CASTING CALL - “WOOL”

SEEKING ACTORS FOR A SHORT FILM - ALL ROLES PAID

WOOL Written by Jamey Erickson / To be Directed by: Jamey Erickson

Produced by: Omni-Fusion (Winner of 48 hour film festival and many other festivals & awards) Latest Short: https://www.omni-fusion.com/indelible

About: https://www.wool.film/home

Shooting Dates: May 21-May 25th

Location: In And Around Minneapolis MN

Synopsis:

Film Description:

Pete Madison has spent his life grinding people down to get what he wants. When his wife Rachel finally finds the courage to walk away, Pete does what he always does and tries to rewrite the story. But the deeper he goes, the more Rachel refuses to keep playing along, and the truth he's spent his life avoiding begins to close in.

Subtext Theme / Violence Call Out:

WOOL is a Lynchian psychological thriller about a corporate executive trapped in the final twelve seconds of his dying mind, looping through versions of a murder he can’t undo. The film contains scenes of graphic violence, including a sequence in which the protagonist kills multiple people. None of it is decorative. WOOL is a study of late stage American capitalism, the men it produces, and the violence those men inflict on the people around them when their grip starts to slip. It is dark, ambiguous, and intentionally uncomfortable. The work asks the audience to sit with what greed and entitlement become at the end of the line.

Download Work In Progress Wool Script here.

Audition Deadline: Please fill out this Google form by May 8th at 5pm

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfx-0TINq_Ur8v3LEmANM4elt8FK_cAcx6qwA0ta5kPx4Uk5Q/viewform?usp=header

We will cast these roles sometime on/or around May 11th.

FEATURED ROLE - $200

This role is 1 day or 2 days only exact day and time TBD.

MYSTERY MAN (ideally 55+) ANY RACE - BIPOC - one or two -5 hour days

A cryptic man with long black jacket and greasy black hair (wig)

Talent will be asked to wear a greasy wig duster jacket and remotely puppeteer one of the lead actors from a distance using a mysterious power that rewinds time and corner the lead actor in a menacing posture.

These roles are 1 day only exact day and time TBD.

SPEAKING ROLES - $100

DETECTIVE - 40-65yo $100 ANY SEX/RACE One 3-5 hour day

Trying to conduct an interview and arrest Pete. Talent will be asked to yell and bang on glass and walk through a bloody crime scene.

FEMALE COLLEAGUE 35-45 -$100 ANY RACE One 3-5 hour day

Talent will be asked to come in formal work clothes and their own makeup and hair and clap for an award winner in her office and say one line:

 "Where's RACHEL? She'd be so proud."

MALE COLLEAGUE - 35-50 - $100 ANY RACE One 3-5 hour day

Talent will be asked to come in formal work clothes and their own makeup and hair and clap for an award winner in her office and say one line:

"No RACHEL today, eh?"

PROCESS SERVER- 28-55 - $100 -FEMALE ANY RACE One 3-5 hour day

Talent will be asked to come in formal work clothes and their own makeup and hair and serve a legal document.

 "Are you PETE MADISON? ... Great. You've been served. Have a
nice day."

SMOKER Concert Goer 1 - $100 (MUST ACTUALLY SMOKE AND HAVE IT LOOK REAL) One or Two 3-5 hour day(s)

Talent will be asked to come in clothes similar to a style reference (some wardrobe may be provided) (you may have some non staining blood on clothes we provide

and lay in a parking lot as if dead.

“What's that shit?”

SMOKER Concert goer 2 - $100 (MUST ACTUALLY VAPE OR SMOKE HAVE IT LOOK REAL) One or Two 3-5 hour day(s)

Talent will be asked to come in clothes similar to a style reference (some wardrobe may be provided) (you may have some non staining blood on clotthes we provide

and lay in a parking lot as if dead.

      (chuckling)

         " Fucking Cyber-Douche."

NON SPEAKING ROLES - $50

COP 1 - $50 ANY SEX/RACE One 3-5 hour day

Talent will be asked to wear a police uniform and pull out and draw a prop gun and/or handcuffs.

COP 2- $50 ANY SEX/RACE One 3-5 hour day

Talent will be asked to wear a police uniform and subdue a suspect.

CONCERT BACKGROUND TALENT - 15yo+ (Unpaid or small $ stipend) ANY SEX/RACE One 3-5 hour day

Concert goers seeing their favorite electro synth band at a small venue.

Talent will be asked to wear whatever clothing they might wear to an electro punk concert. (not a Holloween costume) just casual concert going attire

They watch a band and then turn to see a guy shatter a drinking glass.

OFFICE BACKGROUND TALENT- 25yo+ (Unpaid or small $ stipend) ANY SEX/RACE One 3-5 hour day

Clapping for a co-worker they sort of hate as they get an award.

THANKS everyone!