A community-funded film about “why Seattle is a great city for entrepreneurs and creatives” is looking for extras to appear in a clip featuring Broadway’s most iconic and most fiercely copyright-protected public art. Your qualifications? You like to dance:
(Image: We Make Seattle)
We’re filming this Thursday on Cap Hill and need some extras. This is your chance to be in the film.
This shoot is to capture the sidewalk dance sculptures on Broadway. They’re legendary symbols of creativity in Seattle and we finally got official permission to film them.
What we need are folks willing to have some fun, trying to figure out how to do the steps on camera. It’s easy, no dance skills are required (though if you have some that’s cool too), just a fun attitude.
In 2011, CHS reported on the settlement of a lawsuit over the Broadway Dance Steps involving a photographer whose work ended up on a stock photo site and the artist who created the inlaid brass footprints, Jack Mackie.
We Make Seattle is described as a short film that will “show the world how great Seattle is for creatives and entrepreneurs who have big ideas and the passion to invest in them.” It is produced by Bryan Zug and Adam Baggett of Bootstrapper Studios. It is directed by Seattle author Scott Berkun.
The project gets underway at 5:45 PM Thursday — the same night as Capitol Hill’s October art walk. You can learn more and let the filmmakers know your availability here.
