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Rhombus Media and Sara Fost Pictures in association with Animal Kingdom are proud to announce that casting has begun for Stephen Dunn’s follow up to his award-winning feature film, CLOSET MONSTER.

WHAT WAITS FOR THEM IN DARKNESS is an adventure/fantasy film about the 1950s Newfoundland resettlement and will shoot across Newfoundland spring/summer of 2016.

Submissions have opened for the film’s lead, SKIPPER BLACKWOOD (female age 8-13), an outgoing, adventurous and scrappy tomboy. Non-actors and actors are welcome to submit. Imagination, confidence and sense of adventure are MUCH more important than traditional acting experience.

First round of auditions to be held in St. John’s in December and January 2015/2016. If you know an outgoing and fearless young woman who meets this description we strongly encourage you to submit a photo to: casting4darkness@gmail.com

Stephen Dunn is a director from St. John’s Newfoundland. His first feature, CLOSET MONSTER, premiered at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival and won the award for Best Canadian Feature Film.

The award-winning script for WHAT WAITS FOR THEM IN DARKNESS has been generously supported by the San Francisco Film Society and is the recipient for the Toronto International Film Festival’s inaugural Len Blum residency award.

Production is slated for Summer 2016.

Rhombus Media is an internationally renowned producer of theatrical feature films, TV drama, documentaries and performing arts programmes. Since its inception in 1979, the company has released over 200 productions and has received literally hundreds of awards, including numerous Genies, Geminis, Canadian Screen Awards, Emmys, Golden Pragues and an Oscar. Some of the company’s more notable theatrical projects include THE RED VIOLIN, LAST NIGHT, CLEAN, SNOWCAKE, SILK, BLINDNESS, PASSCHENDAELE, HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN, ANTIVIRAL, and ENEMY. Rhombus’ more recent projects include INTO THE FOREST, a new film by Patricia Rozema adapted from the book by Jean Hegland and starring Ellen Page, Evan Rachel Wood, Max Minghella and Callum Keith Rennie; HYENA ROAD, an Afghanistan-set war film by Paul Gross; ZOOM, the debut film from Pedro Morelli, a multi-interface erotic comedy starring Gael García Bernal, Alison Pill and Jason Priestley. All four films including CLOSET MONSTER recently had their world premieres at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, with CLOSET MONSTER taking home the prize for Best Canadian Feature Film.

Allison White of Sara Fost Pictures has worked in Film and Television for the past 10 years. She has produced six short films that have won awards and screened at festivals across the globe including the Toronto International Film Festival, ‘Not Short on Talent’ Cannes, and Fantastic Film Festival. More recently, she released her first feature film CAST NO SHADOW, which swept the awards at the Atlantic Film Festival in Halifax, taking six awards including Best Feature Film. It followed with screenings at festivals internationally including the Busan International Film Festival, and was nominated for four Canadian Screen Awards including Best Motion Picture. The film went on to stay in Canadian theatres for six weeks. Allison is currently developing two feature films; Christian Sparkes’ HAMMER and Stephen Dunn’s WHAT WAITS FOR THEM IN DARKNESS, which will both film in 2016.

Animal Kingdom was founded in September 2012 to develop, produce and finance feature films, television and digital content. The company’s first feature, writer/director Destin Daniel Cretton’s SHORT TERM 12, won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at SXSW in 2013. The film was released on August 23rd of last year to extraordinary critical acclaim. The company’s second feature, David Robert Mitchell’s IT FOLLOWS, premiered in competition in May 2014 as part of the 53rd edition of Critics’ Week at the Cannes Film Festival.