Current Projects

Production Title: Feed My Sheep

Union / Non-Union Status: Non-Union

Production Type: Short Film

Project Length: 10-13 minute runtime

Project Format: Digital (Shooting with ARRI Alexa Plus)

Production Location: Indianapolis, Indiana

Directors: Brenton Oechsle, Glenn Johnson

Brenton is a freelance cinematographer and editor. His experience in documentary and narrative filmmaking extends over a decade. His work has been promoted through The Atlantic and Nowness, and screened at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Glenn is an editor at 12 Stars Media. He’s edited multiple documentary features that have been screened at Heartland Film Festival and nominated for Emmys. 

Producers: Victoria Britton, Andrew Coons

Audition Location: Self Tape *audition script sides attached

Shooting Location: Indianapolis, Indiana

Shooting Schedule: June 15 - June 18, 2022

Compensation: 

Pays $150/day for lead cast, plus one meal per day and a one-time $50 travel stipend. IMDB credit, film festival exposure, footage for your reel. Lodging not included.

Pays $125/day for day players, puls one meal per day and IMDB credit, film festival exposure, and footage for your reel. Travel & lodging not included.

Pays $100 flat fee for background/minor speaking roles (police & John Owens)

The producers plan to apply for a SAG-AFTRA New Media Micro-Budget Agreement.

Dates and Times of Film Auditions: Now through May 31st

Casting ‘Feed My Sheep’ a short, contemporary drama. A pastor in a small town struggles to do what's right in the midst of a tragedy. Note: quick casting turnaround!

• Job: TV Short

Deft Pictures is pleased to announce they are casting for their upcoming feature film, Not Bad for a Punk Band. With production in two phases, shooting the short film (proof of concept) on August 13th and 14th, 2022 with the feature film shooting in Spring/Summer 2023. Both shooting in the Twin Cities metro area.

Eight years after their band’s breakup, Charlie and Etta find themselves meeting again at a wedding, and must finally reconcile with the past that is holding them back or risk losing each other forever.

• Job: Feature

We are looking for adoptees and others who are looking to meet their biological families for the award winning reality TV show, Relative Race. We are now casting for season 11. We are looking for people of all ethnicities, aged 18 to 50, who live in the USA. Please share with anyone who may be interested. 

We are interviewing select candidates ASAP to discover if we can help them to locate and meet their biological relatives. To find our contestants’ families, we use Ancestry DNA in combination with some of the industry's top genealogists and research methods. If chosen to appear on the show, contestants will travel with a teammate on a ten-day journey across the U.S. to discover new relatives and compete for $50,000. Please apply ASAP with notes about your story and who you are looking for to begin the process. Thanks for submitting!

• Job: TV Series

8 minute comedy piece open with Jonny a hustler/money maker type shooting an infomercial live from his living room with 2 men beside him. He pitches the 2 men as potential dates for women who are watching. On one side of Jonny is Alejandro, a man that is pretty built and big and strong and is portrayed as grown using pesticides, steroids, growth hormones and not the one choose with a lower price tag. The other man on Jonny's other side is Tom, a weak looking frail man and is portrayed as pure, grown with no pesticides, no growth hormones, and no preservatives, and is completely organic. He has a higher price tag and is portrayed as the one to choose because he is pure and organic.

Once the infomercial is done, there are some friends in the apartment. The camera man and friends proceed to converse, Chang, a chinese guy with a heavy accent and a friend plays cards with Jonny while he counts money with Tom, 2 women call in for the dates. Bill is Jonny's friend and has a financial stake in what's going on, he answers the phone to talk to the women. The piece ends with an attractive woman coming to the apartment to pick up Tom to go out on a date.

• Job: Other

"Amma's Ashes" was just selected by the Access Sacramento film studio as one of 10 screenplays to be produced this summer for the Place Called Sacramento Film Festival. 

We're looking for South Asian women, men and teens, including one genderqueer teen/young adult actor. 
 

There is no pay at this tome, but if you're traveling to Sacramento from out of town for the shoot, we can compensate for gas expenses. We can offer the chance to work with some of Sacramento's top professionals in a down-to-earth and supportive creative environment, as well as a movie credit. The film will be submitted to the festival circuit, and developed as a television series. 

Here's a synopsis of "Amma's Ashes, or Mystery at the Sacramento River":

As eldest daughter and executor of her mother’s estate, Kaveri has three days to disperse her mother’s ashes in the Sacramento River, but first she must marshal her ragtag family and solve her mother's mystery. 

• Job: Feature

This is a feature film project that will be shot in the metro-Detroit area in the at the end of August and is slated for an 11 day shoot. We are looking to cast several  lead & supporting roles both paid and unpaid.

• Job: Feature

This is feature length low budget independent film. The project will be shot in Pittsburgh featuring unknown, up and coming, and new actors. 

The story follows a dancer as she navigates her way to the top of the criminal underworld in Steel City. 

• Job: Feature

A Musical Documentary following the making of a musical for off-Broadway. We'll be following the cast and crew through the whole process. Actors cast in the lead roles will be participating in the behind the scenes of the making of the musical as well as the staged musical itself should it come to fruition. Think project greenlight from HBO but focused on a staged musical production.

Our musical itself follows the story of a family that fights back against a super villain intent on world domination.

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