<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626">CASTING NOTICE:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626">Wednesday, June 27, 2012
2:30 PM – 7:30 PM</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626">Thursday, June 28, 2012
2:30PM – 7:30PM</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626">Kingsley Association</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#1a1a1a">6435
Frankstown Avenue </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#1a1a1a">Pittsburgh,
PA 15206</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b style><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#1a1a1a">(No Phone Calls Please)</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#1a1a1a">Headshots,
resumes and links to reels may be sent in advance to: <a href="mailto:casting@narafilms.com">casting@narafilms.com</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#1a1a1a">Sides
will be made available on site and via email prior to the audition</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#1a1a1a">All
levels of experience are welcome to audition!</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626"> </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b style><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626">Feature Film: Blood First</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b style><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626">Non Union, Independent</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b style><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626">Production dates (tentative): 7/9 – 7/27/12</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b style><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626">Produced by: O.Y.’s Spotlite Entertainment and NaRa Films</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b style><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626">Credit and meals provided, some pay</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b style><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626">Blood First (Drama/Suspense)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626">Log line: Brothers’ love
and loyalty to one another is tested by the code of the streets. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626">Brief synopsis: <span style> </span>O and Rico may have different mothers
but the blood of their father, Raqmaan, a hustler, runs deep in their veins and
creates a bond between them that is unbreakable. When one of their associates
thinks he’s been double crossed by them and becomes an FBI informant the
brothers must decide between abiding by the code of the streets or trying to
save themselves. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626">MALES:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626">O (age 7) – African
American, sweet, innocent, intelligent</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626">O (age 12) – African
American, inquisitive, intelligent, quiet, observant</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626">O (age 30) – African
American, intelligent, reasonable, mediator but not afraid to bust heads if he
has to</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626">Rico (age 12) – African
American, protective, obedient, lives with the responsibility of being second
in command for his father while still trying to be a regular kid</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626">Rico (age 17) – African
American, hustler, intelligent but a “hot head” whose temper gets him into
trouble, cunning, tries hard to impress his father</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626">Rico (35) – African
American, somewhat paranoid, “hot head,” cunning</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626">Raqmaan (30’s)<span style> </span>- African American, handsome,
intelligent, believes that whatever you choose to be in this life you should
strive to be the best at it, wise, ruthless, he’s hard on his sons because he
wants them to be independent thinkers, i.e. “their own man”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626">Don (age 17) – African
American, Rico’s “right hand man” and intelligent enforcer</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626">Don (age 35) African
American, sensible, intelligent and not prone to repeating the violent acts of
his youth so quickly</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626">Ish (age 15-16) – African
American, loud, rude</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626">Agent Morris (late 30’s) –
Caucasian, somewhat smug and still a little “green”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626">Duck Down (20’s) – African
American, loud, clownish, braggart</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626">Sergeant (50’s) –
Caucasian, loud, brusque </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626">Shark (late 40’s/early
50’s) – African American, old style gangster, arrogant, “cut-throat”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626">Flynn (mid to late 40’s) –
African American, slick, arrogant, ruthless, Shark’s “right hand man”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626">Black (mid to late 20’s) –
African American, ruthless, killer, drug dealer, cautious, calculating</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626">Kane (late 20’s/early 30) –
African American, New Yorker, a “hustlers hustler,” thinks people from the
Midwest aren’t as “street smart” as New Yorkers</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626">Football Coach (20’s/30’s)
– African American, “down to Earth”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626">Little Boy 1 (age 11) – African
American, a little “hard headed,” street smart</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626">Little Boy 2 (age 11)<span style> </span>- African American, a little “hard
headed,” street smart</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626">Justin (late 20’s) – TV
reporter</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626">Judge Isham (50’s) – male</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626">Mark Kamowitz (mid 40’s) –
Caucasian, lawyer, slightly unethical</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626">Detective 1 (mid 40’s) –
grizzled</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626">Guards/US Marshalls/Police
(25- 60) – male, physically fit</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626">Masked Men – thieves,
ruthless</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626">FEMALES:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626">Kamilah (20’s) – African
American, a natural beauty with natural hair, wise, Afrocentric, O’s mother</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626">Marshay (20’s) – African
American, a “fly girl” aka the street hustlers favorite type of girl, “street
smart” but classy, Rico’s mother</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626">Agent Brown (late
30’s/early 40’s)<span style> </span>- African
American, street savvy, intelligent, professional, realist, has seen it all and
is rarely surprised by the brutality of the streets, veteran</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626">Chrissy<span style> </span>(early 30’s) – African American,
beautiful, Rico’s wife, would do anything for Rico and her children</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626">Lolly (mid teens) – African
American, hard, thug, an enforcer</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626">Bree (mid teens) – African
American, Lolly’s sister, pretty, “ride or die” chick</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626">Tammy (mid 30’s) – African
American, crack addict, prostitute, a faded beauty with a rough life</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626">Stacy (late 30’s) – African
American, TV reporter</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626">Detective 2 (mid to late
40’s) – tough, human lie detector</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626">Judge – worn, tough</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626">Shift Captain (mid to late
40’s) – overweight, over worker, tired, professional</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#262626">Guards/US Marshalls/Police
(25- 60) – female, physically fit</span></p>
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