{"id":15692,"date":"2015-09-25T10:35:56","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T16:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/?page_id=15692"},"modified":"2015-11-15T19:43:10","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T02:43:10","slug":"rene-haynes-csa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/highlights\/panelists\/rene-haynes-csa\/","title":{"rendered":"RENE HAYNES – CSA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Honoree and Panelist<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Rene<\/a>RENE HAYNES – Casting Director, is a two-time Emmy Nominee for the TNT\/DreamWorks mini-series \u201cInto the West\u201d and the HBO feature \u201cBury My Heart at Wounded Knee\u201d, for which she also received the Artios Award for excellence in casting. She is recognized in the entertainment industry as one of the foremost experts in Native American and First Nations casting and consults on many projects, both domestic and foreign. During her career she has easily moved back and forth between large studio projects with industry icons such as Steven Spielberg, Terrence Malick and the late Richard Attenborough to casting lower budget first features for emerging and student filmmakers. Rene became part of the uber-crazy pop culture world surrounding the popular Twilight Series \u2013 when she joined the casting team to find the Wolf Pack for \u201cTwilight Saga: New Moon\u201d and then went on to cast the leads in \u201cTwilight Saga: Eclipse\u201d.<\/p>\n

In addition to being recognized as the \u201cgo to\u201d expert in her niche, Rene specializes in conducting international talent searches and enjoys taking on projects with very specific and challenging casting needs. Her worldwide search for the female lead in the Terrence Malick feature \u201cThe New World\u201d, being just one example. That film\u2019s young 14 year old lead, went on to be named \u201cBest Breakthrough Performance by an Actress\u201d in 2005 by the National Board of Review. Never one to be put off by a challenge Rene has also cast foreign language films, in languages that she does not actually speak \u2026 \u201cDie Laughing\u201d (in Vietnamese), and lead roles for \u201dLe Jaguar\u201d and \u201cLe Fil du Fran\u00e7ois\u201d (in French) and \u201cDer Freiheit Entgegen\u201d (in German).<\/p>\n

Among her independent film credits, she is particularly proud the many projects that she has cast with director Chris Eyre, as well as the Jeff Barnaby feature debut, \u201cRhymes for Young Ghouls\u201d, for which the unknown young lead, found through a search, was nominated for \u201cBest Actress\u201d for the 2014 Canadian Screen Award (Canada\u2019s equivalent to the Academy Awards), <\/b>and the critically lauded independent feature \u201cWinter in the Blood\u201d, based on the acclaimed James Welch novel.<\/p>\n

Current and future releases include National Geographic\u2019s \u201cSaints and Strangers\u201d, the Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritua feature \u201cThe Revenant\u201d and HBO\u2019s \u201cLewis and Clark\u201d for which she cast the Native leads. Rene is attached to cast \u201cSoul Catcher\u201d, based on the Frank Herbert novel and several other features which are in development.<\/p>\n

Rene is prepping to produce \u201cBookworm\u201d in 2016, an independent feature that has UK comic sensation Russell Howard attached to star. She is actively moving towards producing and has been invited to be on the team of several projects in the works.<\/p>\n

She is dedicated to the ideals of mentorship and freely contributes her time as a member of the SAG\/AFTRA Diversity workshop \u201cThe Business of Acting\u201d which has traveled throughout the United States in order to give individuals interested in the acting profession a comprehensive overview of the basic professional tools they need to develop – as well as giving them invaluable insights on the film and audition process. These SAG\/AFTRA workshops are notable because they are always free to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Honoree and Panelist RENE HAYNES – Casting Director, is a two-time Emmy Nominee for the TNT\/DreamWorks mini-series \u201cInto the West\u201d and the HBO feature \u201cBury My Heart at Wounded Knee\u201d, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":15829,"parent":16733,"menu_order":11,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":"","advanced-sidebar-menu\/link-title":"","advanced-sidebar-menu\/exclude-page":false},"class_list":["post-15692","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15692"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15830,"href":"https:\/\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15692\/revisions\/15830"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}