Welcome to ScreenLift Studios

Screenlift is a training and production studio that has already provided over 300 IMDb Credits for actors and collaborators in our projects. The external casting calls you see are for real, published productions made to gain experience for non community members. These are unpaid currently.

All non-community roles are unpaid currently. ScreenLift internally funds its own productions and its paid opportunities are a privilege given to students that become Level 4 Practitioners of the Cadence Realism Theory.

Leon has directed over 300 actors across web series, shorts, and international shoots, and has been teaching screen acting since October 2024. He is the creator of Cadence Realism Theory — a performance discipline focused on truthful on-camera embodiment of character, emotional cadence, and micro-behaviour. His approach is grounded in lived practice, not abstract theory.

No. The community is built around training + production, not just drop-in castings.
To be part of the ScreenLift community, you join the classes and train with us. That’s where the culture, the methodology, and the ongoing opportunities are centred.

No. As Screenlift is teaching a new, alternative theory, all actors must start at the Foundation Level when they join the community. Previous formal training (or lack of) does not give you an advantage here.

We  open external castings for non-recurring roles and specific productions. You can be cast into a single project without joining the classes. However, ongoing and weighted opportunities are prioritised for actors training with us.

Actors who train with ScreenLift receive:

• Guaranteed casting in our in-house productions (across an agreed cycle)
• Priority for recurring roles and multi-project involvement
• Deeper integration into the community and creative decision-making

External actors may appear once. Training actors are developed and cast repeatedly.

If you’re actively training with us, you are not just “waiting to be picked.”
You are:

• eligible for guaranteed casting within our project cycles UPON COMPLETION OF FOUNDATION
• regularly considered for recurring and ensemble roles

The exact frequency depends on your availability, growth, and fit for roles — but the system is designed to keep you working, not sitting on the sidelines.

Yes. Our actors currently range from 14 to 60+ and represent a wide range of ethnic, cultural, and national backgrounds. We’ve worked in over sixteen languages across our scenes. Diversity here is natural, not performative.

We maintain a respectful, safe, and professional environment. Our productions exclude smoking, alcohol use, profanity, hypersexualisation, political agendas, and degrading content. We focus on meaningful, character-driven storytelling that elevates both actor and audience.

Yes. We understand that new models attract questions. Our answer is our body of work: completed series, shorts, monologues, returning actors, and a growing archive of filmed material. We are transparent about what we offer and clear about where we’re going.

To build ScreenLift into the UK’s most active grassroots-to-screen pipeline — with multi-territory teams, year-round filming, structured training, scenic international shoots, and a clear progression route into professional, paid screen work from within the community.