FILM INTENSIVE with Steve Vincent, Casting Director, S2 Entertainment

Monday, July 8, 2013, 7pm ET / 4pm PT

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Here's your opportunity to work with a casting director from one of the most prominent film casting offices in town! Steve casts primarily feature and indie films. Currently, he is working on 9 different feature/indie films including the feature film version of National Book Award finalist "Sold" for Academy Award winning filmmaker Jeffrey D. Brown.

Steve alongside Sig De Miguel is also currently casting the remake of the Cannes film "We Are What We Are" TIFF Audience Award Winning Director Jim Mickle; "Stano" for Academy Award Winning Director John G. Avildsen (Rocky) starring Josh Duhamel, Emmanuelle Chriqui and Chazz Palmintieri; "The Invitation" for Sundance Grand Jury Prize Winning Director Karyn Kusama (Girlfight, Aeon Flux, Jennifer's Body); "The Séance" for Sundance Grand Jury Prize winning Director Nancy Savoca (True Love, Dogfight, Household Saints); "Affluenza" for Gotham Award winning Director Kevin Asch (Holy Rollers); "El Lector" for Sundance Grand Jury Prize Winning Director Victor Nunez (Ulee's Gold, Ruby In Paradise) starring Andy Garcia; "The Preppie Connection" for Indie Spirit Award Nominated Director Joseph Castelo (The War Within); and "1982" for Sundance World Cinema Award winning Producer Tommy Oliver (Kinyarwanda).

Steve will select sides based on your picture and resume which you will be emailed and prepare in advance. The intensive starts off with an informative Q & A followed by your presentation of the scene with a reader ON-CAMERA in a group. Be prepared to take feedback and adjustments.

Currently, Steve is interested in meeting talent of all types and ethnicities 18+ for current and future projects. His office is known for calling in actors directly and they've booked too!

This is a wonderful opportunity to be coached by an expert in film!

For the past four years, Steve has worked with casting partner Sig De Miguel at S2 Entertainment. Some of their noted projects include Rabbit Hole starring Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart, Adam (Sundance Winner-2009), Veronika Deserves to Die starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, NY casting for the remake of Fame and Holy Rollers. Recent projects include: John Leguizamo's FUGLY, Jack and Diane, The Girl is in Trouble, and Down and Dirty Pictures starring Hugh Dancy and Matthew Perry. Previously, Steve worked with Bonnie Timmermann Casting for over 6 years on HUGE blockbuster movies such as Pearl Harbor, Black Hawk Down, The Insider, Coyote Ugly, Spy Game and Armageddon.

*** Scenes will be recorded on-camera. As a courtesy, your video clips will be made available to you within a week. An email notification will be sent when the clips are available to view and download from your Actors Connection account. Please note: from time to time technical issues do occur. As a result video clips are a courtesy, not a guarantee.***

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Steve Vincent

Stephen Vincent partnered with Sig De Miguel in 2006 with the mission to cast and produce high quality independent films. Over the past 16 years, the duo has served as casting directors on over 100 feature films.

Currently, they are casting for several independent feature films including TRAPPED based on a story by Stephen King, EUGENE THE MARINE with Nick Nolte and Barbara Hershey and MILLIE about the first female professional wrestler.  

Recently completed features include: ABOUT MY FATHER with Robert De Niro and Sebastian Maniscalco for Lionsgate, CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG for Paramount, A MOUTHFUL OF AIR with Amanda Seyfried, Finn Wittrock and Paul Giamatti;  I CARRY YOU WITH ME (Winner of the NEXT Audience Award and Innovator Award at Sundance 2020) for Academy Award nominated Director Heidi Ewing.

Past films include: HELLO AGAIN based on the Michael John LaChiusa musical starring Audra McDonald, NOVITIATE (premiering at Sundance 2017) starring Dianna Agron, BUSHWICK (premiering at Sundance 2017) starring Brittany Snow, CARRIE PILBY (Toronto Film Festival 2016) based on the best-selling novel and starring Nathan Lane and Colin O'Donoghue, THE AWAKENING, THE GRIZZLIES, AND THEN I GO starring Justin Long, LIKE ME, CHANGE IN THE AIR executive produced by Kevin Spacey starring Olympia Dukakis, ALWAYS SHINE, BRAND NEW OLD LOVE, and WHEN I'M A MOTH. Recent releases include: WELCOME TO NEW YORK starring Gerard Depardieu, the adaptation of Young Adult novel NAOMI & ELY'S NO KISS LIST starring Victoria Justice for director Kristin Hanggi (Tony-Nominee for ROCK OF AGES), ENTERTAINMENT for Sundance Grand Jury Prize nominee Rick Alverson, SEX DEATH AND BOWLING, THE INVITATION for Sundance Grand Jury Prize winning Director Karyn Kusama, ONE & TWO for Sundance Grand Jury Prize winning Director Andrew Droz Palermo, HAPPY BABY based on the best-selling novel by Writer/Director Stephen Elliott, 1982 for Sundance World Cinema Award winning Producer Tommy Oliver, the feature film version of National Book Award finalist SOLD for Academy Award-winning filmmaker Jeffrey D. Brown, and THE PREPPIE CONNECTION. Theatrical releases include: RABBIT HOLE starring Nicole Kidman (Academy Award-Nominee), COLD IN JULY (Cannes and Sundance 2014) starring Michael C. Hall, WE ARE WHAT WE ARE (Cannes and Sundance 2013) for TIFF Audience Award-Winning Director Jim Mickle, COLD COMES THE NIGHT starring Bryan Cranston for Sundance Grand Jury Prize-nominated Director Tze Chun, BOTTLED UP for Sundance Grand Jury Prize-nominated Director Enid Zentelis, FOR ELLEN, GUN HILL ROAD, HOLY ROLLERS starring Jesse Eisenberg (Sundance Grand Jury Prize-Nominee), ADAM starring Hugh Dancy (Sundance Grand Jury Prize-Nominee and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Prize Winner), MESKADA, AN ENGLISHMAN IN NEW YORK starring Cynthia Nixon and Denis O' Hare, THE GOOD GUY starring Alexis Bledel, THE IMPERIALISTS ARE STILL ALIVE, and TIFF Audience Award-Winner STAKE LAND.

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