Film School
Dead Serious
Details
Union:
Union or Non union
Area of media:
Film School
Network:
Paid?:
No
Deadline:
Jan 23, 2026
Shooting starts:
Feb 13, 2026 
Shooting finishes:
Feb 15, 2026 
Shooting locations:
North Vancouver
Cities for response:
Vancouver
Storyline
Fourteen-year-old Lani Brooks is a ghost trapped in her childhood home, spending her afterlife solving other spirits’ deaths so they can move on. Armed with sharp instincts and a voice recorder, she avoids confronting the one mystery she fears most—her own. After helping a nervous young ghost named Alex accept his fate, Lani finally investigates the house she’s haunted for years. As disturbing clues surface, she uncovers a truth she’s been protecting herself from. By accepting how she died, Lani closes her final case and moves on, leaving her mother to grieve, and begin to heal.
Roles
Role typeRoleGender & Age range
LeadLani BrooksFemale 14 - 18 Years old
Description
Open to any ethnicity. Independent and relentlessly curious, Lani Brooks speaks plain and lacks filter. She
treasures truth over comfort as she relies on her logical nature to keep difficult feelings
at an arm's length. As a self-taught detective, she helps ghost children find peace and
move on.
Role typeRoleGender & Age range
Supporting LeadTeresa BrooksFemale 40 - 50 Years old
Description
Open to any ethnicity. A widowed wife and
anxiously attached mother whose only comfort in life has been the culinary arts. The
kitchen is her safe place until she accidentally strikes a tragedy within its walls. She
hides a humongous truth for fear of being abandoned by the last bit of closest family
she has left in her life.
Role typeRoleGender & Age range
PrincipalAlex DialloMale 12 - 16 Years old
Description
Open to any ethnicity. Highly intuitive and emotionally vulnerable, Alex Diallo validates feelings before facts while his
kind heart remains untouched by the horrors of his past. Anxiety rides his natural state
but in the face of difficult truths his bravery never falters. Alex is emotionally smart,
gentle and only he could help his newfound best friend translate her difficult emotions.