Before Us
Vertical Short
Non Union
Los Angeles
BEFORE US is an elevated sci-fi microdrama series and movie trilogy is set in a story universe spanning 450,000 years, from an ancient civilization that first shaped humanity to the present-day moment when a handful of ordinary people begin to remember what the rest of the world has forgotten. Presented as fiction rooted in truth and told in the spirit of Interstellar, Dune, and The Matrix, it's grounded, human-first, and built to spark questions rather than hand out answers. At its center is a single radical idea: that humanity was never broken, only made to forget how powerful and connected it truly is. The series follows a group of strangers scattered across the world who wake to the same truth in the same week and find themselves drawn toward one another and toward a hidden history someone has spent a very long time keeping buried. As they come together, they discover that the divisions tearing the world apart were never human nature, but a tool used against us and that remembering who we really are may be the one thing capable of changing everything. These are grounded, emotionally present roles: real people carrying enormous stakes with restraint, stillness, and truth.
Roles For This Project
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Submissions Due:
08/12/2026
Dylan Mercer, 33. the intelligent, thoughtful ambivert, not the small-town quarterback. A self-taught AI mind who has quietly gone deeper into a field his hometown neither understands nor needs. He stayed home a decade past when most would have left — not out of fear, but out of a heart too big to a... [See More]
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Submissions Due:
08/12/2026
Seren Ashcroft, 31. An investigative photojournalist hardened in war zones — grounded, tough, dry-witted, and already awake when we meet her. A gay woman with a partner she’s kept at the edges of a life spent on the road. She doesn’t need to discover her calling; she’s been answering it since she wa... [See More]
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Submissions Due:
08/12/2026
Naia, 25, from Savannah, Georgia. Warm, sharp, and irreverent — the kind of humor only deeply loved people have. Raised by her grandmother after her parents died in a car accident, she’s been part-mother to her younger brother her whole life and has built her world around staying close to the people... [See More]
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Submissions Due:
08/12/2026
Kael Noor, 30. Magnetic, funny, a total extrovert who lights up every room — and underneath, a man who hasn’t let anyone truly see him in years. He wears two flawless masks: charm with people, and competence with numbers, an MIT-level mind working quietly as an accountant at a defense contractor. He... [See More]
More Roles For This Project
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Submissions Due:
08/12/2026
Dylan Mercer, 33. the intelligent, thoughtful ambivert, not the small-town quarterback. A self-taught AI mind who has quietly gone deeper into a field his hometown neither understands nor needs. He stayed home a decade past when most would have left — not out of fear, but out of a heart too big to a... [See More]
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Submissions Due:
08/12/2026
Seren Ashcroft, 31. An investigative photojournalist hardened in war zones — grounded, tough, dry-witted, and already awake when we meet her. A gay woman with a partner she’s kept at the edges of a life spent on the road. She doesn’t need to discover her calling; she’s been answering it since she wa... [See More]
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Submissions Due:
08/12/2026
Naia, 25, from Savannah, Georgia. Warm, sharp, and irreverent — the kind of humor only deeply loved people have. Raised by her grandmother after her parents died in a car accident, she’s been part-mother to her younger brother her whole life and has built her world around staying close to the people... [See More]
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Submissions Due:
08/12/2026
Kael Noor, 30. Magnetic, funny, a total extrovert who lights up every room — and underneath, a man who hasn’t let anyone truly see him in years. He wears two flawless masks: charm with people, and competence with numbers, an MIT-level mind working quietly as an accountant at a defense contractor. He... [See More]
