Showcast features for Actors
Print and online profiles
Showcast is a complete casting system! You get a half page listing in the Showcast print directories
and then you build a comprehensive online profile.
- Up to 2 print photos and 4 online
- Searchable credits, skills and attributes
- Additional notes on training and upcoming projects
- Complete your listing with a pdf direct from your agents files.
Multimedia options
Video and Audio is the casting process of the future and as a professional you need to stay ahead
of the trend. Let casting professionals see you in action and add your showreel to the media
library this year.
- Flash video files embedded in your profile
- Tag your showreel...acting, presenting or commercial work
- Additional multimedia items all loaded at half price.
Profile updates
Updating is an essential part of being successful on the Showcast system. Update your credits, skills,
personal details, photographs and biography throughout the year with your individual access codes.
Casting directors say:
- "keep your bio updated! I need to show my clients the very latest information on all actors I select"
- "the more skills and personal attributes you enter the easier it is to find you"
- "we always use the age range search when looking for artists"
- "keep is realistic, we don't need you to tell us you can play an age-range from 1-100".
Your agents advantage
For represented artists having your profile on Showcast means your agent can also take advantage of your listing;
helping to profile you more efficiently to the casting community. Your agent can:
- Access casting briefs and breakdowns and instantly submit you for relevant work
- View, update and email your biography
- Link your profile direct to their own website
- Send and receive audition sides and scripts.
Showcast features for Actors
Print and online application
Showcast has been producing its print publication for 50 years. The books are a must-have hard copy reference that
gives you a "quick flick" option. The online application, which backs up those books, is extensive to say the least.
- An online databse of over 15,000 performers whose details are updated daily
- Advanced search options
- View, print and email artists photos and biographies
- Full client lists of all major Australian actors agents; a feature you will find on no other system.
Showcast also lists models, extras, child performers, presenters, stunt artists, drama graduates,
voice-over artists.
Distribute casting notices and breakdowns
With an address book of all Australian and New Zealand agents our messaging facility could not be easier.
You will receive immediate submissions for any job you post and you can organize and forward these submissions
direct to your clients
- Keep a detailed record of all your jobs in central system
- Filter and sort agency submissions into folders. View print and email these submissions instantly
- Follow up with a simple message if you need to make date changes, roles variations or book an artist
- Use the comprehensive address book provided or create your own mailing groups and contacts.
Notices can also be sent to any direct email address, so you can easily cc' workmates and colleagues.
An industry first media library
The Showcast media library is exactly that, a library for all your media. Think i-tunes meets You Tube. Upload
auditions videos and tests; its now so easy for colleagues and clients to view the days tapings, even if they're
not in your office or even the same country!
- Create individual production folders. Sort your videos into these folders and then pass on a link to your clients
- Make comments on individual actors and videos and your client in turn can make comments back
- Archive old projects and keep a history of all auditions and tests. Load self-tests into our system and banish the
dusty DVD pile in the corner
- Import a range of file types and have them all converted to a single workable file type.