Actor Growth

Today I saw that documentary called The Slanted Screen that dealt with Asians in the film business and the type of struggles and stereotypes one has to go through. I saw it on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJwAwH93Yhg

While obviously this one focused on Asian talent, it was so interesting to see the type of real politics that happen behind the scene. Example, certain films that wanted to replace actors simply because of their ethnicity to help draw in more acceptability. The comment towards the end too was pretty true where the bottom line it comes down to the money in terms of getting acceptance and more opportunities.

I mentioned before that my experiences have been pretty good so far when it comes to the independent circuit. I believe a big reason for this is that a lot of the younger generation of actors and filmmakers are used to growing up in a multicultural environment. Therefore, it’s more about who has the right skill and look.

Although, I will admit that for bigger budget items it is still hard. But realistically, it’s tough for everyone. Just like a business, the person funding the project wants a return on investment and so that’s just a challenge that you need to adapt with as they simply want to go with what is more likely to generate a return.

While I should be paying more attention to this I really haven’t for some reason.  The only reason I even thought about it recently is that in the process of researching about agencies here I read that a lot of them are holding off in looking for new talent until this issue is in the clear.

I was just reading a bit about it and from what I gather it seems like the disagreement is that the more established actors don’t see any kind of benefit from the proposed deal.  One person suggested to me that a strike would help a Canadian based actor more since there would be no US talent available.  I personally doubt a production would simply just look elsewhere though.

While I guess you can say it is slow from an overall prospective, it still seems like you can do so much though.  I guess this may even be more of a reason where hopefully the new actors group I am with might come up with our own fun film projects to work on.