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Young actor wanted for Emelonye's new movie
OHTV (Sky Channel 199) in association with The Nollywood Factory (www.thenollywoodfactory.com) are set to produce an excting new film by Obi Emelonye. Emelonye's film credits include "Who's Next?", "Asylum", "Echoes of War", "Lucky Joe" and "The Quiet Storm".
The producers are looking for an experienced 9-11 year old actor to play the lead in The Mirror Boy - a film shooting over the Easter period in Nigeria and London.
The auditions will take place on Saturday, March 14th, 2010.
Venue information to be sent to serious enquirers who send in required actor's information as stated out below.
INFORMATION ABOUT THE MIRROR BOY
FILM TITLE: THE MIRROR BOY
GENRE: Children’s fantasy adventure
FORMAT: RED Digital camera (Convertible to 35mm)
WRITER/DIRECTOR: Obi Emelonye
PRODUCER: Patrick Campbell
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Akin Salami
CHARACTER NAME: TASIE
AGE: 10 years (Or older but small and looking 10 years)
CHARACTER TYPE: LEAD
LOCATIONS: London, The Gambia / Nigeria
NUMBER OF SCENES: 50 plus scenes
FEE: Negotiable, depending on skill and experience
LINES: Mainly one-liner dialogues (including an internal monologue for his neurosis)
STUNTS & DIFFICULT SCENES: Street fight sequence, village wrestling sequence, falling from a tree, jumping off a waterfall plus lots of running in the forest.
CHARACTER ATTRIBUTES: Likeable, cheeky, fun-loving, bubbly, vulnerable, emotional, courageous, fit and energetic.
PRINCIPAL PHOTOGRAPHY DATES: 5th April till 24th April
DURATION OF SHOOT: 3 weeks
PREMIERE: Leicester Square, London Sept 2010, as part of Nigeria @ 50 festivities. Plus premieres in Nigeria and Gambia.
DISTRIBUTION: Cinema (UK, Africa, USA) plus DVD and TV Rights
CO-PRODUCTION: Between OH TV and The Nollywood Factory
STAR CAST
This impressive line up of Nigerian and international stars needs no further introduction:
Sophie Okonedo; Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde; Osita Iheme; Bob-Manuel Udokwu; Okey Bakasi; Bruno Iwuoha.
SYNOPSIS
The Mirror Boy is an enthralling journey through the picturesque terrains of Nigeria, as seen through the eyes of a London-born 12 year old boy, TASIE.
On the 13th of June and wholly out of character, TASIE gets involved in a street fight in which a boy is hurt. Convinced that TASIE needs discipline, TINA, his mum decides to take him to Nigeria to live with her sister.
In the power blackout that greets their arrival in Lagos, TASIE encounters what he considers to be a simple apparition- a boy smiling at him in a mirror and vanishing afterwards.
However, seeing the same boy in a crowded street market the next day sets in motion a chain of events that culminates in him getting lost.
While the panic-stricken MARIA struggles with the inept Nigeria Police Force to find her son in an intriguing game of survival brinkmanship, TASIE is left alone in the company of the enigmatic MIRROR BOY who is only visible to him.
As a bruising spiritual rite of passage, the MIRROR BOY takes TASIE on a magical journey through the dark belly of the forest.
After a series of edge-of-the-seat adventures in the forest, TASIE emerges the next day, a bewildered boy; for whom the lines between reality and fantasy; between the physical and the spiritual have been forever blurred.
His arrival at a time of mourning for a small kingdom in Eastern Nigeria upsets the evil machinations of a desperate Queen who literally takes him to the edge.
A cathartic climax helps TASIE to unravel the mystery of the MIRROR BOY. It also provides him with a rather mystical explanation for the way his life has cascaded from the 13th of June towards this inter-twined fate with a father he has never met.
MODE OF RESPONSE
Email photo and short profile of boy to obiemelonye@yahoo.com or call 07737688462 for more information. Auditions holding Sat. 14th March in Central London. Address to be communicated. Entry closes Wed. 10th March 2010.
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