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| There are new "casting companies" popping up in New Mexico. The standard procedure throughout the industry across the nation for casting speaking roles is always through your agent. Part of why you have an agent is to act as your buffer for bogus projects who want you to work for free. Even student films contact your agent and have the proper paper work for you at both the audition and the start of the project. This is all done for your protection. When legitimate castings are announced and put out to agents, the agent receives the following information: Project Title, Project Director, Approximate start date, Projected number of days shooting, whether the project is Union or Non-Union, If Union - what scale? If the project is Non-Union - what the pay rate is (day, week - what hours constitute a day)? ( If it is a non-union project, SAG members are not allowed to work on the project.) Scheduled Audition Report times, Character(s) the performers will be reading for, Character breakdowns, Storyline Synopsis, Script and/or sides for the audition. Open calls and cattle calls are NOT held for speaking roles. Appointed times are set up for speaking roles - your time is also valuable. And if it is a union project, it is a SAG rule to have appointed times. If the above items are not provided be suspicious as to the legitimacy and caliber of the project. When in doubt, call your agent. This information supplied by Vince Pulli - Director of A & M Talent Agency |
| Concerning SAG & New Mexico Background actors The AMPTP (Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers) is who negotiates with SAG, so ..... for now New Mexico Background is still NOT being covered by SAG and NO amount of crying, wailing, gnashing of teeth or petitions is going to change things until the next time SAG goes to the negotiating table with the AMPTP - get over it. You want CHANGE? You want MORE protection for New Mexico Background artists? Then call or write your legislators and ask them to change the current incentive packages and other legislation that has been passed that benefits the out-of-state productions companies and NOT the working residents of New Mexico who are NOT part of the local unions. There HAS to be a drastic change made in the legislation if New Mexico wants to be competitive in the film business. As of NOW, there are only 4 states or territories that do NOT have any type of film incentives. Click here to view some of the states that do have incentives. New Mexico may been among the first to institute unique film incentives but that is now history and New Mexico will surely lose future productions if new and updated legislation is NOT introduced in the upcoming legislative session. That's the way it is. |
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| Casting News for Actors!!! Paula Abdul to Launch Casting Website By Georg Szalai November 22, 2010 Courtesy of Backstage NEW YORK -- Step Inside. Be Discovered. That is the tag line of online discovery platform AuditionBooth, which goes into public beta Monday and wants to connect aspiring talents with casting directors, producers and managers working on such things as TV shows, particularly reality series, Web videos etc etc http://www.auditionbooth.com/ |
| More Casting News for Actors!!! Sony Launches Online Casting Site By Diep Tran November 19, 2010 Sony Pictures Entertainment is launching a new casting service called Face of the Fan. At www.faceofthefan.com, users will be able to download select pages from a script, then upload their audition videos and résumés. The first film to utilize the service is the next installment in the "Underworld" franchise, which is searching for a woman, 18 or older, to play a teenager. According to a company press release, future films will include Screen Gems' "Mortal Instruments" and the 3-D animated feature "The Smurfs." "The Face of the Fan program enables us to source people from all over the country to find unknown talent and give them a shot at something they may not have otherwise been able to do," said Screen Gems president Clint Culpepper in a written statement. http://faceofthefan.com/ |
