London Casting Calls & Acting Auditions

Household Brand Casting Call for Women with Autism

Looking for Female with Autism

Age: 12-16 years old

Shooting w/c 6th February/13th February

BBC-Backed Short Film Open Casting Call

Open Casting for BBC-Backed Short Film

We are casting real groups of male + non binary identity friends for an exciting BBC-backed short film. This can be 2 real mates or more. 

Based anywhere in England. 

You don’t need to be an actor to apply. Open to all levels of experience.

About the mates: 

Male/Non-Binary Friends

16-21 years old 

African, Caribbean or MENA heritage.

Streetwise kids living in the suburbs, who rides bikes and party. They are a boisterous lot, but fundamentally good innocent.

A group of mates who are incredibly close and have an uspoken bond. 

Professional paid if you land the role. This casting will also be going to agents. 

Commercial London Casting Call for Families

Looking for a real family made up of parents in their 30s or 40s who have 1 or 2 children between 5-10 years old.

Can be mix actors and non-actors but atleast 2 to be actors for a commercial.

Shooting: 19th, 20th, 23rd, and 24th and 25th of January in London. 

£2,000 Soft Drink Commercial Casting Call

Searching for Generation Z people who are great looking hop and quirky.

We are looking for people aged 18-26 of all ethnicities for a leading carbonated soft drink brand commercial.

We are searching for a diverse, racially ambiguous group of people with interest features (Freckles, natural hair, great smille) and confident with a bit of attitude.

Shooting 12 and 13th of January in London.

The fee is: £2,000 per person.

HULU’s ‘Black Cake’ [ESTELLE] Speaking Role Casting Call

BLACK CAKE ~ OPEN CASTING CALL

We are currently seeking the older version of one of the lead roles in a new TV series for HULU:

[ESTELLE] Character is 60’s-90’s, Jamaican. A caretaker with a deep connection to her employer. Jamaican Accent.

Those interested in applying must have good availability across January 2023, and be currently based in the UK, Europe, or USA.

This role will be required to film for 1-2 days, in Wales, UK.

No acting experience required, and accent coaching will be available as needed.

Casting for a disabled singer for a well-known skincare brand aged 20-35 

Disabled women are often overlooked by the beauty and skin care industries. We want to cast a disabled actress or performer in the role, but we want her disability to be incidental. We want to focus on a vibrant and beautiful woman.

She’s full of confidence and loves any opportunity to ‘glam’ up. She’s bright, high energy, and has a wicked sense of humor.

Skin Care Commercial Casting Call for Disabled Actresses

Casting for a disabled singer for a well known skin care brand aged 20-35 
Disabled women are often overlooked by the beauty and skin care industries .

We want to cast a disabled actress or performer in the role but we want her disability to be incidental.

We want to focus on a vibrant and beautiful woman.

She’s full of confidence, and she’s loves any opportunity to ‘glam’ up. She’s bright, she’s high energy and has a wicked sense of humour.

Description

ABOUT MOONBUG ENTERTAINMENT:

Moonbug is a next generation entertainment company that has cemented itself in the children’s media space. Would you like to be part of the next frontier of inspiring and engaging stories to kids around the world?

Founded in 2018, with primary offices in London and Los Angeles, Moonbug creates, produces and publishes thousands of minutes of video and audio content every month with the goal of teaching compassion, empathy and resilience. We are a fast-paced global company, and have already grown to become the largest kids’ entertainment company on digital platforms in the world. Some of our existing titles include global sensations CoComelon, Blippi, Little Baby Bum, Morphle, Supa Strikas, ARPO and many more which are available in 32 languages and can be viewed on more than 100 platforms globally.

Moonbug is part of Candle Media, an independent, creator-friendly home for cutting-edge, high-quality, category-defining brands and franchises. Candle is run by leading entertainment executives Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs, and backed by investment capital from funds managed by Blackstone’s flagship private equity business.

This role will report full-time ON-SITE at our Camden Office.

The Role:

Moonbug is seeking an experienced YouTube Senior Channel Manager to run the day-to-day operations, management and analytical reporting for several of our properties to support wider business objectives to grow subscribers etc. You will be working with some of the biggest brands on YouTube. You will be based in our London office and work closely with the team in Los Angeles.

The successful candidate will be a creative thinker who can juggle multiple and diverse responsibilities, with a strong emphasis on organisation and meticulous attention to detail. This is a demanding and fast-paced role with growth potential that requires curiosity and significant initiative. The candidate will manage a small team of channel managers and will be the UK arm of the Video Labs team working closely with their counterparts in Los Angeles.

Moonbug’s Senior Channel Managers are expected to become experts in our managed content and perform competitive analysis to gain an understanding of how we can improve and grow our channels. Candidates will be expected to perform ongoing YouTube viewership analysis using multiple analytics tools in order to validate existing strategies and provide information to guide programming, marketing, and investment decisions going forward.

The candidate will manage relationships with a small set of external partners and internal stakeholders such as the production, creative and marketing teams. They will understand how their channels fit into the larger Moonbug network and develop effective cross-promotion strategies that ensure mutual benefit to all parties.

Responsibilities:

• Run the day-to-day operation across multiple YouTube channels
• Manage content schedules and track content production to ensure deadlines are met
• Upload content, ensuring channels adhere to YouTube best practices
• Create performance updates for the wider team and company
• Interrogate data to deliver actionable insights and strategies for growth
• Manage and develop a team of channel managers
• Participate in meetings with internal and external stakeholders to present channel activities and performance
• Create graphics for both channels and ads
• Edit and transcode videos
• Keeping up to date with YouTube platform developments, trends and training
• Optimize titles, descriptions and keywords to be SEO
• Write and edit metadata and copy for videos and channels
• Granular analysis and reporting of YouTube analytics and other data sources

Requirements

Qualifications and Desired Experience:

• Experience in YouTube channel management
• YouTube Certified with a deep and current knowledge of the YouTube platform.
• Knowledge of YouTube Content ID a major plus
• Experience working with animation / children’s content is preferred but not essential
• Proficiency using Photoshop
• Proficiency in video editing using Premiere and/or Final Cut
• Additional languages are a major asset but not essential

Moonbug Entertainment

Way To Blue are offering an opportunity to become a key member of the creative team, at one of the UK’s top entertainment specialists.

We are looking to recruit a talented, organised and proactive Digital Content Producer & Studio Manager to join our growing Creative Producing team based in our London HQ. This role is a unique opportunity to have an impact on WTB’s mission along with offering you the prospect to manage some of our most important creative initiatives within TV and Film Brands.

This position is full-time, and at times might require evening and weekend work depending on our clients’ needs, but we are flexible where possible. In addition, the teamwork both from home and our central London office in Fitzrovia.

Here’s how you’ll be contributing:

Your day-to-day tasks will include (but not limited to):

• Lead on managing the creative studio, managing the work in and out to ensure we are resourced correctly, and the production process runs through the studio in a timely manner.
• Working proactively to bring in new business and briefs for the creative team from existing clientele and supporting senior management on new client prospecting.
• Quality control and cross-checking creative output to ensure work is produced to the quality standards of the Way to Blue brand, exactly to client brief and delivered in a timely manner
• Management of Production Assistant.
• Support production assistant to proof and check production briefs, content outline and scripts.
• Work with Creative Director to lead on creative ideation in brainstorms and apply your knowledge of what works best on social to this process.
• Be the first port of call for production expertise with both client and account servicing teams, preparing quotations and workflows for individual projects
• Coordinate content shoots on and off location, working with the production assistant in preparing call sheets and schedules, briefing everyone involved and handling the day-to-day details prior to and during the shoot – including shoot attendance and on-site producing where required.
• Occasionally applying your art direction and styling skills to production, working closely with our team to push production boundaries, enhance our reputation and contribute to the development of long-lasting client relationships.
• Attend weekly progress meetings and briefings across campaigns. Interrogate proposed budgets, agree estimates, assign responsibility, and oversee project progress.
• Track and manage production budgets.
• Initiating and leading content production projects to tight deadlines and budgets.
• Work closely with the senior team to escalate issues in a timely manner and work collectively to provide solutions.
• Sourcing, quoting, briefing and managing external agencies or 3rd party producers or service providers
• Manage the creative development process and partnership with client servicing teams.
• Maintain a strong oversight, alongside the creative director, of production of platform-ready creative assets with in-house production studio, including images, motion graphics, and video elements.
• Ensure admin and paperwork for projects is completed in a timely manner including statements or work, supplier agreements and purchase orders.
• Liaison with clients and managing client communications across multiple projects to facilitate creative requirements across multiple clients.
• On occasion, out of office hours will be required to support events and to liaise with our offices in different territories. Time spent out of hours will be given back in lieu.

What Way To Blue will provide:

• You’ll have flexible working, with you working week split between the office and home
• You will be given a dedicated line manager who will be your guide and day to day contact
• You will be invited to exclusive industry events including preview screenings and launch events
• Organised social events from Christmas and summer parties to Fizzy Friday drinks
• Where necessary and if of interest, training in areas beyond social media such as Creative, Finance and HR will be provided

A bit about you, you’ll have…

•  An excellent understanding of the social media & digital content industry and platforms
• Strong organizational skills and ability to run multiple projects concurrently
• Willing team player, capable of cross functional collaboration. 
• Solution focussed, ready and willing to find solutions and answers to challenges and client problems
• Able to work at pace, independently and take the initiative.
• Flexible and adaptable, able to react quickly to changing requirements and new challenges.
• Creative and solution focused, problem solving and passionate about tv and film
• Upwards and downwards people management essential
• Line management experience is preferred but not required
• Experience using Trello is preferred but not required

A bit about us…

Established in 1996, we have transformed over the years from a digital PR communications business to a fully integrated communications offering across multiple markets. We are market leaders in our field and pride ourselves on being agile.

Our culture is what defines us. With specialist entertainment and consumer full-service marketing teams in each of our core offices, we pride ourselves on being globally collaborative, flexible and agile.

What’s it’s really like to work here?

We believe in empowering our people with the ability to improve themselves personally and professionally. Our values are important to us, and we make these central to everything we do whether it’s for our clients or for us.

We care deeply about building an inclusive, open and supportive work environment. We believe that diversity of experience contributes to a broader collective perspective that will consistently lead to a better company.

We want to work with the best people, no matter their background. So, if you’ve got great experience, you’re passionate about learning new things and keen to join our mission, you’ll fit right in.

Way To Blue

Havas Studios

Havas Studios is an award-winning production studio with offices in London, New York, Chicago and Prague. We are a team of problem solvers and story tellers who create films spanning commercials, narrative and documentary. With people and planet at the forefront of everything we do, we want to make work that matters.

The Role

Senior Producer | Film

Reporting to the Head of Production.

The Opportunity

Our Senior Film Producer is joining our New York studio for a year so we need an energetic and experienced producer to fill this role in London, joining a tight-knit, weird and wonderful team. This is a fixed term contract for 6 – 12 months and although it will be primarily based in our London studio, there may be opportunities to work with our current Senior Producer in New York.

With a host of awards already under our belt in just two years, including The British Arrows, Creative Circle and Shiny Awards, we are building the next generation of production company. A place where fast-paced doesn’t dilute creative, and social shoots sit just as comfortably alongside full-scale commercials.

We live and breathe creativity and film craft, always striving to create work that is culturally aware and better than the last; the ideal candidate will share these values, putting talent, quality and inclusivity at the heart of everything they do.

Responsibilities

• Help guide the live action film output of Havas Studios, operating primarily as Producer but also EP when the workload calls for it, and being the first point of contact for live action briefs
• Manage film briefs from bid to final delivery, developing accompanying budgets, schedules and bid letters
• Deliver film production approaches that are appropriate for the budget and timeline, and always push the creative
• Mentor junior members of the team, helping to develop their knowledge, experience and expertise of live action productions
• Manage freelance producer resource with one eye on incoming jobs so that successful bids do not go into production without producers attached to them
• With oversight from the Head of Production, manage live action processes, updating document templates such as budgets and schedules when necessary
• Cultivate crew relationships and strive for productions to be represented as diversely as possible
• Ensure work is produced as sustainably as possible
• Cultivate a network of exciting independent directing talent and always strive to discover new talent, ensuring the best possible directors are offered to creatives and attached to productions
• Produce post-only jobs where necessary
• Maintain and develop positive relationships with agency heads and creatives so they are excited to use Havas Studios for their productions
• Assist the Head of Production with administrative, process, workflow and team related matters when necessary, and take on any duties of the Head of Production as required in their absence.
• Build strong relationships across the Havas network
• Represent Havas studios at industry events and award shows

Skills & Experience

• Experience with both large and small scale shoots, being able to adapt to social budgets and TVC budgets alike
• You will have a good network of freelance producers who you can call on when there are multiple live action productions taking place and the team needs to scale up accordingly
• Production company experience and the ability to manage productions from start to finish, including edit and post
• Intimate understanding of APA guidelines and practices, ensuring all productions follow these
• You will have an excellent network of shooting crew and directors, in and out of London
• Experience using the AdGreen carbon calculator and shooting sustainably
• Experience working in production within an agency network environment; where necessary you will have the ability to pull on what are typically agency producer skills i.e. direct to client liaison, knowledge of cast, usages, music and playout etc
• Knowledge of both offline and online post workflows
• Well versed in negotiation with, and management of, external production suppliers and freelancers
• You will be highly organised and familiar with financial processes such as billing, POs and timesheets
• Most importantly, you should have a great sense of humour, enjoy working as part of a lively and busy team, and make a cracking cup of tea.

Havas Studios