"Zip" Film Looking for Actors
ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE ACCEPTED. Seeking actors to portrait roles in "Zip" film. More details are below. About the project: PROJECT SYNOPSIS: Meet Melody; at fifteen, she is outspoken, intelligent and creative. Melody enjoys hanging out with her friends, keeping up with 70s pop culture and dreams of performing in her school talent show. The problem? Her strict father, a traditionalist who shakes Melody’s world overnight after sewing a zipper onto her mouth on her sixteenth birthday. LOGLINE: On her 16th birthday, singer-songwriter Melody awakens with a zipper sewn to her mouth. A story about the voiceless, who must fight to be heard. Rate: UBCP/ACTRA or Equivalent. Non Paying. Additional information: AUDITION LOCATION Self Tape. SHOOT/PERFORMANCE DATE(S): March 10, 11, 12. SHOOT/PERFORMANCE LOCATION(S): Vancouver. Submission deadline: January 26, 2023. When applying, please send a self-tape, head shot and resume.
8 roles
SUPPORTING LEAD. MUST SPEAK FARSI Iranian, stern and traditional. Zahhak is a businessman with conservative beliefs about what a perfect daughter should look like; that means putting an end to Melody’s interest in music and preparing her for life as a wife. Zahhak has a short temper and supports Iran’s new regime firmly.
SUPPORTING. MUST SPEAK FARSI Iranian, traditional and direct. Ghodrat is Omid’s father, an elderly man who has forced his family into following all the ruthless practices of the Iranian regime. Ghodrat believes that women are better off being obedient and is looking forward to helping Omid succeed in his courtship of Melody. Ghodrat represents the worst of an extremist patriarchal dictatorship.
PRINCIPAL. Iranian, awkward and mousy. Omid is the man Melody is betrothed to, but doesn’t have much to say about their engagement. He looks to his father for permission to speak and probably doesn’t have the best personal hygiene. Omid represents bystanders in matters relating to human rights – he may know what he is partaking in is wrong, but he’d rather play along than risk speaking up.
MENASA, Omid’s Mother. She is zipped.
ADDITIONAL CHARACTER. MENASA, She is zipped… SOC
ADDITIONAL CHARACTER. MENASA, she is zipped.
ADDITIONAL CHARACTER. To play 16 MENASA, She has recently been zipped… SOC.
ADDITIONAL CHARACTER. To play 16, all ethnicities and genders to play high schoolers in the 1970s… SOC.