PRESS RELEASE: OPEN CASTING CALL FOR WEB SERIES “CONSEQUENCES” by Antonio Moses

Press Release: Open Casting Call for Web Series “CONSEQUENCES”

by Antonio Moses

CASTING CALL         CONSEQUENCES

ASHANTI FILMS CASTING SEEKS YOUNG ADULTS FOR “CONSEQUENCES” WEB SERIES

“Consequences” is currently shooting in Atlanta and surrounding areas

ATLANTA, GA.  ASHANTI FILMS Casting announced today that it is seeking 21-38 year old, both male and female, all ethnicity to fill a small number of roles in the Web Series drama “CONSEQUENCES”, which premieres in 2017.

“We are widening our search to find young actors 21 and older who can pass for urban drama roles in episodes.  “While this open call is primarily for a specific episode, this will also enable us to keep a pool of young actors in our files for use on future episodes or projects.”

Here is the synopsis: Project Heat meets Snow In the Bluff. Two brother’s are at the top of their game running a multi-million dollar criminal enterprise, which stretches from the streets of Atlanta all the way to the sunny hills of California. The brothers loyalty is tested when their world starts to crumble and they find themselves falling down a spiraling staircase of deceit, lies and betrayal. To compound to their problems they find out a hit has been placed on their heads and no one can be trusted.  This is a web series drama.

An open casting call will take place in Atlanta on Saturday, June 05, 2016, from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm at Johnny M’s Pizza Bistro, 904 Martin Luther King Junior Dr., SW, Atlanta, GA 30318.  Applicants who fit the age requirements (21-38 years old only) will have their photos taken and may be asked to read lines in front of the casting director.

There is no charge to audition for any role.

Interested talent should be available to audition and work as locals in Atlanta, Georgia. No other roles are open to the public at this time, and the casting company cannot accept drop-in or telephone inquiries.

Applicants who are unable to attend Sunday’s open call should email their contact information, acting resume and a photo to consequencescastingcall@gmail.com.  More information about Consequences Casting is available on the writer’s website at www.antoniomoses.com

HOTlanta! Is officially on sale…

IT IS FINALLY OFFICIAL “HOTLANTA!” IS ON SALE. Being from Atlanta just got even sweeter. Not only does Atlanta have some of the best night clubs  and job opportunities for African Americans, it has also become a thriving metropolis. The type of city where a brother can be just about what he wants to be. Arguably Atlanta is one of the hottest cities in the United States and in my opinion a fantastic place to live. Now it doesn’t matter what end of the spectrum you land on, HOTlanta has something for you. There are a lot of stories in the naked city and Antonio Moses masterfully bring some of them to life in his new book “HOTLANTA!” Antonio is the author who brought you RITA (The Sole Survivor) and it seems like he has a lot more Urban Tales in the chamber to entertain you with. Find out how Karma plays its way into the lives of DESHAWN “Two-Step” WHITHERSPOON “a talented NFL football player”  and ANDRE MATHIS a young trial attorney who makes history by becoming the first Black attorney in a Jewish law firm. “HOTLANTA” will also take you deep into the trap of the first projects in the U.S., “Techwood”, and find out what two street hustlers “SOLO and RED EYES”  are willing to do to make a buck. HOTLANTA is made up of two banging short stories, “What Goes Around & THERE COMES A TIME”. These stories are fast paced and filled with a lot of passion, drama, and suspense. It has a little something for everyone. This book is guaranteed to keep you “UP” and once you’ve started reading it, you will NOT want to put it down until you’ve finished. https://youtu.be/xGqRhDEbFxc

SO WHO IS WILLING TO BITE THIS BULLET?

This bullet represents something more than change. It can take life, tempered by persuasion  or it can protect us IF given the right circumstances. It is fashioned by steel to sit in the palm of your hand and in the blink of an eye, it can take the life of a man. A bullets edges are smooth and cold to the touch  but it’s core is soft, wrapped in a sheet of steel to keep it warm. It has single handily claimed more lives than HATE but rather than awarding the bullet for it’s accomplishments, lobbyist do every thing they can to down play the bullets involvement. So then if we taxed it and placed price tags on them like a Lamborghini then fewer people will be able to afford them. RIGHT?

Now who is up for the challenge, to stand down on fate? Years of repetition on call and I still can’t wait. Poverty is nothing more than a bi-product of greed instituted by a system to amass wealth. Pious men have gone to great lengths  to expose the charade. But Despite our efforts to get involved we’re often labelled socialist and placed on watch list. Don’t you find it ironic that the men who founded this country rebelled against a system which made them obsolete. Thus, the UNITED STATES was formed.

I am getting a little tired of the long drawn out interviews, coffee spills in the morning and having to say grace, dropped calls, crowded malls and walking up a never ending staircase. By chance we met under the guise of fate and by choice I dedicate my efforts to redefine my calling of late. Mass appeal can sometime distract us from our purpose,  with its motives and water down excuses about life and as long as I have the courage I can handle the fight. Illuminati, Masonry, are but a few pawns used in the larger scheme of things to control the center of the board. The more OBJECTS we acquire, leaves our castle vulnerable and we never stop long enough to take into account the material imbalance it causes in our lives. And before we realize it, we find ourselves in an endgame without the support of our most valuable piece.  THE QUEEN. Then like common thieves we find ourselves in a foot race to regain what we so carelessly gave away.

So what’s new?  Mass shootings, Reality Shows, a grid locked administration and an increasing unemployment rate. To make matters worst the government is all up in my business trying to tell me what healthcare provider is best for me. I don’t profess to be a politician, although I do admire a good debate. All this talk about global warming and building a wait station out in space has got me perplexed and the CDC is hellbent on trying to convince me that I’m next.

Democracy has a tendency of committing suicide. My question is if we are a Republic, then why on gods green earth are we spreading Democracy around the globe? It’s something about mob rule that just doesn’t sit right with me. So how do we place the power back into the hands of “The People?” This may be accomplished by resolved through putting an end to the alienation between people created by the institution of private property.

The overly abstract and ideal conception of the world represented by philosophy. Each word nothing more than an abstract mystification of the actual force. It can be found where ideas and institutions are balanced “a concept interwoven with outdated activity and material intercourse of men and appear to be a wolf in sheep’s clothing. This falls somewhere between a deliberate act of Genocide and an Inferiority Complex this country inherited. Now here we are celebrating your independence when we’re all depended on pot. Forget about the 40 acres or the window from which I use to gaze upon a lot. I hate to be the one to put the crème in your red white and blue. So if it was my choice to choose who bites this bullet between us, It would have to be you.

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BOOK REVIEW RITA (THE SOLE SURVIVOR)

PRESS RELEASE RITA

 

RITA (The Sole Survivor)
By Antonio Moses
Publisher: Ashanti Publishing Group
ISBN: 978-0692214244
Published: June 2014
Pages: 378
Genre: African American Urban Fiction
Format Available For Review: PDF

RITA (The Sole Survivor) is a story about a 17 year old girl who had to take on the streets of Atlanta single handed with nothing more than determination by her side. Her childhood was far from the realm of a fairy tale we grew up listening to. Having to raise her 8-year old sister because her mother was strung out on heroin made her mature past her age. She blames all of their hardships on her father for not being there when they needed him the most. She was extremely bitter and wanted to prove she didn’t need a man for shit. Rita realized early on she had to capitalize on the gifts she was born with. She was young, beautiful and most of all deadly. Rita grew up feeling men couldn’t be trusted and she exploited them for their weakness. She used every thirsty ass nigga that crossed her path to try to reach her goal.

Rita’s relationship with her father was confined to the visitation room of a U.S. Federal Penitentiary. He and his partner Sugar Meat were two of the biggest pimps in Atlanta, had a lock on the pimp game. That was until Dillard; Rita’s father, was charged for murdering an informant and white slaver. Everybody abandoned him, including his partner. After blowing trial, he was sentenced to 25 years to life. The only thing Rita could remember growing up as a child was her old man always professed his innocence and keep reassuring her he would be home soon. But after 15 long years of hearing the same old stories; over and over, Rita finally decided to let go.

But little did she know her life was headed on a collision course headed straight for destruction, death and despair. After loosing everything she worked so hard to hold together, she was faced with the chore of having to go back to the one person she vowed to forget. With no one else to turn to Rita had to dig deep inside her fathers past in search of answers. What she discovered rocks the foundation of everything she believes in and it sends her on a ride or die mission to vindicate him. Which means she has to infiltrate a criminal organization ran by one of the most notorious pimps in the South. Unfortunately for her, when it rains it pours. Money, drugs and infatuation sucks her deeper into a life of murder, deception and betrayal. With lies and deceit running rampant Rita becomes consumed by a lifestyle she despises the most, “PROSTITUTION”. When it’s all said and done who will be the one who will be the one left standing?

 

 

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NEW LAWS PASSED BY CONGRESS (“GUNS AND DRUGS”) CONTINUE TO BE THE TOPICS OF DISCUSSION

If you know the lyrics to this youtube video, chances are we are around the same age. On the other hand, if it’s your first time seeing it take out a few minutes to listen to the lyrics and learn something about how bills are turned into laws.

Thousands of bills are introduced during each Congress. Vanishingly few of them end up becoming law — fewer each year, as Congressional gridlock and dysfunction worsen. Out of 7,207 bills and joint resolutions introduced during this Congress, only 103 have become law — fewer, by this point, than in any other Congress since at least the 1970s.

MEDICAL MARIJUANA is an issue building up a lot of momentum. There are currently 21 medical marijuana states and several waiting for bills to be passed through. Under federal law, marijuana is treated like every other controlled substance, such as cocaine and heroin. The federal government places every controlled substance in a schedule, in principle according to its relative potential for abuse and medicinal value. Under the CSA, marijuana is classified as a Schedule I drug, which means that the federal government views marijuana as highly addictive and having no medical value.

Conflict between State and Federal Law

As of this printing, the federal government claims that marijuana is not medicine and in Gonzales v. Raich (2005), the United States Supreme Court held that the federal government has the constitutional authority to prohibit marijuana for all purposes. Thus, federal law enforcement officials may prosecute medical marijuana patients, even if they grow their own medicine and even if they reside in a state where medical marijuana use is protected under state law. The Court indicated that Congress and the Food and Drug Administration should work to resolve this issue.

The Raich decision does not say that the laws of California (or any other medical marijuana state) are unconstitutional; nor does it invalidate them in any way. Also, it does not say that federal officials must prosecute patients. Decisions about prosecution are still left to the discretion of the federal government.

TRACKING NEW STATE GUN LAWS–

In April of this year, Georgia Governor Nathan Deal signed HB 60, a bill which expands the ability to carry firearms in public spaces such as bars and airports. The media was quick to report that this bill is evidence of a backlash against the many significant gun violence prevention laws enacted in the states last year, despite the media’s predominant narrative from last year that, after Newtown, more states weakened gun laws and the gun lobby “won”. The truth is that the recent media narratives are far from accurate.

Despite popular belief, in the last sixteen months since Newtown, the media has incorrectly portrayed the complicated and nuanced activity in fifty different state legislative bodies. The new laws have been tallied, and often, have been inappropriately equalized. Small bills which keep concealed weapons permit holders’ information private have been categorized as having equal weight to sweeping new laws that require background checks and ban assault weapons. The stories proclaiming the Georgia bill to be a pro-gun backlash make little of the fact that it was the NRA’s top priority in Georgia for two years and, after failing last year, barely scraped by this year and only in a watered-down version. The backlash stories also fail to mention the groundswell of activism that rose in opposition to the bill and succeeded in forcing the gun lobby to strip provision after provision from the measure.

http://www.vox.com/2014/5/21/5738438/what-schoolhouse-rock-left-out#ooid=g3MXZ5bTpZX-SEJOfARtv-wSRo_bZd7h

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