"Dr Randall & Son’s" Film Needs Teens in ON
ONLY TALENT FROM CALGARY, EDMONTON, KELOWNA, TORONTO, VANCOUVER WILL BE ACCEPTED. Short film "Dr Randall & Son’s Traveling Medicine Show" is currently in need of Caucasian boys ages 13+. More details are below. About the project: STORYLINE: In the cholera-stricken Old West, the closeted son of a traveling doctor starts to suspect that his father is a conman. Dr. Randall & Sons' Traveling Medicine Show is a psychological Western that explores how enticing it is to sell a lie – even to ourselves. SYNOPSIS: Dr. Randall & Sons' Traveling Medicine Show explores the moral and spiritual consequences of numbing away who we really are. It is a psychological Western that follows William Randall, a closeted sixteen-year-old boy who works as coin collector for his respected father’s traveling medicine show, pushed to the sidelines as his younger, more charismatic and masculine brother, Dylan, is both the show’s main attraction and the source of their father’s pride. But as the Randalls traverse the cholera-stricken Wild West terrain, and as William continues repressing his true identity in an attempt to further gain his father’s affection, he is warned that his father may be a fraud, the medicine nothing more than piss and gin. Facing an identity crisis, William psychologically spirals, torn between embracing the true self he believes will keep him sidelined, or resorting to a misguided sense of strength that might turn into violence. Dr. Randall & Sons deconstructs the masculine and mythological archetypes of the Western genre to explore something that feels very urgent in our world today: the horrific consequences of mythologizing ourselves, repressing and contorting our identity in a quixotic attempt to belong. Rate: ACTRA Union & Non-Union. Indie Production (AIP) $250 Daily Rate. All Accommodations, per diem, buyout and flights will be paid (AS PER AIP ACTRA). Additional information: Tentative Shoot Dates: October 28-November 3rd (6 or 7 day shoot). Location: Calgary. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: TUESDAY, OCT. 1ST, 2024. If you're interested, please apply
2 roles
LEAD ROLE. Skinny, closeted, reduced to the coin collector for his father’s medicine show as his younger brother gets all the attention. Wants his father’s approval. At heart just a lost, awkward teenager, but has a complicated anger in him that risks taking away his innocence.
LEAD ROLE. The younger brother who is often mistaken for the older, extremely muscular or broad-framed (but open to any physique that can visually be read as “strong”), a showboater who, deep down, is a very gentle soul. Abel in Cain’s body. Wants his brother’s approval. Note: One scene has him kissing a girl in his age bracket.
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