"90% of directing is casting" (John Huston)
For every role to be cast in Hollywood today, thousands of headshots are sent in and hundreds of actors are called in for auditions. Who makes the decisions? What happens during a casting session? Which are the criteria that decide on tomorrow's stars?
BEHIND THE COUCH takes a look behind the Hollywood scenes and accompanies upcoming UK born and raised casting director Zora DeHorter who gets her big break when she lands the job of casting a medium size independent movie "Half Life".
Veit Helmer follows the casting of this feature film, decoding the seemingly confusing system. The selection process is tough: very few actors have the honor of being called for an audition.
Over the 100 years that Hollywood exists, 100's of thousands of young and beautiful people have been drawn to this Mecca in the hope to make it and become famous. Today, there are over 250.000 actors in Los Angeles, all of them looking for their moment of glory.
Hollywood's most famous casting directors finally reveal their hidden secrets: Michael Fenton (E.T, Chinatown), Mindy Marin (The Net, L.A. Story), Jane Jenkins (When Harry Met Sally, Stand by me), Janet Hirshenson (Jurassic Park, Apollo 13) and Matthew Barry (Ed Wood, Rush Hour).
Shot over a period of four months on location in Los Angeles. BEHIND THE COUCH allows a ironic and sometimes funny look behind the curtain of the casting process as it occurs every day in Hollywood.
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