CASTING - Safety Net - 12 minute short film This short film is scheduled to be shot during Labor Day weekend in Canton, Ohio. We anticipate a festival release in January, 2017. This project was one of the finalists in the Cleveland Indie Film Incubator and is partially supported by the generosity of Cleveland Camera Rental and the other sponsoring partners. Contingent upon funding we hope to pay at SAG ultra-low indie rates, however we are open to casting SAG or non-SAG based on the three leads that we select. Other non-speaking roles will be cast later this month. Electronic Submissions Only: Please inquire by email -- safetynetfilm@gmail.com or andrewerudd@107aday.com -- for script sides that may be used in video audition. While video auditions are encouraged, we also accept: headshot, resume and acting reel for consideration. Video auditions should be uploaded to youtube or vimeo (password protected and/or unlisted) and links should be sent along with other materials to safetynetfilms@gmail.com Submissions Due By: We are eager to cast these roles, so we will start considering submissions on Thursday, July 14, 2016 and we will plan on live auditions for finalists during the last week of July. *ROLES: * JERRY - Lead / MALE / 28 to 38 Black. Left his job as a corrections officer a year ago. Jerry makes friends easily and makes everyone around him feel comfortable. He uses humor to deflect trouble, but is a hard-working, trustworthy husband to Felicia, his pregnant wife. In the film, as he tries to find friends and family that will actually help him, he also must face questions and doubts about his own hopes, dreams, and sense of himself. NOTE: Not looking for a dashing classic leading man. Jerry needs to exude an everyman sensibility. Perhaps overweight? FELICIA - Supporting / FEMALE / 28 to 38 Black. Works in a preschool. Eight months pregnant. She sure wouldn’t choose now as a time to lose their house, but she’s also supportive of Jerry and recognizes that he is feeling more pressure than even she is. She’s strong enough to keep her private frustrations from spilling over into him, and smart enough to know what he’s thinking even when he can’t give voice to it. Felicia is artistic, confident and strong. Her style is SINGULAR but PRACTICAL. BRAD - Supporting / MALE / 28 to 38 (Jerry’s age) White. Suit and an open collared shirt in the day and athletic gear at night. Brad owns a manufacturing plant downtown, and lives in a posh newly minted mansion in a gated community far across the city from Jerry and Felicia. He vibes athleticism, optimism and good ol’ boy. He is a well-regarded member of the stately megachurch near the golf course. He and Jerry worked at a camp together for several summers when they were teenagers. PLOT OVERVIEW: Jerry left his job a year ago, and while he’s tried he hasn’t found anything since. He’s been given a week to make an emergency payment or his house will go into foreclosure. His wife is very pregnant and Safety Net opens as Jerry finds out that yet another option won’t pan out. The film follows him as he takes desperate measures to find something….ANYTHING...to salvage his little piece of the American Dream. Remember in It’s A Wonderful Life when George Bailey thought that the Savings and Loan was going belly-up and he would lose everything he had invested in the crummy old house where his wife and kids had pieced together a happy life? It’s that moment for Jerry Harris, but issues of race and class make everything much more complicated in this short film. Safety Net is connected to a feature length project that focuses on Jerry’s quest: $107 A Day For more information email: andrew@107aday.com or follow us on twitter <https://twitter.com/107ADayFilm>, instagram <https://www.instagram.com/safetynetfilm/> or facebook <https://www.facebook.com/107-A-Day-1021877274593598/>. -- [image: --] Andrew Rudd [image: https://]about.me:d <https://about.me/AndrewERudd?promo=email_sig&utm_source=email_sig&utm_medium=email_sig&utm_campaign=external_links>