New York Casting Calls & Acting Auditions

CASTING DOCUMENTARY FILM ANOTHER BODY
ANOTHER BODY follows a college student’s search for justice after she discovers deepfake pornography of herself circulating online. Through candid video diaries, synthetic media, and animation, the film takes you into Taylor’s online and offline worlds, grounding a vast social issue in a compelling personal story. Supported by Sundance Institute and International Documentary Association.

We are casting individuals to be part of a feature documentary by award-winning team, to be featured as deepfake face doubles. This is not an acting role. We are looking for talent who are interested in collaborating on this project and in helping protect the identity of the film’s subjects by being what’s called a ‘face veil.’ A similar process was used in David France’s Oscar-nominated Welcome to Chechnya. Talent will be filmed for a few hours capturing different light, expressions, angles, and talent’s faces will be mapped onto the original footage by a deepfake artist. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about supporting a campaign to change the laws and culture around sharing private images and deepfakes without consent.

Deepfakes are synthetic media in which a person in an existing image or video is replaced with someone else’s likeness. For the purpose of this film, deepfakes are being used to protect the anonymity of the original documentary subjects. The idea is to reclaim a technology that is weaponized against women to protect them. This is a compilation of what deepfake videos look like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTTG2AcOLrM
A 3D animated avatar version of the Taylor, resembling the face veil, will also appear in the film. In 3D, we will animate scenes from the film from their past experiences at college. These include college parties and hanging out in the suite, as well as more challenging memories of the misogyny Taylor experiences in a very male-dominated STEM culture, including one instance of attempted sexual assault. 

The use of deepfake face veils will be made clear to the audience; they will understand that the faces they see are not the faces of the film’s subjects. The film will not place the face veil onto any video image that shows explicit content. We will place the face veil onto cropped close-ups of Taylor’s face from the original adult footage, ensuring that only the face is visible and all pornographic or explicit elements are removed from the frame. This material will be used with utmost sensitivity and care.  

Producer: Elizabeth Woodward
Directors: Sophie Compton, Reuben Hamlyn
Animation Studio: Cream Projects
Motion Graphics Artists: shy kids
Deepfake Artist: Fernando Sánchez Liste
Consulting Producer: Scott Macauley
Casting Directors: Geraldine Baron, Salome Oggenfuss

TEAM BIOS:
Elizabeth Woodward, Producer
Elizabeth Woodward is a producer of documentary and narrative films and founder of Willa Productions. Her recent projects include ON THE DIVIDE (Tribeca Film Festival 2021, POV) and YOU RESEMBLE ME (Venice Film Festival 2021, executive produced by Spike Lee, Spike Jonze, Alma Har’el). Past projects include Netflix’s THE GREAT HACK (Academy Award shortlist, Emmy nominee, BAFTA nominee, IDA nominee, Cinema Eye winner, Sundance 2019); HBO’s hit series THE VOW; and PERSUASION MACHINES (Sundance New Frontier 2020). Her films have been supported by Sundance Institute, Tribeca Institute, Chicken and Egg, Film Independent, Impact Partners, Artemis Rising, Field of Vision, Level Forward, The Gotham, Perspective Fund, Berkeley Film Fund, Quiet, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Elizabeth is a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and the Documentary Producers Alliance. She was selected for Berlinale Talents and for the Impact Partners Producers Fellowship. She is a graduate of Brown University and the University of Cambridge.

Sophie Compton, Director
Sophie Compton is a British director, writer, and activist who tells women’s stories of injustice. As Artistic Director of Power Play, she has produced and directed six plays, including Fringe First-winning FUNERAL FLOWERS, taken on an Offie-nominated UK Tour (Bunker, BGAC). She has produced and directed work at Tate Modern, Science Museum, and V&A, and she is currently directing the feature documentary HOLLOWAY following ex-prisoners returning to the abandoned Holloway Prison (supported by Arts Council England). Sophie has led global activist campaigns that have led to changes to UK arts policy and Law Commission proposals for new legislation, and she has been invited to steering groups for international NGOs including the World Economic Forum. She trained in trauma-informed practice with Clean Break and draws on community activism to develop projects that empower women in process as well as output. She is an editor for climate magazine It’s Freezing in LA! ANOTHER BODY is Sophie’s feature debut. 

Reuben Hamlyn, Director
Reuben Hamlyn is an award-winning filmmaker whose films look through the intimate frame of individual experience to investigate power, injustice, and the impact of technology and media on identity and behaviour. His last film ROGER tells the story of a service app worker who attempts to bypass technological barriers to forge a relationship with her client. ROGER was commissioned by the BFI and BBC Arts to open their ‘Born Digital: Raised by the Internet’ season in 2019. The film premiered at BFI Southbank and aired on BBC Four; it was noted as ‘highlight’ of the programme by The Guardian and featured in Vogue Italia before winning the Jury Prize at Ennesimo Film Festival “Filosofia” and the ‘Young Talent Award’ at the New Renaissance Film Festival. Previously, Reuben made ‘BROTHER!’—an experimental documentary about masculinity in pro-wrestling subcultures. The film exhibited at Copeland Gallery, London and was featured in Tank Magazine, It’s Nice That, and i-D. ANOTHER BODY is Reuben’s feature debut.

CASTING
[Taylor]: Female, ages 20-27, White / European Descent.
[Julia]: Female, ages 20-27, Latinx / Hispanic and/or White / European Descent.
Fee: $1k incl. session fee, agency fee (if applicable) and usage.
Shoot Location: NYC
Shoot Dates: Early ‘22 (exact shoot dates TBD, 1 shoot day per person.)
Union Status: Open to SAG and non-SAG talent.
Note: This film will not depict any explicit content. However, it will include pixelated images from the original pornographic footage, and close-ups from this in which only the face is visible. Please only apply if you are comfortable with this.

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Talent will be compensated $2,000 for shoot and usage. Usage is 2 years video & stills – digital & social media. 

This will shoot on January 11th in New York City.

Casting for a popular kids brand- PLEASE READ CAREFULLY AND ONLY SUBMIT IF YOU TRULY FIT THE CRITERIA. 

Dates: 

• January 13-16 (3-4 days within that window)
• Location:  
• Studio NYC 

Rate: 

• $500 per person per day 
• Unsigned Talent Only 
• You must be local to NYC or surrounding area, as we will not pay for any travel. 
• All Ethnicities 
• All Genders 
• All Abilities 

Looking for: 

–  Triplets or Group of Babies in the same friend POD (3 or more babies) 

•    Baby Size 6-12 Months  (preferably NOT walking yet) 

– Same-Sex Families with babies or children (any combo) 

•   Children must be 6 month to 12 months and or sizes 4/5 OR 8/9
•   Adults must fit Must fit Adult Size XS thru LARGE.

– Would love to see kids who are gender fluid, girls with short hair, boys who wear dresses, etc.  Sizes 4/5 OR 8/9 only 

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•  For example:  A 5 year old that wears a size 8.  Etc.