On the surface, Showing Up explores the actor's audition. Looking deeper, it transcends the profession and examines what it takes to pursue what we most want to achieve in life.
In this 80-minute conversation, some of our finest working actors reflect on what the audition process is and means to them, how they prepare and how they keep going back.
Part of the proceeds from Showing Up will be donated to the Screen Actor's Guild Foundation and the Actor's Fund of America.
The Elements
The audition itself does not live without the combination of elements that comprise it and it changes with every new ingredient that enters the mix. You can have the same material and the same people conducting the audition but what it becomes depends on who walks in the door and how their preconceptions have, or have not, allowed them to inhabit both the moment and the material.
The audition doesn't exist without their chemical elements tossed into what's already in the beaker. Those holding the beaker, or even feeling they created and therefore own the beaker and the ingredients, may believe they are in possession of the primary components but it's far more than what any one person can own or convey.
An audition can be Ganeshian, destroying all obstacles in the path of creation, or Frankenstienien, destroying its creators. The truth we seek to inhabit is what is revealed when you add fire to the beaker. Anything can happen. Actors, the flame, live for that.
Crew
- Produced and Directed by
- Riad Galayini Read Bio »
- James Morrison Read Bio »
- Executive Producer
- Sal Irizarry
- Jane Basina
- Waj Arshad
- Editor
- Riad Galayini Read Bio »
- Still and Portrait Photography
- Eric Williams
- Directors of Photography
- Jean Kim
- Shawn Lewallen
- Laura Merians
- Tobin Yelland
- Casting
- Jim Carnahan, C.S.A/Kate Boka