BLIND FAITH CASTING CALL

Blind Faith by Sam Obigbesan. Digital short film. CASTING CALL
Open Sky Theatre produced by Turtle Key Arts

Filming Date: 26th October 2023, Hereford
Rate: £160 per day (8am-7pm)
Travel, overnight Accommodation, Catering and Subsistence provided

Please submit a photo (head shot) and CV/list of experience or spotlight link to niamh@turtlekeyarts.org.uk

Submission deadline: noon, Monday 16th October

Auditions will be held over zoom on Wednesday 18th October

Blind Faith is an affecting drama about a young Nigerian boy losing his sight. His devout parents refuse to accept his fate and, during a friend’s wedding, the zealous uninvited lay their hands on his face to cure him. The results are not what they expected.

Mum - Lamide, British Nigerian Female Actor, late 30’s-40’s

Mum of Johnathan, an elegant woman in her late thirty’s, she cares about everything and everyone around her. Her movements are always measured, not precise exactly just enough to do what she needs too. She is a people watcher and when around her son she more often than not tweak’s her son’s clothes or anything out of place. She has an eye for detail and she secretly wanted to be an artist, something that her family never encouraged, it comes out in the way she dresses, her hair, and the layout of the shop she owns with her husband. She tries verry hard to not be her parents, that’s why she once to make sure that her son is happy. She believes that God never gives anyone more than they can handle. 

Dad - Tolu, British Nigerian Male Actor, 40’s

Father of Johnathan, in his early forties with a nervous energy about him. His smile is something barely glimpsed as it flashes on but for a moment and disappears. His handshake is brief but intense, genuine, but to preoccupied to let it show. He owns a shop that sells African goods, he is proud of it and grateful to God for it. Through out his life, he has had struggles, struggles he does not want his son to experience and though he is a great communicator with his customers he seems to fail where his son is concerned. 

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BLIND FAITH is part of MicroPlays: Identity, a new series of five brand new digital shorts from Open Sky.

MicroPlays: Identity asks the question “What makes us who we are?”

They include:

Shrimp by Yasser Zadeh

Shoobs by Janet Etuk

Outside the Box by Claire Coaché

Blind Faith by Sam Obigbesan

The Art of Dying by Lisle Turner

MicroPlays: Identity will be released via our partner venues and then online in March 2024.

In 2020 Open Sky made MicroPlays: Polarity, an anthology of five digital short plays by diverse writers. Designed to appeal to audiences traditionally excluded from the cultural discourse, the MicroPlays were mobile phone friendly and released via social media. The series was a huge success reaching new audiences of 650,000+ people. They garnered Digital Culture Awards 2022 success both in the Digital Inclusion category and as the overall winner. One of the shorts, The Ceremony premiered internationally at the prestigious Vancouver International Film Festival before winning Best LGBTQIA+ short and best screenplay at The Artists Forum in New York.

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