Filmaka promises to create A-list directors out of ordinary people who submit videos online. Massify.com is pulling the same stunt with actors, urging its community to vote on who should get the top 20 acting slots in a horror film.
In a contest ending today (Friday), aspiring actors uploaded auditions to the site that were then judged by their peers. Whether those votes actually count toward who gets cast is a question I can’t yet answer; as I write, the site is down to "tally votes" and I haven’t yet had a chance to interview the founders.
Actress Deborah Geffner ("All That Jazz", "Monk", "ER", "Infestation", among many others) heard about the site when her agent told her she should audition for a horror movie called Ghosts in the Machine. The audition, which was filmed, went like any of the dozens of others she’s done. Then the casting director told her an online community would vote on whether her audition was worth considering — and she would have to upload the video herself.
"I thought that was the real horror movie," she said. "It took me four days to do it."
Check out her audition below.
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This post was written by Michael Stroud on April 25, 2008
