Transform your casting business with the only end-to-end solution for managing background actors from booking to payment.
Find the right background actors for every project with game-changing casting tools.
- Quickly sign up background actors to your own private database, with a self-serve profile they can update at any time.
- Search your background actors with speed and precision, filtering by look, location, availability, experience, skills and more.
- See when background actors last updated their profile and photos for an accurate view of who’s available.
Select and book hundreds of background actors in minutes.
- Save time with booking templates, bulk messaging and questionnaires.
- Manage availability and booking responses in one centralized platform.
- Securely watermark and distribute sensitive documents.
- Streamline the selection process for productions with digital lookbooks.
Contract background actors quickly and compliantly and get everyone to set on time.
- Send and track contracts, release forms, NDAs and policies directly via the platform and send bulk reminders to get everything in place before anyone steps on set.
- Communicate call details and last-minute schedule changes with the click of a button.
- Maintain a secure, audit-ready record of each engagement even after you wrap.
Revolutionize production payroll with integrated digital voucher technology.
- Expedite payroll processing for productions with SmartVoucher, EP’s secure digital voucher technology.
- Sign-in and wrap background actors digitally without the queues or paperwork, dramatically reducing production and background overtime.
- Save time and increase accuracy with auto-calculations based on the relevant union agreement or rate card.
- Stay on top of crowd spend with background reports and instant access to hot costs.
SmartVoucher brings the industry's most powerful digital voucher experience built directly into the Casting Portal.
Digital Time Capture
Save time on set. Sign-in and wrap background actors digitally with the click of a button, eliminating the queues, errors and overtime costs
Automatic Calculations
Calculate pay automatically. On wrap, SmartVoucher calculates hours and wages (including overtime and fees) in line with the relevant union agreement or rate card, saving accounting teams time and reducing errors.
Quick Approvals
Simplify the payment process. Instantly access timecards for approval, speeding up the payment process. Quickly download a complete payroll export for your accounting team, as well as daily crowd and hot cost reports.
Total Visibility
Get total visibility. Enjoy an end-to-end solution from booking to payment. SmartVoucher is fully integrated with EP’s Casting Portal, giving production teams an accurate view of who's been booked—and for what.
0%
Average revenue increase for
casting businesses in their first
year of using the Casting Portal.
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Only two people needed cast a
15K manday production
with the Casting Portal.
$0
Average overtime savings
on a 3K manday production
with SmartVoucher.
Trusted by more than 10K feature films, HETV shows and commercials worldwide.
Trusted by more than 10K feature films, HETV shows and commercials worldwide.
Trusted by more than 10K feature films, HETV shows and commercials worldwide.
Trusted by more than 10K feature films, HETV shows and commercials worldwide.
"The Casting Portal is revolutionary. It handles the heavy lifting of background casting and allows us to focus on the joy of the job again."
Kristina M. P. | DGA 2nd AD
Why Casting Directors and Casting Companies Use the EP Casting Portal
The EP Casting Portal is the premier solution for casting directors, companies and agencies looking to streamline how they find, book, manage and pay background actors across film and TV productions worldwide. Powering the leading casting professionals in the U.S., Canada, the UK and Europe—including the legendary Central Casting—the EP Casting Portal is the only end-to-end solution designed to simplify the complexities of background casting and crowd management, creating efficiencies which will transform your casting business and empower you to take on bigger projects with confidence.
The Casting Portal is fully integrated with SmartVoucher, the industry’s leading digital voucher technology, which allows your productions to sign-in and wrap background actors digitally and automatically calculates Hours-to-Gross wages (including allowances and adjustments) in line with the relevant union agreement or rate card. This integrated solution allows casting directors, companies and agencies to stay ahead of the competition, offering productions a world-class casting experience from booking all the way through to payment.
Studios and production companies looking to use the Casting Portal across their productions can work with an existing casting director or casting company who uses the platform to benefit from the operational and cost-saving efficiencies of the advanced casting tools, integrated digital background vouchers and background payroll services. Alternatively, in the U.S., Central Casting can work with you to roll out the Casting Portal to your preferred casting director or casting company.
SmartVoucher is EP's secure digital voucher technology, fully integrated into the EP Casting Portal. It replaces paper timecards by allowing productions to sign-in and wrap background actors digitally, automatically calculating Hours-to-Gross wages in line with the applicable union agreement or rate card. SmartVoucher eliminates payroll queues, reduces background overtime, and creates an audit-ready digital record of every engagement.
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