FINALLY, WE HAVE A REPUBLIC – CASTING CALL
SEEKING FEMALE TALENT WHO CAN SPEAK FRENCH & ENGLISH FLUENTLY FOR A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A FEATURE FILM
Details
Project: FINALLY, WE HAVE A REPUBLIC (Feature film)
Note: Slovakian/Czech/Canadian treaty co-production Feature Film
Jurisdiction: Europe, non-union (ACTRA talent can apply)
Production Companies: Fun Republic Pictures, DCTV, AZYL Films, B Production, Bonton Film, love.FRAME
Executive Producers: Don Carmody, Peter Veverka
Producers: David Cormican, Vojtech Fric, Tibor Búza
Director: Michal Kunes Kovac
Writers: Maroš Hecko, Tomáš Dušicka, David Cormican
Travel Date: Talent to fly out approx 3-5 day prior to the start of Principal Photography
Start of Principal Photography: January 17, 2023 (25 day shoot; however, role is currently scheduled for a maximum of 17 days out of the 25)
Rate: CAD $1,941.60 (Per shoot day, 1,500 EUROS)
Travel and Accommodations: Canada to Vienna (return economy airfare); then ground to Bratislava by production car (40 minutes drive). Production will take care of flights, ground transport, and accommodation
Location: Bratislava, Slovakia
DEADLINE TO SUBMIT: Friday, November 11, 2022 @ 3:00 PM EST
AUDITION INSTRUCTIONS AND FULL CHARACTER DESCRIPTION:
[CHARLIE MCKENZIE]
Female. 23-25. She’s an unsuspecting, fish-out-of-water in our story. She decides not to return home to Canada for the New Year’s Eve celebrations to avoid her own inevitable family drama and instead gets tangled up in the Varhal’s family drama by pure accident chasing after the adventure of her current one-night stand. She can be shy when among strangers, but she is otherwise a perky, eloquent young woman. SUPPORTING
**Talent must be able to speak fluently in French and English, however, for the audition sides, the material will be in English**
Storyline: This poignant family drama unravels over New Year’s Eve 1992/93. Michal and Charlie (his Canadian girlfriend), arrive home to celebrate the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, only to find the family in chaos. Michal’s father has suffered a heart attack after damning evidence is revealed that he betrayed both country and family cooperating with the outgoing regime’s reviled secret police. While the father’s health is left to hospital staff, his place in the family hangs in the balance as the family turns on each other debating their own reactions, prior knowledge and whether they can forgive their patriarch’s shocking past.
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