Current Projects

CASTING CALL for a Dark Comedy/Slice of Life Short Film: “The Mountain Rabbit” (~7 min)

LOGLINE: When an impulsive woman takes care of her grandma with dementia for the weekend, things take a turn for the bizarre.

ROLES:

Cindy (25-35 years old, Asian woman) -

An exhausted grad student whose impulsiveness tends to clash with her responsibilities.

Edit **Includes sexually suggestive scene with potential partial nudity

Grandma (65+ Asian woman)

80 years old, give or take, but who’s counting? This tough cookie loves her independence, fresh fruit, and white lies.

Mark (20-25, male, any race)

A college junior who’s a nice enough young man, although not too quick to notice his surroundings.

Includes sexually suggestive scene with potential partial nudity

TENTATIVE SHOOTING DATES: 7/16-7/17 (Second weekend in July 2022) in the Greater Philadelphia Area

PAID POSITIONS, Non-Union

Cindy has promised her mother that she would spend the summer living with her grandmother.  Feeling a little reckless and impulsive, she seeks out a fling with the neighbor, ignoring some of the more troubling signs of dementia in her grandmother.

• Job: Other

Six best friends living in Philly try to find their place in the world. As they struggle to navigate life in their mid to late 20's

• Job: Web Series

Playscript in the making, needs a young Irish (accent) talent to bring this most famous fictional song character to life, through many table readings.Presenting Danny Boy is a three Act historical fantasy play, within a play, within a song. 

• Job: Student

Deft Pictures is pleased to announce they are casting for their upcoming feature film, Not Bad for a Punk Band. With production in two phases, shooting the short film (proof of concept) on August 13th and 14th, 2022 with the feature film shooting in Spring/Summer 2023. Both shooting in the Twin Cities metro area.

Eight years after their band’s breakup, Charlie and Etta find themselves meeting again at a wedding, and must finally reconcile with the past that is holding them back or risk losing each other forever.

• Job: Feature

Best friends living in Philly struggle to navigate life in their mid to late 20's. Attempting to find their place in the world, they fight through dreams deferred, disappointments, mental health, and marriage in hopes of achieving the lives they dream of.

• Job: Web Series

We are looking for adoptees and others who are looking to meet their biological families for the award winning reality TV show, Relative Race. We are now casting for season 11. We are looking for people of all ethnicities, aged 18 to 50, who live in the USA. Please share with anyone who may be interested. 

We are interviewing select candidates ASAP to discover if we can help them to locate and meet their biological relatives. To find our contestants’ families, we use Ancestry DNA in combination with some of the industry's top genealogists and research methods. If chosen to appear on the show, contestants will travel with a teammate on a ten-day journey across the U.S. to discover new relatives and compete for $50,000. Please apply ASAP with notes about your story and who you are looking for to begin the process. Thanks for submitting!

• Job: TV Series

Looking for Male and Female Models for a paid shoot for a new project.

No size restrictions 

No location restrictions 

No experience restrictions 

Tattoos and Piercings are also welcome 

• Job: TV Series

"Amma's Ashes" was just selected by the Access Sacramento film studio as one of 10 screenplays to be produced this summer for the Place Called Sacramento Film Festival. 

We're looking for South Asian women, men and teens, including one genderqueer teen/young adult actor. 
 

There is no pay at this tome, but if you're traveling to Sacramento from out of town for the shoot, we can compensate for gas expenses. We can offer the chance to work with some of Sacramento's top professionals in a down-to-earth and supportive creative environment, as well as a movie credit. The film will be submitted to the festival circuit, and developed as a television series. 

Here's a synopsis of "Amma's Ashes, or Mystery at the Sacramento River":

As eldest daughter and executor of her mother’s estate, Kaveri has three days to disperse her mother’s ashes in the Sacramento River, but first she must marshal her ragtag family and solve her mother's mystery. 

• Job: Feature

Roxborough Times is a new sitcom about 20-somethings in the early 1980s. 

Jen and Margaret move into their first apartment with many mishaps and new characters. Their friends, Bill and Moose, are unemployed and have misadventures getting jobs and trying to stay afloat. Bill eventually moves in with Jen and Margaret. Roy is the janitor who is perpetually high and doesn't seem to get much work done. Margaret is somewhat ditsy and has dyslexia and Tourette, never seems to know what is going on, yet shows wisdom in some ways. Jen interviews with many places and finally lands a good job, although she meets strange characters there as well. Mac is a co-worker who becomes her friend and has many strange stories and anecdotes. Eventually, characters find romance and more.

• Job: Video

This is feature length low budget independent film. The project will be shot in Pittsburgh featuring unknown, up and coming, and new actors. 

The story follows a dancer as she navigates her way to the top of the criminal underworld in Steel City. 

• Job: Feature

A Musical Documentary following the making of a musical for off-Broadway. We'll be following the cast and crew through the whole process. Actors cast in the lead roles will be participating in the behind the scenes of the making of the musical as well as the staged musical itself should it come to fruition. Think project greenlight from HBO but focused on a staged musical production.

Our musical itself follows the story of a family that fights back against a super villain intent on world domination.

• Job:

Short barber shop based scene.

• Job: Film