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A drama-style online ad is casting for its upcoming shoot in Los Angeles. Production is seeking a lead male role, aged 20–36, to play Ethan/Secret CEO, a lead female role, aged 20–33, to play Gretchen ...

Casting "Godspeed, USA," a short film. Logline: Over the course of a snowy night in a small town named Godspeed, an Israeli immigrant family navigates their identities, their relationships, and the ...

The beauty of film as art is that it contains a variety of forms. It can be a fictional, narrative story that springs out of the imagination of a writer, or a documentary that details historical ...

Self-taping is here to stay. In recent years, the controversial DIY auditioning practice requiring actors to film themselves for casting consideration has become ubiquitous. Although it started as an ...

SAG-AFTRA ratified its latest TV/Theatrical Agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers in November 2023, following almost four months of striking and intense negotiations.

Look closely at the Golden Age of Hollywood, and you’ll see the darker, more complicated layers beneath all that glitz and glamour. The era coincided with the Motion Picture Production Code, also ...