Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will announce the nation’s Australian of the Year later today
HBO’s “The Pacific”, which was cast in Australia by Christine King and Meg Liberman in Los Angeles” stars James Badge Dale, Joe Mazzello and Jon Seda, examines a select group of Marines who make their way through the Pacific Theater, including battles at Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima.
HBO will debut 10-part miniseries “The Pacific” March 14 [...]
Canada’s Top 10 films revealed
The three Quebec pics that repped Canada at this year’s Cannes Film Festival are among the films selected by the Toronto Intl. … They are Denis Cote’s experimental docudrama “Carcasses,” 20-year-old writer-director Xavier Dolan’s gay-themed dramedy “I Killed My Mother” and seasoned helmer Denis Villeneuve’s “Polytechnique,” based on [...]
Everything you ever wanted to know about casting directors, agents and acting coaches
Do you want to know how a casting director works?
How an agent chooses the artists they represent and how they get work for them?
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Then come along to the first AT2 Brisbane networking event!
Free for AT2 members, you’ll [...]
Sydney Theater Company Breaks Record
The drawing power of Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving and Richard Roxburgh in “Uncle Vanya” pushed the Sydney Theater Company to an all-time single-day box office sales record Tuesday, with some 5,000 tickets snapped up.
…STC’s production of “A Streetcar Named Desire,” starring Blanchett and directed by Liv Ullmann, opened Tuesday at the [...]
On 19th, November, in Amsterdam, the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam will screen 13 Australian documentaries.
In the Competition section of the festival, a record of seven Australian films have been to selected to compete;
“Contact”
“The Miscreants of Taliwood”
“The Snowman”
“The Matilda Candidate”
Screening in the Short Documentary Competition section are:
“My Uncle Bluey”
“Salt”
This is the first time that seven [...]
Lee Donehue, founder and publisher of one of Australia’s leading on-line casting informational newsletters “Quiet on Set” has recently formed a new Queensland Talent Agency, representing talent of all ages.
Ms. Donehue has extensive experience and industry contacts since publishing the newsletter, hosting the Quiet on Set events throughout Australia, producing a TV series based on [...]
Jemma Rivera is an Australian actor and presenter of Asian and Spanish descent and has been working professionally since 1990. Represented by Sophie Jermyn Management
Beginning her career early as a dancer in an independent and professional dance ensemble and later joined several professional stage musical productions, one of which she played the lead ‘LIAT’ in [...]
Australian actor Ray Barrett dies aged 82.
One of Australia’s best-known veteran actors, Ray Barrett, who most recently starred in Baz Luhrman’s “Australia”.
Barrett preferred to keep working rather than retire: in Australia he played the father of Nicole Kidman’s character.
Jane Cameron, his talent agent, said Barrett died in hospital on Tuesday from a brain [...]
There are so many ways actors seek casting directors contact information. Probably the most effective and free site is the Casting Directors of America, CSA web site. While not every working casting director is a member, the majority are.
And this does not mean that the Casting Directors that are not members are illegitimate as many [...]
