Laurel Vail

The more you smoke

Laurel — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 02:14:10 +0000

The PSAs were posted today on Funny or Die. They cycle through all 9 if you go to the link. Enjoy!

The More You Smoke PSA no.9 – watch more funny videos

The More You Smoke PSA no.3 – watch more funny videos

The More You Smoke PSA no.6 – watch more funny videos

In high demand apparently

Laurel — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 02:07:58 +0000

So I have 2 shorts this month and then I got another role in a feature at the same time. Oh my! Luckily it’s a small role and will only shoot 2 days, so I managed to squish everything into the same week. They both know I’m doing 2 things at once and have been really flexible.

Then on top of that I have a sort of short deadline at work. Looks like this coming week will be pretty intense. But I can handle it.

Off I go to a rehearsal now!

Leading Ladies comes home

Laurel — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:57:04 +0000

Oh, and one more to add!
Champaign-Urbana will welcome it’s film-baby back into its arms.

King’s Head Film Festival

9/25: LEADING LADIES
@ The Art Theater, Champaign, IL,
7:30 p.m. Sat
2:30, 5 & 7:30 p.m. Sun

So now all the wonderful, generous people who helped make the movie can see the finished product! Awesome!!

So many Festivals!

Laurel — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:46:05 +0000

So Leading Ladies is not only screening at a bunch of US cities this fall, but it’s also making the trip overseas to Hong Kong! Too bad my sister just moved to mainland China from HK. Maybe she can make it back for the festival.

Anyway, here’s the current upcoming screenings:

Denver Film Festival
November 3-14, 2010

St. Louis International Film Festival
Saturday, November 20, 2010

Hong Kong Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
November, 2010

Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
Seattle, WA, Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Tampa International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
Tampa, FL, Saturday, October 16th, 2010

Image Out
Rochester, NY, October 8-17

Your Normal LGBT Film Festival
Normal, IL, Friday, October 8, 2010, 7pm

Atlanta Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
Atlanta, GA, Saturday, October 2, 2010, 6pm, Landmark Cinemas

More good karma

Laurel — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:13:53 +0000

Got a call today from someone I auditioned for – who knows how long ago. I actually remembered it. They hadn’t found anyone for their short film yet, so they looked into their old files and found me. August is my month of old submissions paying off like a year later. Kind of fascinating. Just goes to show everything counts. Hopefully people don’t hold mediocre auditions against you for that long though.

Looks like we shoot next week, so that will be 2 shoots this month! Yay!

New short

Laurel — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:02:55 +0000

I’ll be working on another USC grad short this weekend. I play a normal human woman. There is a sentient computer in the short, but i did not go out for that role because she turns into a model, and I am not built like a model. I am more of a normal human woman. ;)

Mini headshot session

Laurel — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:10:40 +0000

I decided to try a new photographer for a mini set of headshots today. I know her from workshop, and some other folks from there had also worked with her.
Based on mixed feedback from workshops, I decided that my current shots, while lovely, aren’t capturing my essence. some say my shots look older than I look in person. I don’t see it, but more than one said it about more than one photo. So my goal today was to get a youthful, fun shot that will feel like my personality when I walk in the room.

We shot outdoors around her studio in NoHo and luckily it wasn’t as crazy hot today as it’s been. It started getting a bit hot toward the end, but hopefully it didn’t make my face red or anything. I did my own makeup this time so that it would look just like the makeup I do on a regular basis. My complexion is a wee bit dodgy today, but my hair was good. I timed my last haircut just right so it would be a good length but not so recently cut. I can retouch for blemishes if they are visible.
I should have proofs to check out early next week. Yay!

Leading Ladies back in Florida

Laurel — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:38:07 +0000

The movie is going to be in the Tampa International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.

Tickets are not on sale yet, but I believe the time will be October 16th at 6pm. I’ll post more details when I get them.

Propaganda 19

Laurel — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 03:57:35 +0000

Saturday I got a last minute email for a shoot on Sunday. A little production company wanted to make some funny PSAs for the California Prop 19, the one to legalize marijuana. I wasn’t busy and it sounded fun, so I went up to their studio in Burbank for a few hours. It was fun and I knocked out about 7 of them in my session. A few could be deemed offensive for sensitive types, but it was all in good fun.

It was kind of neat that I was contacted basically out of the blue by a stranger. It goes to show that people you submit to really do hang onto headshots for future use.

I’ll post a link when they are up.

New Agent!

Laurel — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 08:51:38 +0000

Well, this week I got a call from Rick Brown over at Act One Talent. He was super excited about all my materials- photos, reel, resume, etc. I decided to switch over to his agency for both Commercial and Theatrical since they will do both. I think it will work really well for me since I like to have a more direct approach in what I get submitted on and they’ll listen to my requests. We have a similar philosophy in that regard. I’m just so relieved and excited to have someone to submit me electronically on TV and film breakdowns. And if I get more commercial auditions, even better! It’s a smaller place than Baron, so I’m trying to be a bigger fish in a smaller pond for now. I think it’s a place where each client could get more consideration because there are less of them to worry about. Which isn’t to say I was unhappy with Baron. They just weren’t interested in adding new theatrical clients, and that’s something that is important to me right now.

In other news we have dates for Delivery locked down for January due to location needs. But it’s locked now, so I can schedule plenty of other projects in the interim- whereas before I wasn’t sure what my fall availability was.