Shared Crossing
SHARED CROSSING investigates one of the most fascinating and least understood phenomena at the threshold of death: the Shared Death Experience. Through firsthand accounts, expert interviews, scientific inquiry, and cinematic re-creations, the film explores reports from family members, caregivers, hospice workers, and medical professionals who describe witnessing aspects of a dying person's journey beyond this life. Unlike Near-Death Experiences, which occur when individuals come close to death themselves, Shared Death Experiences are reported by healthy observers who remain fully conscious and alive. These experiences often include perceptions of light beings, deceased loved ones appearing and disappearing into the light, spirit leaving body, out-of-body perception, religious figures, and accompanying the dying into another realm. At the center of the film is William Peters, founder of the Shared Crossing Project and the world's leading researcher on SDEs. Drawing upon more than two decades of research and thousands of documented accounts, the film examines what these remarkable experiences may reveal about consciousness, mortality, grief, and the enduring bonds of love. SHARED CROSSING combines personal testimony, medical perspectives, and emerging research to challenge conventional assumptions about death while offering hope, comfort, and a deeper understanding of the end-of-life experience.
Roles For This Project
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Feature Film
$750/session day +20...
Role Rate:
$750/session day +20% agency feeMan
Los Angeles
65 - 70
Non Union
Feature Film
Submissions Due: 07/17/2026
White man in his 60s-70s who is dying of cancer.
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Feature Film
$750/session day +20...
Role Rate:
$750/session day +20% agency feeMan
Los Angeles
30 - 40
Non Union
Feature Film
Submissions Due: 07/17/2026
Casting two (2) men in their 30s to play brothers. Both are doctors whose father is dying of cancer. Clean cut, professional types.
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Feature Film
$750/session day +20...
Role Rate:
$750/session day +20% agency feeMan
Los Angeles
35 - 40
Non Union
Feature Film
Submissions Due: 07/17/2026
Mark (30’s-40’s) – Mark is a young man who has a shared death experience with his father who needs assistance to transition to the afterlife
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Feature Film
$750/session day +20...
Role Rate:
$750/session day +20% agency feeWoman
Los Angeles
18 - 25
Non Union
Feature Film
Submissions Due: 07/17/2026
MUST BE BELOW 5 FT TALL Virgin Mother (18-30) – a short (4’10”-5’) cloaked woman wearing a matching hood. We do not see her face. She does not speak.
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Feature Film
$750/session day +20...
Role Rate:
$750/session day +20% agency feeWoman
Los Angeles
20 - 30
Non Union
Feature Film
Submissions Due: 07/17/2026
Beautiful Woman (20’s-30’s) – A beautiful woman in 70’s style dress walks through a tunnel of light toward the waiting Tom.
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Feature Film
$750/session day +20...
Role Rate:
$750/session day +20% agency feeMan
Los Angeles
20 - 30
Non Union
Feature Film
Submissions Due: 07/17/2026
ANY ETHNICITY. Two men in their 20s who are homeless.
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Feature Film
$750/session day +20...
Role Rate:
$750/session day +20% agency feeMan
Los Angeles
70 - 80
Non Union
Feature Film
Submissions Due: 07/17/2026
Mark’s Father (70’s) – Mark’s Father, a farmer, is in the early stages of the afterlife and doesn’t know what to do.
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Feature Film
$750/session day +20...
Role Rate:
$750/session day +20% agency feeMan
Los Angeles
12 - 15
Non Union
Feature Film
Submissions Due: 07/17/2026
Tom (13 y.o.) – Tom is a sandy haired thirteen year old boy who has died of brain cancer. When he sees the beautiful woman approach from his hospice bed he sits up eager to greet her.
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Feature Film
$750/session day +20...
Role Rate:
$750/session day +20% agency feeMan
Los Angeles
50 - 60
Non Union
Feature Film
Submissions Due: 07/17/2026
Man in his 50s who passes away and visits his daughter in her sleep
More Roles For This Project
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Feature Film
$750/session day +20...
Role Rate:
$750/session day +20% agency feeLos Angeles
Non Union
Submissions Due: 07/17/2026
White man in his 60s-70s who is dying of cancer.
-
Feature Film
$750/session day +20...
Role Rate:
$750/session day +20% agency feeLos Angeles
Non Union
Submissions Due: 07/17/2026
Casting two (2) men in their 30s to play brothers. Both are doctors whose father is dying of cancer. Clean cut, professional types.
-
Feature Film
$750/session day +20...
Role Rate:
$750/session day +20% agency feeLos Angeles
Non Union
Submissions Due: 07/17/2026
MUST BE BELOW 5 FT TALL Virgin Mother (18-30) – a short (4’10”-5’) cloaked woman wearing a matching hood. We do not see her face. She does not speak.
-
Feature Film
$750/session day +20...
Role Rate:
$750/session day +20% agency feeLos Angeles
Non Union
Submissions Due: 07/17/2026
Beautiful Woman (20’s-30’s) – A beautiful woman in 70’s style dress walks through a tunnel of light toward the waiting Tom.
-
Feature Film
$750/session day +20...
Role Rate:
$750/session day +20% agency feeLos Angeles
Non Union
Submissions Due: 07/17/2026
ANY ETHNICITY. Two men in their 20s who are homeless.
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Feature Film
$750/session day +20...
Role Rate:
$750/session day +20% agency feeLos Angeles
Non Union
Submissions Due: 07/17/2026
Mark’s Father (70’s) – Mark’s Father, a farmer, is in the early stages of the afterlife and doesn’t know what to do.
-
Feature Film
$750/session day +20...
Role Rate:
$750/session day +20% agency feeLos Angeles
Non Union
Submissions Due: 07/17/2026
Tom (13 y.o.) – Tom is a sandy haired thirteen year old boy who has died of brain cancer. When he sees the beautiful woman approach from his hospice bed he sits up eager to greet her.
-
Feature Film
$750/session day +20...
Role Rate:
$750/session day +20% agency feeLos Angeles
Non Union
Submissions Due: 07/17/2026
Man in his 50s who passes away and visits his daughter in her sleep