Details
Union:
Non union
Area of media:
Microdrama
Network:
Paid?:
Yes
Rates:
$450.00 per full-day of shoot (Double Leads booking) / $350.00 per full-day of shoot (Double Supporting Booking)
Open to Montreal Actors and Ottawa ONLY. (Travel Stipend offered for actors coming from Ottawa.)
Deadline:
May 25, 2026
Shooting starts:
June 13, 2026
Shooting finishes:
June 13, 2026
Shooting locations:
Montreal, Quebec
Cities for response:
Montréal, Ottawa
Comments
This is a great opportunity for actors to work as leads in an ultra-professional environment as well as copy the content for their reels.
Storyline
Film #1: A Perfect Mistake
Synopsis:
When SOFIA arrives as the new nanny for the PRESCOTT family, she quickly realizes that RYAN has no intention of keeping things professional. What follows is a calculated game of harassment, blackmail, and manipulation — until JANET, the wife Ryan underestimated, reveals she's been watching the whole time. A domestic thriller about a man who mistakes his wife's kindness for stupidity, and pays for it.
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Film #2: Love in the Dark
Synopsis:
When LUCIA is caught trying on her employer's engagement ring, she's fired, reported to immigration, and left with nowhere to go — except back into the house she just got thrown out of. What follows is a week of hiding, nightly visits, and a connection neither DANIEL nor Lucia can explain away — one that puts them both on a collision course with VICTORIA, a woman who will burn everything down before she loses. A romantic drama about a woman with nothing who ends up with everything, and the man who had everything and almost missed what mattered.
Synopsis:
When SOFIA arrives as the new nanny for the PRESCOTT family, she quickly realizes that RYAN has no intention of keeping things professional. What follows is a calculated game of harassment, blackmail, and manipulation — until JANET, the wife Ryan underestimated, reveals she's been watching the whole time. A domestic thriller about a man who mistakes his wife's kindness for stupidity, and pays for it.
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Film #2: Love in the Dark
Synopsis:
When LUCIA is caught trying on her employer's engagement ring, she's fired, reported to immigration, and left with nowhere to go — except back into the house she just got thrown out of. What follows is a week of hiding, nightly visits, and a connection neither DANIEL nor Lucia can explain away — one that puts them both on a collision course with VICTORIA, a woman who will burn everything down before she loses. A romantic drama about a woman with nothing who ends up with everything, and the man who had everything and almost missed what mattered.
Roles
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Lead | Film#1: Sofia (Lead) / Film#2: Lucia (Lead) | Female 25 - 30 Years old |
Description Film #1: A Perfect MistakeSofia (Lead) Age: 25-30 Height: Any Physical Appearance: Open to Latina, Middle Eastern, or South Asian. Naturally beautiful, warm, and disarming. The kind of woman whose composure under pressure reads as quiet strength. Description: A young nanny who walks into a dangerous situation and refuses to be its victim. Sofia's journey moves from vulnerable to targeted to strategic — and the audience needs to believe every step. Must play warmth and fear convincingly through Scenes 1-4, and the calculated seduction of Scene 5 must feel like a woman fully in control for the first time. Critical: the fake compliment build in Scene 5 must land as performance within a performance — the audience should feel the shift the moment it happens, before Ryan does. ----- Film #2: Lucia (Lead) Age: 25-30 Height: Any Physical Appearance: Open to Latina, Middle Eastern, South Asian. Naturally beautiful, unassuming. The kind of woman whose face does more than her words. Must read as both genuinely vulnerable and quietly strong — sometimes in the same breath. Description: A young immigrant woman who has spent two years invisible in someone else's home — until one moment of weakness makes her impossible to ignore. Lucia's journey moves from humiliation through fear through unexpected love to clear-eyed, courageous choice. Requires genuine emotional range and the ability to hold stillness on camera. Critical: the hiding sequences must feel viscerally real, the nightly visit chemistry with Daniel must build naturally across the series of shots, and the final scene must land as earned joy not melodrama. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Lead | Film#1: Ryan(Lead) / Film#2: Daniel(Lead) | Male 35 Years old |
Description Film #1: A Perfect MistakeRyan (Lead) Age: 35 Height: Any Physical Appearance: Conventionally attractive, well-dressed, effortlessly entitled. The kind of man who has never been told no by anyone who mattered. Must read as charming enough to have fooled people and repellent enough that the audience never forgets what he is. Description: A husband and father who uses his home, his money, and his authority as weapons. Ryan moves through the script with complete, unearned confidence — right up until the teddy bear eye pops out. Must play every escalation as a man who genuinely believes he will not be caught. Critical: the check reveal in Scene 2 must be played with total comfort — he's done this before. The Scene 4 blackmail must feel like a man closing a trap. And the final collapse must be fast, complete, and earn zero sympathy. ----- Film #2: Love in the Dark Daniel (Lead) Age: 35 Height: Any Physical Appearance: Warm, quietly authoritative. The kind of man whose stillness reads as strength. Must read as both genuinely decent and completely conflicted — a man who knows what he should do and keeps doing something else. Description: A wealthy man days away from the wrong wedding who doesn't know it yet. Daniel's arc moves from oblivious to aware to committed — and the audience needs to believe every step. Must play tenderness without sentimentality and authority without coldness. Critical: the nightly visits must feel like a man falling in love in real time, the proposal must land as impulse and conviction simultaneously, and the ring removal must be the most casual devastating thing he's ever done. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Supporting | Film#1: Janet(Supporting) / Film#2: Victoria(Supporting) | Female 30 - 35 Years old |
Description Film #1: A Perfect MistakeJanet (Supporting) Age: 30s Height: Any Physical Appearance: Polished, warm, deceptively composed. The kind of woman who moves through a room like she owns it — because she does. Must read as both genuinely trusting and quietly dangerous. Description: A wife who already knows and has been building her case. Janet's arc is the script's best kept secret — she plays the oblivious departing spouse in Scene 1 and the fully prepared architect of Ryan's downfall in Scene 5. Must play warmth and intelligence simultaneously without tipping the hand. Critical: the teddy reveal must land as the payoff it is — a woman who thought of everything. The shoulder-to-shoulder final moment with Sofia must feel like a partnership that was always inevitable. ----- Film #2: Love in the Dark Victoria (Supporting) Age: 30-35 Height: Any Physical Appearance: Striking, immaculately presented. The kind of woman who treats beauty as armor. Must read as both genuinely formidable and completely threatened — a villain who believes she's the hero. Description: A fiancée who sees what's happening before anyone admits it and responds by making everything worse. Victoria moves through the script with absolute conviction — she is never wrong, in her own mind, until the moment she runs. Must play cruelty as instinct not performance, and entitlement as a lifelong condition not a character choice. Critical: the slap in Scene 1 must be impulsive not calculated, the ICE truck line must land as casual evil, the flower scene threat must be genuinely chilling, and the final exit must be a woman who waited too long to read the room. | ||