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Independent Film-orlando.FL
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ID # 103000
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Feature Film
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Submission Type |
SRN
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| Location |
orlando.FL |
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Non-union
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| Rate/Pay |
n/a
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Release Date |
05-08-07
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| Audition Date |
12-31-69
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Submission Deadline |
07-04-07
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| Shoot Date |
12-31-69
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| Casting Category |
Feature Film - Non-SAG
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| Market(s) |
Orlando, FL>Tampa, FL |
CASTING FOR INDEPENDENT FILM
Casting Call next Sat. May 12th
Anyone interested please send resume and headshot to us.
Even if you do not fit the descriptions listed, please send in your resume for consideration.
If selected, you will be contacted with time and location information.
Shooting will take place during the summer.
This is a self-response casting.
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Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role
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Black, early-mid 20s.
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Searchable talent specs:
Gender: Female
Age: from 25 to 30
Ethnicity: African - |
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Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role
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Any race, early-mid 20s.
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Searchable talent specs:
Gender: Female
Age: from 25 to 30 |
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Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role
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White, mid 20s.
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Searchable talent specs:
Ethnicity: Caucasian - |
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Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role
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Black, late 20s-mid 30s.
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Searchable talent specs:
Gender: Male
Age: from 20 to 35 |
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When the grass sprouted, they placed it in a darkened room in front of a slide projector, which shone a black-and-white photographic negative of the painting onto it for 12 hours at a time Initially, the grass roots formed the upper surface of the casts, making them look like unwrapped Egyptian mummies "
For the first few years, the grass images they produced were temporary, and began to fade the moment they went on display 5 feet by 32 feet, bears a detailed reproduction of the Florentine artist's 1505 painting, "Satyr Mourning Over a Nymph "Those are just casts of people, and don't worry, the people are still alive "
But since patrons usually want the art they sponsor to be a bit more permanent, Ackroyd and Harvey looked to science to find a way to make the pictures last longer "
But if the artists have achieved a certain permanence in their medium, their message is still one of change and decay
"It took us eight days to produce the image, but see how much detail it has â€â€? the satyr's hair, the wildflowers in the foreground, the dogs off there in the background?" Harvey said
"They would start off looking like photographs like this one," Harvey said "But soon they would look more like faded tapestries, and in a few more days they would vanish completely "
Ackroyd and Harvey also created two sculptures while they were in Chicago, using grass as their medium One part of the installation was a wall covered with living grass, and another part was a ladder "
"It's a hybrid of rye grass and fescue, and it keeps its green even after it dies," said Harvey
The resulting work, titled "Specific Natures," is on display in the windows of a vacant storefront on downtown State Street They recruited two volunteers, a man and a woman, and made plaster casts of their naked bodies "
The grass art pieces will be on display until Sept
"It's one reason we chose this painting to reproduce "We're in the process of killing off this grass right now They will not travel British Artists Use Grass As Medium
Aug 20, 10:58 AM EST
British artists Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey know where the grass is greener, and fences don't have anything to do with it They then lined the negative mold with clay and grass seed The fading actually became part of the artistic process, showing that everything in nature is evanescent "
To create the work, Ackroyd and Harvey covered a moveable partition with burlap, which they then coated with nutrient-rich clay They then planted the clay densely with grass seed and kept it watered "We have found we can transpose the whole tonal scale of black-and-white photography into the yellow and green range of living grass
Titled "Supernatural (After Piero di Cosimo)," the vertical lawn, measuring 13
"Hey," said an elderly man who had been looking into the display windows, "are those real people in there?"
"No," said Harvey, grinning Once it's dead, the image won't change appreciably for many years
One of their latest works, commissioned by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, went on display recently at the Chicago Cultural Center "We wondered if we could reproduce the effect, and we started experimenting
"We noticed that sunlight shining into the room was leaving a very faint shadow image of the ladder in the grass," Ackroyd said
Like the silver nitrate grains darkening in photographic print paper, the chlorophyll molecules in the grass turned deep green when hit with intense light, but faded to yellow when left in darkness
Ackroyd and Harvey, who have been collaborating since 1989, discovered grass photography accidentally while doing a piece of installation art in an Italian hill town in 1990 "
"Think of the grass blades as pixels â€â€? or, better yet, think of each cell in the grass blade as a pixel," said Harvey during a close inspection of the work change and the persistence of memory," said Ackroyd When the grass was growing well, they emptied the molds like upside-down cake tins 28 A picture like this one would last maybe a week if it were living grass like our early ones
"I think our work tends to keep coming around to certain themes, such as Harvey said the green grass shoots would soon start growing upward, blurring the images and making them less and less recognizable as people That simple fact about chlorophyll led Ackroyd and Harvey, both 44, to create a new art form using living grass as a photographic medium They found the answer at the Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research in Aberystwyth, Wales, where scientists had developed a new strain of grass called "staygreen
As any homeowner who ever found yellow lines on the lawn after leaving the garden hose in one place for too long has discovered, grass needs sunlight to stay green
But on installation day, the casts still looked very real We think it's inspired by the Roman poet Ovid's 'Metamorphoses,' which is all about change and regeneration
