FuelFilm:Memphis is offering a “Cast Away” workshop to bring together actors, casting directors and filmmakers.

Speakers will include local casting directors and talent agency representatives who will discuss the casting process and best practices for filmmakers and on-screen talent. 

The workshop is Saturday, July 10, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Howard Hall, 2282 Madison.

The main event will be an organized casting session where participating filmmakers present projects they hope to cast and participating actors will read for a variety of parts.

Filmmakers who would like to cast a part should email their contact information, a short description of their project and up 8 pages of “sides” (two or three scenes from your script) to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it by July 8th.

Actors may bring headshots and resumes but it is not required, and aspiring actors are welcome. Children under 16 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian to participate.

To sign up, go here: http://castawaymemphis.eventbrite.com/

Scripts from the Crypt returns to St. Mary's Cathedral Wednesday, June 9, at 6:30 p.m.

The featured work is "Imagination," an original work by Levi Frazier, Jr., actor, director, writer, and college professor. "Imagination" is a cerebral twist on historical fact -- a Revolutionary War slave girl matches wits with Russia's most famous poet, Alexander Pushkin.

Scripts From The Crypt is a Mid-South script-reading group, created to provide a forum for writers to hear their work -- and the works of others -- read aloud. The free event is in the Crypt (basement) of St. Mary's Cathedral, 700 Poplar, and you are welcome to attend as a reader or as an audience member.

There will be a meeting of the Board of Directors of The Memphis & Shelby County Film and Television Commission on Wednesday, June 16, 2010 at 12 noon at Malco’s Studio on the Square Theater (Overton Square). The meeting is open to the public.

On Thursday May 20 at 7 p.m., the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art's Reel to Real Series features John Beifuss, film reviewer and reporter at The Commercial Appeal.

He will talk about his theory that 1932 was the best year for horror movies, ever – as evidenced by this screening of the controversial pre-code classic Island of Lost Souls. Not available on DVD and banned in England until 1958, the film stars Charles Laughton as an obsessed scientist seeking to accelerate Darwinian evolution by transforming men into animals in his jungle “House of Pain.” Sex, religion, race – it’s all here! With Kathleen Burke as “Lota the Panther Woman” and a fur-faced Bela Lugosi, who asks the question that decades later would inspire Devo: “Are we not men?”  Based on a novel by H.G. Wells.

Tickets: $6 members, $8 non-members. Free with VIP Film Pass. For more information or to purchase tickets call 901.544.6208. Go here for more info.