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CASTING CALL
Project Title: Cats ‘n’ Dogs
Format: Live Action Feature Film
Genre: Crime
Country: The Netherlands
Production Dates: Late May - August 2026 (on and off)
SYNOPSIS
After robbing the wrong house, three brothers become entangled in an escalating criminal conflict as tensions rise between rival factions in the city.
What begins as routine work quickly spirals into a violent power struggle driven by manipulation, mistrust, and hidden agendas. As the lines between loyalty and survival blur, each brother is forced to confront what they’re willing to sacrifice for power, for family, and for themselves.
ROLES
CHARLIE (Lead, Male, late-MID 20s)
28 years old, the oldest brother. Charismatic, volatile, and manipulative.
As an underground boxer, Charlie lives on instinct. He’s physically imposing, emotionally reactive, and highly manipulative. He is used to solving problems with his middle-school-level vocabulary and brute force. He carries himself with confidence, but it’s unstable, detached from his responsibilities as the eldest of the three.
As the story progresses, his fantasies about a criminal life and easy money shift to worries about his family’s well-being in a world full of danger.
Looking for: Charismatic, High energy, natural intensity, strong emotional range.
KURT(Lead, Male, mid-late 20s)
25 years old, middle brother. Grounded, dependable, and caught in between.
Kurt is the one holding things together. He worked instead of studying, took responsibility early, and tries to look out for the others. He is reluctant to rob the house at first because his priority is his brothers’ well-being. As events unfold and he gains more power, his morality begins to shift.
He adapts quickly to his environment, but as things escalate, that adaptability starts to turn into compromise.
Looking for: Naturalistic performance. Strong sense of presence, with the ability to show internal conflict without overplaying it.
JOEL(Lead, Male, Early-Mid 20s)
19 years old, the youngest of the three. Intelligent, composed, and quietly ambitious.
Joel is the only one with real academic potential, someone who could have had a different life. He reads people well, speaks carefully, and rarely wastes words. Charming when he needs to be, but fundamentally self-interested. He searches for control, not chaos. What he wants is to get away from his brothers and start a life of his own, someplace else.
He often appears calm, but there’s constant calculation underneath, with genius-level intelligence. As the story progresses, his need to understand and control the situation begins to isolate him from everyone around him.
Looking for: Charming, subtle, internal performance. Ability to convey thought and intention with minimal dialogue.
ELEANOR (Co-Lead, Female, Early–Mid 20s)
20 years old. Composed, intelligent, witty, and self-aware.
As the gang boss’s daughter, Eleanor exists between two worlds: her personal life and her father’s influence within the criminal sphere. She is not naïve to it, but she has always been kept at a distance.
Her relationship with Joel is grounded and intimate, starting as two people stuck in an underground world, finding comfort in each other’s friendship, and escalating into an increasingly complicated dynamic as those boundaries collapse. She is perceptive, emotionally controlled, and not easily intimidated.
Looking for: Strong presence, subtle emotional control, ability to convey tension beneath stillness.