PANAMA CITY, Panama -- GlobalCastingPro is being put to the test casting in Panama for the film Hands of Stone, about the life of Panamanian boxer Roberto Duran featuring Robert De Niro as trainer Ray Arcel, Ellen Barkin as Arcel's wife, Usher as Sugar Ray Leonard, Edgar Ramirez as Roberto Duran, Ruben Blades as Carlos Eleta and Anna de Armas as Felicidad, Duran's wife. The movie is scheduled for release in 2014 and Casting Valdes cast background talent on location in Panama for the film.

GlobalCastingPro is another Startup Weekend success story. Just last April the company was formed during a 54 hour event at HackerLab in Sacramento, California. Sara Bachelder, co-owner of Casting Valdes/Mexico Casting and producer Stefan Anderson of RSM Creative attended with the goal of creating a simple to use international talent database with time-saving, useful tools for talent, directors and other industry professionals. They teamed up with Alec Sherman of Programming Labs and by the end of the weekend GlobalCastingPro.com was a fully functioning website and won third place at the Startup Weekend event.

Casting Valdes/Mexico Casting has been casting extras for movies for many years, including Limitless, Fast and Furious (2009,) Beverly Hills Chihuahua, Vantage Point and Nacho Libre. Most of the casting is in Mexico but some of their projects have been in the USA and across the Americas. The need for an English/Spanish bi-lingual website with the type of tools they needed and a single account for all countries was crucial for them as well as the ability for all talent to sign up for free so that a given project would have access to the maximum amount of talent available and interested. Other websites require a different account for each country, generally charge talent a fee to sign up even for a basic account and often are peppered with advertising, and so are of limited use to casting directors. With GlobalCastingPro.com, talent can manage their information and photos on their profiles anytime. They can upgrade to accounts with more features for modest monthly fees, but a basic account is always free.

Over the last few months the Global Casting Pro website has transformed into a sleek, enterprise-level online database of actors, extras and models which provides advanced search and management features for casting directors. It allows people to sign up for free and list their talents and upload some photos. Casting companies can also sign up and after approval can search the talent database and manage call sheets, etc.

If you happen to be in Panama sign up with https://GlobalCastingPro.com now. Some of the upcoming filming includes crowds of people and it is expected over 3,000 extras will be cast over the next 3 months. Managing this size of a project is always a huge undertaking but with GlobalCastingPro.com the task is coming along very well.

For full details on Hands of Stone see its listing in IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1781827/).

In addition to Casting Valdes/Mexico Casting, several other casting companies have already signed up to use GlobalCastingPro.com. Sign up to be seen for Hands of Stone and future projects.


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Sara Bachelder