Pick up your free Fokal magazines at Bar Italia, SuperStore-McPhilips, The Millenium Library or Jugo Juice Polo Park.
Great pictures and article about Tutulungan Kita (I’ll Help You) short film shot this summer, for which I was a Production Assistant on.
Thanks to all those people who helped complete this fun film project!
Last night’s movie, Precious was so powerful, I could’ve barfed. I loved the lack of glamour to it, like it were documenting a real person; the star appearances (Mariah Carey, Sherri Shepard, Lenny Kravitz) were unrecognisible then impressive & real. The movie was gritty, except then the protagonist, Precious, lapsed into her fantasy life. I think Mo’nique should at least get a nomination, whether she wins or not. You hated & pitied her. Precious had her flaws, but we were still on her side. If you didn’t like it, I want to read something in the comment area, a’ight?
Thirty-Seven
Thirty-Six
Today, I portrayed a client seeking representation through The Law Society of Manitoba. Several of us actors get our scenarios weeks in advance then go over it so that when asked what brought us in, we seamlessly tell the tale as though it were our own. The beauty of it is that there are no lines to memorize & the story is the thing! Plus you feel like an audition reader, the student is the one on-camera while the moderater manages the tiny camcorder propped on the long table way at the other end. Each student I’m paired with get 30 minutes, then another one comes in & I start all over again, like it were brand new. After repeating myself to 9 students (I had a short day, as the other actors had 12 students to handle), it becomes a blur & the repitition becomes monotonous, lulling me. A few years ago, I was getting drowsy & I must’ve been sleeping with my eyes open for the law student just kept on going.
Lunch was provided (nothing vegan so I brought something) and “the cheque is in the mail”.
If this were a part-time job, I’d be all over it.
Next month I’m an assault victim for a police academy.
Thirty-Five
I’m bringing a photographer to town, (Professional Photographer Michael DeSadeleer) for local actors to have their headshots done.
Rates:
Adult Photo Session: 2 rolls of 36exp = $260 cash at time of session ($35 deposit).
You get 72 4×6 proofs to keep, a print of each shot in other words, which saves you the contact sheet and blow up stage.
You choose which ones to print as 8×10s, which you can do through Rocket Repro in Vancouver, (Michael’s negatives are on file).
Kids under 16: $150 for one roll ($25 deposit).
Location: TBD
All he needs are 10 people signed up and he’ll come on down from Vancouver shooting headshots. This’ll be done early-mid December.
Thirty-Four
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistance.
Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius ia almost a proverb.
Education will not; the world is full of educated derelects.
Persistance & determination alone are omnipotent.
The slogan “press on” has solved & always will solve the problems of the human race.
Calvin Coolidge
Thirty-Two
Every year, I miss out on the Master Playwrights Festival, but lately I’ve been offered 2 auditions for Churchillfest.
Now, if only I could swing some more film auditions….
Speaking of which, there’s a film being shot here called Close Out that I don’t know the plot for, but the director, Barthelemy Grossman, is also acting in it.
Next month, I portray a client for some law students, which I’ve done yearly since 2004.
I’ve got to make my mark on the MTC & PTE stages at some point.
Thirty-One
If every acting gig I had paid me a quarter of a million dollars, I wouldn’t need my part time job!
But alas, I do what I love & I also have to pay the bills, which are 2 separate things.
- I’m doing a play-reading for Brian Richardson’s “In Miffy’s Kitchen” in the morning before work.
I’m taking another improv workshop through The Actor’s Training Centre- I’m performing in a remount of “No Offense” that was done during Fem Fest.
If I mention my auditions, then I’m counting my chickens before they’re hatched, but I submitted for it and received a letter mentioning that I’ve only been considered, that’s all.
Thirty
My friend Lori S. & I checked out Cherry Docs, written by David Gow. It’s about a Jewish lawyer, Danny Dunkleman (Graham Ashmore) who has to defend a neo-nazi skinhead Michael Downey (Matthew Tenbruggencate) in court. As long as there’s anti-semitism & all sorts of prejudice, there’ll always be plays sifting through it. I’m glad it wasn’t presenting a pat answer to solve racism. One person @ a time.
It’s hard for another actor to “review” other actors. I’ll simply boil it down to this: it must’ve been interesting homework to grapple with one’s own hatred & assumptions, whatever they may be; when you study your character, you turn inward & do your own inventory, scaring & surprising yourself.
I’m mostly curious about the 2 actors & their own discoveries about their characters. I mean, I did a play on racism & to realize that we’re all powerless against it is difficult to accept. I think we’re all recovering racists, the entire “human race”. Plays like this always make me think, ya know?
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Twenty-Nine
Spending the day with Crisis Negotiators in Training was new. I was the only real actor among real cops, some of whom volunteered to role-play.
I played a suicidal pregnant teen for 4 hours, breaking down & crying a couple of times while locking myself in a bathroom stall (so many school buildings are very old!). None of them got me out from there either.
Feeling drained then off to work for a few hours made the day even longer yet fulfilling. I love reality improv and I look forward to more of it.
I haven’t done hospitals.
Yet.
Cough.
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Twenty-Eight
I’ve worked with law students, physicians & tomorrow I’m working with a police academy. Apparently all the info I need will be supplied on the day. It’ll be almost all day, then I’m off to work.
Work is what you do for others, Art is what you do for yourself.
I never refer to my acting as “work”, for I enjoy it too much, which gives me reason to get up in the mornings.
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