Sisi Film Collective has conducted a yearlong film training and is now producing two short films. The films are a drama titled “People Like Them”, about a young social media influencer and activist who gets arrested alongside a victim of state violence and a science fiction titled “Atemel”, about a robotic Engineer who marries his robot but is faced with negative reception from his parents. We are casting for various roles for these films, and each short film will have a different cast. Production starts on 14th September 2025 and will run for three weeks. The deadline for submission of the monologues is 4th of September. If selected for any role you must be available on a full-time basis.
Deadline 4th September 2025
Auditions: 22nd August to 4th September 2025 (Only successful applicants will be called for face-to-face auditions on a rolling basis, which means the moment a director finds a potential candidate, they will schedule an audition/interview. The earlier you apply, the better.)
How to Apply
To apply, please follow these steps and fill in the application form. Several people have to review your application, and this is only possible through this form. We do not accept applications via WhatsApp, or Facebook, or email.
Step 1: Record yourself (using a mobile phone is fine) performing a monologue. Please find monologues for each film below. Choose only one in a particular short film you are interested in. (Tip: avoid wigs, hats, sunglasses, and heavy/excessive make-up. We want to see you 🙂 And another tip, it’s a performance! Give it your best.)
Step 2: Upload the performance to Google drive (preferred), or to YouTube or Vimeo. Make sure it is not available to the public. For example on YouTube make it Unlisted and for Vimeo just don’t share the link publicly.
We prefer to receive files via Google drive, but please ensure, under Get Link section, that you set it to “Anyone on the Internet with this link can view” since a few people will need to access your monologue.
Step 3: Fill in this Google Form to submit your application. WhatsApp, Facebook, or email applications will be ignored.
Monologue for “People Like Them”
This is a drama film. You must be good in English and Luganda. Both male and female in the age bracket of 20-30 years. Preferably a male who can ride a boda.
MONOLOGUE (FEMALE).
Instructions: You’re recording a social media livestream for 100k+ followers
Good morning, Lovers and Friends. My heart is so heavy this morning. I have been following the story of the boda boda riders’ clashes with police after their colleague was murdered in police custody. My heart breaks for our country. When does the violence end? So many lives lost, and all for what? If the guy had committed a crime, arrest him and take him through the proper legal channels. There are procedures the police have to follow. They have a duty to protect and serve. Kati now when the same police become chief law breakers, whom shall we report to? It’s all of our responsibility to speak out. Because they’re counting on us remaining silent. The hashtag is #Stop police brutality.
Please share first and then swipe to the next story to get ready with me for my long awaited visit to the new China Town at Lugogo mall. I’ve heard they have good quality stuff at unbelievable prices and you know how I’ve been talking for ages about brightening up my space. I want some fairy lights maybe. And some bits and pieces to add little pops of colour to the space. Maybe some vases, a new fluffy rug, may be a painting or two. We shall see. Let’s get this glow on and go find some treasures. So exciting!
MONOLOGUE (MALE)
Instructions: You’re talking to someone seated right across from you
Why are you so interested in my story anyway?
Nobody wants to hear anything I have to say
Go back to your comfortable life.
This has nothing to do with you
Who called you here with your camera?
Who told you we can not tell our own stories?
You will not use my life to build clout on social media
I am a real person with hopes and fears and dreams
I will tell my story how and when I want
It’s a hard life in the ghetto
But it’s not the fatigue that hurts most
It’s the silence that follows me to this small room every night
In the back of my mind, I can hear the voices of my kids
Sarah, my ka baby girl, she’s four now
Sam, my little man, he’s six
I can still hear the way they shout Daddy! as soon as they see me
People here, they talk about making it big, building a big life
For me, it’s about a good life for them
When I close my eyes at night, I’m not in Kampala anymore
I’m walking in my mother’s banana plantation in Masaka
I can feel their small hands in mine, one on each side
We are going to harvest matooke for supper
Sam is telling me about a football he made out of buveera
Sarah is singing a song with no words, just a happy hum
That’s my hustle
Not the dusty sacks or long days
My hustle is for those two little faces
Soon, may be I can go home and not have to leave again
And when they look up at me, they will know it was all for them
Monologue for “Atemel“
This film is a Science Fiction. The lead characters, female and male are in their 30s or 40s. The support characters, male and female are in their 60’s. All should be fluent in English and Ateso especially the ascent. They should be flexible in their acting.
MONOLOGUE (FEMALE)
You tricked me to come here! Why? You should have told me the truth. She is a robot!
How do I compete with something programmed against me?
Seeing her is like seeing myself in a mirror
Yet it is not really me
I feel like my privacy was trampled upon
Why do I have to pay the price of an inflated man’s ego?
My life is my own, my dreams are my own
He has no right to take them away from me
How dare he make a photocopy of me?
Is it that he wanted to show me he had power over me?
Yeah… yeah! That makes sense!
Wait a minute! Does he?
But, to what end?
I’m still here!
He hasn’t taken away my dreams!
Come to think of it
My presence is a constant torture for him
Hmmmm! I like that!
I can’t be what he wants me to be
I am me! And there is only one version of me!
MONOLOGUE (MALE)
Since when did it become a crime to live my own life?
To be able to choose whoever I want for a wife
Who said traditions should remain static?
That whenever I do the contrary I’m thrust into a panic
Am I not meant to evolve?
Isn’t that the meaning of free will?
Do what I want, say what I want to say,
Eat what I want, dance with the stars all night
Drink myself silly with my earnings
Sunbathe under the morning rays with nothing on
Scream out my frustrations without a care
Because I answer to no one!
Is this not where I forge my own path?
Stop meddling in my damn business
Here is when I say, back off
This is not your tuff
I won’t relent!
MONOLOGUE SUPPORTING CAST (MALE & FEMALE) (60’s)
It is not enough that now; to see you, we have to follow you to the city?
We, moving around like headless chicken trying to find you…
And all you can do is stare at us like unwanted visitors.
What happened to you?
Why have you let the money and fame blind you?
Is it not us who raised you and supported your gigantic dream?
Now, we are eating the scraps that fall off your table.
Oh, how children grow and forget.
What more is there to be said…
No matter what you feel about us now
We shall remain what we are to you
We are happy to see that you are living your dream.
Even if we are now like ghosts in your life.
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