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This documentary celebrates the little heralded and often misunderstood role of a casting director in the filmmaking process. With the full participation of famed casting director Bonnie Timmerman and many of the successful actors and filmmakers who have worked with her throughout her illustrious career – as well as an impressive showcase of rarely-seen audition footage from Timmerman’s extensive archive – this film dissects the alchemy of how a master casting director marries the glimmer of personality detected in the audition space with the with the specific demands of a screenplay. With this film, the director wanted to shine light on the vital contribution the casting director makes to the films that shape us.