Speak Spanish? The Canadian Forces have a role for you
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Casting agent offering villager roles in Alberta war game
By Bob Mackin, Contributing writer September 9, 2011
It’s not a typical Hollywood North casting call, because the actors’ performances aren’t meant for public viewing.
Calgary film and TV casting director Rhonda Fisekci is seeking more than 100 Spanish-speakers aged 18 to 65 to portray mayors, police, interpreters and villagers during a Canadian Forces war game near Edmonton next month. Candidates, who must have lived in Canada for at least two years, can apply Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Park Inn and Suites at West Broadway and Laurel in Vancouver.
“Now that we're not in Afghanistan any longer, [the Canadian Forces] want to continue the same type of training exercises that we have been doing, but we need to provide soldiers with a language barrier so they can work through interpreters,” Fisekci told the Courier. “They've chosen Spanish this time as the language. We're doing nondescript little villages up in the base at Wainwright, Spanish villages.”
Transportation, accommodation and meals are provided. Those who are assigned a specific character role will be paid $290 a day, while the rest will get $195 a day. The average day at the training centre is 12 hours, with one paid day off. Scenarios run the gamut, from replacement of a water well to an attack simulation.
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Casting agent offering villager roles in Alberta war game
By Bob Mackin, Contributing writer September 9, 2011
It’s not a typical Hollywood North casting call, because the actors’ performances aren’t meant for public viewing.
Calgary film and TV casting director Rhonda Fisekci is seeking more than 100 Spanish-speakers aged 18 to 65 to portray mayors, police, interpreters and villagers during a Canadian Forces war game near Edmonton next month. Candidates, who must have lived in Canada for at least two years, can apply Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Park Inn and Suites at West Broadway and Laurel in Vancouver.
“Now that we're not in Afghanistan any longer, [the Canadian Forces] want to continue the same type of training exercises that we have been doing, but we need to provide soldiers with a language barrier so they can work through interpreters,” Fisekci told the Courier. “They've chosen Spanish this time as the language. We're doing nondescript little villages up in the base at Wainwright, Spanish villages.”
Transportation, accommodation and meals are provided. Those who are assigned a specific character role will be paid $290 a day, while the rest will get $195 a day. The average day at the training centre is 12 hours, with one paid day off. Scenarios run the gamut, from replacement of a water well to an attack simulation.
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