🎬 ACTRESS WANTED: Gothic Horror Feature | Istanbul - Konya - St. Petersburg | Méliès to Spielberg Projects

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”

We’re not looking for stardom. We’re looking for a soul who paints with her presence.

Méliès to Spielberg is seeking an actress who can embody the tormented grace of creation itself—a painter, an artist who exists between shadow and revelation, between the living and the eternal.

The Vision

A gothic horror that breathes in the space between Only Lovers Left Alive and Interview with the Vampire, shot against the haunting architecture of Istanbul and Konya, culminating in the baroque melancholy of St. Petersburg. This is cinema as visual poetry, captured by cinematography that echoes the masters—Conrad L. Hall’s luminous despair, Roger Deakins’ twilight mythology, Vittorio Storaro’s revolutionary color consciousness.

The Role: An Artist Who Bleeds in Oil and Shadows

You are a painter. A woman who understands what Caspar David Friedrich knew when he painted Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog—that beauty and terror are twins. You carry the romantic anguish of Eugène Delacroix, the tragic intensity of Francisco Goya’s Black Paintings, the ethereal longing in John William Waterhouse’s haunted maidens.

This role demands someone who can channel:

• The obsessive, unraveling passion of Natalie Portman in Black Swan—where art consumes the artist

• The subtle, devastating beauty of Juliette Binoche in The English Patient—presence that whispers rather than shouts

• The elegant simplicity and seductive vulnerability of Meryl Streep in The Bridges of Madison County—where entire lifetimes live in a glance

Who You Might Be

You are someone who has perhaps walked the boards of theatre—understanding that performance is ritual, not recreation. You spend your evenings with European literature: you’ve wept with Dostoevsky’s tortured souls, felt the Gothic electricity in Mary Shelley’s creation, descended into the psychological labyrinths that Freud mapped but never fully understood.

You know that to play an artist, you must think like one—to understand the mind that sees the world not as it is, but as it feels. The Romantic painters knew this: that every landscape is a state of mind, every portrait a confession.

Essential Requirements

• Fluent English (the language of our narrative)

• French language (even conversational—an added grace for a project named for Méliès)

• Valid passport (we cross borders and eras)

• A mind that lives in literature, art history, and the psychological depths

• Theatre experience (valued, though not required—but we seek someone who understands performance as transformation)

What We Don’t Care About

Your résumé. Your awards. Your agency. Your previous acclaim.

What We Seek

A woman who reads Dostoevsky not for class but for companionship. Who understands why Shelley wrote of darkness and beauty as inseparable. Who has stood before a Romantic painting and felt it stare back. Who comprehends what Freud meant when he said artists know truths that psychology only guesses at.

Someone who doesn’t just play a painter—but understands the artist’s curse: to see too much, to feel too deeply, to create as an act of survival.

To Apply

Send us not your credentials, but your soul:

• Your favorite film performances and why they’ve marked you

• The literature that haunts your nights

• The painters whose work feels like autobiography

• Your reels or performance work that reveals your depths

• Proof of your linguistic fluency.

Email: rishi@meliestospielberg.in

Instagram: @meliestospielberg (Connect with us—see the shadows we’re chasing)

Tell us about the art that has changed you. Show us you understand that this isn’t a role—it’s a possession.

Between Méliès’ magic and Spielberg’s wonder, we seek the actress who knows that to create is to die a little, and to perform is to resurrect something eternal.

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