Seeking Talent for "Take-Out" Project
ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE ACCEPTED. Casting actors for a short project "Take-Out". Please, see the details below. Rate: Non union. Directors will of course be covering accommodation (in Dunnville), material expenses, food etc. but there is also a potential honorarium, depending on how the funding campaign goes. But directors are looking mostly for actors in and around the Hamilton GTA area, as they are on tight budget and bringing in folks from way out isn't really possible. Additional information: Shooting dates: Night of December 14th and night of the 15th, with a half day shoot proceeding this with partial cast/crew on a TBD date. Location: Dunnville, Ontario. When applying, please submit name of the character you're applying for in the subject line, along with CV and head shot (if you have link to video reel please include it) before Nov. 4th.
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Penny, is a long time waitress at Hank's Diner. She's an average woman who has been put through life’s wringer. She has experienced loss on a level most don't until the twilight of their lives. She started her adult life with so much promise. An ordinary girl from a middle class milquetoast suburb, she won a scholarship to her 1st choice school, opening up her world and bringing her to the big city.
Mickey’s dad was a cop, his grandad was cop, and so on. In fact no one in the Murphy family could tell you when they weren’t cops. Now a hardened vice detective, Mickey started out as a wide-eyed idealist, but the years of undercover work lead to drinking, which lead to gambling and two divorces. Between what he owed to the bookies and in alimony, Mickey was one move away from being thrown a shovel, and told to dig in an empty lot somewhere.
Unlike most who end up there, long ago Boon chose the streets. Not his best decision, but he stood by it. Boon was streetwise beyond his years at a young age. A freelancer with no ties to any group or gang, he was a slick operator, always able to work an angle in his favour. That was until the night he crossed paths with Mickey Murphy. Boon has seen and done things he never thought himself capable of, but with no foreseeable way out, he keeps soldiering on.
The diner is stitched into Hank’s DNA. Owned and operated by his family for three generations, as his namesake suggests, he’s the third Hank to run it. His grandad always said it was cheaper than changing the sign. They just don’t make neon like that anymore.
Growing up with a blue collar single mom, meant she not only had to take care of her siblings, but also needed to take on jobs after school to help with the bills. Knowing that her only way to break out of the neighbourhood and experience the world was through excelling in her studies. Now in her freshman year, she’s managed to juggle it all, including a part time job at Hank’s, which she actually quite enjoys for the most part.
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