Producers: Anthony Bregman, Blair Breard, & Alice Wu
Location: New York
Shoot Dates: APRIL-JUNE 2019
Submission Deadline: February 1st, 2019 (6:00pm PST)
Synopsis:
ELLIE CHIU feels isolated and friendless in her remote, backwater town
of Squahamish, where she makes some much-needed extra cash penning
homework papers for her fellow high school students. But when Ellie
reluctantly agrees to play Cyrano for lovelorn footballer PAUL MUNSKY,
who has fallen hard for ASTER FLORES, daughter of the school’s deacon,
it becomes an unexpected journey of discovery for all three, who form a
complicated triangle of friendship as they come to terms with their own
unexpected feelings about love…
ELLIE (OPEN CALL)
17, female, Chinese-American. American-born but must speak Mandarin in a
few scenes. Serious, funny, extremely bright, a deep thinker.
Endearingly awkward, with a certain coltish appeal. Quick with wry
banter. Bonus if she can sing and play the piano and/or guitar. (LEAD)
PAUL (OPEN CALL)
17, male, Caucasian. Tall, rugged, working-class meathead with a deeply
honest quality. Third-string running back for his high school
football team. Paul may not be great with words, but he’s a
surprisingly sensitive and insightful individual once you get past his
doltish exterior. (LEAD)
ASTER (OPEN CALL)
17, female, Mexican-American or Latina. That girl in class who manages
to be both smart and popular and beautiful – and yet no one
begrudges her for it, mostly because she is also so incredibly kind.
Playfully charming, artistic, struggling to make sense of what life
holds in store for her. Bonus if a confident singer. (LEAD)
ALICE WU IS MAKING SOMETHING FOR NETFLIX.
Click the link to submit your audition!!!! Please reblog this for an aspiring young actor of color to see!!! (I know The OA managed to find someone via tumblr!!)
okay i’m desperately trying to remember what this book/artist was called but did anyone ever read a book when you were younger that was basically just a collection of kind of surreal, dream-like illustrations with maybe sentence long caption at the bottom of the page?
the one that i remember the most clearly was a picture of someone who fell asleep reading in bed and there were vines and trees growing out of the book and covering their room. does anyone know what i’m talking about?
THE MYSTERIES OF HARRIS BURDICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (by Chris Van Allsburg)
here are some pages of it i found online
We used to use this in my elementary school classes for writing prompts.
