One day as I was scrolling through Facebook I received a notification from one of the many groups I am a member of for actors. This particular post was a casting call in a Swedish group seeking a native English speaking actor to play a criminal gangster in a self-funded short film by Matt Rosenholm.
Matt is a Swedish music producer and actor who needed English material for his showreel to show to agents during a trip to LA that he had planned. He had written a script, hired a production company and was now in the process of finding all the roles for his film.
I sent him all of my materials and resume and we decided to meet and have a chat about his project. We ended up chatting for over 2 hours, bouncing ideas back and forth about the scenes and how we could develop the idea further to then submit to festivals. The meeting ended with me not only getting a supporting role in the film, but also signing on to co-produce the project.
Through my network of contacts we were able to cast the rest of the roles.
I was able to bring in Johnny Höglin, Founder & CEO of Ronin Media and an awesome actor that I met on the set of Direct Deposit – he ended up playing the mafia boss that my character worked for in The Unexpected Promotion.
We also had a special cameo by another one of my closest friends and Swedish Golden Scarab (Guldbagge) nominated actor, Sebastian Hiort af Ornäs who played Matts best friend in the film as a favour to me.
The shoot took 2 days and was a lot of fun. The team that Matt had hired were professional and the locations he found suited the needs of the script. I was very impressed and everyone involved worked hard to get the results we wanted.
After I received the first edit of the movie I of course sent it to Andreas [Gyllström] who then created all of the sound foley and composed a full soundtrack for us. I also edited the trailer which Andreas also added music to.
Before submitting to festivals I hired Gaz Jackson to make some Artwork and posters for us. He had done an amazing job creating some of the first posters for Rotten Love and I always like to work with people again that do a good job. And Gaz delivered.
The Unexpected Promotion was a fun project to be a part of. We actually have ideas of developing a feature script which Matt is currently working on. So we shall see what the future holds, stay tuned!
Swedish Motion AB & Cuprite Productions
Proudly Present
'The Unexpected Promotion'
Starring Matt Rosenholm Xander Turian Johnny Höglin
Written by Matt Rosenholm Directed by Styrbjörn Dannelöv Karlin
Produced by Matt Rosenholm & Xander Turian Original Soundtrack by Andreas Gyllström
Links: IMDb - Facebook Page