Breakdown Services Sponsors International Casting Seminar Featuring Five Top Casting Directors
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LOS ANGELES, CA, July 28, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Breakdown Services, the online communication network and casting system used by film studios, talent agents, casting directors and actors, is sponsoring a free symposium on international casting entitled "Actors, Casting and the International Market". The seminar will take place at the Showbiz Cafe, 500 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles, CA on Wednesday, August 4, from 6-9PM.

The workshop will focus on how the Internet has allowed the casting and production world to move rapidly beyond the limits of casting locally by conducting international searches with online casting systems. Casting globally is easier than ever, giving actors more and new unique opportunities.

The following casting directors and experts will be on the panel:

Nancy Bishop, International casting director, headquartered in Europe ("Prince Caspian", "Wanted", "The Illusionist")

Bonnie Gillespie (moderator), casting director and author of "Self-Management for Actors"

Meg Liberman, Executive Casting Director, CBS/Paramount

Gary Marsh (sponsor), owner, Breakdown Services

Rick Pagano, casting director ("24", "X-Men")

Paul Weber, casting director (In-House Casting Director for MGM Worldwide Television and the MGM Feature Casting Consultant)

Panelist Nancy Bishop will also introduce her new book, "Secrets of the Casting Couch" (The Bloomsbury Group, publishers), the first book written from a casting director's perspective that teaches the craft of film casting and offers specific techniques for working in front of the camera. Part how-to and part workbook, the book contains valuable exercises that actors can practice to achieve results in the casting studio.

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