Date: 29 November 2011
Rehearsal: 6 December (could be amended)
Shoots: 17 and 18 December
Payment: Low/no/deferred basis.
Director: Dan Duran.
LaLacuna is a small collective of film crew talent, based in New Cross. Most of the team have film production related qualifications from illustrious London film schools including Goldsmith’s.
The team has already presented a short film at the Bradford International Film Festival which was screened before the UK première of Noah Baumbach's Greenburg.
Currently we are in preproduction for a short film called Town Of Figure Eight, a thirty-minute piece that comprises several interconnected short stories linked to an overall theme.
The film presents a series of stories about the inhabitants of the Town of Figure Eight. The stories are linked by the narrator, Scott, who sits in a train on a circuitous, figure eight, journey watching the lives and quotidian activities of others through a window.
When the train stops, a new story begins …
One of the tales that Scott sees is: ‘Lokomotiv’.
A disfigured teenage boy called Mickels sits in his bedroom and feels watched. His isolation is self-imposed but one night he is coaxed to come out – the viewer is asked to consider whether the involvement of the town is altruistic or self-interested.
2 breakdowns:
MALE 18/24 - any ethnicity
MICKELS is eighteen / nineteen. Tall,thin. Would be eternally boyish to the very end ...except the left side of his face is disfigured. He only has the one eye. The other has a shadow cast over it. Even in the sanctuary of his own room he feels watched; it is not a castle, it is a self made prison, and he is very, very reluctant to leave it. He loves the Russian football team Lokomotiv Moscow and is very good at boiling water on a wood burning stove.
MALE 18/24 - any ethnicity
PETE is also eighteen / nineteen, but is stronger; much more confidant than MICKELS,but still young and unsure of what the future could hold - but you would never know. With him, it's all about the jump, not the look. I think they call that the certainty of youth. He too loves football, not the unseeable Lokomotiv Moscow, but the local team. He loves the physicality of the doing, not the watching. He is of average height, around 5”9 and is sturdy, not stocky and looks nearly the man, not the boy.
Website: http://www.lalacuna.co.uk
APPLY to casting@lalacuna.co.uk.
