Details
Union:
Non union
Area of media:
Feature Film
Network:
Paid?:
Yes
Rates:
Jordan $5000 for 10 day and 1 day adr, shoot, Marta $350/Day 2-3 days
Deadline:
July 28, 2025
Callbacks:
tba
Shooting starts:
10 days, 2 days early Sept, 8 Days in Nov 2025
Shooting finishes:
November
Shooting locations:
Toronto and surrounding area
Cities for response:
Toronto, Ottawa, Sudbury
Storyline
A Canadian stand up comic is busted at the U.S. border for a visa infraction and for his political material about Trump, and is sent to the ICE detention centre in Louisiana.. While there he begins to do his stand up comedy for the other inmates. This upsets the authorities and they send him to the infamous CECOT prison in El Salvador. His comedy there means the warden eventually exiles him to a distant jungle village. There, he meets a woman who matches his lippy demeanour, and ends up not trying to return to Canada, but instead in the local school, teaching English to the children using comic rhymes and riddles.
Roles
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Lead | Jordan | Male 24 - 30 Years old |
Description Caucasian -ACTORS WITH COMEDY/STAND UP A BONUS BUT NOT RESTRICTED TO THIS - a Canadian semi-successful stand up comic He is very confident and has a great stage presence, and he comes up with very smart comedy. He is arrested by ICE when trying to enter Rochester NY for a stand-up gig While he is a smart-aleck, we also see that he is very affected and bummed out by being arrested and incarcerated. Once in prison, he gets his mojo back enough to be able to start performing comic stand up routines for the other inmates. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Large Principal | Marta-Spanish Speaker | Female 24 - 30 Years old |
Description MUST BE Latina/ Central American, South American or Hispanic MUST SPEAK SPANISH FLUENTLY She is sharp-witted and has an acerbic tongue and sense of humour. She is very much her own person, very comfortable in her own skin. She is a painter, she is political. She has a daughter, and migrated with her to the U.S., but was caught up in a migration raid there and lost her daughter and was returned to El Salvador. Pls note - partial nudity either bra, negligee or bed covers, NO full frontal, NO intimate scenes | ||