IF Magazine has an article about a new film starting production really soon here in Sydney. Little Monsters has a kindergarten class on excursion being attacked by zombies. The main characters on the movie (who are looking after the children on excursion) do their best to convince the children that the whole thing is part of an elaborate ride rather than the beginning of the zombie apocalypse.
Last year a series of six comedy shorts aired on the ABC. The Comedy Showroom was an opportunity for Aussie comedians to have a crack at a short pilot episode for TV. Now The Letdown will be turned into a TV series and shooting has already begun here in Sydney. This is after Ronny Chieng International Student made it to a full series and is airing on ABC now.
There’s going to be at least one new feature film shooting at the end of the year here in Sydney. We just submitted some of our actors for leading roles in this new production. We are expecting others to start filming soon too if Screen Australia have anything to do with it.
These are a couple of the weird and wacky requests we got for talent last week. There’s a new NIB Commercial shooting and they wanted people who could do a crab pose in yoga. They also wanted other people who could do a human pyramid. Fortunately, we were able to answer their request with a large group of people who could do both.
Each and every week we send people off to work on TV Commercials. There are plenty of jobs for background actors and some very high paying jobs for featured and main roles. Click through to see the productions MCTV people were involved with last week.
More auditions fro the new series Deadlock this week. “DEADLOCK crashes though the incredible highs, heartbreak, camaraderie, laughs and bittersweet sorrow of what it is to be a teenager. When a mysterious car crash exposes the dark underbelly of an idyllic paradise, it dramatically changes the lives of the teens it touches.” The series will appear on iView as 5 x 12 minute episodes and later as a 1 hour format.
Twenty-something sisters, Hannah and Eliza Reilly who are trying to “grow up gracefully” using advice from the past (etiquette books) and from today (women’s websites/Instagram etc). You might know Hannah and Eliza from their FBI radio show Girls Gone Mild or Hannah’s Triple J segment “The Hook Up”. Great to see another TV series shooting here in Sydney and well done to everyone from MCTV who landed a spot on this new series. Can’t wait to see the results.
Graeme Mason (CEO of Screen Australia has just come back from the Cannes Film Festival and is seriously upbeat about the prospects for 2017/18.
He says “We have a lot of films that are looking to go into production in the last quarter of 2017 or the first quarter of 2018 which big sales companies, gap lenders, financiers and distributors are actively pursuing.”
More films in Australia means more work for local actors which can only be a great thing.
There’s loads more info in the article here.
You can actually get paid more than $30,000 for appearing in a 30 second TV commercial. Of course, you will have to work for longer than 30 seconds, but usually it’s only for a day or two.
Wentworth is an AACTA and TV WEEK Logie Award-winning drama. Background roles for this series will be cast closer to the production location in Victoria. Last week we had the opportunity to submit for some supporting roles.