Details
Union:
Not designated
Area of media:
Short Film
Network:
Paid?:
Yes
Deadline:
May 23, 2026
Shooting starts:
Aug 1, 2026
Shooting finishes:
Aug 2, 2026
Shooting locations:
Toronto
Cities for response:
Vancouver, Toronto, Montréal
Storyline
Casting "The Last Reader," a short film. Logline: A young Toronto visual artist, a champion of analog culture, is enticed by a corporate android named Elara, whose mission is to convince him to archive his mind into the cloud to be used for content generation by the AI company who created her.
Roles
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Lead | Theo | Male 25 - 35 Years old |
Description A contemporary artist who has a sincere devotion to culture, memory and deep attention in his life and work, but whose loneliness and hubris make him a tragic figure rather than a hero. Lead role in an arthouse sci-fi short shooting in Toronto. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Lead | Elara | Female 24 - 35 Years old |
Description An android cast as a woman who has always been looked at, is always in control. Trained ease, total stillness, poised bearing. Plays attention as something bestowed on the recipient, rather than as desire offered. Lead role in an arthouse sci-fi short shooting in Toronto. | ||