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Shankmans - Feature Film
 
   
Project Type: Feature Film
Union Status: Union/Non-Union
Pay Scale: $100/day plus meals, copy, and credit provided.
Posted Date: 1/22/2012 1:59:26 PM
End Date: 2/3/2012
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Shankmans - Feature Film. Shankmans is a dark comedy about a group of trendy hipsters who decide to open a neighborhood butcher shop to make some easy money, but they battle against their own petty jealousies and the increasingly homicidal whims of their unbalanced best friend.

Casting Dates: Feb. 3-4
Rehearsal Dates: TBD
Shoot Dates: TBD 12-15 days in Apr.
Location: Brooklyn, NY


To DIRECT SUBMIT to a role just click on the role name.
If a role is open to different ethnicities or attributes, they will be listed in alphabetical order and comma separated.
Note: Some roles do not require direct submit and are not clickable.

Baxter | Male | Caucasian | Age: 20 - 25 | Role Type: Leading
Garrett's rival and friend from college. A struggling writer with delusions of grandeur. Baxter has yet to come into his own and still plays follower to Garrett, but wants to break free.
Ben | Male | African-American | Age: 25 - 28 | Role Type: Supporting
Reuven Gutman's cousin. Pious, quiet and smart. He is serious about his religion and his life.
Ed | Male | African-American | Age: 19 - 23 | Role Type: U5
Tom's cohort.
Garrett | Male | Caucasian | Age: 20 - 25 | Role Type: Leading
Bright, witty as hell, charming. Almost a genius-level intellect. Garrett is the charismatic leader whose bitter humor displays a casual racism and a sense of entitlement that borders on sociopathic.
Hester | Female | Caucasian | Age: 20 - 23 | Role Type: Supporting
Maude's girlfriend. Sweet and pretty. A deer in the headlights. She has seen precious little of the world, and it shows.
Jerry | Male | Caucasian | Age: 35 - 40 | Role Type: Supporting
The owner of the rival butcher shop. Italian. A blue-collar, no-nonsense guy, Jerry is resentful of the intruder kids who have opened a shi-shi butcher shop in 'his' community.
Maude | Female | Caucasian | Age: 20 - 25 | Role Type: Supporting
Loud, opinionated, a social climber. Maude is enamored with hipster culture and is determined to create an uber-trendy culture in her neighborhood, with herself as its maven.
Mclusky | Male | Caucasian | Age: 30 - 35 | Role Type: Supporting
A thuggish, entitled beat cop. His time spent in the neighborhood has made him complacent, and a little lazy.
Mrs. Del Toro | Female | Caucasian | Age: 50 - 80 | Role Type: Supporting
The landlady to the gang. An old-world Brooklyn resident. Elderly and frail.
Natalia | Female | African-American | Age: 25 - 27 | Role Type: Supporting
The waitress at the local diner. Hard-edged, cynical. A scrapper. At her young age she's seen it all, and then some. A surprisingly adept street fighter.
Oryan | Male | Caucasian | Age: 30 - 35 | Role Type: Supporting
Mclusky's partner. Entitled, bored. Constantly hungry.
Ray | Male | African-American | Age: 35 - 40 | Role Type: Supporting
The owner of the local barbershop. Latino. Ray is the mayor of the street and is quietly suspicious of the new people in his neighborhood
Reuven Gutman | Male | Caucasian | Age: 45 - 50 | Role Type: Supporting
The landlord of Shankman's. An old-school Hasidic Jew, Gutman is stiff, humorless and carries a secret of his own.
Sarah | Female | Caucasian | Age: 20 - 25 | Role Type: Leading
Baxter's girlfriend, Jewish. Sarah prides herself on being up on the latest trends and fashions. Deep down, she's no longer in love with Baxter.
Tim | Male | Caucasian | Age: 20 - 23 | Role Type: Leading
Shy, hesitant, a wallflower. Garrett's best friend, primary audience and punching bag. Todd is sweet and naive about most people, and is unaware of his own dark nature.
Tina | Female | Caucasian | Age: 19 - 25 | Role Type: Supporting
Italian. Todd's love interest and Jerry's cousin. Female, but with a suspiciously masculine appearance.
Tom | Male | African-American | Age: 19 - 22 | Role Type: Supporting
The neighborhood bully.
 
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