Current Projects

Feature length film and episodic series. Pittsburgh production. One to two day shoots. Shooting in June. 

Lee Shaw known as the crime Doctor runs a unique parole system that recruits criminals facing long sentences. If Shaw decides to help you? You remain in his debt until he releases you. 

• Job: Web Series

We do true crime and true encounters with the strange. These are SCRIPTED video presentations.

We're looking to add narrators and writers to our core group.

The main host needs regular fill-in hosts. If you enjoy doing this, we plan to have a couple of scripts a month for you. If you have a good personality for video presentations, the job is easy! You'll record the video in your own home on your own time. We'll show you a free teleprompter link. So all you need is a decent mic and a laptop. Green screen is a plus, but not essential.

You'll get "hosted by" credit and IMDB. You can also take the opportunity to pitch yourself or your work.

The scripts are usually around 4000 to 5000 words. This should be a half to an hour's work. We edit out mistakes, so you just have to have fun and read. 

If you are familiar with Mr. Ballen's channel, this is a perfect example of the type of storytelling we want and the style of video presentation. 

Three things are needed for a great story: an engaging storyteller, an audience, and of course the story.

The storyteller: A good storyteller is animated, brings energy, looks the audience in the eye and says "come with me on this journey". 

The audience is a critical part of the equation. In a live setting, the storyteller can sense the audience's attention drifting away, and adjusts her story to recapture it. This adjusting shows how the vital interaction between the storyteller and the audience shapes the story itself. With a youtube channel, that feedback is limted to comments below. But a good storyteller can still imagine that audience and create the sense of interaction. A wry small or perfectly placed inflection. The storyteller instinctively understands the audience interaction and gets better at this over time. It's a crucial skill for stand-up comics, educators, actors and boardroom executives. 

The story itself is where the all-important but seldom appreciated writing comes in. We want a small team to work together, growing in their skill at crafting stories that hook an audience and hold it. 

• Job: Video

Family orientated action / science fiction to be shot in locations in California and beautiful Costa Rica locations. 

Non-union 

• Job: Feature

We are shooting a documentary style profile of a Boston chef.  We are looking for two female actors as customers at the restaurant.  One or two hours of shooting.

• Job: Commercial

Seeking actors who can play a wide variety of roles across several shows and enjoy performing for young audiences for their 2022-2023 School Assemblies Tour. This is a paid, part-time, non-equity contract that runs from September-May. The five person tour performs for K-12 school assemblies throughout Western PA and the surrounding region. Overnight travel is very occasionally required but the majority of calls are local and take place on weekdays between 7am and 4pm. Actors are paid for all rehearsals and performances, will need to obtain PA Clearances for working with children, and provide proof of Covid-19 vaccination.

• Job: Other

Deft Pictures is pleased to announce they are casting for their upcoming feature film, Not Bad for a Punk Band. With production in two phases, shooting the short film (proof of concept) on August 13th and 14th, 2022 with the feature film shooting in Spring/Summer 2023. Both shooting in the Twin Cities metro area.

Eight years after their band’s breakup, Charlie and Etta find themselves meeting again at a wedding, and must finally reconcile with the past that is holding them back or risk losing each other forever.

• Job: Feature

Casting Call: Great opportunity for a different type of acting role. Casting for pediatric standardized patient simulation. Male actor appearing in the 7 year old range for ADHD patient simulation. Adult actor will be in the room with the child. June 30th. Call time 9am and end time by 2pm. This is a paid role. Help to teach people how to be even better nurses!

• Job: Other

Short barber shop based scene.

• Job: Film

We are looking for adoptees and others who are looking to meet their biological families for the award winning reality TV show, Relative Race. We are now casting for season 11. We are looking for people of all ethnicities, aged 18 to 50, who live in the USA. Please share with anyone who may be interested. 

We are interviewing select candidates ASAP to discover if we can help them to locate and meet their biological relatives. To find our contestants’ families, we use Ancestry DNA in combination with some of the industry's top genealogists and research methods. If chosen to appear on the show, contestants will travel with a teammate on a ten-day journey across the U.S. to discover new relatives and compete for $50,000. Please apply ASAP with notes about your story and who you are looking for to begin the process. Thanks for submitting!

• Job: TV Series

Masters is a short fan film based on the popular 80's cartoon. We our currently creating a Indiegogo campaign to raise funds for the project.

• Job: Video

"Amma's Ashes" was just selected by the Access Sacramento film studio as one of 10 screenplays to be produced this summer for the Place Called Sacramento Film Festival. 

We're looking for South Asian women, men and teens, including one genderqueer teen/young adult actor. 
 

There is no pay at this tome, but if you're traveling to Sacramento from out of town for the shoot, we can compensate for gas expenses. We can offer the chance to work with some of Sacramento's top professionals in a down-to-earth and supportive creative environment, as well as a movie credit. The film will be submitted to the festival circuit, and developed as a television series. 

Here's a synopsis of "Amma's Ashes, or Mystery at the Sacramento River":

As eldest daughter and executor of her mother’s estate, Kaveri has three days to disperse her mother’s ashes in the Sacramento River, but first she must marshal her ragtag family and solve her mother's mystery. 

• Job: Feature

Looking for any willing players for this project. Amateur but hard working and taking this seriously. Have 2 full format D750's, not cine cameras, but take fine video. Also have far more lenses than I can possible need and a decent amount of equipment. 

Thanks for considering.

Looking to have fun and explore the medium as far as we are willing to take it.

Themes revealed July 8.

• Job: Other

This is feature length low budget independent film. The project will be shot in Pittsburgh featuring unknown, up and coming, and new actors. 

The story follows a dancer as she navigates her way to the top of the criminal underworld in Steel City. 

• Job: Feature

A Musical Documentary following the making of a musical for off-Broadway. We'll be following the cast and crew through the whole process. Actors cast in the lead roles will be participating in the behind the scenes of the making of the musical as well as the staged musical itself should it come to fruition. Think project greenlight from HBO but focused on a staged musical production.

Our musical itself follows the story of a family that fights back against a super villain intent on world domination.

• Job:

AUDITION NOTICE!

Miserable Creatures

If you’ve never had the opportunity to originate a role in a world premiere stage play, this could be your chance! We are currently accepting submissions for three specific roles in our new production for 2022, Miserable Creatures! The show will run in October 2022 (just in time for the Halloween season) in the South Park, PA area (outside of Pittsburgh) and begin rehearsing in mid to late summer. Rehearsal schedules are established in advance, and they are based on actor conflicts. Although this may seem, at first, like an early commitment, it’s important to note that this is a brand-new project in development from the script up, and if you are familiar with our past work, you know we design on an epic and meticulously detailed scale. 

SYNOPSIS:

In a bleak city, in a nebulous time, Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant doctor, whose pursuit is cutting-edge neurological studies, develops a brain modification device he dubs “Prometheus,” for a prestigious institute. But, when it’s discovered that he’s been conducting unauthorized human trials, in his apparent ambition to realize the full potential of the machine, with little regard to the risks, his program is suspended.

Soon after, while sharing a celebratory evening out with his best friend, Victor’s younger brother, William, an equally brilliant, and extremely kindhearted young student, runs afoul of a volatile thug, named Felix De Lacey. Felix beats William within an inch of his life, leaving him a battered husk, and destroying his formerly bright future. In a fitting twist of fate, while in police custody, Felix is also beaten nearly to death by other savage offenders.

Victor, crushed under the weight of his inconsolable despair, enlists help in the acquisition and restoration of Felix’s broken body, before undertaking a mad endeavor to use “Prometheus” to overwrite Felix’s brain with William’s intellect and memories.

A fateful lightning strike during the procedure, however, sets the stage for heartbreak and calamity, as Felix rises once more, his consciousness not erased, but cohabiting with that of his last victim. Victor is then left to watch the bloody consequences of his reckless decisions, as those around him fall at the hands of his creation.

A combination of grim neo-noir and Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol, Miserable Creatures is a dark and visceral exploration of how hubris and ambition can blind one to the ethical ramifications of one’s own actions—until it’s too late.

*This production is violent, gory, and contains uncomfortable subject matter. Style is NOT for the sensitive or squeamish.

• Job: Other

Confidentiality is a series of doctor-patient conversations. One day shoot 

Sits with inmates, criminals in the run, and criminals that will soon be charged. If he decides to help them they owe Shaw an illegal debt. 

• Job: Web Series

I'm casting for a diverse selection of reenactment scenes from my Video Doctor project. One day shoots here in Pittsburgh. This project will be shot through zoom. 

Our Video Doctor aka Dr. Zoom project is a virtual project that features Dr. Zoom who's a somewhat of a fixer. He helps people/criminals in jail or trying to avoid jail beat their case. If he decides to help they owe him one illegal deed. 

• Job: Web Series

Love & Ashes is our first feature length film series. It will be shot in Pittsburgh. One to two day shoots. This is for actors nationwide. I will not cover travel but will cover lodging. Pay rates will vary depending on the character. 

This project will host a variety of storylines. First main course will highlight a unlikely bond between a domestic abuse survivor and dirty cop who both believe life forced them to make the decisions they've made. 

• Job: TV Series

This is an indie feature film to be shot on digital, run time approximately 90 minutes.

It is about a young woman - a searcher - who finds herself seduced by a doomsday suicide cult.

A young woman gets sucked into a doomsday suicide cult and her family struggles to save her from its clutches. 

• Job: Feature