |
Feature Film - Short Film
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| Market(s) |
New York City, NY |
The Stoop is a 10-minute short film shooting June 3 and 4. This film tells the story of what's it's like for children to spend a hot summer day on the front stoop of a house in Brooklyn. For those of you who grew up in Brooklyn, nothing more has to be said.
We are seeking to fill these roles ASAP. Parents and guardians, please contact me right away if your child is interested in one of the roles.
I look forward to hearing for you.
Tiffanie Young
Casting Director
YAH Productions
Note: This is a Self Response Notification. If you fit the role criterias and are interested by this project, please follow ASAP the submission infos below the roles description.
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African American, 10-12 yrs old (or at least look the age). One half of a best friend duo. Typical boy looking to have fun playing with his friends on a summer day.
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Searchable talent specs:
Gender: Male
Age: from 9 to 13
Ethnicity: African - African American - |
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African-American, 10-12 yrs old (or at least look the age). The other half of the best friend duo. Typical boy looking to have fun playing with his friends on a summer day.
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Searchable talent specs:
Gender: Male
Age: from 9 to 13
Ethnicity: African - African American - |
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African-American, 10-12 yrs old (or looks the age). One of the friends Rich and Dre play with during the day.
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Gender: Female
Age: from 9 to 13
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The History of Jim Crow: http://www They are prominently featured on a site, developed in association with the series, that chronicles the history of segregation
In the last 22 years of his life, the self-taught artist committed his memories to canvas â€â€? or leftover plywood from his job as a carpenter when he couldn't afford canvas
"He tells us a lot about the past and his circumstances and in a way reminding us not to forget it
Most of Gray's vivid, detailed paintings are autobiographical, evoking his experience as a black man living in the South during the "Jim Crow" era of the 1950s and early 1960s and during the first decades of desegregation Everett said Gray's story is unique because of the little training he received, the period he captures in his work and because he didn't start painting seriously until he was well into adulthood The segregated accommodations are gone, too, but the neighborhood is marred by streetwalkers and overwhelmed by billboards advertising liquor and lottery
Born to a sharecropper family in 1941 in Spartanburg, S A gallery exhibited his work during the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, and a friend took three of his paintings to New York City He often sketched the toys he wanted, but his family could not afford
But "Rising Above Jim Crow: The Paintings of Johnnie Lee Gray," is bittersweet: Gray died two years ago at the age of 58 from lung cancer
Gray's paintings are often landscapes of forests and fields populated by people whose every detail â€â€? from the brim of a hat to a Bible â€â€? is finely etched
In the last painting, the streets have been renamed Martin Luther King Boulevard and Nelson Mandela Avenue "
The exhibit, which will eventually travel to Chicago, Atlanta, South Carolina and California, is on display through Jan html
He met his wife when she asked him to paint several doors in her home
"It was what he knew and what he could imagine," she said After they were married in 1978, Gray's painting began in earnest, including a scenic view of Atlanta that featured the couple near a beautiful water fountain "But there is also a happiness because now everybody is going to know that he was a great artist 3 at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture He told her it represented the honeymoon they were too poor to afford htm
Schomburg Center: http://www Exhibit Showcases Segregated South
Nov 21, 3:34 PM EST
NEW YORK (AP) â€â€? Johnnie Lee Gray worked harvests with his sharecropper grandfather, watched movies in segregated theaters, fought in the Vietnam War and lived through the struggles of the Civil Rights movement org/home He sold his paintings for $25 to $100, and sometimes gave them away jimcrowhistory
Now, an exhibit is touring the country with 35 of Gray's works His only art training came during this time, from a correspondence class advertised in a magazine
"I wish he was here to see it â€â€? that brings a little sadness," said his widow, Shirley Sims Gray
In a series of paintings, Gray examines how a city neighborhood at the fictional intersection of Jefferson Davis Boulevard and General Lee Avenue â€â€? with a "whites only" restaurant and hotel â€â€? changes through the civil rights protests of the 1960s C
He served in the Army in the 1960s, including a stint in Vietnam, and then returned to South Carolina, working as a carpenter and in textile mills
After the exhibition closes at the Schomburg, it will travel to the Chicago Historical Society, the Atlanta History Center, the Art Galleries of California State University in Northridge and the Greenville County Museum of Art in Greenville, S
But while many of Gray's paintings are political, others deal with the charms of the rural South: boys skinny-dipping while girls steal their clothes; a baptism in a pond near a church; a Sunday night dance in the woods nypl
He occasionally entered some of his paintings in art shows and county fairs, earning several ribbons org/research/sc/sc
He attended a segregated high school, where teachers who recognized his talent put him in charge of billboards and displays While his early works are linear and realistic, some of his later paintings are more abstract and suggest Gray may have studied van Gogh and Cezanne , Gray was an only child who drew to amuse himself
Shirley Gray said she was amazed that exhibit organizers were able to divide her husband's work into distinct themes â€â€? such as play, worship, work and promise â€â€? because he often said ideas just appeared in his brain and "nagged" him until they were completed to know your collective history," Everett said
Exhibit curator Gwendolyn H C
