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CASTING/CREWING
- Free Tonight?(short drama) AWARD WINNING SCRIPT
- Cooking with Friends(short horror trilogy)
- Cry for Help(short drama)
- D2(short horror)
- D3(short horror)
- CPR(short drama)
- Plan B(short drama)
- Monday(short drama)
- Karen: the b-horror movie drinking game(feature horror)
- Karen the Cannibal(feature horror)
- Dogs, Dames, Trouble(short animation)
- Watering Down the Will(short dark B-comedy)
CASTNG 1 SCENE:
- Cold Side of the Pillow(feature drama)
- The...(feature documentary)
PITCH VIDEO CASTING:
- Terminal City(feature film noir)
POST PRODUCTION CREWING: Video and Audio Editors
- Dogs, Dames, Trouble(short animation)
- Watering Down the Will(short dark B-comedy)
- VanLife 5(series)
Unless either-wise stated within each casting notice, the following are the compensations for all productions. Specifics to each item will be broken down within release waivers and contracts once joining a production.
IMDb Credit
Demo Clips/Pics(whichever is applicable)
Promotional Material Crediting
Copies of Promotional Material(eg; posters)
Copy of Film
Meals
Financial Honorarium 50.00CAN(per day)
Transportation/Accommodation(if applicable)
*all details of participation will be explained with a Release Agreement which will be provided upon offer of a role.
TITLE: WTD
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: Attila
CASTING DIRECTOR: Dave Cooper
COMPANIES: AtkaFilms, Daem Film
AUDITION DATE DEADLINE: May 28th, 2023(responses sent out May 29th for callbacks)
CALLBACK DATE: June 5th, 2023
AUDITION LOCATION: Online
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: May 28th, 2023
SHOOT DATES: 2023/2024
SHOOT LOCATION: Vancouver, BC; Lower Mainland
GUILDS: Non-Union
SYNOPSIS: A day in the life of a baristas, who are all struggling with mental health and mental illness issues.
CONTENT: 18+
GENRE: drama
TIME: feature length
PLEASE INCLUDE IN YOUR SUBMISSION:
1) resumes;
2) Links to your(if applicable): Personal Websites, Facebook Fan Page, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, IMDb;
3) clips/videos of your past work.
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Please send to atka@atkafilms.com with the subject “WTD”
COMMENTS:
1) skills with improvisation are a major asset. During the Callbacks, improvisation will be required.
2) The submission of your clips IS the first audition, which we are accepting until February 27th, 2023. We are basing Callbacks on those clips. If you are selected for a callback you will receive a link to where you can select a time-slot for the March 6th callbacks which will be held online.
3) During the callbacks be prepared for: Improve, Cold Read, Provided Sides(sent upon selection for a Callback)
4) The character of Saleem speaks Punjabi, therefore do not submit if you do not speak Punjabi; nor if you are not of Indian decent.
ROLES:
1) Saleem(male, 20's-up, supporting)
An Indian(east asian) person, Saleem speaks fluent Punjabi and English; he is a new barista. A bit clumsy, nice person, personality is innocent and wants to learn and get stuff done.
TITLE: Court
DIRECTOR: TBA
PRODUCER: Attila
COMPANIES: AtkaFilms, Just Act Films, T.E.A.M.
AUDITION/CALLBACK DATES: ongoing until cast
AUDITION LOCATION: Online
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: ongoing until cast
SHOOT DATES: TBD
SHOOT LOCATION: Vancouver, BC
GUILDS: Non-Union
SYNOPSIS: Filmmaker Attila takes the Provincial Gov't to court over accusations of hiding his identity. Attila spends a year preparing for his trail, with a conclusion that left him shocked about the realities of the legal system.
CONTENT: 16+
GENRE: drama, short, documentary
CAST PLEASE INCLUDE IN YOUR SUBMISSION:
1) resumes;
2) Links to your(if applicable): Personal Websites, Facebook Fan Page, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, IMDb;
3) self tape one minute dramatic monologue of your choice;
4) any additional clips you choose to include, not required.
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Please send to atka@atkafilms.com with the subject “COURT”
COMMENTS:
1) skills with improvisation are a major asset. During the Callbacks, improvisation will be required
2) all characters are within scenes which are reEnactments/dramatizations, within this documentary
CAST ROLES:
1) Prosecuting Attorney(open gender/ethnicity, 30s, supporting)
Good attorney whom tries to undermine people by winning on the merits on not divulging facts; hoping others do not find them.
2) Barrister(open gender/ethnicity, 30s, supporting)
Defending the filmmaker. A very passionate person who has trouble holding their excitement when defending the "little person".
3) Officer Choi(Male/Korean, 50's, supporting)
Stone faced police officer; serious, but not mean. Holds up the law respectfully and will concede when provided rational thoughts and evidence. Faces life with faces and not feelings.
4) Judge/Justice of the Peace(Open gender/ethnicity, 50's, supporting)
The person whom officiates the trail.
5) Brenda(female, 40's, supporting)
Friend of character Attila; they discuss the documents around the trail.
Other Roles: ICBC Operator, City of Vancouver Receptionist, Security Camera Manufacturing Rep.
CREW POSITIONS: Stills, Sound/Boom, Lighting Tech
TITLE: "Cooking with Friends" trilogy
DIRECTORS/PRODUCERS: Attila, TBA
PRODUCTION: Just Act Films, T.E.A.M.
AUDITION DATES: ongoing until cast
CALLBACK DATES: ongoing until cast
AUDITION LOCATION: Online
CALLBACK LOCATION: In-Person
SHOOT DATES: TBD
SHOOT LOCATION: Vancouver, BC
GUILDS: Non-Union
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: ongoing until cast
SYNOPSIS: Erica the Final Girl faces off against a serial killer.
CONTENT: sexuality, gore, violence, coarse language, adult subject matter, 18+
GENRE: short, horror
ROLES:
Serial Killer(Male, 20s/30s, lead)
Kills people, but with a modern Subscription based twist.
PLEASE INCLUDE IN YOUR SUBMISSION:
1) resumes;
2) Links to your(if applicable): Personal Websites, Facebook Fan Page, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, IMDb;
3) self tape one minute dramatic monologue of your choice which evokes fear;
4) any additional clips you choose to include, not required.
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Please send to atka@atkafilms.com with the subject “Cooking with Friends Trilogy”
COMMENTS:
-This is scheduled to be a one day shoot.
-This is a micro short mini-series, running times will be from 1minute to 5minutes. These are fast, quick action, to the point.
TITLE: Free Tonight?
DIRECTORS/PRODUCERS: Attila
PRODUCTION: Atka Films
AUDITION DATES: 2022
CALLBACK DATES: 2022
AUDITION LOCATION: Online
CALLBACK LOCATION: In-Person
SHOOT DATES: 2023
SHOOT LOCATION: Vancouver, BC
GUILDS: Non-Union
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: ongoing until cast
SYNOPSIS: A gay man asks a stranger to stay overnight to help him deal with the stress in his marriage.
CONTENT: sexuality, substance use, coarse language, adult subject matter, 18+
GENRE: drama, romance, LGBTQ2S
ROLES:
John(Male, 50s/60s, lead)
Award winning novelist, identifies as a gay male, currently working on his next novel "The Alphabet Mafia".
PLEASE INCLUDE IN YOUR SUBMISSION:
1) resumes;
2) Links to your(if applicable): Personal Websites, Facebook Fan Page, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, IMDb.
3) self tape one minute dramatic monologue of your choice;
4) any additional clips you choose to include, not required.
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Please send to atka@atkafilms.com with the subject “Free Tonight?”
COMMENTS:
The script has been awarded: Winner Best Short Script Poppy Film Festival 2023, Official Selection(screenplay) Merced Queer Film Festival 2022, Official Selection(best short screenwritings) Red Moon Film Festival 2022, Official Selection(Short Film Script) Comox Valley International Film Festival 2022
MONOLOGUE for SELF TAPE:
“What a bore to sit there and take bennies all night and with their fucking face stuck in a bunch of books and their thumb up their asses! Oh yes yes I remember the time it was all very inspiring and and enlightening, all this history and literature and sociology shit! You’d think learning is a really big thing and you become his big fucking intellectual and sit around trying to out intellectual all the other fuckin’ intellectuals! You spend years with your nose buried in these goddamn tombs! while the world is passing you bye; all this stuff to see, and all the kicks, and all the girls, are out there. And me a writer, and a poet who should be having adventures and experience, and all the diversities and paradoxes and ironies of life.”
DOWNLOAD PDF OF MONOLOGUE for SELF TAPE: