Age: 16
male
Aias Dalman is a 10-year-old child actor and screenwriter from Vancouver, BC, Canada. Scouted by Young Moviemakers Director Levente Mihalik while in a kindergarten science class, Aias spent the next 3 years working in Vancouver independent film both as an actor and writer. By the age of 7 his screenplays had already won awards, including Best Film Overall at the Toronto International Film Festival's (TIFF) Young Filmmakers Showcase for "The Fortune Teller," as well as Best Narrative at the Calgary International Film Festival for "Teen Chick." His most recent work, "Tough Guy," was screened at over 24 film festivals internationally in 2018 and continues to circulate at festivals in 2019. While his first loves are science and the independent film industry, in 2018 Aias decided to sign with Lucas Talent in Vancouver and has since been in a number of TV, Film, and Commercial productions around the city. While Aias loves acting theatrically, especially with the fascinating people he meets on set, he aspires to someday have his own "Bill Nye" style Science Show and ultimately to give his own TED Talk.
The story follows a team of pirate mercenaries known as the Lagoon Company, that smuggles goods in and around the seas of Southeast Asia in the early to mid 1990s.[4] Their base of operations is located in the fictional harbor city of Roanapur in east Thailand near the border of Cambodia (somewhere in the Amphoe Mueang Trat district, likely on the mainland north/northeast of the Ko Chang island or on the island itself).[5] The city is home to the Japanese Yakuza, the Chinese Triad, the Russian mafia, the Colombian cartel, the Italian mafia, a wide assortment of pickpockets, thugs, mercenaries, thieves, prostitutes, assassins, and gunmen. The city also has a large Vietnamese refugee population following the Vietnamese refugees exodus after the Communist takeover of Vietnam in 1975. Lagoon Company transports goods for various clients in the American made 80-foot (24 m) Elco-type PT boat Black Lagoon. It has a particularly friendly relationship with the Russian crime syndicate Hotel Moscow. The team takes on a variety of missions—which may involve violent firefights, hand-to-hand combat, and nautical battles—in various Southeast Asian locations, even going as far as Phu Quoc island of Vietnam. When they are not working, the members of the Lagoon Company spend much of their down time at The Yellow Flag, a bar in Roanapur which is often destroyed in firefights.
