ENGLAND: actors (m) 18-98, English spkrs, for short film [P]
project title: Salamander
production type: short film
pay: paid
looking for: actors
based in/around: England
about the project
Casting 4 roles for the short film titled, ’Salamander’ by Mark Chong.
Strapline: An encounter with a missing girl leads a social outcast to embark on a journey of trepidation.
Synopsis: Cassius, a quiet yet curios recluse, struggles to find meaningful fulfilment in his life. Raised by a spiteful father and a desolate upbringing, Cassius finds safety as a hermit. Living vicariously through others, his mind is often adrift in fantasy. One day his neighbour goes missing; an entrancing female, and the first person to ever show Cassius some tenderness. It sends Cassius to spiral even further. Forever gloomed by her disappearance, Cassius reminisces the fragmented memories he has of her. That is until a cryptic individual mysteriously enters his life who makes Cassius reconsider his life choices and question the reality of the people he is surrounded by. Bewitched, Cassius is taken on a journey of refection and trepidation exposing dark secrets buried deep beneath his psyche.
Location: England
Contract info: Travel and accommodation covered. Paid up to £100 per day.
playing age: 50 - 70
role languages: English
role ethnicities: White
Male supporting. Garyn is a character is a peculiar figure who has been visibly shaped with time. A haggard face with deep set eyes and wrinkled contours from excessive smoking. With a deep and croaky northern voice, Garyn is cynical in nature. Overtly mysterious, he likes to present himself as a riddle. Garyn has been through many experiences in his life which is presented in the slow purposeful way he caries himself.
playing age: 50 - 98
role languages: English
role ethnicities: White
Male supporting. Elderly man. Edwin is a dying man of old age, fuelled with resentment and pessimism who just cant seem to cut his son some slack. He remains debilitated in his flat where he sits strapped to medical machinery that would appear to be doing him more harm than good. Edwin speaks with a painfully wheezy voice and exhausted movement as he berates all those around him.
playing age: 40 - 60
role languages: English
role ethnicities: White
Male supporting. Slightly overweight which he poorly hides and characteristically mundane apart from rimless glasses that are over magnified. There is a coldness in his stare and is a character that is slightly dim witted. Beneath his dull exterior is a dark and evil spirit. Harold is secretive and a social outcast but nonetheless seemingly harmless.
playing age: 18 - 25
role languages: English
role ethnicities: White
CASSIUS MOREAU (Male, 18–25 years White)
Male lead. 18-25 years old. Cassius is frail with a timid appearance. He is acute in knowledge; sharp but lost. He’s a social outcast that wants love and to find his destiny but is troubled in how to find it. Cassius is incredibly reserved and is socially inept with body language that is retracted and fidgety. He is not well kept with hair that seems to go unwashed with a lost gaze in his eyes.
