RAVEL, Pre-Production started

Just a few weeks ago, and with a bit over two weeks before start shootings in locations.
Ravel is a short film, my goal is not to make it over 12 minutes in length, 10 should be ideal, but you never know.
It's also my first shooting in New York City and a retake of directing after almost 10 years.
I can't detail the content of the story here, but as usual, it came in a dream.
This is something that almost always happens to me: i dream screenplays.
Yeah, I know, many people dream stories, we all do it. But I dream full length screenplays, knowing while I dream them that is a story to be told with a camera.
That's why I have not one but two notepads and lots of pens in my bedside table, ready for that 4-5 am jump to write before everything fades.
Now, here goes another part of Ravel that many people would never believe it:
The main character is a young guy, who plays an instrument along the movie. He communicates loneliness, peace, transcendence.
As I was not sure about getting the right guy to play this character I made some changes to the screenplay.
Then, one afternoon, a week and a half ago I went to take the subway, in a hurry (as usual) to work in the screenplay alone.
When I get into the station - west 116th street - I heard music coming from there, beautiful, a mix of sadness and joy; it was played on a Cello.
There he was, a guy playing the Cello: and he was exactly as my character for the film.
The Subway arrived, I didn't know what to do, to stay and wait for the guy to finish playing and speak to him, to take the subway...
I noticed that he had some CDs on sale there with his name: Valentine Ash.
I took the subway thinking "I'm going to google him and find his phone or email."
I did it: nothing! The guy doesn't exist for the Web, anywhere, he's like a ghost.
So, I'm still trying to find him, and if I succeed, and he accept to play the role, well, I'll have the film exactly as it was literally dreamed.

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