Actors Wanted For Feature Film

Serge Sharrinovsky wrote:
>
> Here's a question for you both.

> What Film productions have you completed and finished from
> the ground up and successfully sold to the industry,
> audiences, done well at the box office and provided a return
> for investors and producers etc.
>
> If you have and you can prove it, then I'm all ears to every
> word you say and worship the ground you walk on cause I'd
> love to know.


Dear Serge

I'm sorry to hear you getting all defensive like this...I just read over my previous post and I think I came across quite reasonably? I supported your ambition to come up with a feature film, but suggested that you need to provide people with information if you expect them to join the party.
(That's been the basis of the entire argument all along...people are wanting to know more INFORMATION about the integrity of the project before they are willing to commit to it. Answers to questions.)

No need to worship the ground I tread, because as you quite rightly surmise, I'm not a filmmaker and haven't done any of the above.
Having said that, I HAVE successfully produced theatre performances, which is MY area of expertise. If I were to ask your own question back at you, regarding YOUR area of expertise, could YOU answer in the affirmative? (By your own admission, no, but you'd 'love to know').


So if we've established that none of us is necessarily an expert in making a film, and therefore neither of us should worship the other in that regard...perhaps I ought to remind you that you are looking for ACTORS, not filmmakers. And if you rephrased your question to ask me whether I know anything about what ACTORS require, I think we've already established in earlier correspondence that yes, I DO know just a little bit! I have also worked under filmmakers who WERE experts in their field, so I know what to expect from them in a filmmaker/actor relationship. Yet when I demonstrated this knowledge by asking you the right questions, on behalf of the actors you have been bombarding with continuous audition notices on this site, you dodged the questions and did not show yourself to behave like I would expect an expert filmmaker to.


> & Don't get me wrong here cause some of your ideas and
> suggestions make sense, but If you haven't, can you
> substantiate and guarantee to so me and everyone else for
> that matter that you really really know what your talking
> about?


Well, that's not the issue here, is it? We've substantiated that I know enough about acting to know which are the right questions to ask. I don't like to point you out as a hypocrite here, but can you answer your own question? I think that's rather more important, don't you? Do you really know what you're talking about?


> Cause to roughly translate Paul Barron comments from one of
> his seminars at FTI. If anyone tries to tell you they have
> all the answers then they are either leading you astray or
> don't know what they talking about.

Please remember that then, the next time you quote from Adam Elliot, Natalie Portman, Robert S. McNamara, etc. They probably don't have all the answers either.


> I'd hate to think this is just another bad case of the blind
> leading the blind

Yes, that's been my concern all along.



Cheers,
Craig



PS

I love this addition to your company posting:

> *** Also no "skeptics", "critics", "egotistic”, “spell checking enthusiasts”, > “those that categorize themselves as professional and/or wannabe
> professional” and/or “info seeking” actors needed. Thank you very much.

I guess I've ruined my chances of winning my Academy Award in your film.