A crew member at Saturday’s shoot. (Photo by Phyllis McCabe)
“There’s so much waiting around time that I think some of the kids get bored,” Hutchings said. “Beyond the first little while of being kind of in awe and starstruck, they realize these are real people just like they are. It humanizes them more. We’re such a starstruck culture, so in a way it’s actually humbling.”
And with extras coming from outside of Kingston, the downtime also made it possible for kids from different schools to bond in a unique way.
“We cast our net in many different directions,” Hutchings said. “In a film like this, the high school was very helpful and very instrumental because they have their own closed-network cable station that goes to all the students. We got a lot of wonderful kids from there. I also contacted Woodstock Day School, Saugerties, Onteora, Ellenville. I wanted to be able to give this opportunity to as many kids as possible. And they made friends with one another. It was a very joyful experience for the most part.”
Baganz certainly thought so.
“It’s been a good experience,” he said. “It’s perfect for what I want to do.”
Hutchings said she’d heard similar thoughts from other young talent she cast.
“There are a couple of kids from the high school who have sent me notices since working with me that said this experience had changed their lives,” she said. “It’s wonderful. It makes me so happy.”
On the other hand, there were also a handful of kids who, after getting their first taste of film production, found it wasn’t a good fit.
“Two of the mothers came back to me and thanked me,” said Hutchings, laughing. They were so passionate about trying to be in film, and after a very long day with us decided this wasn’t for them, so the parents were happy the kids moved on.”
Padalino said he believed the experience was good forKingston, adding that he hoped it might happen again one day.
“It’s exciting to have them here,” he said. “It’s exciting for the recognition and it’s exciting for our kids. It’s really a lot of fun.”
If Hutchings has her say, it may just happen.
“I very highly recommend working up here,” she said. “There are so many benefits to it, and there’s just a wonderful group of people working up here. It is definitely less expensive to do a film here. And we just have great resources. I think it brought a lot of great energy to the area, and I hope it brought some financial help to the community as well.”
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Hi,
This article is great!!! I will keep in mind that area is perfect for filming and less expensive because I have considered being a director, actresses, screen writer, script writer designer, and producer.
Love,
Hanna P.
Hi,
I also, had to add that I should have came to New York because Hutchings is right. You really do not need experience, but can you handle it! I would have emailed Hutchings to be part of the film and maybe, as Emily Parris or Marry Warren changed to Marry Weather to be talked only to Hutchings why I would say that.
If you read thus Hutchings; Please, some how let people through fansites be able to contact you or through the movie set website that would have information to contact you if they have questions are interested and who doesn’t necessarily have the money to fly over just to audition and not get any money back from auditioning for just a simple film or acting for a small film that would gain money to be able next time to fly out of town just to audition for a film like; Heartland which is a Canadian TV show & The Silver Chair & Kick Ass 2 & Movie 43 & Carrie 2 & Grace Unplugged & Relative Strangers& The Goodwife & Jane By Design: Season 2 & & The Amazing Spider-Man 2 & Perfect Sisters 2 and 3 & The Sisterhood of Night TV show & Final Girl which is filming right now & Haunter & Ender’s Game & Glee TV show & Virgin Mary & Les Miserable & August: Osage County. Those are all the films I want to do and some that are not on imbd and so on.
The ones not on imbd:
Zoey Deans Talent novel each movie of each book & Vixen which is a story of the daughter who fakes and lies about her real life to her mom which is she helps with boys who have lust problems and charges them what a prostitute would and her mom thinks she is having sex which her mother tries so hard to bring her up like a prostitute, but she never tells her until she gets to college.
The ones that are books/films based on the books:
Ask the Passengers by A.S. King & Confessions of a Murder Suspect by ames Patterson, Maxine Paetro & Small Damages by By Beth Kephart & Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson & Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore & The Story of Us by Deb Caletti & Grave Mercy: His Fair Assassin, Book 1 by Robin LaFevers & Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver & If I Lie by Corrine Jackson & Tilt by Ellen Hopkins & Over You by Nicola Kraus, Emma McLaughlin & Unraveling by Elizabeth Norris & The Fame Game by Lauren Conrad & City of Lost Souls: The Mortal Instruments, Book 5 by Cassandra Clare & Fever: The Chemical Garden Trilogy, Book 2 by Lauren DeStefano & Tempest by Julie Cross & Leverage by Joshua C. Cohen & Perfect by Ellen Hopkins & What Happens Next by Colleen Clayton & Talent by Zoey Dean & Almost Famous by Zoey Deans & Star Power by Zoey Deans & The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale & Princess Academy by Shannon Hale & Forest Born by Shannon Hale & Kingdom Keepers series by Ridley Pearson, Tristan Elwell & Daughters of the Sea #1: Hannah by Kathryn Lasky & Nancy Drew Graphic Novels by Stefan Petrucha, Sho Murase & more to come.
Great article. I’ll remember “The Sisterhood of Night” forever, the great people I met and worked with and just the overall experience is beyond words.
I’ll definitely be looking for the movie after it’s release.