Romantic comedy writer and producer Dianna Ippolito is taking her first stab at the horror genre with “Out There in the Dark,” a feature film focusing on two girls (inspired by her nieces) who go to a haunted house and leave with a ghost. To release the ghost, the girls must solve the mystery of what the ghost wants. To raise money for the film, she decided to shoot a trailer first and turned to Backstage to find two young actors to play her leads. Ippolito cast completely off video submissions, a method she also employed for her previous work casting a television show. “I find it a lot easier to weed through people’s reels because sometimes actors will memorize something and then when you bring them in to do something in front of you, they’re not very good.” So seeing video of the scene gave her the...
- 8/27/2015
- backstage.com
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