Feature Film

It's A Wonderful Knife: Winnipeg Casting

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Details

Union:

Union

Area of media:

Feature Film

Network:

Paid?:

Yes

Rates:

ACTRA + 50% Advance

Deadline:

Jan 30, 2023

Shooting starts:

Mar 12, 2023

Shooting finishes:

Apr 16, 2023

Shooting locations:

Winnipeg & environs

Cities for response:

Winnipeg

Comments

WINNIE CARRUTHERS: Jane Widdop...DAVID CARRUTHERS: Joel McHale. We are committed to diverse, inclusive casting. Unless otherwise noted, for every role please submit qualified performers, without regard to physical ability, race, age, color, national or ethnic origin. Self-tapes are preferred. Please approach all dialogue with Standard American English. Documentation of COVID-19 vaccination is required.

Storyline

A year after saving her town from a psychotic killer on Christmas Eve, Winnie Carruthers’ life is less than wonderful — but when she wishes she’d never been born, she finds herself in a nightmare parallel universe and discovers that without her, things could be much, much worse. Now the killer is back, and she must team up with the town misfit to identify the killer and get back to her own reality. IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE by way of SCREAM.

Roles

Role type	Role	Gender & Age range
Supporting	Bernie Simon	Female 17 - 18 Years old
Description 18+ TO PLAY YOUNGER (character written as 17.) A high school senior in Angel Falls, who never really found her crowd. Bernie is naturally observant, creative and insightful, as well as funny in a quirky way — not that anyone ever takes the time to notice. She has anxiety and an unconventional fashion sense which made her an outcast in middle school, branding her as the “weirdo” and things never got better. Bernie doesn’t have a lot of family support either, and finds herself struggling with depression. She is a naturally kind soul, who is clever and resourceful and jumps in with both feet when Winnie needs her help with an unusual problem. Bernie may be a loser in her home town, but she’s going to be cool as fck wherever she chooses to go in life, and just has to hang in there long enough to realize that. ONLY SUBMIT IF 18 YEARS OLD BY MARCH 12, 2023.* ANY RACE
Role type	Role	Gender & Age range
Supporting	Jimmy Carruthers	Male 18 - 18 Years old
Description 18+ TO PLAY YOUNGER Winnie’s brother, star quarterback of the Angel Falls High football team and all-around golden child who graduated top of his class. He is bright, carefree, fun-loving, athletically gifted, and thoughtful. Jimmy skates through life with a natural charisma and good looks that open many doors, and is charmingly forgetful that things come easier for him than his little sister. He loves his family and his boyfriend Louis means the world to him, but he is closest with Winnie, who he does his best to look out for. Deep down Jimmy harbours insecurities that he is a big fish in a small pond and isn’t eager to venture out into the larger world to confirm that fear. ONLY SUBMIT IF 18 YEARS OLD BY MARCH 12. 2023. IMTIMACY. WHITE
Role type	Role	Gender & Age range
Supporting	Aunt Gale	Female 39 - 48 Years old
Description The favorite aunt of the Carruthers family enjoys bringing her wife Karen to the large holiday family gathering every year. An affluent and creative advertising exec, Gale is outgoing and loves Christmas unironically, but often finds herself managing the emotions of those around her. She doesn’t take crap from anyone, least of all her family, and is the type of sharp, confident, well-dressed, socially aware big city personality that her niece Winnie aspires to be herself one day. WHITE
Role type	Role	Gender & Age range
Supporting	Louis Pepper	Male 18 - 18 Years old
Description 18+ TO PLAY YOUNGER Louis is a senior in high school and the boyfriend of the town's golden child Jimmy Carruthers. He is whip-smart and sharp-tongued, often bringing some much-needed grounding to Jimmy’s struggle-free life, and has very practical plans for his own future. Although Louis puts forth a cynical face, he actually is a romantic at heart and finds himself absolutely devastated in the alternate-timeline version of Angel Falls when he loses the people closest to him. ONLY SUBMIT IF 18 YEARS OLD BY MARCH 12, 2022. IMTIMACY. ANY RACE
Role type	Role	Gender & Age range
Supporting	Judy Carruthers	Female 41 - 49 Years old
Description Optimistic, witty and full of life, Judy loves musicals and the holiday season. She married her high school sweetheart David Carruthers, and is the proud mother of Winnie and Jimmy… and his boyfriend Louis by extension. Judy is energetic and can be supportive to a fault, which pushes Jimmy to excel but can sometimes rub Winnie the wrong way. Judy is intelligent but not savvy, and sometimes struggles to remember what it was like to be her children’s age. WHITE
Role type	Role	Gender & Age range
Supporting	Darla Berlin	Female 17 - 18 Years old
Description 18+ TO PLAY YOUNGER Outspoken and a bit snooty, she’s a long-time friend of the main character Winnie. Darla is impulsive and often is on thin ice with her parents. Naturally attractive and quick, she guards her social status closely and is all too aware of how precarious a high school reputation can be. She is frenemy of Cara, who often calls her out on some of her bad behavior in public. Darla recently began seeing Winnie’s boyfriend Robbie, who she has always fancied. ONLY SUBMIT IF 18 YEARS OLD BY MARCH 12, 2023. IMTIMACY - SHIRTLESS WITH BRA. ANY RACE
Role type	Role	Gender & Age range
Supporting	Robbie Olenger	Male 17 - 18 Years old
Description 18+ TO PLAY YOUNGER A senior in Angel Falls and the high school boyfriend of the main protagonist, Winnie Carruthers. He likes to think of himself as a good dude, but can be a bit performative, often volunteering at the local hospital and making sure to post any giving back he does on social media. Although he comes off as mature for his age, Robbie has some growing up to do, and can be cowardly and callous when stressed. Although they’ve dated for a couple of years, Robbie has started to drift from Winnie and now feels closer to her friend Darla, who he’s secretly seeing on the side. ONLY SUBMIT IF 18 YEARS OLD BY MARCH 12, 2023. IMTIMACY - SHIRTLESS. ANY RACE
Role type	Role	Gender & Age range
Supporting	Buck Zipp	Male 21 - 27 Years old
Description The much younger boyfriend of our story’s main antagonist, Evelyn Waters. Buck is naturally athletic, a bit daft, and is an aspiring influencer. He is actually a gentle soul when left to his own devices, but is easily controlled and is often regarded as a complete dip-shit. In the alternate-timeline version of Angel Falls, Waters has installed her himbo boy-toy Buck as the town Sheriff, so he now handles the ongoing murder investigations to little success. IMTIMACY. ANY RACE
Role type	Role	Gender & Age range
Supporting	Cara Evans	Female 17 - 18 Years old
Description 18+ TO PLAY YOUNGER A feisty and carefree high school senior in Angel Falls. She is fiercely protective of her best friend Winnie, often relying on her as a confidant. Cara is close with her grandfather Roger Evans, who is a local business tycoon and town hero who helped build Angel Falls into what it is today. She has a lot in common with her grandfather and has no trouble standing up for what’s right. ONLY SUBMIT IF 18 YEARS OLD BY MARCH 12, 2023. IMTIMACY. ANY RACE
Role type	Role	Gender & Age range
Supporting	Vicki	Female 17 - 18 Years old
Description 18+ TO PLAY YOUNGER Gruff and lanky high school senior. She loves the holidays because she gets time off school, which she uses to explore her modest ambitions. Vicki is a go-with-the-flow type with an addictive personality. She loves to party, but secretly wishes she had more courage to make her own path. ONLY SUBMIT IF 18 YEARS OLD BY MARCH 12, 2023. ANY RACE
Role type	Role	Gender & Age range
Large Principal	Roger Evans	Male 69 - 77 Years old
Description A successful local businessman who built his empire on integrity, seeing the town he loves prosper like never before during his lifetime - essentially the anti-Henry F. Potter. Although weathered by life when we meet him, Roger is a wise man who is ingenious with his investments, and is proud to say that he never let his bottom line get in the way of his care for the community. Mr. Evans plans to pass his companies onto his family, particularly his granddaughter Cara with whom he feels a strong kinship. When local predatory capitalist Evelyn Waters starts sniffing around his assets Roger decides to draw a line in the sand that will be his undoing. ANY RACE
Role type	Role	Gender & Age range
Large Principal	Pete	Male 30 - 34 Years old
Description The type of guy who keeps going to high school parties way longer than he should. Pete is a music lover who always has drugs on him, and becomes a little didactic when he gets going. Gregarious at times, he’s really running from adulthood in the most cliché ways, overcompensating by focusing on meaningless projects like helping with the holiday lights display synced up to his personal playlist. ANY RACE
Role type	Role	Gender & Age range
Large Principal	Sheriff Darlene Palmer	Female 39 - 50 Years old
Description The wholesome, cheery Sheriff who treats her small town department with a soft touch. Priding herself on her community connections, she actually doesn’t mind the paperwork part of her job and secretly prays nothing goes wrong in the town she loves. ANY RACE
Role type	Role	Gender & Age range
Principal	Wyatt Stone	Male 30 - 37 Years old
Description The dirt-bag boyfriend of Judy Carruthers in the alternate-timeline version of Angel Falls where she has a crumbling marriage. Wyatt would describe himself as an entrepreneur, but mostly dabbles in get-rich-quick ploys and pyramid schemes. He likes living rent free in Judy’s house and steers clear of her husband David who gives him the creeps. ANY RACE
Role type	Role	Gender & Age range
Principal	Karen Simmons	Female 34 - 45 Years old
Description Soft-spoken and well-meaning, she is aware that she’s the less-favored aunt of the Carruthers family, and would probably agree. Deeply in love with her wife Gale, who is her extraverted partner and counterweight. Practical, caring and insightful at times, Karen can often see problems coming but isn’t always brave enough to speak up before they arrive. ANY RACE
Role type	Role	Gender & Age range
Actor	Eddie	Male 17 - 18 Years old
Description 18+ TO PLAY YOUNGER Dating the popular and well-thought of Cara Evans, he is a well-meaning bro who wishes he was smoother than he actually is. ONLY SUBMIT IF 18 YEARS OLD BY MARCH 12, 2023. IMTIMACY. ANY RACE.
Role type	Role	Gender & Age range
Actor	Jock	Male 18 - 19 Years old
Description 18+ TO PLAY YOUNGER Winnie is anxiously searching for her boyfriend Robbie at an off-the-hook teenage party - this team-mate of his from school is making out with a cheerleader, and Winnie interrupts...He knows Robbie is just around the corner in the laundry room, and makes it clear that Bernie is lying to Winnie. ONLY SUBMIT IF 18 YEARS OLD BY MARCH 12, 2023. INTIMACY - SHIRTLESS. ANY RACE.
Role type	Role	Gender & Age range
Actor	Bros 1 & 2	Male 18 - 19 Years old
Description Winnie has slipped into an alternate reality and asks these Bros about mysterious changes to the town square...They knew Jimmy (now deceased) and think her comment about him is a sick joke...They don’t not recognize Winnie at all. ONLY SUBMIT IF 18 YEARS OLD BY MARCH 12, 2023. ANY RACE.
Role type	Role	Gender & Age range
Actor	Dumb Bro	Male 18 - 19 Years old
Description Winnie stumbles upon a teen-age ‘fight-club’ in the open street. ...The alternate reality in which Winnie finds herself is weird, really weird. ONLY SUBMIT IF 18 YEARS OLD BY MARCH 12, 2023. SHIRTLESS. ANY RACE.
Role type	Role	Gender & Age range
Actor	Tall Bro	Male 18 - 19 Years old
Description A buddy of Dumb Bro, this taller Bro is part of a spontaneous ‘fight-club’ - he’s getting his ass kicked - and that’s OK with him! ONLY SUBMIT IF 18 YEARS OLD BY MARCH 12, 2023. SHIRTLESS. ANY RACE.
Role type	Role	Gender & Age range
Actor	Reporter on TV	All 35 - 48 Years old
Description This local TV anchor reports upon the on-going killings that have terrorized the formerly peaceful town of Angel Falls. ANY RACE.

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