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DEAD RISING - Casting Now

DEAD RISING - Casting Now

DEAD RISING
Feature Film

Terrorists strike with a biological warhead which carries an experimental virus. Within a week the walking dead have defeated divination. Only the strongest humans survive.

DETAILS:
* All roles are paying
* Rates depending upon role
* Highest day rate will be $350.00
* This is a non-union production
* HD Vericam format/Transfer to 35mmAVAILABLE

ROLES

Casting is now - beginning for all roles, including leads and supporting players. Male lead between 25 and 35. An ensemble cast which includes thirty five roles. 20 Female actors, 18 to 64, and fifteen males 18 to 64.

This is an open call, and we encourage all to apply. If you are not located in New York or the Tri-State area, thank you, however, do not apply. Our budget and experience dictate those traveling from a distance arem most likely to cause inconveinace of time, expense and reliability.

All shooting locations are within New York state.



Biological and Toxin Activities

China is currently a signatory of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention and Chinese officials have stated that China has never engaged in biological activities with offensive military applications. However, China was reported to have had an active biological weapons program in the 1980s. [3]
Kanatjan Alibekov, former director of one of the Soviet germ-warfare programs, said that China suffered a serious accident at one of its biological weapons plants in the late 1980s. Alibekov asserted that Soviet reconnaissance satellites identified a biological weapons laboratory and plant near a site for testing nuclear warheads. The Soviet suspected that two separate epidemics of hemorrhagic fever that swept the region in the late 1980s were caused by an accident in a lab where Chinese scientists were weaponizing viral diseases. [4]
US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright expressed her concerns over possible Chinese biological weapon transfers to Iran and other nations in a letter to Senator Robert E. Bennett (R-Utah) in January 1997[5]. Albright stated that she had received reports regarding transfers of dual-use items from Chinese entities to the Iranian government which concerned her and that the United States had to encourage China to adopt comprehensive export controls to prevent assistance to Iran's biological weapons program. The United States acted upon the allegations on January 16, 2002, when it imposed sanctions on three Chinese firms accused of supplying Iran with materials used in the manufacture of chemical and biological weapons. In response to this, China issued export control protocols on dual use biological technology in late 2002

DEAD AGAIN - CASTING NOW


DEAD AGAIN
Feature Film

Story Line

Murderer CHARLES STATIN dies and awakens tortured in hell. He learns he must try to receive the forgiveness of the souls of his victims in order to find peace - an act which is banned by satin and his demons - or he will forever suffer for his sins.

DETAILS:

*All roles are paying
*Rates depending upon role
*Highest day rate will be $400.00
*This is a non-union production
*HD Vericam format/Transfere to 35mm


DEAD AGAIN - AVAILABLE ROLES

  • Lead: CHARLES STATIN early 20's to late 40's may apply. CHARLES STATIN early 20's to late 50's may apply. A murderer condemned to hell must receive forgiveness from the souls of his victims - an act which is banned by satin and his demons - or forever be trapped in his tortured state.
  • Co-Star: MALE PRIEST, late 20's to late 60's may apply. MALE PRIEST, late 20's to late 60's, skeptical and short on remaining faith becomes forced to confront the supernatural worlds of good and evil.
  • Supporting: MALE SURVIVING VICTIM, all ages under consideration.
  • Supporting: FEMALE INVESTIGATOR, early 20's to late 30's may apply.
  • Minor Supporting: SURVIVING VICTIMS and FAMILY MEMBERS of victims are threaded throughout this story. All ages and geners are needed, and encourage to apply.
  • Walk On: There is a large variety of roles which are brief yet important and require good perfromances. From police officers, investigators, relegious figures and other tormented beings trapped in the same etheral plane and CHARLES STATIN. We invite all ages, genders and races to apply for an audition.

DEAD AGAIN - HOW TO APPLY FOR AN AUDITION

A NOTE FROM "DEAD AGAIN" EXECUTIVE PRODUCER:

All production is taking place in the NY region.

Our budget and time scheduale dictates our neccessity to be flexible and improvisational.

Relocating for this production would not be a financial attractive proposal for any actor who lives out of communiting distance of New York City.

I thank you in advance for your understanding and interest.

PLEASE DO NOT APPLY if you do not live within communiting distance to NYC. As a matter of policy, we will not consider you for this production if you do not live within the nearby region.

This is an important element of making the most out of my lower budget feature film - which I intend to have very high production value, and eventually distribution.

HOW TO APPLY?

Please place "DEAD AGAIN" in the subject line of your email and submit your headshot and relevant information to:

Casting Director
Aron Maxwell
tdfilmproduction@aol.com

NOW CASTING

T w i c e D e a d
The Feature Film

Cryonics is the low-temperature preservation of humans and other animals that can no longer be sustained by contemporary medicine until resuscitation may be possible in the future - or in the event of a catastrophic accident...

DETAILS:

*All roles are paying
*Rates depending upon role
*Highest day rate will be $500.00
*This is a non-union production
*35 mm format

This Production is taking place in the state of New York. The budget and time scheduale dictates the production companies neccessity to be flexible and improvisational with their scheduale.

Relocating for this production would not be a financial attractive proposal for actors who live out of reach of this productions NYC primary shooting locations.

We thank you in advance for your understanding and interest, and NOT applying if you do not leave in a nearby region.All races may apply.

Direct Talent is an equal opportunity organization. If you do not fit a role in this production, we keep your resume on file for our future casting calls.

Twice Dead Will Contain Graphic Voilence, Language and Gore

Cryopreservation

Cryopreservation
Alcor Life Extension Foundation. Technicians Prepare a Patient for Cryopreservation.

HOW TO APPLY

Please place TWICE DEAD in the subject line of your email and submit your headshot and relevant information to:

Casting Director
Aron Maxwell

tdfilmproduction@aol.com

TWICE DEAD: The Premise

Cryonics is the low-temperature preservation of humans and other animals that can no longer be sustained by contemporary medicine until resuscitation may be possible in the future. Human cryopreservation is not currently reversible. In the United States, cryonics can only be legally performed on humans after pronounced legally dead. The rationale for cryonics is that the process may be reversible in the future if performed soon enough, and that cryopreserved people may not really be dead by the information-theoretic definition of death. Cryonics is derived from the Greek word κρύος (kryos), meaning icy cold.

Cryonics faces many obstacles, and is viewed with skepticism by most scientists and doctors today. However, there is a high representation of scientists among cryonics supporters.[1] Scientific support for cryonics is based on studies showing substantial preservation of brain cell structure by current methods, and projections of future technology, especially molecular nanotechnology and nanomedicine. Some scientists believe that future medicine[2] will enable molecular-level repair and regeneration of damaged tissues and organs decades or centuries in the future. Disease and aging are also assumed to be reversible. Many ethical questions revolve around the issue of whether cryonics can work.

The modern concept of cryonics as a general procedure to apply whenever patients are considered beyond help by the medicine of their time was originated in 1962 by Robert Ettinger. The largest current practitioners of cryonics are two member-owned, non-profit organizations, the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Arizona, with 77 cryopreserved patients and the Cryonics Institute in Clinton Township, Michigan with 85.

Philosophical and ethical considerations

Cryonics is based on a view of dying as a process that can be stopped in the minutes, and perhaps hours, following clinical death. If death is not an event that happens suddenly when the heart stops, this raises philosophical questions about what exactly death is. In 2005 an ethics debate in the medical journal, Critical Care, noted “…few if any patients pronounced dead by today’s physicians are in fact truly dead by any scientifically rigorous criteria.”[30] Cryonics proponent Thomas Donaldson has argued that “death” based on cardiac arrest or resuscitation failure is a purely social construction used to justify terminating care of dying patients.[31] In this view, legal death and its aftermath are a form of euthanasia in which sick people are abandoned. Philosopher Max More suggested a distinction between death associated with circumstances and intention versus death that is absolutely irreversible.[32] Absolutely irreversible death has also been called information-theoretic death, which is destruction of the brain to such an extent that the original information content can no longer be inferred. Bioethicist James Hughes has written that increasing rights will accrue to cryonics patients as prospects for revival become clearer, noting that recovery of legally dead persons has precedent in the discovery of missing persons.[33]

Ethical and theological opinions of cryonics tend to pivot on the issue of whether cryonics is regarded as interment or medicine. If cryonics is interment, then religious beliefs about death and afterlife may come into consideration. Resuscitation may be deemed impossible by those with religious beliefs because the soul is gone, and according to most religions only God can resurrect the dead. Expensive interment is seen as a waste of resources. If cryonics is regarded as medicine, with legal death as a mere enabling mechanism, then cryonics is a long-term coma with uncertain prognosis. It is continuing to care for sick people when others have given up, and a legitimate use of resources to sustain human life. Cryonics advocates complain that theological dismissal of cryonics because it is interment is a circular argument because calling cryonics "interment" presumes that cryonics cannot work.[34] They believe future technical advances will validate their view that cryonics patients are recoverable, and therefore never really dead.[35] Alcor has published a vigorous Christian defense of cryonics,[36] including excerpts of a sermon by Lutheran Reverend Kay Glaesner. Noted Christian apologist John Warwick Montgomery has defended cryonics.[37] In 1969, a Roman Catholic priest consecrated the cryonics capsule of Ann DeBlasio, one of the first cryonics patients.[38] Many followers of Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov see cryonics as an important step in the Common Cause project (reference: Fedorov seminar in Moscow, Russia on 25.11.2006) and compatible with Orthodox Christianity

Sunday, September 28, 2008

DEAD AGAIN - Casting Now

A NOTE FROM "DEAD AGAIN" EXECUTIVE PRODUCER:

All production is taking place in the NY region.

Our budget and time scheduale dictates our neccessity to be flexible and improvisational.

Relocating for this production would not be a financial attractive proposal for any actor who lives out of communiting distance of New York City.

I thank you in advance for your understanding and interest.

PLEASE DO NOT APPLY if you do not live within communiting distance to NYC. As a matter of policy, we will not consider you for this production if you do not live within the nearby region.

This is an important element of making the most out of my lower budget feature film - which I intend to have very high production value, and eventually distribution.

HOW TO APPLY?

Please place "DEAD AGAIN" in the subject line of your email and submit your headshot and relevant information to:

Casting Director
Aron Maxwell
tdfilmproduction@aol.com

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DEAD RISING

DEAD RISING - Casting Now

DEAD RISING
Feature Film

Terrorists strike with a biological warhead which carries an experimental virus. Within a week the walking dead have defeated divination. Only the strongest humans survive.

DETAILS:
* All roles are paying
* Rates depending upon role
* Highest day rate will be $350.00
* This is a non-union production
* HD Vericam format/Transfer to 35mmAVAILABLE

ROLES

Casting is now - beginning for all roles, including leads and supporting players. Male lead between 25 and 35. An ensemble cast which includes thirty five roles. 20 Female actors, 18 to 64, and fifteen males 18 to 64.

This is an open call, and we encourage all to apply. If you are not located in New York or the Tri-State area, thank you, however, do not apply. Our budget and experience dictate those traveling from a distance arem most likely to cause inconveinace of time, expense and reliability.

All shooting locations are within New York state.

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