Current Projects

Deft Pictures is pleased to announce they are casting for their upcoming feature film, Not Bad for a Punk Band. With production in two phases, shooting the short film (proof of concept) on August 13th and 14th, 2022 with the feature film shooting in Spring/Summer 2023. Both shooting in the Twin Cities metro area.

Eight years after their band’s breakup, Charlie and Etta find themselves meeting again at a wedding, and must finally reconcile with the past that is holding them back or risk losing each other forever.

• Job: Feature

Excited to bring the magical Little Mermaid Jr. to the stage in Anthem, AZ. It is a 5-week summer camp beginning June 13th through July 15th with two weekends of shows July 15th-17th and July 22nd-24th. Rehearsals are Monday through Friday from 9am-4pm.

In a magical underwater kingdom, the beautiful young mermaid, Ariel, longs to leave her ocean home — and her fins — behind and live in the world above. But first, she'll have to defy her father, King Triton, make a deal with the evil sea witch, Ursula, and convince the handsome Prince Eric that she's the girl whose enchanting voice he's been seeking.

• Job: Other

We are looking for adoptees and others who are looking to meet their biological families for the award winning reality TV show, Relative Race. We are now casting for season 11. We are looking for people of all ethnicities, aged 18 to 50, who live in the USA. Please share with anyone who may be interested. 

We are interviewing select candidates ASAP to discover if we can help them to locate and meet their biological relatives. To find our contestants’ families, we use Ancestry DNA in combination with some of the industry's top genealogists and research methods. If chosen to appear on the show, contestants will travel with a teammate on a ten-day journey across the U.S. to discover new relatives and compete for $50,000. Please apply ASAP with notes about your story and who you are looking for to begin the process. Thanks for submitting!

• Job: TV Series

Web series project of 10 episodes

Rachel gets lost on a hike and encounters a bag lady who speaks in cryptic mumblings. She then gets transported to another dimension where she encounters a mystic sorceress and her zombie like follows. With the help of some doomsday preppers, the group must stop the sorceresses cosmic invasion. Who are these people? Where did they come from and why are they trying to invade earth? ... The investigation begins!

• Job: Web Series

"Amma's Ashes" was just selected by the Access Sacramento film studio as one of 10 screenplays to be produced this summer for the Place Called Sacramento Film Festival. 

We're looking for South Asian women, men and teens, including one genderqueer teen/young adult actor. 
 

There is no pay at this tome, but if you're traveling to Sacramento from out of town for the shoot, we can compensate for gas expenses. We can offer the chance to work with some of Sacramento's top professionals in a down-to-earth and supportive creative environment, as well as a movie credit. The film will be submitted to the festival circuit, and developed as a television series. 

Here's a synopsis of "Amma's Ashes, or Mystery at the Sacramento River":

As eldest daughter and executor of her mother’s estate, Kaveri has three days to disperse her mother’s ashes in the Sacramento River, but first she must marshal her ragtag family and solve her mother's mystery. 

• Job: Feature

The Condition is a faith-based feature shooting in and around the Phoenix area.

The synopsis: is it's a story about a teenage pastor's daughter who gets pregnant and feels that her only option is to terminate the pregnancy because it will embarrass her father in the church. There is an attempt to talk her out of it by a strangely familiar woman that turns out to be an angel that has been watching over her since she was a little.

• Job: Feature

We are seeking a 13-24 year old ethnically diverse, ideally black American male, to be a spokesperson and educator for mental health content.  Filming will take place in the month of May in Mesa, Arizona. Payment will be $100/hr paid within a week of recording. 

• Job: Web Series

A Musical Documentary following the making of a musical for off-Broadway. We'll be following the cast and crew through the whole process. Actors cast in the lead roles will be participating in the behind the scenes of the making of the musical as well as the staged musical itself should it come to fruition. Think project greenlight from HBO but focused on a staged musical production.

Our musical itself follows the story of a family that fights back against a super villain intent on world domination.

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