Support VAALA by shopping online!

Dear Friends,
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

It’s time to shop for the Holidays! I’m excited to share with you a web portal that can help raise money for VAALA (Vietnamese American Arts & Letters Association), a community-based, 501 (c)(3) non-profit Vietnamese American art organization. Anytime you search or buy a product online, instead of going directly to the website that you normally shop, you would go through VAALA’s web portal by signing up as a customer. You can find more than 3000 partner stores that you are already familiar with such as Walmart, Target, Home Depot, Best Buy, Buy.com, etc. The nice thing about this web site is that you can get 2 - 35% cash back on qualified stores. Not only that, if you invite your friends or family to shop on this web portal, you’ll get 1/2% cash back on any purchases that they make. So not only will you be supporting the Vietnamese American community, but you will be saving money as well.

This is VAALA’s web portal.
www.marketamerica.com/VAALA

And please don’t forget, VAALA’s Holiday Fundraiser is on Saturday, December 10, 2010 from 5pm-9pm at VAALA Cutural Center, 1600 N. Broadway, Santa Ana, CA 92706.

We need your support in order to carry out many artistic activities for the communities such as the biennial Vietnamese International Film Festival (ViFF), the annual Moon Festival Children’s Art Contest, the smART Program which provides free art workshops to youth organizations, exhibitions, lectures, plays, recitals, and many more! Please visit www.vaala.org for more information.

Thank you for your continued support!

Cheers,
Ysa Le

Die Laughing Casting Call

CASTING for LEAD ACTOR in the TIMOTHY LINH BUI film “DIE LAUGHING”
Action Drama filming in Saigon, Vietnam February 2011
A broken-hearted pho cook teams up with a cold-blooded female assassin. Together, they must deliver a mysterious briefcase from Saigon to Da Nang in 36 hours.
Seeking: Vietnamese Speaking Actor (mid to late 30s).

Character description:
MINH: Male Lead, Mid to late 30s. He is Vietnamese and a charismatic dreamer who is inspired to create the ultimate pho recipe. He sees this as a way to understand his late mother. He sees himself as an artist experimenting with different ingredients. He likes to reverse engineer a recipe to understand why a good aroma makes one feel bliss. But in the real world, most see him as an unassertive loser. When he’s not in the kitchen, he moonlights as a cab driver to save enough money to one day have his own restaurant.

Ability to speak in both English and Vietnamese is REQUIRED.
Audition scenes will be in both languages.

Interested in AUDITIONING?

Please send a CURRENT PHOTO and a RESUME with all contact information
via email to:

Rene Haynes Casting
rene@rhcasting.com

in the subject line - please put:
“MINH AUDITION REQUEST”

Also - in your email - please let us know what part of the country you live in. If you are not in an area where we will be seeing actors - we can send you the audition material and you are welcome to send back an audition tape.

PLEASE respond before November 14, 2010
Important: MINH is the only role we are seeking. If you do not fit the MINH description - please do not apply at this time. - Thank you!