Archive for the ‘Austin Actors’ Category

TWILIGHT NATION SCRIPT TO SCREEN READING IN AUSTIN

June 3rd, 2010

TWILIGHT NATION by Philip Daay and Chris Engen, is a television series script. Set in the old west, William must choose how he will live his life and after life with the guidance of others.

Austin Actors Conservatory Script to Screen Casting

April 26th, 2010

We are currently casting for our next Script to Screen production. Please review the following breakdowns for BOTH pilots. Actors for consideration YOU MUST BE A PAID-UP SAG/AFTRA MEMBER. Please submit your headshot and resume and the role(s) you are interested in to sheila.cooper@sag.org.

JOURNEY OF THE WORKING ACTOR – SAG LIFERAFT

February 6th, 2010

Join accomplished Los Angeles actor/author Michael Bofshever (www.michaelbofshever.com), along with his stellar panel of familiar-faced working actors, as he discusses a variety of questions pertaining to the many aspects of what it takes to succeed and live the life of a working actor.

Demo Reels, Pictures and Resumes – Getting Your Act Together

January 22nd, 2010

Join the Austin Actors Conservatory for a candid discussion of what works and what doesn’t and learn how to market yourself in today’s climate.

Script to Screen – RETURNING CHAMPION – SUCCESS!

September 1st, 2009

With only two rehearsals, the SAG / AFTRA sponsored, Austin Conservatory presented a live presentation of RETURNING CHAMPION, by Michele Gendelman and Ursula Ziegler at St. Edwards University this past weekend. Director Heather Scobie and a large cast of SAG and AFTRA actors presented a blocked for the state, live reading of the script with [...]

Austin Conservatory, SAG Script to Screen Team presents Returning Champion Film Script

August 28th, 2009

I’ll be serving as the narrator for the latest SAG AFTRA Script to Screen presentation this weekend by the Austin Conservatory. Here’s an announcement from Conservatory Chair, Pamela Weaver: We could use your support in attending our next script to screen this Sunday. As an experiment this time around, we are using audio and visual [...]

Tax Incentives Pass, A New SAG Contract is Ratified – Time To Get Busy

June 9th, 2009

After months of acrimonious negotiations between SAG and the AMPTP and cross guild combat between SAG and AFTRA, a new contract has been ratified. For better or worse, and I personally hope we don’t look back on passage of this contract as the beginning of the end for both SAG and AFTRA, the SAG membership [...]

My Actor’s Demo For The Internet

June 2nd, 2009

Okay….so I’m working on a new demo for play on the internet. Each clip is kept brief in an effort limit the total file size and to maximize the quality after all the video compression takes place. It’s still a work in progress but here’s where I am today. This version was uploaded to YouTube [...]

Will Politics Spoil the Texas Film Incentive Legislation

May 20th, 2009

It hasn’t taken long for the poop to hit the fan over the new entertainment tax incentive program recently passed by the Texas legislature. As you may have read or heard, a film production company named Entertainment 7 has been at the Cannes Film Festival touting their upcoming production about the Branch Davidian debacle. That [...]

Two-week Turnaround Tour coming to Austin May 15th

May 6th, 2009

I received an email a couple of days ago and forgot to post this information. Sorry Jamie. Check out the Two-week Turnaround Tour web site at the link below. This looks like something that the Austin filmmaking community will embrace: My name is Jamie Blankenship. I am working on a community filmmaking project called the [...]