Casting & E-casting

Once you know the roles in your project, FilmKit helps you fill them — from posting a call to reviewing self-tapes to casting the part. Casting is for cast; hiring crew is a separate tool.

Casting calls

A casting call is a listing for a role on your project. Each call targets a real character from your script, so casting someone links that character to the resulting contact.

Casting calls for the project — open roles and their status.
Casting calls for the project — open roles and their status.

From the casting board, create a call with New call, pick the character, and write a synopsis. On a call's detail page you manage its status, its linked character, and its applicants.

  • Publish a call to the public casting marketplace, where talent can discover and apply to it. Only open calls are exposed publicly; you keep everything else private.
  • Close or mark a call filled when you're done — closed calls drop out of search.

Reviewing applicants

Reviewing applicants for a role — shortlist, rate, and request self-tapes.
Reviewing applicants for a role — shortlist, rate, and request self-tapes.

Each call collects an applicants table. For every applicant you can:

  • Give a star rating with and set a status.
  • Accept — which creates a space contact and, if the call is linked to a character, casts that character.
  • Decline or remove an applicant, and keep private notes in a realtime thread.
  • Add an applicant by hand, or import applications that came in from the public marketplace.

E-casting and self-tapes

E-casting lets you brief talent and collect self-tapes without a scheduling back-and-forth. From an applicant, send an e-casting request with instructions, a number of photo and video slots, and a due date. The talent gets an emailed brief, records against it, and submits — and the video comes back into your project for review, handled by FilmKit's media pipeline.

You can send again, revoke a request, and mark submissions reviewed as you work through them.

The public marketplace

Everything you publish surfaces on FilmKit's public, search-indexed casting pages, where actors browse open roles and apply:

  • Browse open calls by role, production, and location.
  • A call page shows the role, requirements (age range, union status, languages, skills), and compensation, and emits structured data so it appears in job search engines.
  • Actors apply as one of their profiles, attaching a showreel, and track everything from a personal My applications dashboard. Their self-tape requests collect in an e-casting inbox.

Privacy

Casting is designed so people stay in control of their visibility. Only open, published calls are public; drafts and closed calls stay private to your project. And the token-gated pages talent use — self-tape briefs and the like — are sessionless and never indexed.

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