2008 Woodie Awards
Alumna Julia Flint casting shadows with 'Cast This!'
Timothy Spath
Issue date: 4/24/08 Section: A & E
The big, bad sign of Hollywood lurks over the city of Los Angelis like a poised vulture. Ready to swoop down over an actor's career, picking them up into the spotlight, or, as in the cases of many, become aesthetic scenery in the background of their life, while they're struggling to land an audition. However, Sacred Heart alumna Julia Flint seems to have found a happy medium between the hills of California and the struggling many.
Acting, along with being the producer and writer, for Internet sitcom "Cast This!" started out as a 48-hour film challenge for Flint. She was required to write, shoot, and edit a movie within two days. "Cast This" grew into film festival material which sparked the start of the now internet sensation. The "webisodes" featured online mix Flint's witty humor and satire with the quirks of a casting office set in Los Angelis.
Majoring in business and minoring in psychology, Flint graduating from Sacred Heart in 1982, after which she was thrown into the corporate world working monotonously for a check-printing company. It was not until the company's talent show, where Flint was encouraged by co-workers to sing on stage, that she reignited the feelings for acting she received at a young age.
"I have always had the acting bug since I was casted for a school play in 4th grade, but I squashed it and left it under my shoe until then. You couldn't keep me off the stage after that," said Flint.
Before producing "Cast This!", landing roles in TV series "Life," "Jericho," and "Strong Medicine," and making her way to the West Coast, Flint wrote, produced, and stared in a show called "3DTV." Flint took some of her favorite sitcoms from the 70's and re-cast them with real, plus-sized women. As sold-out shows in New York and Connecticut became a reality, the show would later become Flint's ticket to Hollywood as they "took it to the road."
"I've always been a writer, but never pulled anything together as a whole piece. I like to learn all the pieces of the puzzle, and this helped me get to where I am," said Flint.
Acting, along with being the producer and writer, for Internet sitcom "Cast This!" started out as a 48-hour film challenge for Flint. She was required to write, shoot, and edit a movie within two days. "Cast This" grew into film festival material which sparked the start of the now internet sensation. The "webisodes" featured online mix Flint's witty humor and satire with the quirks of a casting office set in Los Angelis.
Majoring in business and minoring in psychology, Flint graduating from Sacred Heart in 1982, after which she was thrown into the corporate world working monotonously for a check-printing company. It was not until the company's talent show, where Flint was encouraged by co-workers to sing on stage, that she reignited the feelings for acting she received at a young age.
"I have always had the acting bug since I was casted for a school play in 4th grade, but I squashed it and left it under my shoe until then. You couldn't keep me off the stage after that," said Flint.
Before producing "Cast This!", landing roles in TV series "Life," "Jericho," and "Strong Medicine," and making her way to the West Coast, Flint wrote, produced, and stared in a show called "3DTV." Flint took some of her favorite sitcoms from the 70's and re-cast them with real, plus-sized women. As sold-out shows in New York and Connecticut became a reality, the show would later become Flint's ticket to Hollywood as they "took it to the road."
"I've always been a writer, but never pulled anything together as a whole piece. I like to learn all the pieces of the puzzle, and this helped me get to where I am," said Flint.
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