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Casting
for International Features Filming in Southern Africa
Co-Ordination
of Cast during production & for post-production requirements
Contacts throughout South Africa, Namibia, Ghana, Botswana, East Africa, Egypt. I DO NOT REPRESENT ACTORS AND WILL NOT FIND YOU AN AGENT!
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| News and Highlights - 2011 |
| October 2011 The Nasty side of Alfred Hitchcock...
 The legendary Alfred Hitchcock, Master of Suspense and director of the famous Psycho, reached his peak with that film, some would say. His next film was The Birds, which was at first not well received. He cast the beautiful Tippi Hedren, a sucessful New York model in the lead, and his sexual obsession with her is the subject of The Girl, a new film directed by Julian Jarrold (Brideshead Revisited, Becoming Jane,The Canterbury Tales, Kinky Boots) Julian broke his journey to Cape Town from England to attend a full-day's call backs. The events retold in the film took place in America during the Sixties, but some of our actors found themselves doing "accent gymnastics", since "Hitch" had taken some of his English crew with him to Hollywood. Hitchcock spitefully held Tippi Hedren to a personal contract after Marnie, never using her again but also preventing her from working for anyone else for seven years. His career waned, but Tippi - now 81 years old - has made over forty films since then.  Ben and Christa in the studio with actor Jannes Eislen wielding Christa's very first audition camera as a makeshift, very anachronistic prop! |
| October 2011 The Hunt for Raj continues...
So far we've auditioned about five hundred people for roles in In A Strange Land,
mostly children for the role of Raj, followed by youngsters for the
German-Jewish prisoner children. While we tackled KwaZulu-Natal,
Dominika and Ben continued to take our studio camera to schools in
Pretoria and Johannesburg, which have useful populations of South
African Indians. Dominika supervises a "river crossing" improvisation at the Pretoria Hindu School.  Christa showing the boys from Fordsburg Primary School how to get a heavy bucket of water out of a treacherous river.  It may look like the Library carpet to you, but these boys are concentrating on not falling into a raging river...  ... because if they fall into the river, it's mighty cold! The Fordsburg lads really put heart and sould into the improvisations, perhaps because they don't have Drama in their curriculum yet.  Boys and girls from the Johannesburg German International School listen attentively to a historical brief about the period depicted in the film In A Strange Land |
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September 2011 On The Road... and On The Hunt...
The hunt is on for a young Indian boy to play the lead role of Raj in the film In A Strange Land, a new film from Israeli director Avi Nesher. (Dizengoff 99,Timebomb,The Taxman, Ritual, Turn Left at the End of the World, The Secrets,The Matchmaker).  In A Strange Land is based on 'The Last Brother', a novel by Nathacha Appanah
which was inspired by a little-known slice of World War II history -
about 1,500 Jews were detained for most of the war in a British prison
on the island of Mauritius. Avi Nesher has written a moving screenplay
spanning decades, telling of the friendship between a Hindi boy and two
of the Jewish boy prisoners. To find an innocent nine-year-old capable of playing this demanding role we are searching the two biggest Indian communities in South Africa. While Dominika and Ben continue to visit schools in Gauteng, we are travelling up and down the coast of KwaZulu-Natal, visiting primary schools in the sugar-growing areas. We are very fortunate in having the help of actress and local personality Kajal Bagwandeen Her charm, cultural knowledge and contacts within the local communities is invaluable - plus she is an excellent organiser and GPS navigator! |
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