Casting Your Film Locally Panel Discussion

A panel discussion with Connecticut and Rhode Island casting directors on finding quality local talent. This panel will provide information to benefit filmmakers, directors and actors. Panel will include Anne Mulhall, LDI Casting of Rhode Island.

Moderated by Emma Palzere-Rae: Emma is an actress, playwright, director, producer, and non-profit administrator living in New London, Connecticut. She is the founder of Be Well Productions, which tours her original one-woman plays on women as diverse as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Gilda Radner and Victoria Woodhull. She is the co-founder of The Way of the Labyrinth Playwrights Retreat and the former Artistic Director of Plays for Living (NYC). Currently, Emma is the Associate Director at Artreach, Inc. (Norwich, Connecticut). She serves on the steering committee for the Connecticut Chapter of the League of Professional Theater Women, and is a member of Actors Equity Association and the Dramatists Guild, where she is the regional representative for New England – West. Emma also sits on the New London Arts Council and the board of the Connecticut Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals. In 2021, Emma was awarded an Artist Fellowship from the Connecticut Office of the Arts. She joined the Mystic Film Festival in 2018, and became one of the jury coordinators in 2021.