Casting Call

Chance encounter at a family funeral leads to a harrowing adventure. 

Production to start in November 2023. Shooting will be spread out on several weekends through  January 2024. Film is registered with SAG-AFTRA under a Micro-budget Agreement. Both union and non-union actors may audition.

Here's an overview of the project:

Title: NOTHING EVER CHANGES

Logline: An aspiring filmmaker returns to his small hometown for a funeral and crosses paths with an escaped convict.

Synopsis: When Henry Harris returns home for his grandmother's funeral, he introduces his new wife to family and friends. They all welcome her kindly as they pay their last respects. His young brother-in-law accidentally captures a fleeting infidelity which causes his wife Kate to kick him out. He returns to his hometown where he crosses paths with a high school acquaintance and becomes a hostage of three escaped prison convicts, one of whom is also a former high school classmate. Henry realizes that if the ransom isn't paid, they will all die. He wins the wary trust of the leader of the convicts and volunteers to secure the money. This buys him temporary freedom and he returns home to retrieve and sell a valuable vintage Les Paul guitar. Kate arrives to tell him she's pregnant and wants to make up. He welcomes this plan but must rescue the hostages first.

Dates: This film will be shot over time, mostly weekends, through the fall and early winter. The first dates are October 28-30. Next dates are in November. We expect to spread out shooting through January 2024.

Location: Metro Detroit area and southeastern Michigan. 

1. Select role for which you want to audition; download and print sides.

2. You may self-tape and submit via Dropbox to aida.bluesunset@gmail.com.

a) Slate you name and the rôle for which you're reading.

b) Slate and take can be on same file but they don't have to be.

c) Label files as follows: FirstnameLastname_ROLE_Slate or Sc. No. Example: JohnSmith_TED_Sc1

3. Or you may schedule an appointment to audition in person or over Zoom. Call (248) 919-8233 and ask for Angelina. 

4. Actors may audition for multiple roles.

5. If submitting a self-tape, please email a headshot and résumé (if you have them) with your submission to aida.bluesunset@gmail.com. If auditioning in person, please bring hard copies of your headshot and résumé, if you can. 

6. Email aida.bluesunset@gmail.com or call (248) 919-8233 with questions or to schedule an in-person audition

7. Our studio is located in Madison Heights, Michigan, and actors must be able to work locally.

DOUG - Male, 30 to 40, high school drop out, raised on the wrong side of the tracks. A relentless hustler, he has an aptitude and appetite for making money. Since acquiring most of his wealth dealing drugs, he’s on a mission to garner respect. To that end, he’s converted a local bar into a trendy micro brewery/tavern bearing his name and is engaged to Lisa, the most sought after woman in Cedar Woods.

INDIRA - Female, 35 to 80. Formerly destitute, she works for room and board at a homeless shelter and ministers lost souls living on the street. Although she strives to suffers fools gladly, she finds the selfishness of the privileged hard to abide.

TV SHOW HOST 1 - Male, Female, 50 +; Once a respected major market anchor, he/she aged out and was forced to find work in a small town TV station as a morning show co-host.  He/she is accustomed to certain standards and a little put out having to work with a younger, inexperienced partner.  

TV SHOW HOST 2 - Female, Male, 20 to 30.  County fair beauty contest runner up (or, winner of a small town male model search), he/she, although new to television, is planning to move to Hollywood pronto.