By editing a catalog dedicated to the agents, we introduce in this section of the website to all the professional GERMAN and FRENCH agents, and several recognized INTERNATIONAL agents, a selection of actors who have impressed us with their acting talent and / or abilities for language, and who are able to present decent material e.g. photos, showreel, CV and whom we trust they can find an agent. This section is visible only by agents that we have proved and the agents must log in to access to the catalog. This ensures the safety and the confidentiality of the information given by the actors.
Please, before you register, take note of the conditions:
* We won’t register actors who do not have any showreel and -portraits, or would not correspond to what the agents are looking for. Exception : If you do have this material but it is too specific (only genre movies or theater for example), or concerns only very small parts, or is not updated nor professional enough, we can accept your profile if we feel there is something that can interest the market, but you must know that it will be classified in the category “other actors” till you provide regular material.
* About the pictures : please send real portraits, means close-ups on your face and neck. Larger picture should be sent as “full body picture” and not as portrait. Also please publish on our platform only recent (maxi 1 year old) and natural pictures. Do only retouch the spots or the red colors on the face, but not the wrinkles or the defaults on the skin which can make you specific as an actor (and therefore as a character). It brings nothing to fake your pictures and then meet an agent and that this last one realizes you lied on your appearance. You take the risk to be blacklisted by this agent.
* We will precise on your profile the main quality, beside your acting talent, why we have selected you for the Special agent section : Young Talent / Professional in the Native country / Two or more Languages / Upcoming / International actors / Other actors
* “Two or more Languages” will be assigned to the actors who give in their profile a link to a video in a foreign language. For lack of a video in a foreign language, one of those three mentions will be assigned, according to the age of the actor : “Young talent” or “Professional in the Native country” or “Upcoming”.
* “Upcoming” will be mentioned only on the profiles of young or newcoming actors who already got an important part in a long feature for the cinema or a main part in sort film which was shown in international A-festivals or on public TV channels; we won’t discuss this decision afterward.
* “International actors” will be assigned to the upcoming actors who speak well several languages and prove them by giving a link to a video in a foreign language and to the international established actors.
* In case we would accept to register your profile, a small fee will be asked to you in order to contribute to the webmastering cost of this platform.
TIPPS in case you apply to find a foreign agent:
Those criteria have been established after having discussed with several agents in Paris, London, Germany :
- If you are over 26 and not well-known in your country, nor recognized on the international market, you must be bilingual in the other language in order to interest foreign agents. Some exceptions can be done with some actors who have a very specific type physically : in this case, we expect your level in the foreign language between good and fluent.
- If you are under 26, have almost no experience or are not well represented already in your country, you must be bilingual in the other language.
- If you are under 26, not well-known but well represented in your native country, casted for important parts, your level in the foreign language can be between fluent and bilingual.
- If you are well-known in your country or recognized on the international market, your level can be between good and bilingual.
- If you are not well-known by the professionals in the cinema area and if we (at the European casting studio) don’t know you personally and your level in the foreign language, we won’t be able to validate your profile if you don’t provide us a video (a scene, an interview, a monolog) that show your level in this other language.
- Please also be kind to inform the agent in your country that you are looking for an agent in the country of your other language.
Contacts of Photographers and Showreel / demo-scenes-markers:
We indicate below a selection of photographers and directors or companies who do showreels and demo-scenes.
PHOTOGRAPHERS:
In Paris:
Our favorite:
(we love the style of the portraits, the personality of the photographer and we can guaranty the quality of the work and the honesty in term of pricing)
http://www.celinenieszawer.com
Other portrait photographers:
(known as portraitists for actors)
http://www.allard.fr
http://www.cruveiller.net
http://www.alessandrobrossollet.fr/Photos/Photos.html
http://elieaxas.com/category/photographe/un-jour-un-shooting
http://www.ledroitperrin.com
Other photographers:
http://www.myphotoagency.com/sonia-hamza
In Berlin:
Our favorite:
(we love the style of the portraits, the personality of the photographer and we can guaranty the quality of the work and the honesty in term of pricing)
http://steffenroth.com
Other portrait photographers:
(known as portraitists for actors)
http://www.unterdenufern.de
http://carolinweinkopf.de
http://www.adrianhoellger.de
https://www.facebook.com/Gregory.B.Waldis.Fotografie
http://www.robert-recker.de
http://capricecrawfordphotography.weebly.com/
Other photographers:
http://www.laurahegewald.de
http://www.fabianschubert.com
SHOWREELS & DEMO-SCENES:
We can recommend by email authors we personally know who can write you good cinema scenes but then you would need to organize the production of those scenes.
Otherwise you can also go to some studios specialized in showreels and demo-scenes (we have no idea how they work, so please check by yourself) :
In Berlin:
http://berlinerfilmwerkstatt.de
http://www.schauspieler-kollektiv.de/page2.html
If you agree with all those conditions, you can fill in our form