On March 1, 2019, the Kazakhfilm Studio held a casting among KSIU students for the filming of the historical series “Kasym Khan” commissioned by the Ministry of culture and sports of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The main condition of the casting was fluency in the Kazakh language.

There were many people wishing to participate in the casting. The beginning of the casting was at 14.00, but long before the designated time in front of the audience was already a large number of students.

In General, different participants came, someone took part in the casting just out of curiosity, many were very serious and thoroughly prepared, and others charged not only themselves but also others with a good mood.

The organizers of the casting of the Studio “Kazakhfilm” together with our students have done a very hard work. First, the participant had to fill out a questionnaire. Next, the operator captured in the form of photos of different emotions of the participant, namely joy, resentment, anger and surprise. The most laborious was the process of video testing, where the participant had to express several emotions through a certain text. It would seem easy and simple. However, even elementary to show sincere joy on the camera was very difficult, despite the sincerity of the emotions issued, experienced advisors in casting is not to deceive, because the eyes of the “artist” will not lie. Then just breaks out “do not believe” and have to start all over again. However, there were also those participants who, at the change of emotions was required literally half a second. As noted by the organizers of the casting, they saw among our students many talents and textured personalities that fit the description of the main characters of the series.

Being an actor is an art form. Our students have discovered new abilities through this casting. Once again proved that in our KSIU talented children study.

The head of the project is the Turkish Director Metin Gunay, who worked on the series “Resurrected Ertugrul”. The serial series promises to tell about the life and years of Kasim Khan’s rule. We hope that our most talented students will become the heroes of this series, which we have no doubt.

Press service of KSIU