For casting
Every performer here built their own profile because it cost them nothing, which means the directory is deep in exactly the places a paid one is thin. Filter it down to the people who could actually do the job, and keep the search.
Free to search. Role posting, submissions and auditions are being built — see below.
01 Why the search is the hard part
The search is the part that never works.
- Depth
- The directories that charge performers to be listed are shallow exactly where you need depth. The working actor who would not pay is the one you were looking for.
- Precision
- "Skills" are a free-text box everywhere else, so searching for a rider returns everyone who has ever typed the word horse.
- Time
- A reel is a link to somewhere else, which is a tab you will not open on the fortieth profile.
- Memory
- And a shortlist lives in a spreadsheet, so the next production starts from nothing.
On OpenFlix
You are not searching a list bolted onto nowhere. These performers are on the same platform where films get funded, made and released, so the people you find are already where the work happens. Free to search is the smaller half of that.
02 How it works
- 01
Filter to the shape of the role
Casting market, country, union, played-age range, languages and skills — the skills from a controlled vocabulary, so the filter means something.
- 02
Watch the work in place
Headshots, the reel, individual scene clips and a slate all play on the profile. No link-outs, no download, no waiting for a file.
- 03
See who is actually free
Availability is on the profile, so a date clash is visible before the conversation rather than after it.
- 04
Save the search
A search you will run again — a market, a union, an age band, a skill — is kept, so the next production starts where the last one finished.
- 05
See who is seeking representation
Performers say whether they are represented and whether they are looking. It is on the profile, so an agent-shaped question has an answer before you ask it.
03 The shape of it
Price to search
Free
The directory is open. What productions pay for is the casting workflow being built on top of it.
Skills
A controlled list
Not free text — so a filter returns the people who have the skill.
Media
On the page
Reel, clips, slate and voice demo all play in place.
Saved searches
Yours to keep
The filters you will use again, kept between productions.
04 Straight about what is not here yet
What works today is finding people: search, filter, save the search, come back to it. Posting a role, taking submissions, running an audition round and making an offer are being built and are not here yet — so this page sells the part that works and names the part that does not.
To be exact about credits: today you type your resume, the same as anywhere else. What is different is that a credit has a place to point at — a real title on OpenFlix — and a credit that came from a booking here will be marked as verified rather than taken on trust. Booking through OpenFlix is not switched on yet, so no credit carries that mark today, and the page will not pretend otherwise.
05 Questions
Can I post a role and take submissions?
Not yet, and this page will not imply otherwise. Role posting, submissions, audition rounds and offers are being built. What works today is the half that has to work first: finding the people. Search, filter, watch the reel, save the search.
How do I contact somebody I have found?
Through their representation or the details they publish, the same way you would from any directory. There is no messaging rail inside OpenFlix yet, and the contact fields on a profile are deliberately not exposed in the public payload — a free directory that hands out performers' phone numbers to anyone who loads the page is a different and worse product.
Are the credits on these profiles verified?
No, not today. Every resume here is typed by the performer, exactly as it is everywhere else, and you should read it the same way. The column that would make a credit verifiable — a link to a real booking on a real OpenFlix title — exists and is unused, because booking here is not switched on. When it is, a credit that came from a booking will say so and the rest will still be claims.
Why would the good actors be on a free directory?
That is the argument in reverse. The paid directories are thin precisely because they charge: the performer between jobs, the one who works steadily without a big agency, the one in a market the incumbent barely covers — those are the people who do not renew. Removing the price is what makes the middle of the directory deep.
What about performers under 18?
A young performer's profile is private until a parent or guardian consents, and their photos are not public by default. Permits and trust-account paperwork sit on a secure documents rail and are released to a production only once a booking exists — which is another reason the booking half is being built carefully rather than quickly.
06 Not you? The other two
Go
Start with the search that never works elsewhere.
A market, a union, a played-age band and one real skill. See who comes back.
Free, and no account needed to look.
Storyline
Rather be pitched than read a page?
Three minutes, swipeable, and it makes the whole case for you rather than listing what the product has.
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