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The casting process for Legacy is now underway! See details below if interested.

CASTING CALL

March 21-23, 2014 (specific time TBD with Casting Director)

Please send headshot, resume, and role you are interested in to LEGACYSFP@GMAIL.COM

MARY REED – female, early 20s. After her mother’s incarceration, Mary was sent to boarding school, where she maintained good grades but had continuous disciplinary problems. She is returning to her small town home for the first time after graduating from college in Boston. Mary is simply pretty and intelligent, with a certain magnetism to her. She carries a considerable amount of psychological baggage and is easy to blow her short fuse.

PETER REED – male, 40s to 50s. Mary’s father is subtly handsome with an element of professorial sophistication. A series of terrible family events have estranged Peter, who spends most of his free time watching the news and drinking lukewarm coffee.

VANESSA – female, early 20s. Vanessa is a reformed punk rocker who still carries a bit of roughness around the edges. She is friendly and helpful, though lazy with her personal life and her own aspirations.

JOHN – male, early 20s. Charming and smooth, John is a nice guy who has delayed his own plans to stay in his small hometown and care for his ailing family. He is close with his younger sister and bears an inherent respect for/attraction to troubled women, particularly Mary Reed.

SHERIFF MIKE DODD – male, 40s to 50s. Sheriff Dodd is a dedicated and loyal man, with 20 years on the local police force and a strong sense of right and wrong. He is kind and sympathetic toward the Reeds, longtime friends of his, but he is suspicious of Mary’s behavior, having been the first responding officer on the day Mary witnessed a murder.

CHRIS SNYDER – male, early 20s. The younger brother of Allison Reed’s murder victim, Chris has many demons and a lot of pent up anger toward the Reed family. He is spoiled and entitled, given nearly anything he asked for since his family was destroyed. He is smart, but has been in and out of trouble with the law for his renegade attitude.

ALLISON REED – female, early 30s, seen in flashback sequences. Mary’s mother is attractive, smart and caring, exuding a warmth every time we hear her voice. In her letters, she is desperate to reconnect with her daughter and keep Mary from making the same mistakes she did.

Favorite Movie: Children of Men
Guilty Pleasure: Extreme Couponing
Worst Job Ever: School maintenance

Jackson is a junior from Bossier City, Louisiana double majoring in Film & Media Arts and Marketing at SMU. A trumpet player in SMU’s Mustang Band, Jackson receives inspiration through music, often finding himself listening to classics such as Hilary Duff’s “(Hey Now) This is What Dreams are Made Of” on repeat during delirious overnight editing sessions. He is excited to work on a feature film from start to finish and hopes that it will help prepare him for his post-grad plans to work at a post-production company.

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Favorite Movie: The Brothers Bloom
Guilty Pleasure: Desperate Housewives
Worst Job Ever: Lifeguarding a party of 60+ middle schoolers

Daniel is a junior BFA Film student attending Southern Methodist University. He currently works as a night-shift lifeguard and as an advertising director with Vault Security. He has made freelance web promotional videos for smaller companies in the White Rock Lake area. He has also made training videos for pilots while interning at Southwest Airlines. While focused specifically on directing and writing, he enjoys working with both production and post-production sound, and hopes to bring some good quality sound to his first feature film. Daniel is currently exploring his options for post-grad life, but is focusing mostly on his senior thesis project.

Favorite Movie: Dodgeball
Guilty Pleasure: Cutthroat Kitchen
Worst Job Ever: Concessions at a movie theater

Scott Bolton is a senior from Overland Park, Kansas majoring in Film & Media Arts with minors in Arts Management and Arts Entrepreneurship. Over the past 3 years, he has had two internships and freelanced with several production houses around Dallas, including Slice Media and The Distillery Media. He has also has been worked as a wedding videographer as well as an assistant camera operator and editor for SMU Basketball. Scott is extremely excited to build on his lighting experience from the last Summer Film Production and couldn’t be happier concluding his college career making another wonderful movie with all of his friends!

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Favorite Movie: “If I had one, I would always feel the same. That being said… Magnolia, The Fly, Blood Simple, and Mulholland Drive all rock.”
Guilty Pleasure: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Worst Job Ever: Painting fences/porches

Jayson is a sophomore from Burbank, California double majoring in Film & Media Arts and Economics at SMU. Jayson was the director of the 2012 Student Filmmakers Association short film “Can’t Go Back,” and he is the writer of this year’s SFA short, “I Love You Jane.” Jayson has enjoyed all of his experiences on set, and he is looking forward to collaborating with his fellow film majors while working as the Assistant Camera on his first feature. Jayson loves learning, music, and film, and hopes to one day make a living as a filmmaker.

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Favorite Movie: Singing In The Rain
Guilty Pleasure: Chopped
Worst Job Ever: Janitor at MIT, but then they saw I, “was one of the most gifted minds to ever enter their classrooms.”

Sophia graduated from SMU in December of 2011 with a BA in Film & Media Arts. She’s been working in the freelance arena with companies such as 1820 Productions, VH1, ESPN, Flywheel, Quixotic Enterprises and Klekamp Group. Over the past two years she has crewed-up and camera operated for commercials, corporate events, live sports, short films, weddings, and web series. She truly believes no job is too small and every set offers an opportunity to learn. She is ecstatic to return to the SMU Summer Feature Film project as a humble leader, ready to work and grow with old and new friends.

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Favorite Movie: 13 Going On 30
Guilty Pleasure: Girls
Worst Job Ever: Babysitting chickens

Kelsey Cordutsky is a junior from Denver, Colorado majoring in marketing, creative advertising and graphic design at SMU. She works on campus as an RA and also as an ad designer for the SMU newspaper, the Daily Campus. Over the past summer Kelsey worked two different graphic design internships, one at Infinite Agency and one at the Seacrest Studios in Dallas where she dabbled in broadcast. She is excited to tap into the film industry as well while working on Legacy. After graduation, she plans to work in the advertising industry at an agency on the creative side in a larger city and continue to build her portfolio.

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Favorite Movie: Forrest Gump
Guilty Pleasure: Big Brother
Worst Job Ever: Driving Kreayshawn “Lil Chipotle” around

Chint Murdock is a junior from Texarkana, Texas majoring in Accounting with a concentration in Energy Management. He serves as the Vice President of Finance for Program Council and credits his success to his fascination with money. Chint is excited to reconnect with his past in production as Financial Director for his first feature film.

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Favorite Movie: “Breathless” and “Beginners”
Guilty Pleasure: Scandal
Worst Job Ever: Driving a cube truck in Manhattan

Amanda Presmyk is a senior Film & Media Arts and Journalism double major at SMU. She hails from Southlake, Texas and works at See Spot Run, a video production company that makes pretty cool things. Amanda is looking forward to finishing up her career at SMU doing what she loves (film), but mostly just hopes she’ll get a megaphone on set. After graduation, she plans on packing her bags and heading to NYC to join the ranks of the scrappy indie filmmakers she calls her heroes.

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