Casting Call: CFC VOICE - THE MANY FACES OF THE MAXWELLS

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CFC VOICE - THE MANY FACES OF THE MAXWELLS

Details

Union:

Union or Non union

Area of media:

Short Film

Network:

Paid?:

Rates:

Unpaid as per ACTRA/CFC agreement for 8+1 shoot day and up to 4 hours of rehearsal. Overtime paid at 35% of the ACTRA IPA, if incurred.

Deadline:

Oct 9, 2026

Callbacks:

N/A

Shooting starts:

Nov 13, 2026 1 day shoot + 4 hour rehearsal (on Nov 10 or 12)

Shooting finishes:

Nov 13, 2026

Shooting locations:

GTA

Cities for response:

Toronto

Comments

These one-day shoots are called “VOICE” and they are professionally produced 5 minute productions designed to showcase the writer’s voice and one of their feature length projects in development. VOICE productions are a carefully crafted moment or scene that connects an audience to what’s at the heart of the writer’s feature. These pieces will be screened at an Industry Showcase event for The Norman Jewison Film Program and will eventually be available online through the CFC’s YouTube channel for further viewing.

Suzey Ingold is a screenwriter and published author. Her Black List recommended psychological thriller, THE MANY FACES OF THE MAXWELLS, was referred by The Black List for official entry into the 2025 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, meaning her screenplay was in the top 1% of public entries. Her stories examine identity, agency, and legacy through character-driven genre films, often using a historical lens to highlight social themes still prevalent today.

Storyline

Lena and Tony are the perfect couple in their perfect 1954 suburban American home. Except for their house guest: Tony’s best friend, Hal, whom they only recently discovered survived the war. Tony is reluctant to leave Lena and Hal alone together, the first time since Hal’s return. But with Tony gone they are free to test one another: Lena, to make sense of which man is sat before her, and Hal, to gauge if Lena will see her husband through the new outer facade.

Roles

Role type	Role	Gender & Age range
Lead	LENA	Female 27 - 35 Years old
Description Female, late 20s - early 30s, any ethnicity. Lena left home at 16 years old to pursue her dream of becoming a showgirl in Manhattan. She was popular at the club, attracting the attention of many young men, including Tony and Hal in the summer of 1941, some six months before they shipped out to join the war effort. She and Tony married in a shotgun wedding shortly before he left. She never really expected to see him again but hoped a little widow’s nest egg might be the little helping hand she needed. On Tony’s return to the US, she has reluctantly has taken up the role of the perfect housewife. It’s a good thing she’s such a talented actress. Hal’s arrival unearths a fear that has lingered since Tony’s return—that the man sharing her bed is not the man she married. And that truth may be her opportunity have the life she always wanted. Performance is slightly stylized and heightened.
Role type	Role	Gender & Age range
Lead	HAL	Male 30 - 35 Years old
Description Male, early - mid 30s, any ethnicity. Hal always felt inferior to Tony through every aspect of their lives, right down to inheriting his second-hand clothing. He loved Lena at first sight but she couldn’t see him past Tony. Hal’s fortunes changed after the war presented him an unexpected opportunity to have the life he had always wanted. The long road back home was all worth it when he arrives to his friends’ house in Bristol. His friendship with Tony will likely never be the same, but he holds out hope that he can build something out of the history he has with Lena. Even if it means living a life in someone’s else skin.
Role type	Role	Gender & Age range
Lead	TONY	Male 30 - 35 Years old
Description Male, early - mid 30s, any ethnicity. From a well-off family, Tony grew up next door to his best friend, Hal. The two were inseparable. They attended college together, worked together, enlisted together—but only one of them would return home from war. Lena wasn’t quite the kind of woman his parents would have hoped for him, but he assured them that her showgirl days were nothing but a phase, and she would very different once he returned from the war. And he was right, although his parents wouldn’t live long enough to see their perfect suburban home and his perfect wife in it. Hal’s arrival is a smashing ball to the life Tony has sacrificed so much to build, and he wants nothing more than to send him on his way so he can return to it. But the only thing worse than Lena’s cooking is getting on her bad side, so he’ll play nice until the opportunity presents itself to see the back of Hal. For good, this time.

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