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I am an actor aged 56 and I am in The Spotlight. I would like representation as my previous agent went out of business suddenly and I have had no acting work for the past year. Please send me details of the Entertainment Factory and a postal address for sending a CV and pics.
My postal address is 8 Greenfield Road, London N15 5EP; tel 020 8802 4937
I have a web site at http://www.superbrowne.com
Best wishes,
David BrowneI have been to a TVI seminar and found it most informative in all respects except one. They are great at explaining the structure of agents and managers and the distribution of types of work between Los Angeles and New York, and how to approach key people for work. They are basically recruiting for a residential course held in the States, which would be a good investment if you serious thinking of going to work in the USA. But they know nothing about visa requirements for British citizens seeking to work in the entertainment industry in the USA. This is a big factor, but it’s great if you have an American passport through a parent or grandparent or you are married to an American citizen. Or if you are an established performer already, in which case you will not need the basic information that TVI provide.
I would be very interested to know exactly which EC regulations you are referring to. If it is correct that there are regulations obliging online services to provide full contact details as described, this could have big implications for the people behind the Wat Tyler film project, for example. There is little contact detail nor the names of the people on the web site, apart from a general and anonymous email.
The question at the heart of this issue is, if a producer director can pay the cost of professional services on the technical side, like hiring lights and getting high quality editing to make the final film look good for all concerned, why is it assumed that he doesn’t need to pay a professional fee to the actors who make the final product look good too? There is an underlying assumption that actors will work for nothing, and all the money goes into technical production. Why don’t producers budget for actors and raise the required money in the first place before embarking on a project? Some of us are professional actors and want to make a living from film-making just as much as the technical suppliers.
