Details
Union:
Union
Area of media:
Feature Film
Network:
Paid?:
Yes
Rates:
As per ACTRA CIPIP 'Super-Low-Budget-Features' Rates.
Deadline:
July 14, 2025
Callbacks:
July 16, 2025 will take place on Google Meet with creative team.
Shooting starts:
Sept 22, 2025
Shooting finishes:
Dec 31, 2025
Shooting locations:
Toronto, GTA, rural Ontario
Cities for response:
Toronto
Comments
Looking for performers with a collaborative spirit & comfortable with improvisation.
Storyline
Nada struggles against her PTSD to find belonging as a mixed-race Palestinian woman and as an artist. When her cousin Mohamed arrives as a refugee from Palestine, their friendship helps Nada reconcile her fractured identity, begin to heal & find her voice.
Roles
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Lead | Vera | Female 20 - 30 Years old |
Description Mid-20s. Nada's white best friend. Caring & upper-crust. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Lead | Chris | Male 20 - 35 Years old |
Description Late-20s. Tortured artist type, "complicated", Nada's on again off again ex. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Supporting | Shannon | Female 40 - 50 Years old |
Description 40s. Put together, charismatic & hypocritical indie theatre company director. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Supporting | Nancy | Female 50 - 70 Years old |
Description Late 60s. Italian & fabulous. MUST SPEAK ITALIAN. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Supporting | Hamama | Female 60 - 85 Years old |
Description 70s-80s. Palestinian Elder. Loves to feed the pigeons. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Supporting | Rod | Male 45 - 60 Years old |
Description Early 50s. Caucasian. Laura's hick boyfriend. Rockin' mullet, works for a weapons manufacturer. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Supporting | Yasser | Male 50 - 65 Years old |
Description 60s. Palestinian. Nada's absent father. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Supporting | Armit | Male 20 - 30 Years old |
Description Mid-20s. Nada's successful arch nemesis from theatre school. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Supporting | Karim | Male 50 - 60 Years old |
Description 50s-60s. Palestinian uncle. Great sense of humour but doesn't mess around. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Supporting | Aunty Amal | Female 40 - 50 Years old |
Description 40s. Hijabi & gossip queen. MUST SPEAK ARABIC. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Supporting | Matteo | Male 20 - 30 Years old |
Description 20s-30s. Italian. In the family business. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Supporting | Aunty Layla | Female 30 - 40 Years old |
Description Late-30s. Aspiring Aunty. MUST SPEAK ARABIC. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Supporting | Aunty Marwa | Female 50 - 60 Years old |
Description 50s. Hijabi Boss Bish. MUST SPEAK ARABIC. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Supporting | Pam | Female 50 - 70 Years old |
Description 50s-60s. Nada's therapist. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Large Principal | Laura | Female 50 - 65 Years old |
Description 50s-60s, Nada's white mom. High strung, tacky & beautiful. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Large Principal | Mohamed | Male 20 - 35 Years old |
Description 20s-30s, Palestinian. Nada's cousin & a recent refugee to Canada. Very proud & hardworking, wears very tight pants. Queer & closeted. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Featured | Yogi | All 20 - 40 Years old |
Description 30s. Good at their job. Healing vibes. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Featured | Aunty Bev | Female 50 - 60 Years old |
Description 50s. Caucasian. Looks and sounds as if she's smoked since she was 13. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Featured | Dalia | Female 18 - 30 Years old |
Description Early-20s. Shy & sweet. At the hookah lounge to meet boys. | ||