Using Online Platforms to Fund and Finance Your Film | The Business | SAG-AFTRA Foundation
GoFundMe, Seed&Spark and Slated explain how creators actually raise money: audience building first, a 30 day sprint,...
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Become a Multi-Hyphenate and Create Your Own Work | The Business | SAG-AFTRA Foundation
Three actors who now write, direct and produce on how they got there: calling card shorts, hundreds of money asks, the...
2026 Shorts Showcase: Creators & Cast Panel | Los Angeles, Night 2
The LA Night 2 shorts showcase filmmakers on writing yourself a role, cutting pages at lunch, trusting your casting...
How Skyler Zurn Cast Inde Navarrette in ‘Obsession’ + Finding Breakout Talent
Obsession casting director Skyler Zurn on how Inde Navarrette won Nikki, why the audition felt like a bomb, what kills...
2026 Shorts Showcase: Creators & Cast Panel | New York, Night 2
Actors, a composer and a producer from the New York Night 2 shorts showcase on crowdfunding live, the SAG micro-budget...
2026 Shorts Showcase: Creators & Cast Panel | Los Angeles, Night 1
The LA Night 1 shorts showcase filmmakers on casting outside the system, the myth that disabled actors cost more,...
Why the Actors Who Enjoy the Process Are the Ones Who Book the Most
Why the waiting is the career rather than the toll on the way to it, three traps that turn a good year into a...
2026 Shorts Showcase: Creators & Cast Panel | New York, Night 1
A SAG-AFTRA panel of shorts filmmakers on playing a whole arc in ten minutes, what an intimacy coordinator actually...
What voice clips do actors need?
Casting directors on what they actually want to hear in a voice clip, and why the demo reel is not the thing that gets...
David Dastmalchian
David Dastmalchian on getting clean, what casting director John Papsidera told him before The Dark Knight, and...
Acting Masterclass with Sean Astin | SAG-AFTRA Foundation
Sean Astin on what Patty Duke taught him on his first set, the training that made him commit to acting, and the...
Best Microphone For Self-Tapes? Don't Waste Your Money!
Ross from Act On This tests four microphones on the same self-tape script, and the most expensive one is not the one he...
Danny Boyle, Jack O'Connell and Guy Pearce for ‘Ink’ | Conversations at the SAG-AFTRA Foundation
Danny Boyle, Jack O'Connell and Guy Pearce on rehearsal, researching Rupert Murdoch from 1969 interview footage, and...
How to prepare for your first audition
A coach at Speiser/Sturges Acting Studio walks through preparing sides for a first audition, from the cold read to...
Theo James and Kaya Scodelario for ‘The Gentlemen’ | Conversations at the SAG-AFTRA Foundation
Theo James and Kaya Scodelario on finding a character in the sides, keeping a series surprising, and surviving new...
The 5 Lies That Keep Actors Invisible
Five beliefs that stop actors from reaching out, why each one sounds reasonable, and what actors who did 21 days of...
Want A Role In A £1.4 Million British Feature Film? (The Director Told Me This)
At a screening in MediaCityUK, Oscar-winning filmmaker Chris Overton explains how his 1.4 million pound feature Dust is...
Cast and Creators for ‘Tiny Fugitives’ | Conversations at the SAG-AFTRA Foundation
The young cast and writer-directors of Tiny Fugitives on first jobs, open calls, chemistry reads built on games, and...
Labs, Retreats and Development Programs for Filmmakers | The Business | SAG-AFTRA Foundation
Programmers from the Black List, the Sundance Institute, Stowe Story Labs and Anti-Gravity Academy explain how their...
Voices Behind the Narrative | The Business | SAG-AFTRA Foundation
A SAG-AFTRA Foundation panel of working narrators on being a character inside the story, hearing your own voice...
Leveling Up: First Lead Role | Conversations | SAG-AFTRA Foundation
Three actors on the auditions that became their first leads, the months of silence in between, and what changes when...
Léa Seydoux Career Retrospective | Conversations at the SAG-AFTRA Foundation
Léa Seydoux on the auditions that failed, learning by watching directors, adapting to every filmmaker, and why her...
Cast & Creators for for ‘I Hate Myself and Want to Die’ | Conversations at the SAG-AFTRA Foundation
The cast and filmmaker of I Hate Myself and Want to Die on playing a dark premise for real, finding comedy in small...
Want MORE TV Auditions? Ask Us Anything! ? LIVE Actor Q&A
A live Q&A on self tape kit, which tapes to turn down, where first TV roles come from, labeling your Spotlight clips...