And we’re off!
The final draft has been complete and we’ve kicked off pre-production this month. So far we have the script breakdown, budget outline, moodboard, set design lookbook, character packs and playlists complete, and we’ve also started the casting process. This began with an open casting call on social media which led to close to a thousand emails (some without links or attachments that were deleted straight away, we regret to highlight).
It’s been a lengthy process working through the casting emails, but we’ve finally managed to whittle it down to 35 for the first round of casting. There was a great range of talent in all the showreels we saw but the following stood out and are now in the process of getting back to us with self-tapes:
- SIMONE SOMERS YEATES
- ELEANOR GRIFFITHS
- SION GRACE
- CHANDNI SUPAWALA
- SALLY PAFFETT
- ADIE MUELLER
- DEREK PALMER
- SEAN RHYS-JAMES
- BROCK WARREN
- LUCY WORDSWORTH
- MAUD MAY
- PHIL LE FANU
- MATTHEW BOOL
- GEORGIA MCCALL
- CHRIS HIGHWELL
- NYNYA ANGELICA MARTIN
- SHARON SPICE
- ERIN ELKIN
- JORDAN LARKIN
- MATTHEW DAVID
- ELKA LEE-GREEN
- OLIVER BYNG
- DARCY DE WINTER
- JULIA FLORIMO
- TRISTAN WILLIAM-JONES
- WILL MIDDLETON
- PHILIP GILL
- ROSALYN ANDERSON
- STACEY DALY
- NISARO KARIM
- SARAH DAWES
- LAURA NOCK
- CALLUM LLOYD
- KATY FEDERMAN
- NATALIA FOX
So what’s next? Well we have production meetings with confirmed crew, we’ll be working through the auditions, searching for locations and crewing up across the board ahead of our June/July shoot next year. We’re just a little bit excited…
For those unfamiliar with the synopsis to our latest feature ‘STILL LIFE’, please see below:
Chuck Pons is cursed to live out his days like a piece of furniture on one spot, unageing, watching the episodic highs and lows of countless houseguests’ lives pass before him. Presented in two linear narratives, jumping back and forth between the day Chuck became frozen in time and the following decades, his best friend Les his sole caregiver, constantly questioning will he be released? And will their home survive when it comes under threat?
An absurd, poignant, picaresque comedy.