[NEohioPAL] CASTING NOTICE: A lead part in short film, Lunchbox

[Jessie Ng]

*CASTING NOTICE: *
The short film Lunchbox
<https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2021/07/northeast-ohio-native-anne-hu-explores-taiwanese-american-identity-in-upcoming-short-film.html>,
written, directed and starring Anne Hu <http://www.annehu.com/>, is seeking
to fill a lead role of *Chinluan* - (age 40-55), East Asian female. Must
speak Mandarin with a Taiwanese accent. A Taiwanese immigrant who struggles
with understanding the English language, white American culture, and her
Taiwanese American daughter.

Open to professional and non-professional actors! This is a paid position.

Submit a photo/headshot, resume, reel/acting samples, and self-tape of
sides.
Please email *lunchboxthefilm at gmail.com <lunchboxthefilm at gmail.com>* for
sides for self-tape. Submissions open until October 1, 2021.

*Logline*
When a Taiwanese American woman prepares lunches from her childhood, she
struggles to forgive herself for pushing away her immigrant mother.


*Synopsis*Lunchbox is a dramatic, three-part, coming-of-age short about
regret, healing, and honoring the people we love.  Using her deceased
immigrant mother’s recipe book, Taiwanese American Shirley makes zongzi,
turnip cake, and hand-pulled noodles. As she cooks, each dish evokes a
childhood memory in which she grows progressively older and more distant
from her Taiwanese culture and mother.  When Shirley’s assimilation efforts
culminate in her election to the Homecoming Court, a mistake by Shirley’s
mother humiliates her, eliciting cruel words Shirley can never take back.
Based on a true story, this retelling examines the personal cost of fitting
in as well as the recovery from cultural and familial loss.

*Filming dates*: 10/16-10/18



Jessie Ng
*Production Manager*
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