Luis S. Canete, CSA is an LA based American casting director and proud member of the Casting Society of America that works in Los Angeles, New York and Europe. 

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Luis & team are currently casting feature films High Adventure, Unusual Cowboys, Hush Money, Ring Cave, & Honorary Male just to name a few. Recent credits include; a theatrically released Universal Pictures feature called Remember Me, starring Bruce Dern & Brian Cox, a European film called Africa, an Amazon Prime Video TV series titled Magi, and additional casting for a Warner Bros/Eyeworks TV series called The Infiltrator amongst others.

 

He also worked as the International Casting Director for a European series called Glow & Darkness starring Jane Seymour, a feature called Little America, did the additional principal casting of; the film Duck Butter for Netflix, a mini series docudrama for the BBC titled Six Wives with Lucy Worsley, and a TV series for Disney called Evermoor.  Additionally, Luis and his team cast over 200+ principal roles between London and Spain for the English language RTVE mini series called Queens: Virgin & Martyr, now on Amazon Prime Video. Luis is also fortunate to have been the Casting Associate on the Oscar® nominated HBO Film, Maria Full of Grace.  During his start he worked with and learned from legendary casting directors such as Donna DeSeta, CSA, Maria E. Nelson, Ellyn Marshall & Carlyn Davis, CSA along with the iconic Central Casting in New York. 

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He holds a B.A. In Theater with a focus on acting & directing from George Mason University in Virginia, USA and studied Final Cut Pro editing at the Manhattan Edit Workshop.  He has extensive training and experience in production and has worked on films such as Super Troopers, Knight & Day and The Cold Light of Day and produced video content for the Moving Pictures Video Lounge at the TriBeCa Film Festival. Last but not least, he is also proud to have recently written, directed and produced his first short film called Sad Sally's Peering Plan.