"Pen Prick" Feature Film Looking for Actors
ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE CONSIDERED. Casting call for feature film, About the project: Under a crucial deadline, a comic artist’s reliance on AI to complete his masterpiece spirals into reality-warping delusions and his own psychological unraveling. A comic artist, haunted by the ghost of his first success, spirals into obsession and self-doubt, while his closest friend fights to save his sanity and his art. Rate: $200/day as local hire If interested, please submit a headshot, resume, monologue, and reel (if applicable). Submissions without a headshot or video monologue will not be considered.
2 roles
Intense, scruffy, brilliant. He is a perfectionist drowning in the "sophomore slump." He is a role for an actor who can handle long takes and heavy emotional transitions. Think Black Swan meets Adaptation. He is a "prodigy" currently paralyzed by his own ghost. Character Notes: He is a brilliant comic artist who peaked early with a previously hit project. Now, he is drowning in the "Sophomore Slump." He isn't just "tired"; he’s vibrating with the fear that he’s a fraud.
Sharp, grounded, "Geek-Chic." She is the leader’s intellectual equal and his only tether to reality. She is playful until she isn't. She has the soulful, magnetic mystery of Sofia in Vanilla Sky, but the grounded, 'working-artist' ambition of Mia in La La Land. Character Notes: She is an illustrator who is "the lead’s original fan," but she’s evolved past being just a supporter. She is his only bridge to the real world. She’s not a pixie; she is a serious artist who is watching her mentor.
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