BCE Pictures, LLC — Open Casting Call

Got
Receipts

Written by Fillmore Neal
A drama in two acts  ·  5 principal roles
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"When the receipts come out, it's never about what was found — it's about everything that was already known and nobody said out loud."
— Written by Fillmore Neal  ·  BCE Pictures, LLC

About the Project

Got Receipts is a grounded, performance-driven drama rooted in Black social and cultural life. It lives in the gap between what people know and what they choose not to say — and what happens when that silence finally breaks.

What We're After

This film is built on tension, behavior, and emotional realism. We are looking for performers who can hold subtext without showing it — people who understand that restraint is a form of power.

Production Window

Filming June–August 2026 | Phoenix, Arizona
Final schedule based on casting readiness and rehearsal preparation.

Distribution

This film will be distributed. Low-budget production. Compensation details will be discussed with selected talent.

The Characters

01

Jaz

Lead — Primary Role

Black Female  ·  28–34

Sharp, expressive, and emotionally fluent — but she's built a habit of making hard things sound like they're happening to other people. She's losing a situation she already understands to a story she hasn't had the nerve to speak. Her fire is the engine of every scene she's in, and the moments she goes quiet are the most dangerous ones.

Fiery Perceptive Deflecting Passionate
02

Rell

Supporting

Black Male  ·  30–35

Big grin, bigger presence — Rell is the kind of man who invented showing up uninvited and expects the world to be grateful. He's always been like this. That's what makes his presence in this story so unsettling: nothing about him is new, which means the danger was always already there.

Charming Slick Complicit Familiar
03

Kierra

Supporting

Black Female  ·  28–34

Jaz's mirror and her mirror-break. Kierra sees through fronts, calls them out with warmth, and refuses to let her friend stay in her own silence. She arrives in scenes like punctuation — clarifying, complicating, necessary. Her instincts are almost always right, which is both her gift and her burden.

Perceptive Warm Candid Fearless
04

Darius

Supporting

Black Male  ·  32–38

The anchor in the room when things go sideways. Darius is the man who walks in, reads everything immediately, and can't pretend he didn't. He carries weight without performing it — the kind of person who knows when to push and when to simply be present with someone falling apart.

Grounded Direct Steady Loyal
05

Phyllis

Supporting

Black Female  ·  50–62

Jaz's mother. Sharp, loving, and clear-eyed in the way only a parent can be — she sees both sides of a situation and refuses to pretend that's comfortable. She doesn't perform warmth. She doesn't soften hard truths. When someone needs a straight answer, she gives it, even when giving it costs her something.

Perceptive Measured Loving Unflinching

What to Tape

Jaz

Lead — Primary Role  ·  Scene 1 — Required

You're carrying a secret that could end your relationship. You're in the same room as your partner, talking about something completely unrelated, and somewhere in the middle of it you realize he's not really present. Something is off. You don't know what he knows. You keep talking.

Rell

Supporting  ·  Scene 4 — Required  ·  Scene 28 — Optional

Scene 4 (Required)
You've done something that would destroy your closest friendship if it came out. You're at his place acting completely normal — because normal is the only move you have. You don't know if he knows yet.

Scene 28 (Optional)
He knows. You're finally in the same room. He's calm — which is worse than if he was angry. He asks you for one true thing. Not an apology. Not an explanation. Just something real.

Kierra

Supporting  ·  Scenes 16–17 — Required

You know your friend well enough to know when something is wrong. She's been off for weeks and she won't say why. You get her alone, you close the door, and you don't let her deflect her way out of it. When she finally tells you — it's worse than you expected.

Darius

Supporting  ·  Scene 9 — Required  ·  Scene 24 — Optional

Scene 9 (Required)
Your closest friend is in pain and he won't say it out loud. You show up, you read it immediately, and you stay with him until he lets something out. You don't push — you just make it clear you're not leaving until he's honest.

Scene 24 (Optional)
He's been blindsided by a betrayal and he has nowhere else to go. He's sitting in your space, holding it together on the outside. You don't try to fix it. You just make sure he's not alone in it.

Phyllis

Supporting  ·  Scene 19 — Required

You reached out to your daughter's partner — not your daughter — because you already sensed something was broken and you knew he wouldn't call first. He tells you what happened. You already almost knew. He asks you one question: does she actually love him? Not out of habit. Not out of comfort. Actually. You answer honestly. Then he asks why. You don't have that answer — and you don't pretend to.

Self-Tape Guidelines

Performance

  • Keep it natural and grounded
  • Do not overact
  • Focus on listening as much as speaking
  • Let moments breathe
  • Avoid unnecessary movement or added actions

Technical

  • Chest-up framing
  • Eye-level camera
  • Stable shot
  • Natural lighting preferred
  • Clear audio
  • Off-camera reader with neutral delivery

Delivery

  • 1–2 takes max
  • No editing required
  • Keep it simple and focused

Location

Phoenix, Arizona

Filming Window

June–August 2026

Schedule

Final schedule based on casting readiness and rehearsal preparation.

Compensation

Low-budget production. Compensation details discussed with selected talent.

Distribution

This film will be distributed.

Submit for Consideration

BCE Pictures is seeking authentic, grounded performances. We're casting for chemistry, truth, and the ability to hold silence with the same skill as dialogue.

Strong natural performers encouraged to submit, regardless of experience.

This project favors grounded, natural performances. Subtlety and restraint are essential.

If you understand the tone, you already know how to approach this.

Submissions are reviewed on a rolling basis. Selected actors will be contacted for next steps and chemistry reads.

Questions? team@bcepictures.com

Submission Received.

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— BCE Pictures