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TOPIC: WORKING WITH A CASTING DIRECTORJoin us for a zoom meeting with filmmakers from around the world. Our topic this week is working with a Casting Director. Our special guests are Susan Paley Abramson and Justine Hempe, Casting Directors. Susan Paley Abramson and Justine Hempe have a distinguished career as Casting Directors, Casting Associates, and Casting Assistants with over 20 years of experience. Their narrative series credits include HBO's Entourage, Ballers, and Shooter on the USA Network. In feature films, their experience has been a long list of hits from Christmas with the Kranks, Breakthrough, True Memoirs of an International Assassin, Kick-Ass 2, Red Tails, Extraordinary Measures, Avatar, Marley and Me, xXx: State of the Union, Collateral, Pacific Rim, Secretariat, Rambo, Rocky Balboa, The Island, Fantastic Four, and many others. They partnered in 2012 to create Paley/Hempe Casting.
Hosted by William Garcia, an award-winning producer based in Los Angeles, California, with over thirty years experience in the feature film and television production industry. His clients include; TLC, Warner Media, Sony Entertainment, Animal Planet, Republic Records, MTV Tr3s, and AWE Network. William has produced over a thousand hours of programming for television and independent feature films. He is a member of the Producers Guild of America.
Co-hosted by Mikel Fair, the founder of FilmFestivalCircuit.com. Mikel is the director of 8 film festivals. Four events in Oregon and four in Texas. He is also the author of the ebook "Film Festival Submitter's Handbook," which offers tips and guidance for filmmakers package and prepare their creative work for submission on the Film Festival Circuit. Mikel worked in fuil and TV production in Texas for 15 years.
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Mikel Fair
Mikel Fair My name is Mikel Fair. I am the Director of Film Festival Circuit Inc. First of all, we are a company that manages film festival events in Texas and Oregon. Furthermore, we like to have fun and celebrate independent film. I worked for 15 years in the television and film production as a location sound mixer and production manager. I have also worked in post production as an editor, post sound mixer and composer. Above all, watching independent films and reading creative screenplays is my passion.
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