An Actor Prepares, written and directed by Nicholas Koy Santillo, is an original short film that tells a coming of age story about a young actor, Giselle Pare-Ramirez, and her friend, Anton Gillis-Adelman, preparing to venture to LA and realize their dreams of being performers. With the support of a long lost cousin, played by Lindsay Owen-Pierre, the two find a deeper connection to a difficult script. The film is a love story to cinema and brings audiences into the trials and transcendence of an actor's method. "You can kill the King without a sword, and you can light the fire without a match. What needs to burn is your imagination." - An Actor Prepares, by Constantin Stanislavski.