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Meet the Actor: Martin Donovan
Veteran actor Martin Donovan rose to prominence in the ’90s with his on-screen roles in arthouse filmmaker Hal Hartley’s films, beginning with 1990’s Trust through 1998’s The Book of Life. His career has included working with such esteemed filmmakers as Jane Campion...
On the Verge: Producers Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin
Producers Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin are longtime friends and indie producers behind award-winning films such as Kicks and Hunter Gatherer. Now, with their new comedy feature, The Climb — released theatrically and VOD on November 13 — they are on the verge...
Meet Claudia Maree Mailer, Actress and Creator of the DieRy Monologue Challenge
Actress Claudia Maree Mailer wasn’t about to let the pandemic get in the way of the release of her indie thriller DieRy, which marks the 26-year-old’s first lead role in a film. DieRy, shot before the pandemic, sees Mailer playing a young woman whose diary is stolen,...
The Rise of Ilai Swindells: How an Unfortunate Pandemic, a Casting Networks Submission, and an Improvised Dance Led to a Series Lead Role
It was June in Australia this year. The country was on lockdown due to the COVID pandemic. Industries were shut down, temporarily halted, or operating under specific restrictions. Twentysomething actor Ilai Swindells had no idea what sort of repercussions this would...
Kodi Smit-McPhee Shares Memorable Auditions, Career Goals and a Peek at His New Sci-Fi Role
Australian Kodi Smit-McPhee has been acting since he was a little boy, starring opposite many industry heavyweights, including Eric Bana in Romulus My Father and Viggo Mortensen in The Road. Having worked as a youngster with director Matt Reeves on the horror film Let...
Meet Perry Strong, Creator of Short Film ‘180 Seconds’
Imagine that in January of this year, you were visited by your six-month future self, letting you know about all the catastrophic events that were about to unfold that were out of our control. What if one of them was something you could manage if you put in a little...
Travis Fimmel of ‘Raised By Wolves’: “I’m the Worst Auditioner Ever”
Hate auditioning? Think you’re terrible at them? You’re not alone. Actor Travis Fimmel, star of such shows as The Vikings and films like Warcraft, totally understands how you feel. “I’m the worst auditioner ever known to man,” he tells Casting Networks. “I cannot...
On the Verge: Niamh Algar
Irish actress Niamh Algar is having a breakthrough career moment. The European-based actress stars in Ridley Scott’s new HBO Max sci-fi series Raised By Wolves, which premiered on Thursday, September 3. It’s about two androids raising human children as atheists on a...