Access for agents is free of charge. You can use it to present yourself and your agency and create free profiles for your clients. For clients who have a supporting membership with etalenta, you can provide more data, photos and videos.
Guideline for transparency and equal opportunities in casting:
etalenta is committed to a fair and transparent casting process in order to ensure equal opportunities for all actresses and actors.
A membership is therefore not possible if other activities create a conflict of interest that prevents a transparent casting process. This is particularly the case if talent agency and casting activities are carried out by the same person or organisation and independent casting activities are not guaranteed due to commission-based remuneration models.
Since June 2024, our platform has been run without a commercial business model. We work on a non-profit basis. With the membership fees, we run the platform to cover costs and any surpluses are used for the benefit of equal opportunities, transparency and visibility for actresses and actors.
Running a multilingual, professional platform for Europe naturally generates costs: storage space for photos and videos, server infrastructure to enable a reliable online presence and a team that takes care of operations, member support and further development. Our primary goal is to keep the costs for actresses and actors as low as possible. We concentrate on the essentials and do without, for example, expensive marketing campaigns.
That’s why, in addition to a free basic profile, we offer a supporting membership that provides actresses and actors with everything they need for their professional online presence: a full profile on the platform and all the tools they need to proactively make themselves visible. Every supporting member also helps to keep the costs low for themselves and everyone else.
Most casting directors in Europe traditionally use the search tool to find actors.
However, you don’t have to wait to be found on etalenta.
Unlike a simple actor database, etalenta provides you with valuable tools to actively showcase your clients.
As an agency, you can create comprehensive profiles for your clients. The profiles are automatically available in 19 languages.
Thousands of film and TV professionals in Europe and across the world can find important information, photos and videos on your clients’ profiles, thus improving their chances of getting a casting or a role.
Futhermore, you can showcase yourself with your personal profile as an agent.
The clients that have access to their own etalenta profiles can take care of updating them themselves.
A complete list of all your clients is accessible through a concise link, www.etalenta.agency/agency-name.
This way, your agency always has an updated and multilingual online presence.
On etalenta you are part of a network of film industry professionals. The messaging tool allows you to contact other members directly.
The recipient of your message can immediately identify you as a professional colleague and access your clients’ profiles right away. You can keep track of all messages and contacts. Use etalenta as a communication platform.
etalenta is the place for all your clients’ videos:
Each client with a supporting membership can create up to 5 showreels/playlists – for example, one with scenes in his/her native language, one for the other languages he/she speaks, another with voice-over work, etc.
Furthermore, scenes that should not be shown or should be made accessible only to certain people can be put in the Media Pool.
You can add new scenes and edit the playlists for your clients any time.
Even better: all the videos can be added to your agency website without additional costs!
One of your clients has new photos or a new showreel scene? Will a client be seen on stage or on television in the coming days? Let casting directors know and make them notice your clients. With just a couple of clicks, you can suggest this or similar news for the etalenta casting‑LETTER. Hundreds of industry professionals regularly receive this comprehensive newsletter, knowing that it only contains news from professional agents.
Showcase a client and send his/her profile off in a split-second.
Along with a personal message from you, the recipient immediately gets access to all the important information, photos and videos.
You can do this from anywhere on etalenta and reply to requests without delay.
Casting Directors use etalenta’s “Virtual Casting Studio” to do castings via video call.
Now, the Virtual Casting Studio is also exclusively available to actors, actresses and their agents.
Help your clients and coach them through the creation of self-tapes, for castings or about-me-VIDEOs.
You can then choose the best take together and send it to the Casting Director.
As you know, casting in Europe happens primarily through the search tool. This is why it’s so important for your clients to have a complete profile, in order to be found.
However, European casting directors will also send out a casting call in special cases (as it’s usually done in the US or the UK).
For this too, etalenta provides fantastic features for agents and casting directors. If a role matches a client’s profile, you will be notified via email and can then submit the client for the role with just a few clicks, as well as provide requested documents and upload requested self-tapes.
Our team has over 20 years of experience in the film and casting industry. We would be happy to help you showcase your clients perfectly and discuss what is particularly important in different countries. In order to do this, we work with local experts (casting directors, directors, coaches) in several countries
We would also be happy to help you with technical questions regarding the presentation of your clients, videos or homepage.
etalenta is easy to use and can also be utilised as Content Management System (CMS) for your agency website. This way, you only have to update information, photos and videos on etalenta and your agency website will automatically be up-to-date.
Please contact us for more information.
