OPEN CALL FOR ACTORS

Tiny production company looking to talk to interesting and subtle actors about opportunities to appear in this important but truly no-budget feature film, to be photographed in celluloid in 2008.

mother mortar, father pestle (or the nocturnal panic of 2008)

Film - non-union Payment: Deferred, pending distribution.

Those interested in media skills and equipment trade and barter are encouraged to participate.

Food and transportation expenses are to be covered.

Written and to be directed by San Francisco veteran film weirdo gibbs chapman, whose anti-career is further described at www.gibbschapman.com.

Call for interesting and thoughtful men and women for the following roles:

Primary Characters:

• Male, Priest, 35-55

• Female, nervous religious woman, 25-45

• Male, secular arty activist, 30-45

• Male, scheming urban homeless man, 30-50

• Male, god-fearing government official, 40-UP

• Male, unhealthy landlord of foreign origin, 35-55

Secondary Characters:

• Male, a jesus, 30-40

• Male, sun-baked geologist, 40-UP

• Male, scheming businessman, 40-UP

• Female, god-fearing government official’s wife, 35-UP

• Female, drug addict street-walker, 30-45

• Male, Shiva, 30-45

• Male, Mohammad, 30-45

• Male, Rabbi, 40-UP

• Male, Michelangelo-type white-man god, 50-UP

Extras or brief speaking roles:

• Male, Buddha, 30-40

• Male, Dionysus, 35-55

• Female, Athena, 25-40

• Male, Bodyguard, 25-45

And there’s probably more.

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MMFP is currently described thus:

mother mortar, father pestle (or the nocturnal panic of 2008)

The sun disappears. Is it a result of an astronomical disturbance or is it an act of god? The two sides face off, but the spokes-people have problems of their own. The theologian is having trouble with his sedan, the homeless man with homeland security. The religious woman may worry herself into the hospital, while the secularist can’t find an audience. The government tries to keep up appearances and the gods try to make a dent in their busy agenda. Although the dying landlord will go to a better place, no one has made much of an impression that the geologist can note in his study of an indifferent universe. By the time the dust settles and the sun reappears, no one is more exhausted than they were before, some have gone, some have gone to jail, and we all go on perhaps to have learned that perspectives are fallible, relative and of minimal importance in geologic time.

OR if you prefer:

a sweaty, claustrophobic noir and a weekend seminar on the irrelevance of human achievement in geologic time. And a 4-night-step program seeking to correct the behavioral dysfunction known as “religiambition.”

More information about this project can be viewed at www.gibbschapman.com/mmfp.htm

Send pictures and resumes to:

Electronic materials can be sent to mmfp@gibbschapman.com or 'real' materials can be sent to:

non productions

po box 410172

San Francisco, Ca. 94141-0172