Independent Film Seeks Talents - "Stay"
Independent short film (20–30 minutes). A young man discovers he can jump back exactly 24 hours, but each jump permanently erases a piece of his memory. He keeps returning to the night his girlfriend tells him she got a job in Paris, desperately trying to say the right things to make her stay. Shot on phone/natural light. Intimate, performance-driven story. Unpaid but provides full credit + digital copy of the finished film for reels. Local talent preferred (or willing to travel).
2 roles
Max is a young man who loves his girlfriend deeply but is terrified of losing her. When she gets offered a job in Paris, he discovers he can jump back exactly 24 hours — at the cost of permanently losing small pieces of his memory each time. He keeps returning to the night she tells him about the offer, desperately trying to find the perfect words to make her stay, while slowly forgetting why he loved her in the first place.
Sarah is smart, warm, and ambitious. She has just been offered a job in Paris and is trying to figure out how to tell her boyfriend Max. She loves him, but she also doesn’t want to shrink her life for anyone. As Max keeps subtly changing during their conversations, she starts to sense that something is off about him without fully understanding why.