Local film-maker seeks actors

Kilcullen's Shane McGrath, best known for his music activities, is expanding further into the scary world of film-making, writes Brian Byrne.

Shane is looking for cast for a feature length music based love story drama he has written and will be directing the shooting of in February and March 2014.

He emphasises that it is a 'tiny budget' enterprise.

The roles he needs to cast are 11 men in the 26-40 age group, three men in their 50s, five women 25-40, and two women aged 55 or over.

"If anyone can sing, be sure to let me know," Shane says. "If they play an instrument, it's a bonus." He adds that he doesn't care whether the actors are professional or not, as long as they will be serious about the project, will take it professionally, and can act.

Auditions will be screened and work-shopped on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 12/13/14 November 2013 in Dublin.

Please don't apply if you can't film extensively in February and March 2014 in Dublin. Shane can be contacted at shane@limelightgroup.ie.

In 2011 Shane produced, directed and starred in the first ever film based on Gerald Manely Hopkins’s epic poem, ‘The Wreck of the Deutschland’. The film has been very well received from scholars and literary critics throughout Europe.