CASTING CALL – Lead Actress (25–35) for “Emma”

Austin Film Meet is casting the lead actress role of Emma for a narrative short film shooting in Austin, TX. The role anchors a performance-driven character piece companion to the feature documentary Living on Methadone, requiring the actor to carry nearly every scene through raw, grounded dramatic work. The production sits squarely in the independent narrative film space, built around a documentary-minded process that values rehearsal, improvisation, and backstory development over polished performance. Why This Role Austin Film Meet is producing Emma as a narrative companion piece to a feature documentary, giving the right actor a screen credit that lives inside a larger, socially substantial film project with real distribution potential. For an actor looking to build a serious dramatic reel in the short film production space, this is a role worth pursuing.