Student Thesis Film casting

The Bird Story/Telephone Game

This film is something of a dark/quirky comedy that explores communication and how we tell stories as well as our perceptions of stories told.  

This will be shot on 16mm film.  The shooting dates are April 9-11.  Please contact me and send headshot/resume and we can schedule an audition from there.  

I am still in need of 3 Roles:

Young French Guy: Actors That Speak French - Male, Early 20's-Mid 30's
            (But I will consider any Actor that speaks a non-English language)
Jake: mid 20's - mid 30's Male
Lucy: Early - Late 20's

The idea for the film is based on two concepts:  One is perception- how our minds fill in a lot of details.  For example, if I told three people that I got into a car crash this morning at an intersection, all three of them would almost certainly picture a different intersection almost immediately as I said the word.  The second is the simple childhood game often played in grade school called the telephone game where the teacher tells the first student some silly sentence like "sally wears blue suede shoes at noon" and 20 kids later it might be "we all live in a yellow submarine"...

So the film begins with an event, and then that person tells the friend and we then see their perception of the event.  We then watch the story mutate visually as it travels through 3 different people and finally the original person runs into the last person that heard the now very different story and they don't even realize it is their story that the last person tells them. 

The story begins with Albert finding an injured bird on a sidewalk.  He is a sympathetic and eccentric fellow who deems himself the savior of this bird and carries it back to his house.  He really doesn't know what to do with it though and calls a friend, and we see his friend's visualization of the story as he retells it set at a different street and occurring slightly differently.  This friend then calls his girlfriend and this process repeats 3 times and eventually the story transforms into a guy rescuing a baby just left in a busy street.  Finally, the last person who has heard the story runs into Albert and ends up telling the now very different story and Albert does not even realize that it is his story.

For more information or a script, please contact Tim at:
timmaupin@gmail.com
618-797-8008
www.comarosepictures.com