Child Open Role for "Frontera" Paid Short Film

Casting Call for "Frontera" Short Film. Please see the details below. ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE ACCEPTED. About the project: Northern Mexico: 1921: A runaway boy seeks refuge with a healer woman in the Mexican desert. As she prepares herself for the spiritual fright of an oncoming solar eclipse, he struggles for a reason to live beyond his trauma. Frontera is an original, 25-minute Western short about grief, spirituality and the teachings of the wilderness. Set in 1921, in the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution, it follows Billy, an 18-year old boy who flees a disaster in the United States to be rescued by a community of refugees in Northern Mexico. Recovering from his wounds in an impoverished ejido farm, he struggles to process his own trauma as it compares to the harsh lessons learned by his refugee companions. The young woman Adela, an exiled curandera, or healer, carries the most brutal perspective of life and death about her but needs recognition for her hard-earned wisdom as much as Billy needs healing. Rate: 100/day. Additional info: It will be shot near Santa Fe, New Mexico, at the end of September/early October. Actors cast will have transport, accommodations, and meals covered in addition to payment. When applying, please email with the subject line with Name of the character you wish to audition for. Include your headshots, age, acting resume, reel (if available), and current area of residence. If you are a legal resident of New Mexico, please make this clear! Selected applicants will receive self-tape audition instructions in reply. This application period will close on September 1.