Talent Casting Calls and Auditions

Casting Call: POTBOILER PRODUCTIONS – Worldwide Casting Search

Potboiler Productions, known for their acclaimed films such as “The Last King of Scotland,” “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind,” and “The Constant Gardener,” is embarking on a global casting search in collaboration with Casting Director Alexa L. Fogel and Blue Sky Africa for their upcoming feature film set to shoot in Somaliland in Fall 2023. We seek talented individuals to fill critical roles to bring this captivating story to life.

Roles Available:

1. WOMAN (Character Portrayed is in her 40s, Female, Somali):

• Description: A mother to a teenage son. She is savvy, warm, and self-sufficient.

2. BOY (Character Portrayed is 16-25 Years Old, Male, Somali):

• Description: Easygoing with a boyish energy.

3. MAN (Character Portrayed is in his 50s, Male, Somali):

• Description: Vigilant with a sense of humor.

We welcome submissions from individuals of Somali heritage, spanning various abilities, ages, and genders. No prior acting experience is required; we encourage fresh talents to audition.

Job Responsibilities:

• Prepare for auditions by studying the script and understanding the character’s motivations and background.
• Attend auditions and callbacks as scheduled.
• Collaborate with the director and fellow cast members to bring the characters to life.
• Be available for rehearsals and filming during the specified shooting period.
• Embody the character’s traits, emotions, and nuances to deliver a compelling performance.

Requirements:

• For the WOMAN role, candidates must be female, Somali, and in their 40s.
• For the BOY role, candidates must be male, Somali, and between 16-25.
• For the MAN role, candidates must be male, Somali, and in their 50s.
• All candidates should be interested in acting and able to convey the desired character traits.

Compensation:

• Compensation details will be provided upon selection.
• Travel and accommodation expenses will be covered for the selected actors during the production period.

Casting Call: Large Male Hand Demonstrator

Job Details: We seek individuals with large male hands to participate in a Quick Serve Restaurant Campaign in Toronto. This opportunity is open to Union and non-union talent, as it falls under exceptional ACTRA circumstances.

Responsibilities:

• Demonstrate large, athletic-looking hands to represent an NBA basketball player’s hands.
• Handle food with ease and confidence.
• Ensure hands are clean and well-maintained, including fingernails.
• Avoid having visible tattoos on the hands and excessive hair.

Requirements:

• Gender: Male
• Ethnicity: White or Black
• Age Range: 20 to 45
• Must have naturally large hands that appear athletic.

Compensation: Selected candidates will receive an approximate payment of $750.00 for the one-day shoot. Just so you know, only your hands will be featured in the campaign, ensuring they are safe.

Casting Call: Barbers with North African Heritage for Sports Brand Commercial

Job Details: We seek skilled barbers of North African heritage to be featured in an upcoming commercial for a prominent sports brand. This is a paid opportunity to showcase your talent and heritage on a widely recognized platform.

Job Responsibilities:

• Perform expert-level barbering services, including haircuts, shaves, and grooming, as required for the commercial shoot.
• Collaborate closely with the creative team to bring the vision of the commercial to life.
• Provide input on hairstyling choices that reflect and celebrate North African cultural elements.
• Maintain a professional demeanor and punctuality throughout the shoot.

Requirements:

• Must identify as having North African heritage.
• Demonstrated expertise in barbering with a diverse clientele.
• Comfortable working on set and following directions from the creative team.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively with the production crew.
• Must be available for the specified shoot dates.

Compensation:

• Industry standards will provide payment and be discussed individually with selected candidates.
• Travel expenses and accommodations, if necessary, will be covered by the production.

Casting Call: Talent with Diabetes for Pharmaceutical Print Shoot

Job Details:

We seek individuals with diabetes to participate in a pharmaceutical print shoot for a global campaign. This project aims to raise awareness and promote understanding of diabetes through visually compelling content.

Job Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the production team to ensure a smooth and successful shoot.
• Follow directions from the photographer and director to achieve desired shots.
• Bring authenticity and natural presence to the project, portraying life with diabetes accurately.

Requirements:

• Must have a confirmed diagnosis of diabetes.
• Comfortable in front of the camera and able to take direction well.
• Availability for a 3-day shoot.
• Willingness to travel to the shoot location (travel expenses will be covered).

Compensation Details:

• Daily Rate: $500/day (for three days)
• Usage Fee: $3,000 (for five years of global rights to photos and limited b-roll video)
• Travel Expenses: Covered by production

Barista for Espresso Machine Video Shoot

Job Details: Trigger Casting seeks experienced baristas for an exciting video shoot featuring a state-of-the-art espresso machine. This is a fantastic opportunity for skilled baristas to showcase their talent and creativity in a fun and dynamic environment.

Job Responsibilities:

• Create visually appealing and Instagram-worthy coffee beverages, including latte art, macchiatos, and specialty iced coffee drinks.
• Work closely with the production team to capture the best shots.
• Follow directions from the director and producers to achieve the desired aesthetic.
• Maintain a positive and energetic vibe throughout the shoot.

Requirements:

• Demonstrated expertise in crafting various coffee beverages, including latte art.
• Proven experience working in a fast-paced cafe or coffee shop environment.
• Ability to take direction and adapt to specific requirements for the shoot.
• Excellent communication skills and a friendly, approachable demeanor.
• Availability for the whole day of shooting in mid-October.

Compensation:

• Rate: $1000 for one full day of shooting.
• Payment will be provided promptly after the completion of the shoot.

Roller Skaters and Bladers – Background Roles

Job Detail: We seek experienced roller skaters and rollerbladers for a non-union commercial shoot. This is a fantastic opportunity for skilled skaters to showcase their talent on screen. So, as you know, this is a background role.

Job Responsibilities:

• Execute various skating maneuvers and routines as directed by the choreographer and director.
• Maintain control and balance while performing on various surfaces and terrains.
• Follow all safety guidelines and instructions provided by the production team.
• Be punctual and professional throughout the shoot.

Requirements:

• Must be an experienced roller skater or rollerblader.
• Must own your skates or blades in good working condition.
• Proficient in executing a range of skating moves and tricks.
• Availability for all four work dates (Sept 19, 20, 21, or 22), though not guaranteed to work all four days.
• Must be in the DMV (District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia) or surrounding areas.

Compensation:

• Rate: $250 for a 12-hour work day.
• Payment will be made on a per-work date basis.

Casting Call: Featured Talent for Major Music Video and HBCU Students for Major Car Brand Spot

Job Detail: We hold two significant castings for a major music video and a famous car brand commercial in Atlanta, GA. We seek vibrant, charismatic individuals to be featured in a non-union commercial for a well-known car brand’s trivia show.

Job Responsibilities:

• Engage energetically in the trivia show concept for the commercial.
• Showcase your personality and enthusiasm on camera.
• Potential participation in a 2-minute quick audition video.

Requirements:

• Must be a current HBCU student aged 18 and above in Atlanta.
• Big, dynamic personalities are highly encouraged to apply.
• Applicants can submit individually or as part of a friend group.

Compensation Details:

• Guaranteed $200 appearance fee.
• Opportunity to win up to $1000.
• Travel and accommodation expenses will not be covered.

Additional Information:

• Casting Dates: September 19th and 20th
• Location: Atlanta, GA

Job Title: Account Director- International Publicity

*Temp with potential for full time*

About DDA

DDA is a premiere independent entertainment public relations company, handling both domestic and international, providing filmed entertainment publicity and corporate media relations services for clients across the worldwide industry. From offices in London and Los Angeles, DDA offers a truly global reach for film and television producers, financiers, sales agents, and distributors. DDA’s unrivalled relationships within the industry adds undisputed value as a trusted partner for its clients, providing creative and insightful strategies and turnkey campaign solutions.

DDA performs a wide spectrum of media relations, publicity, event management (through DDA Event Management) and marketing tasks, either globally or targeted to specific international markets. Festival and market experiences include the Sundance, Berlin, SXSW, Tribeca, Cannes, Venice, Telluride, Toronto, London, and Edinburgh film festivals (among others).

Position Description:

A confident, highly organized individual with excellent written and verbal communication skills who is comfortable managing and liaising with clients, talent, talent representatives, producers/filmmakers, and media. You must be a Public Relations professional who is strategic, creative, and passionate about exceeding client expectations. A strong leader and self-starter who has the ability to lead international film and television campaigns from the ground up and provide overall organizational and material development including coordinating press junkets, set visits, press tours, status reports, timelines and managing budgets. You must be able to lead clients and projects in terms of day-to-day activities and develop and execute strategy in maintaining year-round retained clients as well as spearheading processes and management of new clients. You will also be required to mentor junior team members, produce media materials, presentations, budgets, and other documents as required. You must be willing to work additional hours as required and be available to travel internationally as needed.

Main duties of the role include:

• Responsible for project outcomes and managing employee work throughout campaign duration

• Review and implement international media strategies and campaigns to ensure on-point communications

• Provide on-going strategic counsel to all senior clients

• Respond to new client directives and expectations, including setting up and spearheading new retained clients and/or projects

• Determine client expectations and develop strategies based on their input, budgets, and campaign goals

• Supervise execution of multi-component international press campaigns and analyze results to determine next steps

• Ensure that all responses to international stakeholders, journalists and media inquiries are on-campaign

• Anticipate industry changes and develop creative solutions to address these changes

• Present campaign strategy and executional plan to clients

• Define fees and scope of work with new and existing client accounts

Our ideal candidate will have;

• 7+ years of experience in film or television entertainment PR at a studio, broadcaster, or PR agency

• BA in Public Relations, Communications, or relevant field

• Experienced in leading film campaigns and in material development

• Experienced in managing the lifecycle of a project from initial contact with new clients to completion

• Experienced in reviewing and developing campaign strategies and media campaigns within specified timeframes and approved budgets

• Excellent stakeholder management skills

• Success in multi-tasking in a fast-paced environment

• Professional, proactive, and personable demeanor

• Self-motivated, self-starter, takes initiative and follows-through

• Effective listening, strong verbal, and written communications skills

• Strong organizational, time management skills and work ethic

• Eagerness and willingness to learn

• Accuracy and attention to detail

• Ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality

To Apply:

If interested, please send your CV and covering letter.

DDA PUBLIC RELATIONS LIMITED

Position: PR Coordinator- International Film Publicity

Position Summary:

A confident, highly organized individual with excellent written and verbal communication skills who is comfortable liaising with clients, talent, talent reps, producers/filmmakers and media. PR pro who is strategic, creative and passionate about exceeding client expectations. A strong elf-starter, who has the ability to support film campaigns from the ground up, and provide overall organizational and material development including coordinating press junkets, press tours, status reports, timelines and execute and manage budgets. Able to support clients and projects in terms of day-to-date activities, and develop and execute strategy in maintaining year-round retainer corporate clients. Also required to provide press releases, media materials, presentations, budgets and other documents as required.

Responsibilities include:

· Responsible for supporting project outcomes

· Review all campaign strategies and media campaigns to ensure on-point communications

· Support in providing on-going strategic counsel to all senior clients

· Respond to new client directives and expectations

· Determine client expectations and develop strategies based on their input, budgets and campaign goals

· Support the International Publicity team and project delegations

· Support in execution of multi-component press campaigns and analyze results to determine next steps

· Support film PR campaigns at film festivals

· Establish and maintain international press and distributor relationships

· Ensure that all responses to journalists and media inquiries are on-campaign

· Anticipate global industry changes and develop creative solutions

· Support in refining new business pitches and presentation for large account opportunities

About DDA

DDA is the premiere independent entertainment public relations company, handling both domestic and international, providing filmed entertainment publicity and corporate media relations services for clients across the worldwide industry. From offices in London and Los Angeles, DDA offers a truly global reach for film and television producers, financiers, sales agents and distributors. DDA’s unrivalled relationships within the industry add undisputed value as a trusted partner for its clients, providing creative and insightful strategies and turnkey campaign solutions.

DDA performs a wide spectrum of media relations, publicity, event management (through DDA Event Management) and marketing tasks, either globally or targeted to specific international markets. Festival and market experiences include the Sundance, Berlin, SXSW, Tribeca, Cannes, Venice, Telluride, Toronto, London and Dubai film festivals (among others).

DDA PUBLIC RELATIONS LIMITED

About Braven

We believe that the next generation of leaders will emerge from everywhere. We empower promising college students with the skills, confidence, experiences, and networks necessary to transition from college to strong first jobs, which lead to meaningful careers and lives of impact.

Learn more about Braven’s impact:

https://impactreport.bebraven.org/

https://jobsreport.bebraven.org/

About the Role

In order to achieve its ambition of serving 80,000-100,000 Fellows over the next decade, Braven is hiring a Director, Salesforce Operations who will lead a team of Salesforce and data specialists to maintain and continuously improve the data tools and systems that our programs rely on. As both a team leader and member of the Systems team at Braven, you will define the strategy and roadmap to enable Braven’s regional execution teams to have reliable access to high-quality data and insights.

This role is on the Systems team and reports directly to the Managing Director, Data Operations.

What You’ll Do

• Coach and develop a team of Salesforce administrators and engineers/developers to achieve group and individual goals (20%)
• Lead the maintenance and improvement of Braven’s suite of data technology, including Salesforce, Form Assembly, and Campaign Monitor (30%)
• Provide excellent thought partnership and customer service to regional execution teams to reliably access high-quality data and data intelligence (30%)
• Collaborate closely with the software engineering team to ensure accurate and reliable flow of data across our systems (20%)
• Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in a non-profit data role, strategy consulting, or other quantitative and analytical function. The majority of your professional experience has involved building or maintaining Salesforce and business intelligence software (i.e., PowerBI, Tableau, Periscope, or Looker) for similar-size or larger organizations, preferably in the non-profit field.
• 2+ years successfully managing and developing others

Preferred Qualifications

• Salesforce Certifications: Admin (201)
• Experience with Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP)
• Knowledge of and experience with one or more of the following vendor solutions: Campaign Monitor, Classy, Conga, Duplicate Check, FormAssembly, Mogli
• Beginner to intermediate knowledge of SQL. While you do not need to be an expert at SQL, you are willing to dive into SQL statements that may be dozens of lines long.
• You have strong proficiency with Excel and/or Google Sheets
• You have a strong design sense when crafting data models, holding yourself and others to a high bar when it comes to creating schemas that balance ease of use, efficiency, and data integrity.
• You love collaboration and are good at it. You understand why your data and operations work is important to your organization and how it is in service of a shared mission.
• You have successfully led cross-functional and strategically important projects. At the same time, you excel at balancing projects with daily operations, paying close attention to detail in both and communicating well with all stakeholders
• Ability to thrive and lead multiple projects in a fast-paced work environment
• You have a demonstrated commitment to equity and inclusion.
• You exemplify Braven’s core values.
• Your experiences have informed your belief in Braven’s mission and have prepared you to work with, or for, Braven’s student Fellow population.

Please know that no one ever meets 100% of the preferred qualifications. If much of this describes you, we encourage you to apply.

Work Demands

• Ability to work in-person in Atlanta (GA), Chicago (IL), Newark (NJ), or New York City (NYC)
• Travel 3-4 times per year

Additional Requirements

• Authorized to work in the U.S.
• Must be fully vaccinated and have received the Booster vaccination against COVID-19 and provide proof of such by the date of hire. Individuals may claim exemption from the vaccine requirement for medical or religious reasons. Exempted individuals will be subject to weekly testing if they engage in any in-person work activities.

Application & Interview Process

While the interview process may vary slightly, the general process will be:

• Phone screen with Talent Team member
• Performance Task
• Interview with Hiring Manager
• Panel Interview with Key Partners
• Reference Checks

Compensation and Benefits

The salary for this position, which depends on prior work experience and our assessment of your demonstrated fit for the role, will likely be between $105,000 – $131,200 in Atlanta, $110,500 – $138,100 in Chicago, and $121,600 – $152,000 in Newark and NYC. Braven offers competitive base salaries based on the midpoint of the market among not-for-profit organizations of similar size, with opportunities for salary growth over time. We believe in compensating staff members fairly in relation to each other, their qualifications, and their impact on behalf of the organization, and take internal and external equity seriously. Given our commitment to equity, Braven does not negotiate salary offers; instead each salary offer is determined carefully using external and internal benchmarking. You will have an opportunity to discuss salary in more detail after you begin the application process.

Braven also provides competitive, comprehensive benefits, recognition, and career development. While Braven reserves the right to change benefits at any time, current benefits include:

• Unlimited vacation time in addition to org-wide holidays and week-long shutdowns in July and the end of the calendar year (this is a minimum of 19 days per year)
• Match of your 401K contribution up to 5% of your base annual salary, starting your first full month
• Coverage of 85% of health insurance premium for employee and dependents
• A one-month paid sabbatical after 4 years on staff

Location

We gather in the office two to three days a week. Therefore, we require teammates to live within commuting distance of one of our hubs: Atlanta, Chicago, Newark, or New York City. Each teammate can use at least two flex days per week of their choosing to work remotely. We believe in the magic, connection, and collaboration that happens when people work together face-to-face and we believe in giving people flexibility to focus, balance personal priorities, and save themselves two commutes per week.

Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

At Braven, we are committed to attracting, engaging, developing, and retaining a diverse team. Braven operates in the context of our American culture, against the backdrop of systemic racism and oppression of marginalized people since our country’s founding. We are committed to assembling leaders at our organization who have emerged from everywhere, with a particular emphasis on those who share the racial and income backgrounds of our Fellows, and creating an inclusive culture that allows all teammates, of all experiences and identities, to thrive.

Braven is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected factor. We encourage talented individuals of all backgrounds to apply.

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