Senior Students at The Art Institute of Charlotte Hold Film Auditions, 11/13 & 11/20

Senior Students at The Art Institute of Charlotte are casting for a Thesis Film this quarter (The Condition of Existence) and a Short film with Down Home Films (The Seventh Son). The students are holding auditions on Saturday, November 13 and Saturday, November 20.

Condition Of Existence Synopsis and Characters:

Dr. Edward Moore struggles with trying to find a procedure that will put his name on the medical map. The procedure he comes up with, transorbital lobotomy, is a procedure that involves using an ice pick to enter the brain and cure patients. As the procedure gains more publicity, Edward begins to change, slowly distancing himself from the people who care about him.

Dr. Edward Moore, the main character of the film, experiences both positive and negative outcries
from the public on behalf of his procedure. Age: looking for someone between the ages of 25 ?35.

Peter Norwood, Edward's colleague and business partner, has been a friend of Edwards for many
years. Age: looking for someone between the ages of 25 ?35.

Meredith Moor, Edward's wife of 7 years. As Edward begins to change, she perhaps feels it the
most. Age: looking for someone between the ages of 25 ?30.

Steve Bronson brings his wife to receive a lobotomy from Edward. Age: looking for someone between the ages of 25 ?40.

Emily Bronson, Steve's wife who is lobotomized. Age: looking for someone between the ages of 25 ?40.

John Vance, one of Edward's psychiatric patients who suffers a mental breakdown.

The Seventh Son Synopsis and Characters:

The Seventh Son is a high-suspense thriller about a psychiatrist who slowly begins to
loose his grip on reality, spirituality; his life is being haunted by demons he can't quite
comprehend, till it's too late.

JOEL Lazar: Family psychologist just moved to town. Bit of a nerd with confidence issues. Adopted and lived in multiple social services homes. He graduated with high marks from college and graduate studies. He's a loner but not always by choice.

GABRIEL Burns: GABRIEL is a frat boy. Two years older than JOEL, he views JOEL as a project and a little brother equally. GABRIEL is partner of the clinic that just hired JOEL. GABRIEL fancies himself a ladies man but is more on the arrogant/chauvinist side of manly.

APPLE Mirron: APPLE is pure sexy. A devil at heart, she is more than JOEL ever expected to get out of life, in more ways than one. APPLE is patient, conniving and above all vain to the point of naive to others' perception of her. But all that is part of her game.

MOSES Windfield: Older male who's seen everything that has come through the hospital doors. He is a psychiatrist for local authorities and forensics. He's an established writer and has become quite bored with his occupation.

JANICE Barker: ‘Blunt as a spoon,' is a saying originally intended for JANICE. She has been in the psychiatric field as an office administrator for two decades. She has little to no time for excuses or tardiness or riff-raff. She is a mom with no children.

ACT 1:
JOEL Lazar has been in an insane asylum for one month. He and MOSES Windfield begin his formal admission interview while JOEL is drugged by orderlies and other doctors leave the room. JOEL begins to tell MOSES how all this happened.

In a flashback sequence, one of many that tell the story of JOEL, JOEL begins his new day at a clinic. A clinic partially ran by his old college fraternity brother GABRIEL. They are years older but still have a brother relationship. In the midst of a new job and a new home GABRIEL takes JOEL under his wing to show him the ropes and introduces JOEL to APPLE.

JOEL and APPLE begin a fast and intimate relationship to the point of APPLE moving in. Along with JOEL's daily routine we begin to see his life take shape. JOEL settles into his new life well.

ACT 2:
JOEL confides to GARBRIEL about his history. JOEL tells of his adoption as a child and his need to know his family, due to APPLE's pregnancy. GABRIEL, with help of his local connections, help JOEL find his biological father and in turn find a single diary left to JOEL by his father. We continue to flash back and forth to the interview between JOEL and MOSES.

MOSES began this interview believing he had seen it all in his 15+ years with the force. But, we begin to see MOSES fall into the story and begin to trust his own grip on what is real and what is not.

After receiving the diary JOEL begins to have visions of demons and paranoia begins to take over his daily routine. The pressure and visions begin to increase to the point of involving his work, damaging his relationship with APPLE and ultimately making JOEL question his own ability to think clearly.

ACT 3:
Not giving away the end of the movie! Most of act three will be up to the audiences interpretation.

Examples of student work can be seen by visiting: http://vimeo.com/10420637 and http://vimeo.com/12995417.

Auditions will be held at the Art Institute of Charlotte, 2221 Edge Lake Drive, Charlotte NC 28217. Interested actors should e-mail Jeremy King at jeremykingid1@yahoo.com.

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