All crew positions now available. Casting list as below. We will be shooting for three weeks from Dec 1st on location in Liverpool Please reply directly to me by email pmariani@hotmail.co.uk , thanks, Phina Oruche www.phinaoruche.com
Synopsis:- Enter Selah, a 29 years old with the world at her feet and everything to live for. She is making big strides in the art world, where her paintings and photographs are big news. However, at an event in a gallery she gets her drink spiked by a paparazzi photographer and subsequently endures a brutal attack. All of her current good fortune is threatened by the spiral of events that follow; she drunkenly crashes her car and the national press go after her.
Selah seeks out her twin brother whom she was separated from as a young child, when her father abandoned them to alcohol addiction. A frequent offender and drug addict, she tries to reconnect with him only to find out he is unable to be available to her, his needs are so great, he thinks she is either a meal ticket or a cure-all. She knows that all the things that go with being a celebrity aren’t what they seem, she tries to help her brother – as her memory of that dreaded night resurfaces and hopes that their new found faith in Jesus will be enough to save them.
It’s a cry for the many that are caught up in the addictive cycle of drug abuse, showing that there is a way forward. As families fight this silent war and family members go missing and get lost to it. It’s a blistering, raw account of a true story that fortunately sometimes also has happy endings. Selah:- is a redemptive plot about a young girl raised in Liverpool. A moving account of deliverance, faith, hope and love
SELAH 29,Wild haired Nigerian beauty born in Liverpool 8, raised away in foster care because of her dysfunctional family, never saw them again, a new “celebrity” artist on the verge of getting everything she thinks she wants . She is out of place in Toxteth, very stylishly dressed in a designer raincoat. On a personal quest stylish .Comes back to Liverpool after a devastating attack makes her question her place in life and the industry. Selah already cast as Phina Oruche
Joseph Selah’s long lost twin brother, a 29 year old black man- once a beauty, his face looks perhaps twenty years older, life has not been good to him, he is a drug pusher, and not the glamorous ones you see on MTV. This man’s life is hard. had all the woman after him, has now succumbed to the drugs he once dealt, left him leaning on a cane, swollen faced a broken spirited lamb, shouting incoherently at demons not visible to anyone but them.
Baldy White, 29+ funny looking, jelly bellied paparazzi photographer, thinks he’s cool, Generation Y dressing, spikes Selah’s drink and essentially rapes her. Ironically he is not evil, he actually thinks he has a chance with her. A Lifetime loser!
Selah’s Father A constantly inebriated middle aged Nigerian man dressed in the national costume, is urinating against the inside corridor wall of his tenement building, a terrible father, old school none emotional. Lennon A Police Officer – 30’s, any ethnicity, handsome, straight laced. Selah’s love interest. A born again believer breathes life into her flagging spirit. Jesse Selah’s neighbor and only friend, a late 20’s early 30’s interesting effeminate man. A lover of life big in personality and bite, vivacious, funny an underlying sadness he over-eats to get away from his intense sense of loneliness.
Hal preacher 60’s, a thin white man. Caliga a Mexican woman very youthful but actually in her fifties. Long loose raven black hair, she wears jeans and cowboy boots and a tailored jacket, an unconventional preacher in her own right a power house. TV hosts ala Philip and Fern, Richard and Judy, or similar styled very successful cameo couple. Ron a very thin, unsteady, emaciated man in his late 80’s he wears a plaid shirt that envelops his thin body and a pair of blue Dockers with suspenders. His clothes are always lightly soiled Anguss Lownie – white middle class early 40’s a plummy art curator who makes it his business to rip off young artists. He has no loyalty, and would cut Selah’s throat as soon as look at her.
Chaplain ex con 40’s, Manchester accent, ratty, dready hair, totally street, many tattoo’s, cleaned up, wearing a dog collar, Donatella, late 30’s, light haired Italian, worn out. Ex Drug addict, heart of gold. Secretary, bland has no life, if it were not for the gossip magazine’s. Camille, Salt of the earth, black Scouser, gorgeous mother of four young boys.
Samson/Art Curator a 60 year old pink wiry man, extreme character, but NOT effeminate that’s too obvious. Druggie a white stringy looking dirty crackhead, actually very beautiful. Scrubs up good. Passerby A hard middle aged black woman with no empathy Hannah three year old cute Scouse kid any ethnicity. George mixed race boy about six very funny. Justine 9 years old, any ethnicity old soul, lost her parents so can take care of herself.
