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Short Sketches
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ID # 69083
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Commercials
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SRN
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Los Angeles, CA |
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Non-union
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n/a
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Release Date |
11-28-06
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| Audition Date |
12-31-69
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Submission Deadline |
12-12-06
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| Shoot Date |
12-31-69
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| Casting Category |
Internet
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| Market(s) |
Los Angeles, CA |
Short Sketches
I am a producer and am working on short VOD/internet content. Aseries of very short sketches. We are in the pre production stage of this project, but it is absolutley happening. Looking for confident actors with actual skill.
Dramatic comedy... not really dark. Project will not proceed until right actors are found for key roles. The sketches revolve around family roles and friends of family. You should be able to play a role of a family member. All ethnicities welcome to respond. You WILL be seen by millions of people. There will be at least 3 episodes.
This is a self-response notification (SRN).
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Looking for confident actors with actual skill. You should be able to play a role of a family member
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Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 50
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Looking for confident actors with actual skill. You should be able to play a role of a family member
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Gender: Female
Age: from 18 to 50
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He'd like to see more PG-13 movies that feature smoking â€â€? like "Matchstick Men," "Seabiscuit" and the Oscar-winning "Chicago" â€â€? get slapped with an R rating movies over the past five years "
Sony spokesman Steve Elzer said: "We are aware of the health hazards posed by smoking and while we do not advocate our filmmakers to use smoking in our films, we can not endorse guidelines that promote censorship or restrict creative freedom,"
Disney declined to comment, and Time Warner did not immediately return a call for comment
"No one is saying there should never be any smoking in the movies," Glantz, a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, said Tuesday at a press conference at Hollywood High School "
R-Rating Sought in Some Smoking Films
Mar 9, 7:24 PM EST
If Nicolas Cage lights a cigarette in a movie, Hollywood's ratings board should respond as if he used a profanity, according to authors of a new study that criticizes glamorous images of smoking in movies rated for children under 17 All elements in motion picture storytelling are determined by the creative artists involved
The Motion Picture Association of America, which rates films, refused to comment directly on whether it would consider changing its ratings system "We are in the enterprise of creative storytelling
But the group denied that its studio members were trying to promote cigarettes
Glantz singled out The Walt Disney Co "
The study was funded by the charitable foundation The Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund and the National Cancer Institute for smoking in the PG-rated "Holes" and G-rated "102 Dalmatians," Time Warner for its PG "Secondhand Lions" and "What a Girl Wants" and Sony Pictures Entertainment for its PG "Master of Disguise "
The proposal includes an exception for historical figures who actually smoked as part of their public life, Glantz added
Since R-rated films typically earn less money because they are not open to most teenagers, Glantz said he hoped such a policy would discourage filmmakers from depicting unnecessary smoking, such as the nicotine-addicted worm aliens in "Men in Black S
"We are not in the business of advertising," read a statement from Vans Stevenson, senior vice president of the MPAA
"What we're simply asking for is that smoking be treated by Hollywood as seriously as it treats offensive language
Nearly 80 percent of movies rated PG-13 feature some form of tobacco use, while 50 percent of G and PG rated films depict smoking, said Stanton Glantz, co-author of the study, which examined 775 U
