Beim Casting der perfekten Melusina stößt das Filmteam auf eine unerwartete Kandidatin: Zeit, die Sage der Wassernixe neu zu interpretieren. Doch auf ihrer Mission für mehr Vielfalt legen sie der Schauspielerin neue Fesseln an.
A director and producer are casting actresses for the lead role of their re-telling of Luxembourg’s founding myth: Melusina. In an honest effort to give the myth a face-lift and to break free from traditional, corseting female beauty standards, the crew embarks on a mission to diversify. They have invited a wide palette of actresses but the casting day draws to an end without a perfect match when they spot a black actress in the waiting area.
Cast/Mit
Céline CAMARA
Sophie MOUSEL
Myriam MULLER
Konstantin ROMMELFANGEN
Esther Gaspart Michels
Magaly TEIXEIRA
Nora ZRIKA
Mayson BOSSI
Szenario
Anne SIMON
Céline CAMARA
Bild
Nikos Welter
Ton
Tom Biren
Musik
Gregory Ney
Produktion
AMOUR FOU Luxembourg
Anne SIMON
Luxembourg-based writer-director Anne Simon studied Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Apart from plenty of writing and directing for the national and international stage, and continuous experimentation with hybrid forms combining the digital and the live, Simon has written and directed the short-film D. – A Reproduction (Red Lion) and assured the actors’ direction in the documentary-fiction Ashcan: the Secret Prison (Nowhere Land Productions). After her second short film Fade To Black (Amour Fou), she is currently writing her first full length fiction