OPEN CASTING
ALL CHILDREN ROLES

The following roles are OPEN TO SUBMISSION.

What we’re looking for & you should consider –

• Non professional as well as professional stage/screen school actors can apply.
• Character is important. Actors must be like their character description or else have exceptional acting skills.
• Consider that we are filming in Bulgaria for several weeks at the end of summer. You will be chaperoned, tutored and have clearances.
• If you are submitting for the role of ‘Birdy’, we need to see some video of her talking to camera as we would not expect her to ‘act’.
• Consider if they look their character playing age, not their real age.
• We need a colour headshot. If you do not have professional shots, go outdoors, stand away from any background, make sure the sun is angled 45 degrees from your face in cloud and take a photo. Do not look down the camera lens, look to the side of the camera.

Those we choose to see will be contacted once we begin face to face auditions this summer.

TO SUBMIT – Please upload a video of your actor performing. This must include dialogue from a play, film or short monologue. Then send a short e mail with a head shot and a link to the video to – info@charliefilm.co.uk

DO NOT SEND THE VIDEO FILE WITH YOUR E MAIL.

OPEN CASTING
Marco

Playing Age : 14 but looks younger.
Height : No bigger than 5’2”
Build : Thin/scrawny
Hair : Dark/Black
Looks : Italian / Mediterranean.
Language : Must speak English. English with an Italian accent is okay.

Character Description :
Marco is an impatient, feisty and always up to some imaginary adventure. He wants to be taken seriously as an adult, to fight alongside his partisan brother and sister. Marco has never been out of the valley but the land he lives in he knows intimately, the shortcuts and the best routes. Other kids look up to him. Protective of his elder sister. Marco is naive, ignoring the politics surrounding the partisan movement and the wider situation in occupied Italy.

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Bernardo

Playing Age : 14
Height : Tall
Build : Thin/scrawny
Hair : Light. Expect to be dyed for the role.
Looks : Italian / Mediterranean.
Language : Must speak English. English with an Italian accent is okay.

Character Description :
Taller than Marco, Bernardo wears spectacles. He is a bookish, intelligent and shares his father’s love of science and literature. A more thoughtful boy than Marco. Polite yet clumsy, nervous; afraid of the natural world he finds alien and threatening. Bernardo can be moody/gloomy due to his experiences. Together with Marco they are a ‘double act’ of light and shade and best friends.

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Birdy

Playing Age : 4
Height : Tiny
Build : Thin
Hair : Light. Expect to be dyed for the role.
Looks : Italian / Mediterranean.
Language : Must speak a little English. English with an Italian accent is okay.

Character Description :
‘Birdy’ is the nickname of ‘Emily’. She’s a raggedly cute four year old and her nickname comes from her weak heart. She’s shy but also funny once you get to know her and she you. With her father and brother, she has escaped and travelled south, the experience of which has left her inward and timid. Instantly loveable.

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Alberto

Playing Age : 16
Height : Tall
Build : Large
Hair : Dark.
Looks : Italian / Mediterranean.
Language : Must speak English. English with an Italian accent is okay.

Character Description :
‘Alberto’ is a big teenager, good looking but also the town bully. He’s also quite slow, constantly outwitted by Marco but has power to settle fights by way of threatening their families which most of the kids are well aware of. He despises Marco – the only boy who will stand up to him.