PASSAPORTE LISBOA'24
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About Passaporte
Passaporte is a project that promotes the internationalization of Portuguese actors, introducing them to renowned casting directors.
The Program Passaporte is funded by the Ministry of Culture of the Portuguese Republic, through the Cultural Development Fund, and by the GDA Foundation. The organization of the Passport is the responsibility of APFACT, in partnership with the Portuguese Academy of Cinema.
PASSAPORTE 2024
INTERNATIONAL GUESTS
CASTING DIRECTORS
FRANK MOISELLE
IRLANDA
FRANK MOISELLE, CSA, ICDA, CGD, is a Casting Director. Frank began his career in casting as Casting Assistant to Nuala Moiselle on John Huston’s feature film adaptation of James Joyce’s “The Dead”. As Casting Director, he has worked with acclaimed directors such as Jim Sheridan / “The Secret Scripture, In America”; Joel Schumacher / “Veronica Guerin”; Gillies MacKinnon / “Tara Road” and Neil Jordan / “Ondine”. For TV he has cast “Ballykissangel” (BBC), “The Tudors”, “The Borgias” and “Penny Dreadful” (Showtime), “Vikings” (History/MGM), “Sanctuary” (AMC), “Borderline” (Lionsgate) and “Vikings: Valhalla” (Netflix/MGM). Frank is a member of the European Film Academy and of BAFTA. He is a fellow of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Ireland, University College Dublin and is a three-time, prime time Emmy nominee for Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series.
FRANCESCO VEDOVATI
ITÁLIA
FRANCESCO VEDOVATI, ICDN, CSA, UICD (Italy) is a casting director based in Rome. He won the ICDN International Casting Director Award 2018 in Sarajevo for Dogman (Matteo Garrone) and was nominated for the same award in 2017 for Pericle Il Nero (Stefano Mordini). In 2015, he won the Silver Ribbon Award for Best Casting for Wondrous Boccaccio (Paolo and Vittorio Taviani), and in 2018 for Dogman. In 2020 he was nominated at BAFTA for the casting of The Two Popes (Fernando Meirelles). In 2022 he was nominated at Artios Awards for the casting of Fargo. In 2017 he joined the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and The European Film Academy in 2019. Francesco has worked with directors such as Valeria Golino, Matteo Garrone, Sergio Castellitto, Luca Guadagnino, Gabriele Muccino, Saverio Costanzo, Gabriele Salvatores, Gabriele Mainetti, Danny Boyle, George Clooney, Steven Zaillian, Mike White, Felix Van Groeningen and James Mangold.
julie schubert
EUA
JULIE SCHUBERT is an Emmy winning casting director based in New York.
Select film and TV credits include: House of Cards (Emmy Award for Outstanding Casting); Night Comes On (Sundance award winning feature), Deliver Us From Evil; Marvel’s The Punisher; Marvel’s Daredevil; Marvel’s Jessica Jones; Marvel’s Luke Cage; Marvel’s Iron Fist; Marvel’s The Defenders; Mindhunter; Confessions of a Shopaholic, among others,
kate rhodes james
INGLATERRA
KATE RHODES JAMES set off to be an actress in the late 80’s to discover that being in front of the camera was not the best place for her. Kate was equipped for not much except a lifetime’s worth of watching television and going to the cinema. So, it seemed these skills would be best served assisting a Casting Director. Kate worked on the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles before being swept off her feet by Debbie McWilliams. Kate went on to assist Debbie on the Bond Films amongst many other projects and then Janey Fothergill where she worked on many television series and films. After 5 years of being an Assistant she was booted out and told to do it on her own, which she did, reluctantly.
Kate was blessed that one of her first projects was a comedy called COLD FEET which became a huge success in the UK. Kate went on to work with outstanding writers and directors on many television projects for the best part of 20 years that included The Lakes, Dirty Filthy Love, Blackpool, Alan Clarke Diaries, Bleak House, Line of Beauty, Low Winter Sun, Sense and Sensibility, Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Into the Storm, Appropriate Adult, Sherlock, Line of Duty, The Missing, Ripper Street, Warrior, The Long Song. More recently The Terror and Bodyguard. Kate has recently cast the first 2 seasons of HOUSE OF THE DRAGON, INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE. Kate works with Ridley Scott and has cast Raised by Wolves, The Last Duel, House of Gucci and Napoleon with Joaquin Phoenix (yet to be released). She is presently casting Gladiator 2 for Ridley and an adaptation of Alien for FX with Noah Hawley.
Kate is married with 2 glorious daughters and 2 useless dogs and wiser than she looks….
LUCINDA SYSON
INGLATERRA
After graduating with a degree in French and Linguistics from Essex University, Lucinda Syson started her career in casting under her mentor Priscilla John. These early steps included working with Directors like David Fincher “Alien 3”, Roland Joffe – City Of Joy, Ridley Scott 1492, Bernardo Bertolucci Little Buddha and Jean Jacques Annaud Seven Years in Tibet”. She got the taste for international casting, spending six months on location in Argentina working with Tibetan Monks and local Argentinian actors and working in Spain , France and India.
As a Casting Director she started on Udayan Prasad’s “Brothers In Trouble” followed by “Fifth Element” and “Troy”. Then, with the support of Producer Iain Smith, she had the great fortune to work with the late Tony Scott on “Spygame” which had a huge influence on her career . To date her extensive body of work includes Christopher Nolan’s “Batman Begins” , “Inception” and “The Dark Knight “ Alfonso Cuaron’s “Children Of Men” , Guy Ritchie’s “Snatch” Patty Jenkins ‘ “Wonder Woman”, James McTeigue‘s V for Vendetta , Doug Liman’s Edge of Tomorrow etc. Most recently, she has entered the world of high end television and worked on Sandman, Foundation and The Diplomat. Having just completed casting on the film “The Magic Faraway Tree “ this year’s work also included finishing a film started by the late, great casting director Simone Bär called “September 5th”. She works along side Co-Casting Director, Natasha Vincent and they have collaborated for over ten years.
Lucinda received an Artios nomination for Matthew Vaughn’s 2010 film “Kick-Ass” and has been awarded “Excellence in Casting “ by the Casting Society of America..
NATHALIE CHÉRON
FRANÇA
Nathalie Chéron started out between a dolphin and a camping stove, cooking hard- boiled eggs in a hotel room in Sicily for an American actress on the set of The Big Blue.
30 years later, more or less, this gold-digger has about a hundred films to her credit and sits patiently in her theater seat , evening after evening, and marvels over a new face, a new voice.
She’ll accompany these actors she loves passionately during long screen tests, so that their paths cross the ones of a director, whose deep desire she will have unravelled.
Nathalie Chéron is a member of ICDN, AMPAS and ARDA.
ROBERT STERNE
INGLATERRA
Robert Sterne has been working in casting since 2003 and spent 14 years working with Nina Gold from whom he learnt the job before co-casting several projects with her. Television casting director credits include 3 Body Problem, Eric, The Crown (Seasons 1 – 6), The Responder, The Serpent, Chernobyl, Game of Thrones (Seasons 1-7), Wolf Hall, The State, London Spy and Friday Night Dinner (Seasons 1 – 6). Film casting director credits include The Critic, Paddington in Peru, Spaceman, Mission Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One(UK casting). He also casts regularly in London theatre including Patriots (Almeida and West End), Straight Line Crazy (The Bridge and New York transfer), John Gabriel Borkman(The Bridge), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Bridge), The Book of Dust (The Bridge), Peggy For You (Hampstead), Don Juan in Soho (West End) and The Audience (West End). Robert has won 5 Primetime Emmy awards for his casting work.
VICTOR JENKINS
INGLATERRA
Victor is a multi award nominated Casting Director. He started his career in casting working for Lucinda Syson on the epic feature films TROY and Oliver Stone’s ALEXANDER. A little side step in to Indy film working on IT’S ALL GONE PETE TONG (underrated!) with Sam Chandley was followed (at the age of 24) by the opportunity to be the in house Casting Director for Hewland International. He spent 3 years there mainly working on the hit Sky One football drama DREAM TEAM which he took through to its final season. Wanting to expand his experience beyond in house he went on to become Casting Associate to the late Carrie Hilton, and then to Gary Davy for 2 years, working on a whole array of film and tv.
In 2010 he and fellow CD Kelly Valentine Hendry set up VHJ Casting, which over 7 years became known for casting many multi award winning shows including but not limited to BROADCHURCH, THE LAST KINGDOM, HUMANS, THE WRONG MANS, EPISODES (2 – 5) and FLEABAG as well as still running shows like GRANTCHESTER and UNFORGOTTEN. In 2017 it was time to go solo again and the first project as the newly set up VJC was the Netflix/BBC epic TROY: FALL OF A CITY, followed by shows such as the BBC’s WORLD ON FIRE, Amazon’s LEONARDO, Starz’ THE ROOK, and Sky’s DJANGO. Recent Film work includes Judd Apatow’s lockdown comedy THE BUBBLE for Netflix, and Baz Luhrmann’s short FLOWERS. He also has a long and successful collaborative relationship with Director Lewis Arnold and they are currently working on their 8th project together. Previous collaborations include CLEANING UP, DARK MONEY, award winning DES, the multi award winning SHERWOOD and the recent award winning THE LONG SHADOW. Other recent work includes REMATCH for HBO Europe, Alfonso Cuarón’s DISCLAIMER for Apple TV (co cast with Lucy Bevan and Emily Brockmann), Mark Williams’ SAFE HARBOR, THE KOLLECTIVE for Dutch production house Submarine, and PBS’ recent reboot of legendary French Detective MAIGRET.
He also co-runs The Casting Office Ltd with fellow CD Andy Brierley. Joint projects include THE WATCH for BBC America, Frank Doelger’s THE SWARM and CONCORDIA, and Peter Kosminsky’s THE UNDECLARED WAR.
He is based in London.
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