Details
Union:
Non union
Area of media:
Pilot
Network:
Paid?:
Yes
Rates:
Non-Union $200/day
Deadline:
Apr 14, 2025
Shooting starts:
May 5, 2025
Shooting finishes:
May 9, 2025
Shooting locations:
Toronto & GTA
Cities for response:
Toronto, Ottawa
Storyline
A WHITE VOID is a hard sci-fi mystery series set in the very near future. It begins when a remote scientific outpost loses all contact with the outside world. Now faced with
dwindling life support and a silent world outside, a small international team must caravan south from the facility to get help and answers from a civilization they’re not sure still exists. But on their journey, they encounter impossible challenges and increasingly strange phenomena that make them question not only each other’s loyalties but the very nature of reality itself. What they have yet to discover, though, is that they are being tested in every aspect of their humanity - social, psychological, and intellectual. They are rats in a maze. This is a pilot for an animated 30-minute serial.
Please note: all footage will be shot on a green screen stage to be used as motion capture data for the animation process.
COMPS: LOST, WALKING DEAD, THE MARTIAN
dwindling life support and a silent world outside, a small international team must caravan south from the facility to get help and answers from a civilization they’re not sure still exists. But on their journey, they encounter impossible challenges and increasingly strange phenomena that make them question not only each other’s loyalties but the very nature of reality itself. What they have yet to discover, though, is that they are being tested in every aspect of their humanity - social, psychological, and intellectual. They are rats in a maze. This is a pilot for an animated 30-minute serial.
Please note: all footage will be shot on a green screen stage to be used as motion capture data for the animation process.
COMPS: LOST, WALKING DEAD, THE MARTIAN
Roles
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Principal | STRAUSS | Female 30 - 50 Years old |
Description Strauss is the Mission Director of Biodome 1, a trillion-dollar experiment to test our species' ability to live amongst the stars.She’s a woman of massive accomplishment — the kind of person they name schools after. A NASA-trained astronaut and celebrated neurologist. Has sacrificed friends and family for career. Shrewd and aware of her blindspots. She holds big secrets. Decisive but often puts principles ahead of practicals. Tries and fails to keep firewalls between the personal and the private. Possible UK or AUS accent. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Principal | TEMPKIN | Male 20 - 50 Years old |
Description Anton Tempkin may be the mission’s Science Director, but he’s about as far from the stereotypical scientist as you can get. He is passionate, arrogant, wily and thoroughlydebauched. He’s also the sharpest mind on the team. Inside the dome, Tempkin wasn’t just busy with his scientific responsibilities but also spying for Russia (for reasons that are more altruistic than they first seem). A chaotic force - for both good and bad - and therefore completely unpredictable. Should have a Russian accent. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Principal | GORSKI | Male 20 - 40 Years old |
Description Gorski is the Head of Engineering is the boy who dreamed of the stars. He is our fears and aspirations. Our most noble hopes for tomorrow. He is a tech wunderkind with acompany back in the real world worth billions. A man who never cared about money or status who is now a billionaire and enormously influential. Laid back, aggressively unstylish, warm and funny, it’s impossible not to be charmed by the man. Think of Steve Wozniak and then add a little bit of weed. Hopelessly in love with LEE. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Principal | OKAFOR | Male 30 - 50 Years old |
Description Okafor is the Head of Security and is in a secret relationship with Strauss. As a former 3-star general, he seems vastly overqualified to babysit a bunch of scientists in the Arctic, but he knows why he is really there. While he’s a religious man who wrestles with his faith, as a soldier he is an ultimate professional. A reassuring presence to those under his care. In private he struggles with depression (given his military history) and fear of the unknown (given their new and unexpected mission). Possible UK or AUS accent. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Principal | LEE | Female 20 - 40 Years old |
Description Lee is the Chief Biologist. She is also a skilled physician whose bedside manner could best be described as blunt. Mistrustful of other people, her detachment intimidatesothers. She has a self-destructive streak which makes her explosive and almost as chaotic as Tempkin. Her past personal life is littered with the flaming wreckage of relationships gone horribly wrong, and she continues that tradition going forward. She grew up worshiping Strauss, who she saw as a fellow iconoclast, but the relationship soured months before we meet her. Lee is never one to shy away from challenging and questioning authority, and although that makes her incredibly difficult to get close to, she almost always makes excellent points. Possible UK or AUS accent. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Principal | BARKOV | Male 30 - 50 Years old |
Description Barkov is an Operations Manager and a closed book. Very cagey and cold, he is secretly Tempkin’s handler. He has an acerbic wit and can turn up his intimidation level at the drop of a hat. He is just as formidable strategically as he is physically. Should have a Russian accent. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Principal | FUNG | Male 20 - 40 Years old |
Description The casual and personable Deputy Mission Director, his is the more human compliment to Strauss’ firm leadership. He’s almost too funny and considerate for the leadershipposition he will suddenly be thrust into. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Principal | LOPEZ | Female 20 - 30 Years old |
Description Lopez is an astrophysicist who seems chemically unable to mistrust or suspect the worst in people. An idealist like her department head Gorski, she learns the hard waynot to take things at face value. A nerdy optimist. Possible UK or AUS accent. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Principal | WEI | Female 20 - 40 Years old |
Description Okafor’s right hand soldier. A true believer in chain-of-command. Rigid to the point of inflexible. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Principal | DYSON | Male 20 - 40 Years old |
Description A soldier who snaps under pressure. Able to comprehend only what he sees. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Principal | SKALA | Male 20 - 40 Years old |
Description A weary, jaded soldier. | ||