Open Roles in "A Good Life" Film
ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE ACCEPTED. Casting actors to portray roles in "A Good Life" Film More details are below. About the project: In a near-dystopian future disguised as a utopia, citizens must apply for a “Good Life,” a state-approved status granting access to scarce privileges such as wealth mobility, healthcare, the right to have children, and freedom to travel. Marketed as a fair and merit-based system, the application process resembles a corporate job interview, where individuals must justify why they deserve to live well. The story follows a woman in her early thirties who has been rejected repeatedly. Each application cycle has taught her how to speak the system’s language, how to package her suffering into palatable narratives, and how to hide her desperation behind composure. This time, she is determined to succeed, no matter the cost. As she waits to be called in for her interview, the film weaves together conversations in the waiting room and glimpses into other applicants’ interviews. Each person reveals a different vision of what a “good life” means, shaped by their needs, wants, desperation and drive. Among them is a man who, by every visible measure, already has a good life. Wealthy, healthy, and well-connected, he applies not out of necessity but ambition. His presence becomes a mirror and a threat, exposing the system’s hypocrisy and the reality that those with power are always granted more. As the interviews unfold, the woman is forced to confront what the system demands of her, and whether being chosen is worth what she must surrender to earn it. Good Life is a restrained, unsettling exploration of scarcity, merit, and the quiet violence of systems that ask people to prove they deserve dignity. Rate: Non union. A mix of paid and unpaid roles. Additional information: Filming dates: July 31st 2026 - August 3rd 2026. Location will be in Calgary. Exact Location TBD. Please, see the attachment. If you're interested, please apply.
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The film's central character. A woman of profound intelligence and hard-won composure who has been navigating institutional systems her entire life. This is a role that lives almost entirely in the body — in stillness, in restraint, in the gap between what Lorraine feels and what she allows herself to show. Actors should be prepared for a performance that is interior, precise, and emotionally demanding.
Charming, unhurried, and completely unconscious of the damage his ease does to everyone around him. The role requires an actor who can be genuinely likeable while embodying a specific and legible form of privilege. The audience must never be instructed to dislike him — they must arrive there themselves.
A man of great stillness and quiet dignity. Walter has made peace with his life in a way that is neither resignation nor defeat — he has simply decided what matters and is here to ask for it one more time. The role requires warmth without sentimentality and an ability to carry enormous emotional weight very lightly.
Warm, direct, and quietly fierce. Nadia is the kind of person who crosses a room because it seems like the right thing to do, and is usually correct. The role requires an actor who can carry love and anxiety in the same breath and make both feel completely real.
Nervous in the specific way of someone who loves someone else more than he loves himself. Felix is not weak, he is exposed, which is different. The role requires an actor comfortable with vulnerability as a primary register.
Precise, formally composed, and quietly furious in a way she has long since learned to metabolize into focus. Selin is the most visibly prepared person in the room and the most visibly underestimated. The role requires an actor who can convey competence under sustained institutional dismissal without ever tipping into victimhood.
Sharp, careful, and older than his years in ways that are specific rather than generic. Marcus has spent three years in medical waiting rooms and has learned to conserve everything — energy, expression, hope. The role requires a young actor of genuine precision and emotional depth, capable of holding a scene with minimal dialogue and breaking open when the moment arrives.
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