THE SECOND AUDITION
An unemployed actor returns to his old theatre company to do an audition with his colleague, for a play that they have performed many times before. Under the direction of the newly named artistic director the actor is asked to try out a mask, which he refuses. After a heated argument the actor leaves the scene. In the dressing room his colleague gives him a telephone number for a private job.....
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Pouya GourabiDirector
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Pouya GourabiWriter
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Pouya GourabiProducer
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David GeysenKey Cast
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Sis JosipKey Cast
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Lucas DietensKey Cast
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Beaudil ElzengaKey Cast
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Guy TavaresKey Cast
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Ingrid RollemaKey Cast
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Project Type:Feature
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Genres:Art House, World Cinema, Midnight Movie, Tragicomedy, Satire, Surrealism
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Runtime:1 hour 5 minutes
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Completion Date:March 27, 2020
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Production Budget:7,000 EUR
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Country of Origin:Netherlands
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Country of Filming:Netherlands
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Language:Dutch
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Shooting Format:RED
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Aspect Ratio:1.85:1
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:Yes
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Student Project:No
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Culcatta Int. Cult Film FestivalCulcatta
India
October 1, 2020
online premiere
Best Film -
Madrid Int. Art Film FestivalMadrid
Spain
November 18, 2020
European Premiere
Best Cast -
16 Festival Transterritorial de Cine UndergroundBuenos Aires
Argentina
December 4, 2020
South-American Premiere
Selection -
Bare Bones International Film & Music FestivalMuskogee, Oklahoma
United States
April 22, 2021
North American Premiere
Selection -
Anatolia Int. Film FestivalIstanbul
Turkey
November 1, 2020
Transcontinental Premiere
Selection Best soundtrack, Selection Best Sound Design
Distribution Information
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Amazon PrimeDistributorCountry: GermanyRights: Video on Demand, Pay Per View, Paid TVCountry: United StatesRights: Video on Demand, Pay Per View, Paid TV
Pouya Gourabi was born during the Iranian revolution and grew up during wartime. His love for films started during those days when he saw 'The Third Man' by Carol Reed and at a young age he was struck by films. When Pouya started to show more love for films, little by little, he saw and learned about the New Hollywood films and the World Cinema hero's.
Fast-forwarding his life from the early 1990s when he emigrated to the Netherlands, to studying filmmaking at Utrechts Art Academy, to working on short films, underground films, art films, and commercials in the Netherlands, Serbia, USA, Iran, Italy and Kuwait.
The idea to make the low-budget film THE SECOND AUDITION was to create a zeitgeist about the life and times in the Hague area in the Netherlands: to make a film about the almost-surreal circumstances and to represent these in a realistic mood.
Being inspired by the revisionist detective films of the 1970's and their usage of the classical hardboiled elements helped me write the story. Watching a lot of autonomous first feature films also helped me to identify the genres of the story in order to use each shooting day with a different team of actors, because of the tight schedule and budget limitations. THE SECOND AUDITION is an independent art film, a midnight movie that tends towards the social satire genre. With soundtrack by the Electro music pioneer Legowelt, the story forces the main unemployed actor David Geysen to move thorough the streets for a private job.
THE SECOND AUDITION is somehow an international production with Belgian, Dutch, Iranian, Pakistani and Somalian actors. Shahin Khakpour at Studio Moon in Tehran, Iran did the sound editing and the final mix, everything online.