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Gaia

Contact Email Address
juan.eslait@nyfa.edu
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Project Description

CASTING CALL!!!! 

 

[THE MAN / GAIA]

20 to 50 years old, all ethnicities male. Years after mass extinction solitude has created a very skillful Man. A survivor who is alone in a vast land. This Man will encounter for the first time in years another human being, and this human is nothing else but a woman. The man sees the opportunity not only of leaving behind his life in solitude but also of having a partner and possibly bringing back hope to humanity, but this woman won't be as interested as he is. In fact this woman wants the exact opposite of the man, she want's mass extinction forever. 
The Man will have to figure out a way of convincing this woman that humans must return to populate Earth, even though they caused mass extinction. 

Additional notes for character: Before extinction this Man was a Doctor. He was never concern about Climate Change. This man's only concern was helping the patients at the hospital. In this Hospital The Man encounter so many different people and so many different lives. Some of the people he met survived and some of them did not. This man learn a lot from this hospital and because of his patients he believes in humanity. Ironically was in his patients sickness that he found a reason to live, happiness, and love.

 
 

[THE WOMAN / GAIA]

20 to 50 years old, all ethnicities female. After the sixth Mass Extinction a woman after years of wandering alone in an empty Earth, free of humans encounters for the first time a Man. This man wants to stay with her, but the Woman doesn't care, in fact the woman is happy about Earth being empty. She appreciates how beautiful Earth is since humans disappeared, and how the wildlife has exponentially grow. Before Mass extinction this woman was a vegan activist and a environmentalist. She considers human as the virus of this planet and for this reason she doesn't want to bring back humanity to life, even though this man wants to. 

Additional notes: The Woman had a daughter name Alice. She was killed in a hit and run years before extinction. This woman's only life was her daughter, Alice, and after Alice was taken away from her, her life stopped. She has no appreciation for humanity, and she is even embarrassed of being one.

 
 

CASTING DATE WILL BE THE 26TH OF AUGUST, IF INTERESTED E-MAIL ME AT JUAN.ESLAIT@NYFA.EDU. If you have a acting reel please fell free to share. 

STORYLINE:

Gaia is a Romance that tells the story of the last Man and the last Woman in Earth. Years after Mass Extinction the Earth has regrow and is more beautiful than it ever was. In this story after they meet each other, the Man will want to be with her and create a family with her, he will want to bring hope back to humanity, but the Woman wants the exact opposite, she wants Mass Extinction to be completed, she wants to free the Earth of humans. There are two possible outcomes, either they end up together, or they don't and humanity last hope is lost forever. 
This story is a tale of Adam and Eve, is inspired by the Anti-Genesis and is also an ultimate call to take action and save the planet, the only one we have.