THE MENSCH
SAG-AFTRA MLB
Director: David Ethan Shapiro
Writers: David Ethan Shapiro, Melanie Shaw
Producers: Michael Schreiber, Starlight Partners (David Shapiro & Anthony DiGiacomo), Jonah Platt
Executive Producers: XYZ Films (sales), Sheila Jaffe (Co-EP), Jorge Garcia Castro, Joe Hodorowicz
Casting: Eisenberg Casting (Daryl Eisenberg, CSA)
Casting Assistant: Chelsi Kern
Shoot: June 2024 in AZ, July 2024 in LA
Location: Scottsdale, AZ / Los Angeles
Daily Rate: $753/8hrs + 10% agency fee
Weekly Rate: $2612/week + 10% agency fee
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Subject Line: AZ Local - The Mensch - [insert Role here]
Logline: Amidst the Arizona deserts, a young rabbi having a crisis of faith and his temple’s most loyal (and eccentric) congregant venture on a wild, dangerous one-night odyssey to recover a priceless Holocaust-era Torah and save their community.
SEEKING:
KINGPIN: 20s-30s, white, male. Menacing and violent coke dealer. With aspirations to be a musician.
CACTUS: 30s, white, male. Frustrated. Part of the Neo-Nazi group, but you wouldn’t know from looking at him. Involved in criminal activities, but his panic and confusion suggest a lack of commitment to the hate group's ideology. An ordinary person looking for a scapegoat for his troubles.
THE CADDY: Early teens, male. Rail-thin, acne, doesn’t look more than 16. Mixed up in the local drug trade.
MILLENNIAL: 20s-30s, white, female. Social activist who inadvertently becomes mixed up with the Neo-Nazi group. Also plays the role of BEAUTIFUL WOMAN in the opening scene.
OFFICER WINSLOW: 40s, Black, male. Security guard. Skeptical of the Rabbi but loyal to the synagogue.
ISAAC COHEN: 13, male, Jewish. Son of the temple’s queen bee. Kind of a jerk. Scared of his mom.
LENA MEISLIN: 16, female, Jewish. A teen who’s gotten herself into trouble.
GOLIATH: 20s-40s, male. Massive and terrifying. Violent. One of Kingpin’s henchmen. An Eastern European accent is a plus.
MIDGE: Late 30s, female. Her wife is the Cantor. Adventurous. Not someone you’d expect to see at services.
MRS. FELDMAN: 40s-50s, female. Older Jewish woman hosting shiva. Grieving and looking for solace from the Rabbi.
OFFICER AHIGA: 40s, male, Navajo, loyal security guard. Only person at the temple who seems to have the Rabbi’s back, carries guilt for not protecting the Rabbi from an incident at the temple.
IMAM BILAL: 40s-50’s, male, spiritual leader of the Phoenix mosque and ally to the synagogue.