Featured · Self-tape Craft
THE FOURTEEN SECONDS BEFORE ACTION
What casting directors are really watching in the moment between your slate and your first line. And why most actors are already losing the room before they speak.
The Journal
FIELD NOTES
FROM THE ROOM.
Honest writing from inside a working casting agency: self-tape craft, audition rooms, contracts, and the slow arithmetic of a screen career. Published when we have something true to say.
Career Arc
The wrong second feature
Your first film is a calling card. Your second is the one that quietly defines the next decade. A field guide to refusing the obvious follow-up.
11 minMarch 2026
Industry
How streaming usage clauses got teeth
Buyouts, perpetuity, AI likeness. The new standard contract terms and the small lines we now refuse to sign on behalf of the roster.
9 minMarch 2026
Audition Room
Notes from a thousand callbacks
Patterns we keep noticing across our submissions this season: tonal restraint, reading rooms not scripts, and the quiet power of stillness.
6 minFebruary 2026
Roster
How we read an application
A walk through what actually happens between the moment you press submit and the moment a partner makes a decision. Written by the partners.
7 minFebruary 2026
International
Why our next office is in Mexico City
Spanish-language streaming has rewritten the map. Notes on the talent ecosystem we are building partnerships in across CDMX, Guadalajara and Bogotá.
10 minJanuary 2026
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