Details
Union:
Union or Non union
Area of media:
Film School
Network:
Paid?:
Yes
Deadline:
July 1, 2025
Cities for response:
Vancouver
Storyline
After a suicidal, unfulfilled office worker, Stew, tells his friends he wants to kill himself, they offer no objections and start planning his funeral for him. To ensure the funeral is exactly as he envisions, he postpones his suicide until the day of the funeral, turning the ceremony into a grand event that the unfeeling people in Stew’s life could never have imagined. Eventually recognizing the value in his ambitious nature and seeing the potential to become the person his funeral advertises, he decides to take back control of his life and fakes his death in order to start over.
Roles
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Lead | Stew | Male 20 - 30 Years old |
Description A passive, deadpan everyman who allows others to control his life without a care. He can feel something is wrong but can’t figure out why. His solution: Good ol’ fashioned suicide. When given the opportunity to put on his own funeral the way he envisions, he finds passion in being someone of importance. Realizing there is potential in this ambitious side of himself, he runs out on his own funeral. Over the course of the film, Stew goes from empty and almost robotic to adventurous and optimistic of the future. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Supporting | Bud | Male 20 - 30 Years old |
Description A Persuasive and amiable businessman with leadership skills, but lacking remorse. As Stew’s confident “best friend”, he is used to making the decisions but sees the potential in Stew’s funeral being a spectacle in which he can partake. So, he helps his friend carry out his vision in any way he can. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Supporting | Judith | Female 20 - 30 Years old |
Description Clear, straightforward, sophisticated, acting as the closest thing to the voice of logic and reason in an absurd society. Judith prioritizes her marketing job highly but is still one of the few to acknowledge the existence of her ex-boyfriend Stew from time to time. Judith, like most, seems unbothered when Stew announces his own funeral, doubtful he’d go through with it ... and she’d probably get over it pretty quickly anyway. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Extras | Flamethower person | All 20 - 40 Years old |
Description they carry a flamethrower and have welding masks on, are excited to burn a living person. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Principal | Boss | 30 - 50 Years old |
Description Regal, open-minded but firm and slightly narcissistic office manager. The boss is a busy man who can’t afford the time to remember the names of his employees when he’s so focused on the productivity of the company, but he tries to diffuse conflict in order to keep his employees happy and is willing to compromise. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Actor | Sophie | Female 20 - 30 Years old |
Description Dramatic, overly emotional. Struggling to find an acting job in a society fixated on the logical, the majestic Sophie is thrilled to be employed on a production as big as Stew’s funeral as Stew’s grieving fiancée. However, she expertly disguises her enthusiasm with the fake grief she expresses while auditioning for the role and later at the funeral. Nothing can cause her to break character. (Is from the Netherlands, possibly has a Dutch or other European accent) | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Actor | Production Assistant | All 20 - 25 Years old |
Description Stressed, anxious. This is their first ever Funeral/Suicide to plan! They could do with some sleep. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Background | Production Assistants | All 20 - 40 Years old |
Description Focused, diligent, and effective. They are there to execute Stew's vision without fail. Dressed in black T-Shirts and cargo pants. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Extra | Office Worker | All 20 - 40 Years old |
Description Focused on their deliverables, cannot care for what Stew has to say. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Extra | Funeral attendants | All 20 - 60 Years old |
Description Excited to see a live funeral, they are dressed in black suits and black dresses. Having a nice social time waiting for the festivities to start. | ||