My thesis film follows two friends as they look back on the moments that defined their friendship. Through a series of memories, we witness how a lonely young man, desperate to belong, is gradually drawn into a lifestyle of drugs, parties, and risky decisions. What begins as a search for friendship and acceptance slowly spirals into tragedy.

At its core, the film explores peer pressure, loneliness, and the powerful human need to fit in. It asks a difficult question: when someone makes destructive choices to gain acceptance, who is truly responsible? Through an emotional and thought-provoking story, the film examines the lasting consequences of influence, friendship, and the desire to belong.

What do we offer?
I have started a crowd funding, so I can hopefully pay for transport and catering. The rest of the funds are for production costs.

Type
semi-professionele productie

Location
Amsterdam

Description
I am looking for 4 male actors to play as a friend group in this film, with two main roles and 2 supporting roles. As well as a large group of extras for a house party scene.

Main roles:

Milan (23)
Psychosocial Profile: Social Deprivation and Identity Formation Under External Reinforcement
Milan exhibits characteristics consistent with prolonged social deprivation and underdeveloped peer integration during formative years. His baseline state is marked by withdrawal, low social confidence, and minimal exposure to normative peer bonding experiences (e.g., friendship groups, nightlife participation, recreational substance use).
Prior to meeting Julian, Milan demonstrates a restricted behavioral repertoire characterized by avoidance of social novelty and limited identity exploration. This suggests an identity structure that is externally unvalidated and internally underdeveloped, with self-concept primarily defined through absence (“invisibility”) rather than presence.
The introduction of psychoactive substances and nightlife participation via Julian functions as a rapid social accelerator. Importantly, Milan does not engage with these experiences as discretionary exploration but as compensatory belonging acquisition. This indicates a high susceptibility to environmental reinforcement, particularly social reinforcement.
A key psychological risk factor is his impaired boundary recognition. Milan lacks internalized regulatory thresholds for substance use and social excess, resulting in external locus-of-control dependence. Consequently, attachment forms not only to individuals (Julian) but to the lifestyle itself as a proxy for acceptance.


Julian (24)
Psychosocial Profile: High Sociability with Avoidant Affective Regulation
Julian demonstrates high extraversion, social competence, and environmental adaptability. He exhibits strong interpersonal attunement, allowing him to navigate group dynamics effectively and maintain centrality within social settings. His behavior suggests elevated reward sensitivity and novelty-seeking traits, particularly in contexts involving music, substances, and collective leisure activities.
However, underlying this social fluency is a pattern consistent with emotional avoidance. Julian maintains psychological distance from affective depth through continuous engagement in stimulation-based environments. This indicates a regulatory strategy in which emotional processing is deferred via external activity rather than internal reflection.
His interaction with Milan reflects a common dynamic in high-social-capacity individuals: unintentional influence. Julian perceives social participation as universally accessible and reversible, leading to underestimation of differential vulnerability among peers. This results in asymmetrical impact, where Julian’s normative behavior becomes transformative for more impressionable individuals.

Supporting roles:

Anthony (23)
Psychosocial Profile: Affective Expressivity and Group Cohesion via Humor-Based Regulation
Anthony functions as a high-affect expressivity individual within the group structure. His behavior is characterized by spontaneous humor production, verbal fluency, and high-energy engagement. He plays a significant role in maintaining group cohesion through positive affect amplification.
Unlike maladaptive escapism models, Anthony’s engagement in partying behaviors is primarily hedonic rather than compensatory. He demonstrates low evidence of avoidance-based substance use patterns and instead exhibits present-focused enjoyment orientation.
From a group systems perspective, Anthony acts as an affective stabilizer. His humor and energy reduce tension, prevent emotional stagnation, and reinforce group continuity during potentially destabilizing moments. However, this same mechanism may limit engagement with deeper emotional processing within group dynamics.


Lewis (24)
Psychosocial Profile: High Introspective Processing with Low Social Expressivity
Lewis presents a low-external-expression, high-internal-processing cognitive profile. He demonstrates reduced need for social dominance or external validation, instead engaging with environments through observation and interpretation.
His preference for cannabis and psychedelics is best understood within a perceptual exploration framework rather than purely recreational use. These substances function as cognitive modifiers that align with his introspective orientation, facilitating pattern recognition, abstraction, and altered perspective-taking.
Within group dynamics, Lewis occupies the role of passive stabilizer or “reflective node.” He does not actively dominate interaction but contributes to emotional grounding through presence and selective verbal input. His communication style is sparse but contextually meaningful, suggesting high signal-to-noise prioritization in social engagement.



Extras: Young male and female extras at a house party for one scene.

Language requirements
English

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