We’re not looking for a résumé. We’re looking for a soul obsessed with shadows. Méliès to Spielberg is seeking a cinematographer who dreams in black and white, who understands that darkness isn’t the absence of light—it’s a character unto itself. The Vision We’re crafting a gothic horror feature that lives somewhere between Only Lovers Left Alive and Interview with the Vampire. Think F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu meeting Hitchcock’s baroque elegance, with the stark graphic poetry of Sin City. This is a film where shadows breathe and light cuts like a blade. This is a hybrid of live action and AI—a new language for an ancient aesthetic. What We Offer • Primary shooting in Istanbul and Konya, with sequences in St. Petersburg • Pre-production begins March 2025 • A script already shared with a major OTT platform • A renowned producer attached to the project • Full creative collaboration: we’ll choose cameras and lenses together • No corporate hierarchy—just artists making something singular What We Don’t Care About • Your awards • Your credits • Your years of experience What We Do Care About Passion. Vision. Obsession. The kind of cinematographer who studies the way Conrad L. Hall painted Road to Perdition with melancholy and rain. Who understands Roger Deakins’ mythic twilight in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Who sees Jordan Cronenweth’s neon-noir labyrinth in Blade Runner as scripture. Someone who appreciates Jeff Cronenweth’s digital precision in The Social Network, Larry Fong’s operatic shadows in Batman v Superman, Andrew Lesnie’s epic naturalism in The Lord of the Rings, Vittorio Storaro’s revolutionary reds in Reds, and Sławomir Idziak’s cerulean grief in Three Colours: Blue. To Apply Don’t send a résumé. Send us: • Your passion for cinema • Your favorite film in terms of cinematography and lighting • Your reels that prove you see differently Email: rishi@meliestospielberg.in Tell us what makes your heart race when the shadows fall just right. From Méliès’ phantasmagoria to Spielberg’s dreams—we’re building cinema for those who still believe in magic. #Cinematography #BlackAndWhiteCinematography #GothicHorror #FilmProduction #CinematographerWanted #IndieFilm #Istanbul
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” We’re not looking for stardom. We’re looking for a soul who paints with her presence. Méliès to Spielberg is seeking an actress who can embody the tormented grace of creation itself—a painter, an artist who exists between shadow and revelation, between the living and the eternal. The Vision A gothic horror that breathes in the space between Only Lovers Left Alive and Interview with the Vampire, shot against the haunting architecture of Istanbul and Konya, culminating in the baroque melancholy of St. Petersburg. This is cinema as visual poetry, captured by cinematography that echoes the masters—Conrad L. Hall’s luminous despair, Roger Deakins’ twilight mythology, Vittorio Storaro’s revolutionary color consciousness. The Role: An Artist Who Bleeds in Oil and Shadows You are a painter. A woman who understands what Caspar David Friedrich knew when he painted Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog—that beauty and terror are twins. You carry the romantic anguish of Eugène Delacroix, the tragic intensity of Francisco Goya’s Black Paintings, the ethereal longing in John William Waterhouse’s haunted maidens. This role demands someone who can channel: • The obsessive, unraveling passion of Natalie Portman in Black Swan—where art consumes the artist • The subtle, devastating beauty of Juliette Binoche in The English Patient—presence that whispers rather than shouts • The elegant simplicity and seductive vulnerability of Meryl Streep in The Bridges of Madison County—where entire lifetimes live in a glance Who You Might Be You are someone who has perhaps walked the boards of theatre—understanding that performance is ritual, not recreation. You spend your evenings with European literature: you’ve wept with Dostoevsky’s tortured souls, felt the Gothic electricity in Mary Shelley’s creation, descended into the psychological labyrinths that Freud mapped but never fully understood. You know that to play an artist, you must think like one—to understand the mind that sees the world not as it is, but as it feels. The Romantic painters knew this: that every landscape is a state of mind, every portrait a confession. Essential Requirements • Fluent English (the language of our narrative) • French language (even conversational—an added grace for a project named for Méliès) • Valid passport (we cross borders and eras) • A mind that lives in literature, art history, and the psychological depths • Theatre experience (valued, though not required—but we seek someone who understands performance as transformation) What We Don’t Care About Your résumé. Your awards. Your agency. Your previous acclaim. What We Seek A woman who reads Dostoevsky not for class but for companionship. Who understands why Shelley wrote of darkness and beauty as inseparable. Who has stood before a Romantic painting and felt it stare back. Who comprehends what Freud meant when he said artists know truths that psychology only guesses at. Someone who doesn’t just play a painter—but understands the artist’s curse: to see too much, to feel too deeply, to create as an act of survival. To Apply Send us not your credentials, but your soul: • Your favorite film performances and why they’ve marked you • The literature that haunts your nights • The painters whose work feels like autobiography • Your reels or performance work that reveals your depths • Proof of your linguistic fluency. Email: rishi@meliestospielberg.in Instagram: @meliestospielberg (Connect with us—see the shadows we’re chasing) Tell us about the art that has changed you. Show us you understand that this isn’t a role—it’s a possession. Between Méliès’ magic and Spielberg’s wonder, we seek the actress who knows that to create is to die a little, and to perform is to resurrect something eternal. #ActressWanted #GothicHorror #FilmCasting #ArtistRole #CinematicArt #IndependentCinema #Istanbul #TheatreActress #EuropeanCinema