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The Red Rose is a 25-minute fantasy short. The film’s lead actress is the Red Rose of the title, and a red-rose flower is a pivotal, symbolic part of the storyline. Set entirely to the music of Tchaikovsky, and featuring the talents of the young dancers in a leading ballet school, the film is dialogue-free.

Each scene begins in film-maker Ian Woodward’s country garden just outside London, from where, due to the vivid and often colourful imagination of the film’s Young Woman (also known in the script as the Girl), it develops into moments of romance and fantasy, and invariably involving her idealized, brought-to-life young man (the lead actor).

The Girl is a sort of modern-day Alice in Wonderland. But whereas Alice experiences memorable characters such as the Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter and the White Rabbit, the Girl encounters Toy Soldiers, marching bluebells, a dancing swan – and a Young Man who, in her colourful mind, is Mr Right, her romantic ideal.

The Young Man appears throughout the film, but he is always a figment of the Girl’s romantic thoughts. He does not exist in any real or physical sense: he appears in her company without warning, and he invariably disappears in the same unexpected way. He is there, and yet he is not there – not in the real sense.

There is one green-screen scene where the Girl is playing part of Tchaikovsky’s Concert Fantasy on a grand piano. At one point there is a short classical-style dance solo in which a dancer appears as the romantic alter ego of the Girl. She is dressed in white and is seen dancing behind, to one side and in front of the grand piano, with country scenes beyond (thanks to green-screen chroma-keying).

I require a classically trained dancer for this scene. As she is the romantic vision of the Girl, she must be as similar as possible in age and physique to the actress playing the Girl. The actress is Caucasian-white, aged 22, 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m) tall, weighs 7 st 10 lb (49 kg), slim-built, brown-eyed, and has very long dark-brown hair.

The dancer chosen will have to supply her own white romantic-style dance dress.

The shoot is on Saturday, 20 October, so I need to hear from applicants VERY QUICKLY.

The location is near to Kings Langley (24 minutes from Euston). Travelling expenses will be reimbursed.

(Writer/film-maker Ian Woodward is the author of more than 30 books, including Audrey Hepburn: Fair Lady of the Screen (never out of print since first published in 1984 and soon to be issued as an eBook); Glenda Jackson: A Study in Fire and Ice; The Werewolf Delusion; and (poetry) Ring Out Wild Bells and Poems for Christmas.
His last three films - Too Many Ghosts, Silly Robin, and From Bohemia’s Woods and Fields - have won major awards at international film festivals, from the United Kingdom to the United States, from Australia, South Korea and across Europe to Poland, the Ukraine, Italy, Estonia and the Czech Republic. He has won two Best Cinematography awards at the Seoul International Festival; and From Bohemia’s Woods and Fields was voted Best Film of the Festival at the Melbourne International Movie Festival 2011.)

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