Feature Film
A Mother: Winnipeg Casting
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Details
Union:
Union
Area of media:
Feature Film
Network:
Paid?:
Yes
Rates:
ACTRA: 35% reduction per CIPIP, Advance: 50%
Deadline:
May 15, 2024
Shooting starts:
Sept 30, 2024 on or about
Shooting finishes:
Oct 31, 2024 on or about
Shooting locations:
Winnipeg & environs
Cities for response:
Winnipeg
Comments
Self-tapes will be requested from selected submissions. Another local breakdown with additional roles will be released at a later date.
Storyline
A Mother is a riveting narrative that peers into the journey of one of the most important choices a person can make on this earth: to take on the responsibility of creating and raising another human being. Marion, mother to Lucas, must navigate issues of single-parenthood, poverty, and an overwhelming sense of being unfit and unworthy for the task, making for a gritty, and at times heart-wrenching story.
Roles
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Lead | Lucas Frappier | Male 17 - 17 Years old |
Description Caucasian. 18+ TO PLAY YOUNGER (character written as 17). Lucas is recently diagnosed with leukemia and now hospitalized while he undergoes aggressive chemotherapy. His mother Marion is his only real support, as it has always been. Lucas is aware he may not survive, so his long-time desire to know about his father has developed a more poignant urgency. Marion has always shielded Lucas from the less than ideal circumstances around his birth. But eventually she relents and even names the man who completely abandoned them seventeen years ago. ...Unlike his peers, Lucas’ life is put on hold due to his sickness, causing envy for those around him with brighter futures. When his best friend Jimmy comes to visit at the hospital, sharing the happy details of his recent college search (with his dad no less) Lucas is compelled to hide his resentment. He tries his best to keep a level head for the sake of his mother, however the emotional and physical stresses of looming mortality are sometimes too much for Lucas to maintain the same composure as when he was healthy. ONLY SUBMIT ARTISTS WHO ARE EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE BY SEPTEMBER 30, 2024. | ||