CAST
Again, we are happy to report that our continued quest for acting talent has allowed us to meet some great people, and we feel flattered at the response we have received regarding auditions for various parts. Thank you everyone. Thank you also to our Casting Department, who has been working very hard managing all these auditions ... it is a LOT of work. We are please to announce that we have found not just suitable, but excellent performers for the following respective parts. Because we haven't done a proper round-up of our cast to date, we shall do so now
LEO
Ed Cooper Clarke
Ed played an East End artist in Laura Hypponen’s recent short film Shoreditch Sonata and has also recently filmed One More Drink, a winning entry for the Filmaka competition judged by great filmmakers from Colin Firth to John Madden and Neil La Bute. Other screen work includes commercials and corporates for Eurostar and Dominos and a music video for Jamelia.
Ed is about to graduate from Drama Centre where roles have included Platonov in Chekhov’s Platonov and Eugene Onegin in Eugene Onegin – both performed in Moscow. Last summer, he played the lead in an award-winning production of The Rivals in the Henley fringe festival.
ALICJA
Jasmine Polak
Jasmine is a freshman at Krakow's National Acting Academy, previously working with a theatre group ran by the well known polish theatre actor Juliusz Chrzastowski. Jasmine has also performed in many plays, the most successful of which was 'Musees hautes' musees bas' by Jeam Michel Ribes, for which she has received two acting awards. She's also appeared in a few short independent films and took part in many recital competitions. Not just busy with acting, Jasmine has also cut her teeth in the music industry, as a pianist and singer, and is about to perform her first live gigs back in Poland, where she's originally from.
EMMA
Zoë Grisedale
Zoë is a young Actress from London with a background in modeling, also a writer, and even drummer in the live act 'You Me Bum Bum Train.' We shall leave it to a quote to best speak for Zoë from here on in: "Zoë is an explosive young talent, and a pleasure to watch onscreen. The camera simply adores her. She has genuine range already, and would be equally comfortable playing the girl next-door, hipster sophisticate or total goofball with equal aplomb. Zoë is unafraid to tackle a character head-on, she immersed herself in the emotional as well as physical make-up of Kate. Her preparation cannot be faulted, he arrived for the read-through knowing the script inside out and with a potent combination of theories, ideas and questions about her character. With enough energy resources to topple the national grid, Zoë is a bigscreen star in waiting, with true cinematic presence." D W. Hall 2008. Director , The Initiation. Check out her MySpace here.
MAX
James Jeanette Main
James is a gender illusionist, better known as 'Jeanette', the door girl for the infamous Boombox club night, and those who have been turned away by him for not trying hard enough will remember him well! James served as a muse to the designers Giles Deacon and Gareth Pugh, worked as a stylist for Dazed & Confused and i-D magazines and occasionally moonlighted as a hairdresser to Grace Jones. He has also been currently cast in a film about the life of legendary 60's femme fatale and Warhol Superstar, Nico. Check out his MySpace here.
CREW
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Bronwen Parker-Rhodes
Bronwen graduated with a BA (1st Class Hons) from Slade School of Fine Art, University College London in 2006. Since then she has made two series of three minute wonders for Channel 4, had screenings at the Curzon Soho, ICA, BFI, a solo show at the URA! GalleryIstanbul, and in 2006 her short film ‘Lark’ won the FourDocs award for best short documentary at Sheffield DocFest. Check out her website here.
1st ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
Richard Brade
Richard is a versatile filmmaker whose television credits include Lyon Television’s MUMS ON STRIKE (2005), and Endemol UK’s THE MATCH (2005). He also has worked in the costume department on Joe Wright’s ATONEMENT (Working Title, 2006), where his duties included maintaining continuity and preparing actors such as Keira Knightley for each shoot. Richard is the founder & managing director of River of Light, a media production company. As well as executive producing River of Light’s projects, he has been responsible for the visual mixing of live events in London’s Heaven nightclub, where his work was seen weekly by an estimated 1,600 off-their-heads clubbers. He currently works at London superclub Fabric. Richard graduated with a BA in Film and Television Production (2006) from one of the UK’s leading film schools, The University of Teesside. Following his graduation he received a full scholarship to attend the MSc in Management with Film Business degree at London’s Film Business Academy.
LOCATIONS
The Production Team has also been busy: securing, confirming and scouting locations, and we are excited to be able to include several Shoreditch and Dalston familiar to many: The George and Dragon, The Russian Bar, The toilets and Bar Music Hall, and the downstairs light-up disco dancefloor at Shoreditch Electricity Showrooms. We have been very fortunate to have the interest and co-operation of the management of these fine camera-friendly venues in our film project.
Our Director Laura has taken up temporary residence at a canalside warehouse, which will serve as Max's flat. The warehouse in the vicinity of Gainsborough Studios, where the late Mr Hitchcock used to film his masterpieces. The Studios, of course, are today serving as lodgings for (the now possibly unemployed) City bankers and other well-to-do folk...and there's also a lovely Thai restaurant and a gym. The man with the van who helped Laura move went so far as as to say that the warehouse flat resembles a drug den. We don't know what he could possibly have meant by that. As a rebut to such concepts, it has come to our attention that there is an early care facility downstairs at the warehouse ... 'early care' means 'children'. We will be adding a disclaimer to the beginning of the film to note that no children were harmed during the production. Some great side streets, alleyways and murky corners around here, though ... while scouting for these the temptation has been to escape the soaring temperatures by a refreshing jump into the canal with the floating logs of junkie poo. Maybe not quite yet, though.
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We are now a month away from production, and things are looking good. Its has been astounding to all of us how many enthusiastic people have come on board, and committed to working with us. The wonders never cease, except in the case of the poo in the canal, which is standard.
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