Production: Snapdragons (short)

Location: Toronto

Employer: Ryerson University

Producer: Josh Labelle

Director: Aaron Mirkin

Shooting Date: November 21st-22nd 2009

Casting Location and Time:

Auditions will be held Friday, October 30th and Tuesday Nov 3rd , from 1PM to 6PM, in Room 503 of the Victoria Building at Ryerson University. Please bring a headshot and resume.

APPLY TO: joshua.labelle@ryerson.ca to schedule an audition time.

SYNOPSIS:

A normal day in Chinatown is interrupted by the shrieking of Christie, a woman who has suffered some sort of horrible accident and is now bleeding in the street. Onlookers gather, unsure of what to do. A strange little boy watches Christie from the sidewalk. And what to make of that strange tattoo of a purple snapdragon behind her ear?

The film explores Christie’s internal disorientation through experimental techniques, and also explores the bystander effect; will the people who gather, drawn by Christie’s shrieks, do anything to help her?

BREAKDOWNS:

CHRISTIE: 30-45, female, Caucasian. Needs to be able to project the terror of the situation. Also, preferably, needs to be able to do a really good horror movie scream.

AID: 12-16, male, Caucasian, can play slightly younger. Aid is a mysterious and somewhat blank young man who is at the scene of the accident from the beginning.

OFFICER SINGH: 25-40, male, South Asian. Exudes authority but is in over his head with Christie’s situation.

GROCERY STORE OWNER:: 50-70, female, Chinese. Is drawn out of her store by Christie’s screaming.

Extras of any age and ethnicity to play Crowd Males and Females.