Casting Call: Do You Look Like a Chess Nerd?

More to the point, do you look like a late-Seventies chess nerd? Or a computer nerd? You know who you are, and now the Computer Chess filmmakers want to know who you are, too.

You might recall we mentioned Andrew Bujalski's feature Computer Chess recently because it successfully ran a crowdsourced funding campaign, raising more than $50,000 for production costs. The movie is about computer chess programmers and takes place at a tournament in 1979.

Now production is underway here in Austin. Bujalski and producer Houston King have put out a call for extras, starting with scenes being shot this weekend, through September. Extras will be paid in "snacks, meals and good times" and of course you get to be in a locally shot movie, which is cool right there.

If you think you can pass for someone from 1979 who hangs out at chess tournaments (as in the photo on the right), drop a line to computerchessmovie [at] gmail [dot] com and enclose your contact info and a photo of yourself. Best of luck!

[Photo courtesy of Houston King]