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Short Film

Details

Episode:

Union:

Non union

Area of media:

Short Film

Network:

Paid?:

Deadline:

Oct 1, 2025

Auditions:

WeTransfer/YouTube link

Shooting starts:

Oct 4, 2025 Shot on weekends

Shooting finishes:

Oct 31, 2025

Shooting locations:

Mississauga, West Toronto

Cities for response:

Toronto

Storyline

After a botched lookout leads to his best friend's death, a bright high-schooler is coerced into gang retaliation, forcing him to choose between his little brother's safety and his own survival.

We are telling a story rooted in GTA Vietnamese / East & Southeast Asian communities.

Performers of East, or Southeast Asian heritage strongly encouraged to submit, all ethnicities considered.

Prop weapons / choreographed violence. Safety briefings provided.

Roles

Role type	Role	Gender & Age range
Lead	Kai	Male 16 - 22 Years old
Description East / Southeast Asian strongly preferred Brainy, guarded older brother caught between gang pressure and university hopes. By day he’s helping his little brother Minh study for a test, by night he’s Jimmy’s reluctant lookout; doing whatever it takes to feed and shelter his little brother Minh after their parents vanished. Kai’s university dream is hanging by a single scholarship, while gang pressure and guilt over a fatal slip-up threaten to drag him under. Must be able to layer quiet intellect and wary street instinct; able to pivot from gentle big-brother softness to panic, then to cold resolve when the gun is finally in his own hand.
Role type	Role	Gender & Age range
Supporting	Jimmy	Male 20 - 28 Years old
Description East or Southeast Asian strongly preferred Kai’s ride or die since middle school and now the Boss’s favoured lieutenant. He masks an amphetamine habit with a switch between street philosophy and sudden, cutting-edge violence. Jimmy’s back-alley purchase of a hot gun sets off the chain of killings and eventually claims his life in Act 2, it shatters Kai’s last tether to the crew’s humanity and opens the void of power Daryll pounces on. Must juggle between charismatic calm, pill-spiked mania, and genuine brotherly wamrth towards Kai, all while commanding the crew in heavy GTA dialect.
Role type	Role	Gender & Age range
Supporting	Minh	Male 8 - 14 Years old
Description East or Southeast Asian strongly preferred Kai’s kid brother and the short film’s moral compass. Smart, wide-eyed, and game obsessed, Minh still believes his and Kai’s cramped apartment life is “normal” because Kai keeps the worst truths from Minh. Minh trusts his brother blindly, but years of late-night absences, whispered arguments, and unexpected sleepovers at Ms. Linh’s have chipped away at that innocence. Guardian on set; limited shoot hours per regulations.
Role type	Role	Gender & Age range
Supporting	Ms. Linh	Female 25 - 50 Years old
Description Type: East/Southeast Asian Kai’s closest thing to a parent didn’t start as kindness, it started as a detention. When Kai kept skipping her math class, Ms. Linh pulled him in after school, ready to lay down the law. Instead, she discovered a sharp mind buried under fatigue and stress from the streets. Ms. Linh keeps the teacher-student formality, but there’s a faint softness under every reprimand. Their history of detentions, and her stepping in for babysitting has threaded a quiet familiarity; respectful distance with a thin, unspoken thread of parental care.
Role type	Role	Gender & Age range
Supporting	Daryll	Male
Description Type: East/Southeast Asian, heavy Toronto street accent Daryll is the Boss’s own younger brother, a family tie that should’ve guaranteed him a place at the top. Instead, he’s forced to watch Jimmy rise to leadership. Unpredictable and erratic, he can flip from easy banter to sudden menace without warning.
Role type	Role	Gender & Age range
Supporting	Runner	Male 20 - 30 Years old
Description Toronto street accent Front-line muscle for the crew. Think fast talk, faster fists. They drop packages, stand lookout, and swarm when violence sparks. Rough around the edges, street-smart but not polished. East/Southeast Asian faces preferred, open to all ethnicities. Improv skills a plus each runner gets brief lines and reactions.

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