Seeking Cast for "Burden" Film
ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE CONSIDERED. Casting actors to portray roles in "Burden" film. More details are below. About the project: Emma, a 19-year-old working two jobs to support herself through university, is shocked when her estranged mother calls and tells her to come home. During the call, Emma relives what it was like growing up with her mother, the good and the very bad, through fragmented, dreamlike memories. As she weighs what returning home would mean for her future, her mother reveals that she has the same illness that killed Emma’s father. Despite everything, Emma has to decide weather to go back home and care for her mom or stay and continue to live free from her past. Rate: Non-Union. This is a volunteer project. Crafty and catering will be provided. Will be submitting to festivals. Additional information: Audition Location Online. Shoot/Performance Date(s) July 9th-11th. Shoot/Performance Location(s) Vancouver. Submission Deadline June 20, 2026. When applying, please submit head shots and the character you are interested in.
3 roles
Emma is ages 15, 16, 17 and 19 throughout the film. Emma is outgoing, loyal and bright. She has finally built a space for herself that feels like home; she found friends that she now calls family, she only has to clean her own mess and the biggest change, finally escaping her mother. Emma has always been more of a caretaker for her mother and sister than her mother ever was.
Sandra is ages 32, 34, 42, 45 during the film. Sandra is reserved, snappy and grieving. She never want kids. But she loved someone enough that she new she would love building a family. That was until he fell ill. Now she has a 5 year old and a baby on the way. Her grief of her husband quickly turned to resentment as she couldn't look at her daughters without seeing everything she had lost and everything she continually had to give up for her children.
Dennis is kind, outgoing and playful. He has always wanted a family. He has so much love and is the perfect dad. When he gets sick he tries to give them everything he can before he goes. Even while bedridden he spends as much time with Emma and Sandra as he can. As Sandra starts to reveal her true emotions.
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