The NEXT OPPORTUNITY for AWS Actors:
PROJECT:
Short Film – by Santana Pictures
SYNOPSIS:
The film is a surreal fantasy about death and the regrets you have at the end of life. It follows a set of identical twins who go on a spree of violence in order to send loved ones back in time to change the course of their family life.
This is a Short Film with the goal of getting the film into an Academy Award qualifying festival and get an Oscar nomination for Best Short Film.
OFFER:
We will have food on set and will give IMDB credit! The true goal for this film is to get it into an Academy Award qualifying festival and get an Oscar nomination for Best Short Film. Our team is confident in this and would love to have you on board!
PROJECTED SHOOT DATES:
We plan to shoot over the course of a few weeks in April to early May.
AUDITION:
Cold read. Bring Headshot / Resume to the Audition.
CHARACTER BREAKDOWN:
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Jonathan / Gabriel : A set of middle age twins who plot to kill their parents in order to send them back in time and be raised by them instead of given up for adoption. – This role has been cast – however, we do need a 6’4 stand in!
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Abraham : He is an older homeless drug addict whose biggest regret in life is giving away a set of twins he had as a teenager. In the film he ends up in the gutter of life, and at the point of his death, he miraculously becomes young again and rewrites his life by this time raising the twins.
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Elizabeth : She is an older woman who settled for average in her life, she regrets giving away her baby twins as a teenager. In the film she marries someone she doesn’t love, and at the point of her death, she miraculously becomes young again and rewrites her life by this time raising the twins.
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Young Abraham : A teenager who during Prom finds out that his girlfriend is pregnant and decides with her to raise them this time. He visits his older self as a vision earlier in the film.
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Young Elizabeth : A pregnant teenager who during Prom decides to raise the twins with her boyfriend this time. She visits his older self as a vision earlier in the film.
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Julius : A teenager who works as a doorman, he tells a peculiarly strange and long dream he had the night before to a resident of the building.
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The Specialist: A strange character- a man in a suit who sells his service of sending you back in time. He speaks about death in a chilling manner.
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Howard: An elite man dies of old age on his deathbed. He struggles to fulfill his last wish of reliving his life, and is willing to pay anything for it.
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Katherine: An elite very old woman, She scolds Samuel as he lays dying of old age in a heartless manner.
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Samuel: Elizabeth’s second husband. An older man, he walks out of the restroom to be stabbed to death by a visitor in his home
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Elderly Men and Woman: They are in Elizabeth’s home when Samuel is stabbed to death, they soon suffer the same fate off-screen.
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Men and Woman: In the room where Howard breathes his last breaths, his family argues over their inheritance vigorously.
One thing to note is that we will have a make-up artist that can age the actors about 20 years so when it says “elderly” we can help out in that department!
Because this is an independent film, availability is key for the production!