Milestone 1: First Film

by melmasri | October 15, 2006 at 12:25 pm
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Well my first audition resulted in my first role. We shot the short film this past weekend over two days. It was a blast. My role was a Maitre D in a restaurant. The story is about Jack, a man who gets strange phone calls from a mysterious voice that says the names of people he's never met. Only for him to meet them moments later. They take the phone from his hands and immediately drop dead. The voice is chasing Jack throughout the city using every telephone that he passes. It's racing him to a restaurant where his wife is waiting for him. Jack needs to get to the restaurant before the mysterious voice does in order to save her. The Maitre D in the restaurant plays a mysterious/sinister role in the second half of the film and by the end it is revealed that he just might be in on the whole thing.
Did a lot of chatting with the cast on set, learned about how to get an agent and some dos and donts in terms of when you're starting up.
Anyhow, it was absolutely a blast. The cast and crew were brilliant and fun to chill with. Learned a lot as well. The film is having its first screening on February 23rd. Can't wait for that. The wrap party is tonight, but I'm not sure I'll be able to go. I'm prepping for three upcoming auditions next week. More short independent films, one of which I'm reading for a Russian game show contestant, another as a compulsive and overbearing young dad, and the third as a Detective in a Murder Mystery. I hope the latter one works out, although the Russian game show contestant will be fun to do (especially in my faux Russian accent).
Wishing my self luck, I'm going for as many auditions as I can. For the experience if not to score the actual roles.One man's journey through acting on his way to Hollywood in hopes of
disproving the stereotype that Arabs can't make it in North American Showbiz
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