Casting
The first round of casting for the feature film Scare Me: Vol. 1 is now closed. Thank you to all who submitted. We are currently reviewing all submissions. If we would like to move forward with you in the casting process, you will receive an email with further instructions.
Production title: Scare Me: Vol. I
Union / Non-Union: Union - SAG ULB Contract
**Accepting both Union and Non-Union talent submissions.
Production Type: Independent
Project length: Feature Film (90 minutes)
Project format: 2.35:1 4K
Posted on: September 3, 2019
Filming Starts: Oct 4, 2019
Filming Ends: Nov 17, 2019
Production location: Phoenix, Arizona
Production Company: Falling Flame Pictures
Company website: www.fallingflamepictures.com
Genre: Horror Anthology
Directors:
Ryan Henry Johnston (Head)
Charlotte Lilt
Tom J McCoy
Carl Jensen
Jordan Pillar
Ryan Kjolberg
Producers: Jason Wiechert, Ryan Johnston
Casting Director: Falling Flame Pictures Casting Department
Audition Location: TBD
Shooting Locations: Phoenix Arizona and areas in Northern Arizona
Email: casting@fallingflamepictures.com
Compensation: $125/day - SAG ULB Contract
CASTING KEY DATES
First Round:
Please email a headshot, résumé and a link to your reel (if available) to casting@fallingflamepictures.com
DO NOT ATTACH VIDEO FILES OF REELS TO YOUR EMAIL.
Subject line of your email should follow this format:
Last name, First Name - Role - Project Title
Example Email Subject Line: Smith, John - DAVID - Scare Me: Vol. 1
Headshot, résumé and reel submissions are due by 11:59pm on September 8, 2019.
Second Round:
If selected, you will receive an email with sides for your electronic video audition and instructions for submitting your video audition.
Third Round:
If selected, you will receive an email with sides to prepare, the audition location, and your specific audition time.
**Callback Auditions will be live, in person auditions with the director and producer team.
Callback Auditions: By Appointment Only
CHARACTER BREAKDOWNS:
[NAOMI] [LEAD] [GENDER: FEMALE] [AGE: 35-45] [ETHNICITY: ANY]
The trophy wife. Naomi is married to the richest guy in town and seems to have it all, but, underneath her well put together exterior, is a miserable woman who feels lonely and stuck in an unfulfilling life.
**This character will also play a second role in the film. More info provided during callback auditions.
**Actor shooting dates: Oct 4th, 5th, 6th and Nov 14th, 15th, 16th, and 17th
[WILL] [LEAD] [GENDER: MALE] [AGE: 18-25] [ETHNICITY: ANY]
The outsider. Will is from the "other side of the tracks." He comes from a family known more for their run-ins with law enforcement than anything else. No one expects Will to become anything more than a drunk like his father, but he has dreams and aspirations well beyond what's expected of him. There's more to him than what's perceived.
**This character will also play a second role in the film. More info provided during callback auditions.
**Actor shooting dates: Oct 19th, 20th and Nov 14th, 15th, 16th, and 17th
[HAL] [LEAD] [GENDER: MALE] [AGE: 40-55] [ETHNICITY: ANY]
The cop. Hal's the quintessential good-guy. Hal's juggling his job, that just became more complicated with a murderer on the loose, and his family life. He's stressed to the max and just needs a reprieve from the daily grind.
**This character will also play a second role in the film. More info provided during callback auditions.
**Actor shooting dates: Oct 26th, 27th and Nov 14th, 15th, 16th, and 17th
[KYLE] [SUPPORTING] [GENDER: MALE] [AGE: 18 - 25] [ETHNICITY: ANY]
He is one of two movie theater employees closing up the theater for the night. He's tired from working all day at the theater and wants to go home.
**Actor shooting for one day on either: Nov 14th, 15th, 16th, or 17th
[JASMINE] [SUPPORTING] [GENDER: FEMALE] [AGE: 18 - 25] [ETHNICITY: ANY]
She is one of two movie theater employees closing up the theater for the night. She's tired from working all day at the theater and wants to go home.
**Actor shooting for one day on either: Nov 14th, 15th, 16th, or 17th
[PRIEST] [SUPPORTING] [GENDER: MALE] [AGE: 30-45] [ETHNICITY: ANY]
A heavyweight, both inside and out. He's overcome with fear and worry - on a mission to trap whatever it is he has concealed in the crate he is wheeling up to a storage locker. Time is of the essence.
**Actor shooting dates: Oct 4th, 5th and 6th
[SECURITY GUARD] [SUPPORTING] [GENDER: MALE] [AGE: 19-25] [ETHNICITY: ANY]
He doesn't take his job seriously. You're more likely to find him playing on his phone or smoking a joint, than keeping anything the least bit "secure."
**Actor shooting for one day on either: Oct 4th, 5th or 6th
[DAN] [SUPPORTING] [GENDER: MALE] [AGE: 35-55] [ETHNICITY: ANY]
Dan is Naomi's cheating husband. He is a very wealthy and respected lawyer in the community. Sadly, Naomi married him for the financial security his money provides. He has cheated on her multiple times. He never appears in the film. Only his voice is heard over the phone.
**Actor in studio recording session: In November, TBD
[ESTER] [SUPPORTING] [GENDER: FEMALE] [AGE: 50-70] [ETHNICITY: ANY]
Ester is a bit old fashioned with a very kind and gentle demeanor. She appears to be a generous woman who only wants the best for her new neighbors, but she isn't what she seems.
**Actor shooting dates: Oct 11th, 12th and 13th
[HELEN] [SUPPORTING] [GENDER: FEMALE] [AGE: 50-70] [ETHNICITY: WHITE/CAUCASIAN]
Helen is a widow, who upon the unexpected death of her lover Adam, decides she cannot live without him. But she doesn’t expect to be without him much longer. She is the birth mother of Anne, our lead.
**Actor shooting for two of the three shooting days: Oct 11th, 12th and/or 13th
[ADAM] [SUPPORTING] [GENDER: MALE] [AGE: 50-70] [ETHNICITY: ANY]
Adam is the longtime lover of Helen and will not be separated from his love. Not even in death. He only appears in photographs.
**Actor photoshoot date: TBD
[NEIGHBORS] [SUPPORTING] [GENDER: MALE/FEMALE] [AGE: 20-70] [ETHNICITY: ANY]
The Neighbors are a close group of friends within the community. They are very close with Helen, Adam, and Ester. Looking for two female (20-30 and 50-70) and one male (20-30).
**Must have singing experience.**
**Actor shooting for one day on either: Oct 11th, 12th or 13th
[RUSSELL] [SUPPORTING] [GENDER: MALE] [AGE: 35-50] [ETHNICITY: ANY]
OWNS THE GAS STATION AND THE CAR.
Russell never had big dreams, and certainly none that ever involved leaving his rural hometown. Running his own gas station on the outskirts of town with his wife of nearly 10 years, Mary-Lynn, has been more than enough to keep him happy. He likes to stay busy, even if it’s starting to turn him grey.
His Wal-Mart clearance-sale flannel is covered in grime and blood. Sweaty and exhausted, he rushes from the dark forest toward his car, the one the drifter currently occupies. Desperate to get inside, what he used to consider the love of his life emerges from the woods behind him. Whatever she is now, it wants him dead.
**Actor shooting dates: Oct 19th and 20th
[MARY-LYNN] [SUPPORTING] [GENDER: FEMALE] [AGE: 30-45] [ETHNICITY: ANY]
SHE IS POSSESSED.
Her family always thought she settled for Russell. She was a bright girl, even spent a couple years at a local college, a first for her family. Mary-Lynn never felt that way. Russell is good to her and is all she really cares about. She loves to bring him lunch at work and see his goofy smile when she picks him up after he closes up shop. Their life is simple, but it’s happy and it’s theirs.
When Mary-Lynn arrives at the gas station on this night, something attacks and drags her into the woods. Russell witness the attack and races into the dark after her. When he eventually finds her, she looks like Mary-Lynn, but it’s not her. Her eyes are hollow, her face emotionless. Something has taken over and it wants him dead.
**Actor shooting for one day on either: Oct 19th or 20th
[DANIEL] [SUPPORTING] [GENDER: MALE] [AGE: 13-15] [ETHNICITY: ANY]
Good natured and maybe a little pudgy, Daniel is the youngest of the family who has gotten used to his position as the baby. This, however, proves to be a detriment when his family begins to display a series of bizarre behaviors which only he seems to witness. Can he convince his family to take him seriously and hear his pleas, or will they be overcome by something they refuse to acknowledge?
**A mix between Ben from “IT” meets Peter from “Hereditary”.
**Actor shooting dates: Oct 26th and 27th
[SARAH] [SUPPORTING] [GENDER: FEMALE] [AGE: 15-17] [ETHNICITY: ANY]
Although she is the older sibling, Sarah is reserved and rather bookish. Far from a social butterfly, she does have a good relationship with her brother who brings out her more playful childish side. This relationship becomes strained, however, when Sarah sees something disturbing in her father’s office, setting forth a chain of events that leaves her shaken and withdrawn.
**Actor shooting dates: Oct 26th and 27th
[FAITH] [SUPPORTING] [GENDER: FEMALE] [AGE: 40-45] [ETHNICITY: ANY]
Despite being a loving mother and supportive wife, Faith is feeling the burden of playing two roles in an effort to make up for her work obsessed husband. This strain causes her to overlook the concerns of her son and leaves her exposed to the very forces he tries to warn her about.
**Actor shooting dates: Oct 26th and 27th