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01-09-2009, 12:34 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
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Cast Sought For Underground Hip-Hop Music Video
Seeking cast ages 18-39 to fill principal and supporting roles on MTV-bound sociopolitical hip-hop music video with short film touches, “When the Streets Cry.” Priority roles to fill include male archetypes of degenerate hip-hop, James Bond girl-type 21st Century Hip-Hop femmes (females primarily interested in video vixen roles need not apply), and an R&B crooner’s two jailbait groupies.
Principal photography will occur from 1 p.m.-Midnight Sat., Feb. 7 in the Wrightwood subdivision of Beverly on Chicago's Southwest Side. Meal, credit, and copy of edited video will be provided.0
No monetary compensation, but lots of connections with first-string entertainment industry talent. Send headshots and resumes to [SIZE=3]stranglewood@hotmail.com[/SIZE][SIZE=3] or Shortbus Project, c/o M.F.A., 11706 S. Throop St.,Chicago, IL 60643-6125.
WHEN THE STREETS CRY (Music Video)
Location: Chicago (Wrightwood subdivision of Beverly Hills, on Southwest Side)
Employer: 21st Century Hip-Hop
Duration: 1 Day, starts 2/7/08
Non-Union artist contracts
Payment is on a lo/no/deferred basis.
Conscious rap group, aided by underground movement at Southwest Side recording studio, lure several archetypes of degenerate hip-hop to take them down, rescue hip-hop from draining commercial forces, and return it safely to the hood.
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[SIZE=3]Apply to: [/SIZE][SIZE=3]strangelwood@hotmail.com[/SIZE][SIZE=3] or Shortbus Project, Tommy Sigmon, c/o MFA, 11706 S. Throop Street, Chicago, IL 60643-5125
CHARACTER BREAKDOWN
1. Female / Any yrs. / Any Ethnicity.
RECORDING STUDIO RECEPTIONIST (GABRIELLE) - James Bond Girl-type
2. Female / 18-24 yrs. / Any Ethnicity.
JAILBAIT GIRL NO. 2 - accompany a cradle-snatching R&B singer at recording session
3. Male / 25-30 yrs. / Any Ethnicity.
RAP MAGAZINE WRITER (WALTAH KRUNKTITE) - more of a glorified groupie and entourage than a hip-hop journalist
4. Male / 18-24 yrs. / Any Ethnicity. [
OVERLY COMMERCIAL RAPPER (BOOM-BOOM) - more ice, type, and looks than skills
5. Male / Any yrs. / African American.
OVERRATED MUSIC VIDEO PRODUCER (TRITTE WILSON) - will not accept a video project under $5 million and is two-faced contemptuous toward artists he works for
6. Female / 25-30 yrs. / Any Ethnicity.
ADMIN'S ASSISTANT (ATHENA) - another James Bond Girl type
7. Male / 31-40 yrs. / Black - African.
THUG MANAGER (DJ BOGA RT) - more interested in getting gettin' while gettin's still good instead of professional nurturing and grooming talent he represents
8. Male / 31-40 yrs. / African American.
JANITOR (EMMANUEL) - undercover enforcer for recording studio's underground forces
9. Female / 25-30 yrs. / Any Ethnicity.
ADMIN'S ADMIN (VESTA) - yet another James Bond Girl type
10. Male / 25 -30 yrs. / Black - African.
USELESSLY NEBULOUS RAPPER (AXE-THA-C) - Wu-ish type rapper with Wu-ish type collective known as Stewed Fool Clique
11. Male / 31-40 yrs. / Black - Caribbean.
STRESSED OUT PUBLICIST/DARK MASKED FIGURE - beleaguered corporate type by day and leader in recording studio's underground moment by night
12. Male / 31-40 yrs. / African American.
CRADLE-SNATCHING R&B SINGER (SIN-SATION) - a pied piper R&B thug type, accustomed to bringing his inappropriate business along wherever and whenever
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