OPEN CASTING CALL
FOR THE LOCAL TELEVISION SERIES: "THE FAMILY"
A FICTION DRAMA WITH A MESSAGE:
THE STORY IS BASED UPON A MANIPULATIVE BUT WISE; SPIRITUAL CULT LEADER
AND HIS COLLEAGUES AND FOLLOWERS. THIS LEADER BEGINS AS A COLLEGE
PROFESSOR AND AQUIRES A LARGE NUMBER OF STUDENT DEVOTEES. HE IS OUSTED
FROM THE UNIVERSITY FOR HIS INTIMATE AND CULTURALLY CONTROVERSIAL
BEHAVIOR WITH THESE STUDENTS. HE THEN RESPONDS BY PURCHASING ONE OF
THE UNIVERSITY'S BUILDINGS AND ESTABLISHES HIS OWN CULT-LIKE INSTITUTE
RIGHT ON CAMPUS.
A SMALLER CULT OF HIPPIES AND STREET RIFF-RAFF, COME TO THE RESCUE OF
THE STUDENTS, AND DEPROGRAM THEM FROM A SPIRITUAL TEACHER, WHO RIPS UP
COPIES OF THE BIBLE, AND OTHER HOLY BOOKS, IN HIS LECTURES; INSISTING
THAT RELIGION, GOD, AND SPIRITUALIITY; IS ABOUT "NOW"; AND EMOTIONS IN
THE PRESENT MOMENT; AND NOT ABOUT DOCTRINE, OR TRADITION.
SEEKING:
1. A TEAM OF WRITERS
2. 30+YRS OLD MALE AS CULT LEADER KNOWN AS THE "FATHER"
3. 8 MAIN STUDENT CHARACTERS
THESE TOP THREE POSITIONS NEED A COMMITTMENT OF AT LEAST TWO YEARS
TO THE PRODUCTION.
4. 5 30-50 YEAR OLD MEN AND WOMEN AS PROFESSORS AND
ADMINISTRATORS.
5. 5 30-50 YEAR OLD PEOPLE AS LAW ENFORCEMENT AND LAWYERS.
6. 10-20 PEOPLE AS LOCAL COMMUNITY FOLK
7. 40 COLLEGE AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
8. NUMEROUS MUSICIANS, COMPOSERS, CHOREOGRAPHERS, DANCERS,
PERFORMANCE ARTISTS.
9. A DIVERSE TECHNICAL CREW.
10. SET & COSTUME DESIGN
this show is produceced by a Not For Profit Organization:
Hand-to-Mouth Ministries.
THESE ARE NOT PAYING POSITIONS.
EXPERIENCE AND RESUME POTENTIAL SUPPLEMENT AS COMPENSATION.
A Hand-to-Mouth Media Production
For Info and Auditions
Please call (303) 554-7872
or e-mail: htmm-ulc@lycosmail.com
or write HTMM-ULC P.O. Box 948 Boulder, Colorado
Auditions remain open for about a year from today (September 1998)
but hopefully will be filled by January 1999 for the filming
of the Pilot.
