Actor

Job Title: Actor

Compensation: Volunteer

Job Category: Cast

Project Name: Gummy Guilt

Contact: Akil Haye

Phone: 2156685054

Email: Thecollectivefilmmakers@gmail.com

Casting actors for ‘Gummy Guilt’, an upcoming drama short scheduled to shoot this spring in Philadelphia.

Logline: Haunted by guilt over her father’s stroke, Nora cuts off her family entirely, retreating into silence and shame. Now, with a surprise family cookout planned in his honor, she has to face judgments she can no longer outrun.

These roles are unpaid. Meals will be provided and actors will receive clips for their reel.

Characters:

Clyde (50s+, male, African-American), Nora’s father. He had a stroke several months ago and walks (upright) with a cane. Before the stroke, he rode motorcycles. He’s warm with a playful sense of humor and loves his daughter deeply.

Isha (50s+, female, African-American), Nora’s mother. She has a subtly dark sense of humor and her own way of doing things. She loves her family and always wants them to make amends.

Lena (25-30, female, African-American), Nora’s cousin. She’s happy, approachable, successful, slender – everything Nora feels she isn’t. She isn’t insensitive, but she is blind to Nora’s perspective.

Reese (20s, male, African-American), Nora’s brother. He’s adopted the “man of the home” mentality, and has been holding the family together especially since Clyde’s stroke. Reese has a big heart and is more concerned and hurt by Nora’s absence.

Uncle Vince (50s, male, African-American) is a quiet man who prefers to keep to himself. A bit hen-pecked by his wife Jo-Ann. He stays in the background but finds his own ways to be involved in the party fiasco that is going on. *Actors auditioning for this role might want to consider incorporating an activity in their audition tape – something Uncle Vince might be doing at a family cookout – can be mimed without props.*

Click on the following link to apply! https://tinyurl.com/GummyGuiltForm
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