Casting Call For Student Short Film!

Hi folks! I’m currently enrolled in Marilou Diaz Abaya Film Institute and I’m looking for actors who will act in my student short film “Ang Asawa Kong Si Nikulet”.

SYNOPSIS

What will you do when you find out that your friend is dying?

This is the question posed to a nine-year old boy. Noknok is typical preteen—loves to play and hates girls. But his mother works for a well-to-do couple whose daughter, Nicole (or Nikulet as Noknok impishly calls her) is fond of her playmate and intends to marry him someday. When Noknok finds out that Nicole is dying of cancer, he has a change of heart and makes Nicole’s last days happy and memorable.

CAST

NOKNOK
- character traits: playful, intense, cute, talkative, energetic, charismatic, street smart
- auditioning 9 to 12 years old but must pass off as 9
- moreno or slightly fair but not mestizo looking, not chubby, can look lower class
- preferably with acting experience on film and television

NICOLE
- character traits: makulit, “girly” girl, romanticist, annoyingly sweet yet loveable and cute
- auditioning 9 to 12 years old but must pass off as 9
- thin, doesn’t have long hair, looks upper middle-class, fair-skinned
- preferably with acting experience on film and television

MELING
- Noknok’s mother, laundrywoman/maid, single mom
- character traits: hardworking, toughened by poverty, motherly yet can also be stern, religious
- auditioning 24-30 years old but must pass off as 27 or 28
- morena, pretty pero di na nakakapag-ayos, looks mature for her age, can look lower class

NICOLE’S DAD
- doctor
- character traits: cool on the exterior but deeply hurting inside, responsible, good father
- auditioning 28 to 35 years old but must pass off as 32 or 33
- can speak fluent English and Filipino, looks like a doctor, clean and good-looking, looks upper middle-class, 5’9” up, fit body

NICOLE’S MOM
- character traits: maternal, emotional, over-protective mother yet loving and sweet, refined
- peg: Jennifer Garner in Juno or Lucy Torres
- auditioning 25-32 years old but must pass of as 29-30
- can speak fluent English and Filipino, simple yet effortlessly beautiful, soft features, fair-skinned

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHER
- Noknok’s teacher
- Character traits: repressed, conservative, napaglipasan na ng panahon, strict teacher, lonely soul, soltera
- Auditioning 30-40 years old but must pass off as 35
- Can speak fluent Filipino, chubby, morena

ESTONG
- Noknok’s best friend, anak ng isang OFW at parlorista
- character traits: pabidang bata, maangas
- auditioning 9 to 12 years old but must pass of as 9
- chubby, nouveau-riche
- preferably with acting experience on film and television


NOTE:
- Must be available within the period of last week of November to second week of December.
- Since this is a student film, actors will only be given “honorarium” but I promise a fun working environment on the set. :)

AUDITION DETAILS

DATE
November 11, Tuesday
1:00PM – 6:00 PM

VENUE
UFO Pictures Office
G/H-85 Araullo Street, Addition Hills, San Juan

(From EDSA Shaw Boulevard, take a jeep/cab going to Kalentong. Once you reach Nuever de Pebrero, turn right. Go straight until you see Araullo Street. Upon reaching Araullo, turn right again and look for brown gate number 85.)

REQUIREMENTS:
Resume with picture.
If you have acting videos on You Tube, kindly email us the link beforehand.

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