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Agustina is being looked for…
THERE ARE ALREADY MORE THAN 120 CANDIDATES!
There will be a casting in Saragossa to choose its heroine.
There are already more than 120 girls from Saragossa signed up for a casting which will take place next Thursday at the Municipal School of the Theatre. A young girl will be chosen in order to play Agustina de Aragón at a big screen.
The candidates will have to show in two minutes that they own the same Aragón’s determination as a heroine with her immortal canon shot during the siege. What is more they should have “a powerful image and a penetrating look”, explains Fernando Monzón, the author of a comic on which a possible movie will be based, a project for sale which is still looking for a producer.
Currently, the 3Lemon agency, where Monzón is working, wants to prepare a “teaser” or a video recording which will last four minutes and serve as an initiative promotion. The trailer shooting will start at a beginning of May and will be present this summer in a popular historic staging Batalla de Bailén. The mythical scene of a cannon shot will start the project. “We want to reflect that Saragossa was subdued by the cannons’ shots, so Agustina guided by her survival instinct, decided to use a fire. The story of the movie would start from this scene”, he explains.
However, in order to animate a movie, it is crucial to tell a story using the new Agustina who will be adapted for a screen.
On 12th of February, Monzón together with Marisa Nolla Salvado, a director of the Municipal School of the Theatre will form a part of judges and they will choose the young one. This one who wants to recreate Agustina should be a 22 years old woman with a characteristic of a girl from nowadays.
The casting will be intensive. It will start at 4 p.m. and finish at 9 p.m. The interest of candidates was really big and that is why it has been thinking to organize one more casting soon.
Each of the actresses will have two minutes to show why she is worth to be Agustina. “We don’t need anyone with dramatic knowledge. The candidates between 18 and 25 will have to recite some short phrases”, explains Monzón.
So as not to disappoint candidates who won’t be chosen, the agency will propose them to attend at other activities. The possible Agustina can register herself at www.agustinadearagon.com and on the phone 976 228 255.
The movie shooting has already had its promotion agenda. It will be presented in September, during the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. The comic on which the movie will be based and which was presented at the last Salón del Cómic in Saragossa will be on sale on 6th of March, commemorating the day of birth of Agustina de Aragón in 1786.