Hippies wanted
BRATTLEBORO — Are you a former flower child looking to bring back the spirit of 1969?
An Academy Award-winning director needs you (or your children or grandchildren) to return to your counterculture roots for his latest film.
Ang Lee, director of “Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon” and “Brokeback Mountain,” in association with Focus Features and Tuxedo Terrace, is filming a major motion picture set during the August 1969 music festival that became known as Woodstock.
Lee is looking for some local modern-day long-haired “hippies” to play extras in the movie.
All area residents, college students and hippies at heart interested in showing their acting skills are invited to attend an open casting call held on Saturday, July 26, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., at St. Michael’s School on Walnut Street.
Another casting call will be held the following day, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., at the Elks Lodge on Washington Avenue in Bennington, with the same timeframe.
Participants must be at least 18 and be U.S. citizens. They are also asked to bring a recent photo of themselves that will not be returned.
Producers are also seeking vehicles from the late 1960s. If any Windham County residents have a vintage machine they want to make famous, they too are asked to bring a non-returnable picture of the vehicle with a description of the condition and model of the vintage automobile to the casting calls.
The movie,
entitled “Taking Woodstock,” will begin filming in August and run through October in Columbia County, N.Y.
Scripted as a behind-the-scenes look about the run-up to the 1969 Woodstock Music and Arts Festival — the now legendary “three days of peace, love and music” — the movie is based on a memoir by small-town official Elliot Tiber, who played an
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