Current Projects

In the Eye of the Storm, a feature film is seeking a cast for a feature film. This film will be shot in 4K. There is no pay, but you will receive IMDb credits, festival play, and national distribution (youtube, streaming).

5 Mississippi boys on a graduation trip in Florida get trapped in a high school during a cat 4 early hurricane. When 2 bumbling bullies shelter there they disturb the ghost of a boy who hung himself, things get strangely funny and dramatic.

• Job: Feature

We do true crime and true encounters with the strange. These are SCRIPTED video presentations.

We're looking to add narrators and writers to our core group.

The main host needs regular fill-in hosts. If you enjoy doing this, we plan to have a couple of scripts a month for you. If you have a good personality for video presentations, the job is easy! You'll record the video in your own home on your own time. We'll show you a free teleprompter link. So all you need is a decent mic and a laptop. Green screen is a plus, but not essential.

You'll get "hosted by" credit and IMDB. You can also take the opportunity to pitch yourself or your work.

The scripts are usually around 4000 to 5000 words. This should be a half to an hour's work. We edit out mistakes, so you just have to have fun and read. 

If you are familiar with Mr. Ballen's channel, this is a perfect example of the type of storytelling we want and the style of video presentation. 

Three things are needed for a great story: an engaging storyteller, an audience, and of course the story.

The storyteller: A good storyteller is animated, brings energy, looks the audience in the eye and says "come with me on this journey". 

The audience is a critical part of the equation. In a live setting, the storyteller can sense the audience's attention drifting away, and adjusts her story to recapture it. This adjusting shows how the vital interaction between the storyteller and the audience shapes the story itself. With a youtube channel, that feedback is limted to comments below. But a good storyteller can still imagine that audience and create the sense of interaction. A wry small or perfectly placed inflection. The storyteller instinctively understands the audience interaction and gets better at this over time. It's a crucial skill for stand-up comics, educators, actors and boardroom executives. 

The story itself is where the all-important but seldom appreciated writing comes in. We want a small team to work together, growing in their skill at crafting stories that hook an audience and hold it. 

• Job: Video

Family orientated action / science fiction to be shot in locations in California and beautiful Costa Rica locations. 

Non-union 

• Job: Feature

We are shooting a documentary style profile of a Boston chef.  We are looking for two female actors as customers at the restaurant.  One or two hours of shooting.

• Job: Commercial

Description: A drifting ride-share driver and an upper-class woman under immense stress share a unique nighttime ride.

Currently looking for an actress for the female lead:

[CAROL] 29 to 43 years, East Asian, Southeast Asian, South Asian, Mixed Ethnicity, Filipino, Pacific Islander female

• Job: Other

This is a Documentary based on a true story that will film in late 2022 in New Orleans by the non-profit LifeForce Christian Foundation.

• Job: Feature

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 producing a historical comedy pilot later this fall. Right now we're shooting a proof of concept which we hope to have shot and completed by late June. 

It's a single-camera, half-hour comedy set in the middle ages. Think Cheers meets Game of Thrones. 

• Job: TV Series

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

"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 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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