Your Showreels

A good showreel can get you work. And a bad showreel can lose you work. It is your calling card and directors will hire you (or not) on the basis…

Stay Safe at Auditions

As we often say, 99.9% of castings and auditions are perfectly legitimate and safe. In fact, a lot of actors will go through their entire career without experiencing any unwanted…

Why can’t I submit to a Casting Call?

To submit your profile to a casting notice on enCAST, you will normally click on the CLICK TO SUBMIT link on the role: Sometimes, however, the SUBMIT BUTTON does not…

How to Kiss on Film

Kissing on screen. It happens often enough but for new actors it can’t often be quite traumatic and nerve-racking when in truth there is no reason for it to be…

How to Submit for a Casting

This page explains how actors can submit for a casting call on enCAST. https://youtu.be/giOu8HMjBT4 More details First, you must be logged in and your profile should be complete with headshots…

Film Acting vs Theatre Acting

Experienced actors often say that there’s a difference between acting on film and acting in theatre. Famously Michael Caine said that while theatre “is an operation with the scalpel”, film…

Nudity at Auditions

Nudity in a film is fine as long as everyone knows all about it – and agrees with it – from the very start. But when it comes to auditions,…

Self-Taping an Audition

These days more and more auditions/castings are self-taped. This means the actor films themself performing a scene and sends the video to the casting director to watch. It saves a…