FILM INTENSIVE with Steve Vincent, Casting Director, S2 Casting

Tuesday, January 14, 2014, 7:30pm ET / 4:30pm PT

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Here's your opportunity to work with a casting director from one of the most prominent film casting offices in town! Steve's office is currently casting ELEVEN feature and indie films!

Current projects include: include the adaptation of YA novel "Naomi & ELy's No Kiss List" starring Victoria Justice for Director Kristin Hanggi (Tony Nominee for Rock of Ages), "Sex, Death and Bowling" starring Adrian Grenier and Selma Blair for Writer/Director Ally Walker (Profiler, Sons of Anarchy), "The Invitation" for Sundance Grand Jury Prize winning Director Karyn Kusama (Girlfight, Aeon Flux, Jennifer's Body), "Manhattan Nocturne" starring Adrien Grenier, Yvonne Strahovski and Campbell Scott for Writer/Director Brian DeCubellis, the film adaptation of the book "The Erotic Fire of The Unatainable" for Brazilian Director Emilia Ferreira, "The Preppie Connection" for Indie Spirit award nominated director Joseph Castelo, "Always Shine" for SXSW Award Winning Director Sophia Takal, "All American" for writer/Director Nate Larkin-Connolly, "License Plates" for Writer/Director Marc Lucas, "Cropsy" for Director Aaron Pope and writer Tom Holland (Fright Night, Child's Play) and "Sam" for Writer/Director Nick Brooks (son of Mel Brooks).

Steve will select sides based on your picture and resume which you will be emailed and prepare in advance. The intensive starts off with an informative Q & A followed by your presentation of the scene with a reader ON-CAMERA in a group. Be prepared to take feedback and adjustments.

Currently, Steve is interested in meeting talent of all types and ethnicities 18+ for current and future projects. His office is known for calling in actors directly and they've booked too!

This is a wonderful opportunity to be coached by an expert in film!

For the past eight years, Steve has worked with casting partner Sig De Miguel at S2 Entertainment. Theatrical releases include: "Rabbit Hole" starring Nicole Kidman (Academy Award Nominee), "For Ellen" starring Paul Dano (Sundance Grand Jury Prize nominee), "Gun Hill Road" starring Esai Morales (Sundance Grand Jury Prize nominee), "Holy Rollers" starring Jesse Eisenberg (Sundance Grand Jury Prize Nominee), "Adam" starring Hugh Dancy and Rose Byrne(Sundance Grand Jury Prize Nominee and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Prize Winner) , "Meskada" (which they also Executive Produced) starring Nick Stahl, Rachel Nichols, Kellan Lutz and Jonathan Tucker. "An Englishman in New York" starring John Hurt, Cynthia Nixon, Jonathan Tucker, Denis O' Hare and Swoosie Kurtz, "The Good Guy" starring Bryan Greenberg and Alexis Bledel, "The Imperialists are Still Alive!" starring Elodie Bouchez (Sundance Grand Jury Prize Nominee) and TIFF Audience Award Winner "Stake Land" directed by Jim Mickle.

Current Releases include "We Are What We Are" (Cannes and Sundance 2013) for TIFF Audience Award Winning Award winning Director Jim Mickle.

Upcoming releases include: "Cold Comes The Night" starring Bryan Cranston for Sundance Grand Jury Prize nominated Director Tze Chun , "Bottled Up" starring Melissa Leo for Sundance Grand Jury Prize nominated Director Enid Zentelis "1982" (TIFF 2013) for Sundance World Cinema Award winning Producer Tommy Oliver (Kinyarwanda), the feature film version of National Book Award finalist "Sold" for Academy Award winning filmmaker Jeffrey D. Brown, "Cold in July" starring Michael C. Hall, Sam Shepard and Don Johnson, and "Welcome to New York" starring Gerard Depardieu and Directed by Abel Ferrara.

Sig & Steve are also the Casting Directors for the readings for the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation at the Tribeca Film Festival.

*** Scenes will be recorded on-camera. As a courtesy, your video clips will be made available to you within a week. An email notification will be sent when the clips are available to view and download from your Actors Connection account. Please note: from time to time technical issues do occur. As a result video clips are a courtesy, not a guarantee.***

Please upload your HS and create your resume in your Actors Connection profile upon registration.

Steve Vincent

Stephen Vincent partnered with Sig De Miguel in 2006 with the mission to cast and produce high quality independent films. Over the past 16 years, the duo has served as casting directors on over 100 feature films.

Currently, they are casting for several independent feature films including TRAPPED based on a story by Stephen King, EUGENE THE MARINE with Nick Nolte and Barbara Hershey and MILLIE about the first female professional wrestler.  

Recently completed features include: ABOUT MY FATHER with Robert De Niro and Sebastian Maniscalco for Lionsgate, CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG for Paramount, A MOUTHFUL OF AIR with Amanda Seyfried, Finn Wittrock and Paul Giamatti;  I CARRY YOU WITH ME (Winner of the NEXT Audience Award and Innovator Award at Sundance 2020) for Academy Award nominated Director Heidi Ewing.

Past films include: HELLO AGAIN based on the Michael John LaChiusa musical starring Audra McDonald, NOVITIATE (premiering at Sundance 2017) starring Dianna Agron, BUSHWICK (premiering at Sundance 2017) starring Brittany Snow, CARRIE PILBY (Toronto Film Festival 2016) based on the best-selling novel and starring Nathan Lane and Colin O'Donoghue, THE AWAKENING, THE GRIZZLIES, AND THEN I GO starring Justin Long, LIKE ME, CHANGE IN THE AIR executive produced by Kevin Spacey starring Olympia Dukakis, ALWAYS SHINE, BRAND NEW OLD LOVE, and WHEN I'M A MOTH. Recent releases include: WELCOME TO NEW YORK starring Gerard Depardieu, the adaptation of Young Adult novel NAOMI & ELY'S NO KISS LIST starring Victoria Justice for director Kristin Hanggi (Tony-Nominee for ROCK OF AGES), ENTERTAINMENT for Sundance Grand Jury Prize nominee Rick Alverson, SEX DEATH AND BOWLING, THE INVITATION for Sundance Grand Jury Prize winning Director Karyn Kusama, ONE & TWO for Sundance Grand Jury Prize winning Director Andrew Droz Palermo, HAPPY BABY based on the best-selling novel by Writer/Director Stephen Elliott, 1982 for Sundance World Cinema Award winning Producer Tommy Oliver, the feature film version of National Book Award finalist SOLD for Academy Award-winning filmmaker Jeffrey D. Brown, and THE PREPPIE CONNECTION. Theatrical releases include: RABBIT HOLE starring Nicole Kidman (Academy Award-Nominee), COLD IN JULY (Cannes and Sundance 2014) starring Michael C. Hall, WE ARE WHAT WE ARE (Cannes and Sundance 2013) for TIFF Audience Award-Winning Director Jim Mickle, COLD COMES THE NIGHT starring Bryan Cranston for Sundance Grand Jury Prize-nominated Director Tze Chun, BOTTLED UP for Sundance Grand Jury Prize-nominated Director Enid Zentelis, FOR ELLEN, GUN HILL ROAD, HOLY ROLLERS starring Jesse Eisenberg (Sundance Grand Jury Prize-Nominee), ADAM starring Hugh Dancy (Sundance Grand Jury Prize-Nominee and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Prize Winner), MESKADA, AN ENGLISHMAN IN NEW YORK starring Cynthia Nixon and Denis O' Hare, THE GOOD GUY starring Alexis Bledel, THE IMPERIALISTS ARE STILL ALIVE, and TIFF Audience Award-Winner STAKE LAND.

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