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May 15, 2010 at 5:45 pm #594833
GinaParticipantPassing this along, sounds like fun!
We are working on a great project (see synopsis below) and could use your help! Especially on Sunday May 16… we need 200 people!! If you or someone you know fits the bill… please have them contact Gordon for more details: gordon@bigfishnw.com
Please share the following with friends that you would like to spend the day with!
A current project seeks Males and Females 18-65+ years of age. (Except for our need for Asian and African American Boys and Girls!!)
In addition to Caucasian guys we really need Asian and African American people, would you be so good as to share this with them!
Location: Seattle
Period 1919 years (You do not need to provide period wardrobe, production will request a few basics from you but will provide the rest of the wardrobe. :)
Dates and Needs
May 14th – Friday
Asian Boys X 4( around 10 year old)
Asian Girls X 1 ( around 10 years old)
May 15th – Saturday
Caucasian Male X25 Walking and Protesting ( some should be aggressive look or type)
Caucasian Male X 4 as Police Man ( Tall and Build)
Asian Male X 10 (40’s-50’s)
May 16th – Sunday
Male X 100 ( Mainly Caucasian, some African American and Asian)
Female X 80 ( Mainly Caucasian, some African American and Asian)
African American Boys (8-12 years old ) X2
Project: “Japanese Americans”
A 10-hour miniseries being produced to commemorate the 60 year anniversary of TBS. TBS is one of Japan’s nationwide television stations (http://www.tbs.co.jp/). The program deals with the Japanese internment camps that were located throughout our region during WWII.
Venue: Foreign Television Programming
Character: Background/Extra
Rate: $80/day.
SYNOPSIS
The mini-series is about the struggles a young man goes through to establish himself
in the United States after having immigrated from Japan in 1919 as a 19 year old man.
After 7 years of struggle, he finally finds stability as a farm worker. He goes on to
marry a woman and starts a family in the midst of racial turmoil due to the fact that
Americans were not yet accustomed to Asian people being in the United States, working
in labor positions and owning property. The struggles only worsen as Japan’s role in
World War II intensifies culminating in the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Once the bombing
occurs, the FBI begins to round up all potential enemies of the US, mainly Japanese,
and detain them in various internment camps around the Western US. The story then
focuses on life inside the camp and shows the resilience as well as the determination
of people in the midst of strife. The main character Chokichi, heads up a movement
within the camp to turn a desert countryside into fertile ground that yields vegetables
for their life on the inside.
The story alternates between present 2010 and the 1920’s and 40’s as the family reunites
after 70 years of separation. As they educate one of their grandchildren about the story
of their great grandfather Chokichi, the scenes take them back to times in the 1920’s
and 40’s that give a small insight into the kind of life the Japanese first and second
generations lived in the US. Even after the struggles they all endured, they insisted
on staying in the United States; a country they had become citizens of and loved as their own.
If you or someone you know fits the bill… please have them contact Gordon for more details: gordon@bigfishnw.com
Gordon Adams
Big Fish NW Talent
Toll Free: 888-924-4347
Wk: 253/606-FISH ~ Fax: 253/276-0257
May 15, 2010 at 6:01 pm #694501
GenHillOneParticipantHey, if you still have time, you might want to change the title of your post to “Movie” extras needed so that morning-challenged folks like me don’t get confused. I kept thinking “extra what?” until a few paragraphs in :P Sounds like a fun way to spend the day though!
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