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UK: Asian actors (m/f) 18-70, English speaking, for main roles in feature film [P]

ref # 189989
closing date: This casting is now closed

project title: The House on The Roof of The World
production type: feature film
pay: paid

looking for: actors
based in/around: England/Scotland/Wales/Ireland

about the project

Looking for British Asian actors for a film set in Tibet about a woman who returns to the ruins of her house which was destroyed by dissident PRC soldiers during the Chinese invasion. With her young son she tries to rebuild her house exactly as it once was in order to rebuild her life. She is helped by a passing monk who has escaped the destruction of his monastery and is following the Dalai Lama to India.

Directed by Jon Lawrence and shooting in Morocco in 2023.

Note, actors must have British Citizenship due to funding restrictions.

Looking to fill the following roles:
role 1 | actors | female
playing age: 18 - 28
role languages: English
role ethnicities: Asian
SONAM - A young woman with British/Asian accent to play woman with traumatic past who falls in love with Buddhist Monk.

Salary up to £5000 for three week shoot.
role 2 | actors | male
playing age: 25 - 40
role languages: English
role ethnicities: Asian
SANGYE - A kind Buddhist monk who falls in love with Sonam and has to battle his own heart and mind.

Salary up to £5000 for three week shoot.
role 3 | actors | male
playing age: 55 - 70
role languages: English
role ethnicities: Asian
SONAM'S FATHER - Warm, kind and loving.

2/3 days of filming; up to £500
role 4 | actors | male
playing age: 25 - 60
role languages: English
role ethnicities: Asian
CHINESE SOLDIER - cruel, violent, cold.

2/3 days filming; up to £500

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