Job in Acting for "Cockroach" Film
ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE ACCEPTED. Searching for cast to portray roles in "Cockroach" film. Please, see the details below. About the project: LOGLINE: On the night of a rare total lunar eclipse, a thirteen-year-old girl sneaks out of her room at midnight despite her father’s restrictions to watch Alien, a film her late mother had promised they would see together. This leads to an unexpected confrontation between the girl and a cockroach that tests domestic authority and innocence in a modern, privileged home. SYNOPSIS: On the night of a rare total lunar eclipse, a thirteen-year-old girl is in her bedroom with her father. The eclipse had been marked in advance by her late mother, who promised they would watch it together. The girl wants to stay awake to watch Alien, the film her mother chose for that night, but her father refuses, insisting she go to sleep because it is late and she has school the next day. The disagreement ends without resolution, and the father leaves the room. After the house has gone quiet, the girl sneaks downstairs into the private cinema and begins watching Alien alone. While the film plays, she notices a cockroach moving near the screen. Startled, she throws her plush toy toward it, knocking over a framed family photograph, which shatters loudly. The noise wakes her father, who rushes downstairs, turns off the film, and carries the girl back to bed, telling her the photograph can be fixed the next day. Under the blanket alone, the girl whispers to her absent mother. Moments later, the cockroach crawls back into the room through the open door and disappears into the darkness. Rate: UBCP/ACTRA or Equivalent. Volunteer. Additional information: Shoot/Performance Date(s) Fall 2026. Shoot/Performance Location(s) Vancouver. Submission Deadline July 12, 2026. Please, see the attachment. When applying please submit a list of credits and a video file where you introduce yourself. Upon reception you will receive an excerpt from the screenplay for a self-tape. All interested applicants will have the opportunity to submit a self-tape.
2 roles
White Canadian man. Slim, composed, quietly intellectual. Early stages of baldness, fair-to-dark blond hair, and a neatly kept light-brown or dark-blond beard. Wears glasses, often slipping them off to rub tired eyes or press the bridge of his nose. Tall to average height (approx. 5’10”–6”2” / 178–188 cm). A university professor of film studies. More comfortable with observation than confrontation, his authority feels gentle but firm.
Iranian-Canadian woman in her late 30s to late 40s, born in Iran to Iranian parents, later naturalized Canadian. A university professor of Classics and Ancient History, intellectually rigorous but deeply alive in the world beyond academia. Long dark-brown hair, expressive features, olive to light complexion (neither distinctly fair nor dark), physically energetic and quietly charismatic. Attractive without ostentation. Someone remembered as always in motion.
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