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Guide•11 min

Child talent agencies: a parent's guide

Your child wants to be on TV. What to check before signing anything, and what is a scam.

Julien Arès

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Guide•9 min

Starting a talent agency in Quebec

The agent's job, the setup steps, the industry rules, the business model and the tools.

Charbel Kassab

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Insight•7 min

Why actors were excommunicated

Molière buried at night, Sarah Bernhardt condemned in Montreal, green banned from the stage: the history of a long-distrusted profession.

Charbel Kassab

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Guide•10 min

Acting as a career, concretely

What an actor does between shoots, how actors get paid in Quebec, and what “professional” really means.

Charbel Kassab

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Guide•10 min

Talent agencies: how to find one and get in

What an agency does, Montreal or Quebec City, how to apply, what it really costs and the red flags.

Charbel Kassab

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Guide•10 min

Dubbing and voice-over in Quebec

Dubbing is reserved for UDA actors. Voice-over and narration open from home. The route for each, and why Quebec dubs have no accent.

Charbel Kassab

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Guide•10 min

How to become an extra in Quebec

Where to register for background work, what UDA and ACTRA actually require, what it pays and what a shooting day looks like.

Charbel Kassab

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Guide•9 min

How to do a good self-tape

Gear, light, sound, framing, reader, slate and delivery: everything that gets judged before your acting, step by step.

Charbel Kassab

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Guide•9 min

Becoming an actor in Quebec: the honest guide

Is it hard? Can anyone do it? We asked 148 actors in Quebec 25 questions, and we answer with their numbers instead of encouragement.

Julien Arès

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Guide•11 min

Becoming an actor in Quebec: the 10 questions people actually ask

There is no required diploma, no single place where the calls are posted, and no app that gathers every casting call in Quebec. Here are the ten questions people search for most, and the short answers, without the detour.

Charbel Kassab

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Guide•9 min

Submissions, callbacks, bookings: the 5 numbers that run a talent agency

Callback rate, booking rate, roster coverage: the five numbers that show where things actually break.

Charbel Kassab

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Vision•6 min

The augmented agency: how automation will redefine the agent's craft

Automation doesn't replace the agent: it gives back the time admin was stealing.

Charbel Kassab

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Product•5 min

Never miss an opportunity: automated casting discovery

Castflow watches networks and platforms and surfaces relevant casting calls — no manual monitoring.

Julien Arès

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Product•7 min

The audition process, rethought: from convocation to RSVP

Convoke, create calendar invites, track RSVPs and manage holds — without a single manual follow-up.

Charbel Kassab

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Guide•7 min

How to choose talent agency software: the 2026 guide

The essential criteria for choosing talent agency software, and the mistakes to avoid.

Castflow Team

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Engineering•8 min

How we rebuilt our talent-matching engine

Why we took the LLM off the critical path and reserved AI for tiebreaks only.

Charbel Kassab

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Product•6 min

From inbox to shortlist: AI reads a casting call in seconds

Paste a casting call, extract the roles and surface the right talent — in seconds.

Julien Arès

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Insight•6 min

Why talent agencies lose time (and contracts) with scattered tools

Emails, Excel, calendars: scattered tools cost you time and contracts.

Jules Le Fur

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Trends•5 min

How AI is transforming the work of talent agencies

Matching, opportunity discovery, submission triage: where AI creates real value.

Jules Le Fur

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Guide•7 min

Why talent agencies are ditching Excel to manage their talent

Errors, duplicates, no real-time data: why to move to a real talent database.

Jules Le Fur

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