Pictureworks Entertainment has announced an open casting call. They are looking for the actor play iconic Olymypian Jim Thorpe in the upcoming feature film Thorpe. Director Tracey Deer, who was selected late last month to direct the film, and Rene Haynes, casting director, made the announcement in a press release last month. The feature will be a drama about the formative years of Native American Olympic track and field Gold Medalist Jim Thorpe, is on a fast track, just in time for Native American Heritage Month.
Thorpe will focus on Thorpe’s time at Carlisle Industrial Indian School, which became the model for government and church-run Native American boarding schools that pervaded the United States and Canada in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. its motto ‘Kill the Indian, Save the Man,’ Carlisle isolated Native children from their families and tribal communities, and systematically stripped them of their languages, customs, medicines, religious beliefs, regalia, and even their own names—to assimilate them into mainstream society.
Producer Chris Taylor, Chitimacha Tribe of LA, said: “The challenge with this project has always been deciding which part of Jim’s story to focus the movie on. Previous versions of the script portrayed an older Jim, but what’s so exciting about Collage’s script is how youthful it is. We are very much looking forward to finding the right young Native man to step into Jim’s giant shoes. We invite every tribe in the U.S. and Canada to encourage their young people to audition.”
SEEKING
- JIM THORPE, male, to play age 22-25. The acclaimed Sac and Fox and Potawatomi athlete as a young Native American man.(circa.1910 – 1913).
For information on how to submit an audition visit https://thorpemovie.com/
Source: Native News Online