Q&A w/ San Francisco Based Casting Directors

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Q&A w/ San Francisco Based Casting Directors

Sunday, September 20, 2015

Begins at 10:00 AM PDT
Check-in begins at: 9:30 AM PDT

Saturday, September 19, 2015



SYNOPSIS

San Francisco, CA.

This 1 hour event will feature a panel discussion and Q&A with industry professionals.

NO LATE ARRIVALS and NO WALK-INS are admitted. Only those participants who have received an e-mailed confirmation message will be admitted to the session.

Location:
Academy of Art University
466 Townsend St
San Francisco, CA 94107
Room: 110


CASTING DIRECTOR BIOS:

Nancy Hayes is a San Francisco Casting Director who has cast over 70 projects, including extras casting for Terminator Genisys, Need for Speed, The Five-Year Engagement, Hereafter, Memoirs of a Geisha, Just Like Heaven, The Sweetest Thing, and many more.

Gregg Cohen has been a casting director for commercial, industrial and print (along with some music videos and short films) for nearly 20 years, as well as running camera for other casting directors. Her in studio experience helps her understand the client’s POV and share these on-camera auditioning techniques with her students.

Toni Cervantes has been working as a Casting Director for over 21 years, mainly in Los Angeles and most recently based in SF. She has worked with Samuel Bayer, Jim Sheridan, Frances Lawrence, Bob Giraldi, Dayton/Faris, Mark Story, Guy Ritchie, Mike Mills, Pam Thomas, Elma Garcia and many many more. Cervantes Casting leaves no stone unturned in finding the most obscure and elusive jewel in the veritable haystack. With a reputation for going above and beyond the realms of normal studio casting, Cervantes has a "by any means necessary" approach to her work. Whatever it is you need, she delivers. Her worldwide travels and experience of living abroad for 8 years, has fueled her moxie and comfort level with people of all different cultures, languages and historical backgrounds. In addition to providing full-service casting in the studio, she offers full- service remote casting worldwide.Anytime. Anyplace. Anywhere. In the past six years she has been doing social documentary photography for humanitarian organizations in India, Nepal, Ethiopia and Peru. www.tonicervantesphotography.com



REQUIREMENTS

You do NOT have to complete a Casting Access Application in order to particapte in Casting Access workshops in this city. 

You are not restricted in the number of Casting Access workshops you wish to attend while we visit this city. Please make sure you are not registering for workshops that occur at the same time/overlap in time.