Adult Casting Call

What it is

Adult Casting Call is a talent agency that recruits and contracts people for fitness and physique modeling and for the adult entertainment industry. It describes itself as a division of FCF Agency, founded in 2002 and headquartered in Rohnert Park, an hour north of San Francisco, and says it is a "California licensed talent agency". What it describes is an agency, not a studio: it films auditions, keeps the clips in a database, and lets adult studios browse that database.

The people it pays attention to are amateurs, men and women, straight, gay, bi and open-minded performers. Joining costs the performer nothing: the site says the studios pay a fee for access to the videos. This is a route into studio work, where a studio hires and pays, not a platform where an earner sets a price. Professionals from the industry are the one group the FAQ says it is not looking for.

How earning works here

The agency works as an intermediary between a performer and the studios that hire. The sequence on its own pages runs like this. A performer fills in the application, with legal name, stage name, date of birth, contact details, a preferred contact method, physical details and photos. A contract videographer then films an audition. The footage is edited and put on the agency's website, where studios can view it. If a studio wants to work with the performer, the agency emails them. That email, the site says, comes from the agency and from nobody else.

The auditions are filmed by videographers the agency contracts with around the country. They also travel a good deal, and the site invites people in other cities to submit their details anyway: the agency keeps them on hand and reviews them when it plans a trip to that city. The site says most of these videographers are not professional photographers or videographers, but that they have experience, put the performer at ease and offer tips so the video comes out as appealing as possible. Most auditions have one videographer present, sometimes with an assistant, and the performer learns which when the videographer makes contact.

The audition itself is a solo video shoot. The site is direct that this includes sexual content, and adds that the videographers keep videos or other materials on hand to help. Shoots "typically last under an hour once the filming begins", though the FAQ says the length varies from person to person. The agency does not supply partners: the FAQ explains that partner scenes need health exam documentation, which it does not ask for at an audition, and that virtually all auditions are solo. A performer can ask in advance to bring a friend, boyfriend or girlfriend, and the site says it conducts many multiple-person shoots, including 2-person and group shoots that are same-sex (straight, bi or gay). In a multi-person shoot the agency cuts one video that is mostly the individual performer and files the joint footage in a separate area for action auditions, which the FAQ pitches as a second chance to stand out to talent seekers. A straight performer whose friend wants to audition too is not required to do anything with that friend. Someone who wants to audition for bi or gay videos only is told that is fine, and the agency notes it so that talent seekers choose them only for that type of film.

What studios look for varies. The site says they hire for all kinds of films, from soft to hard core, and that every studio is slightly different: some want performers who do both, others specialize. It also says "the amateur industry is growing at tremendous rates" and that "amateurs are in high demand". Its own FAQ answers the question of whether there are opportunities in straight, gay, bi and lesbian videos with "Yes! In all of them!", and mentions several studios that specialize in "very alternative types of productions and fetish work". The performer gets to state an interest in that kind of work when contacted.

The agency is committed, in its words, to providing talent that is "clearly amateur": "No pros here. Just real people." That shapes the audition style, which aims for real rather than polished.

There is no promise of work. The site says outright that auditioning does not guarantee a job. Clips from the video are added to the talent database, which it says studios view very frequently. A performer who hears nothing may still be contacted several months later.

Money and rules

The payment model is studio work arranged through an agency, with the agency's fee carried by the studios. The FAQ asks whether there is a fee to pay if you land a job, and answers "No! The studios themselves pay a fee for access to the videos. There is no cost to you!" The audition answer also tells the performer "you’re getting paid to do something that you already enjoyed for free", without an amount. The site does not publish what a studio pays a performer.

Privacy is the other main rule. The FAQ says personal information is not revealed to all studios when they review models, and that no personal information is shared with a studio without the performer's consent first. Studios see the edited video; the agency emails the performer when a studio is interested. The FAQ describes the site that studios use as secure and password protected, with access given only to authorized studios. The application's photo section adds that photos submitted through the site are confidential and viewed only by the casting director to judge whether the applicant qualifies, and that an application whose photos do not meet the requirements is deleted immediately without contact.

The application itself asks for a lot. It opens with full legal name, stage name and date of birth, then a country menu, a question on how the applicant heard of the agency with a recruiter choice and an "other recruiter or agent" box, a preferred contact method (email or phone) with a free-text instruction field so the performer can say how to be reached privately, and a yes or no question on whether the performer is already signed to a talent agent or agency. A physical details section asks for sex, sexual orientation (straight, gay, bi-sexual or "Open Minded / Gay4Pay"), height, weight and body measurements. A "Sexual Willingness" list lets the applicant mark which acts they will do, from kissing and massage to toys and bondage roles, so a performer can rule things out in advance. 4 photos are requested: a face picture and a shirtless body picture with face, which the form marks as required, and nude front and nude rear pictures, which carry no required mark.

The form takes a date of birth, and the pages do not state a minimum age or an ID step. On location, the FAQ speaks of videographers "all around the country" and of trips to other cities, while the form's country menu runs worldwide.

Who it suits and who it does not

This route suits a performer who wants to be seen by studios without paying for the privilege and who is happy to film one audition and then wait. Someone with no audience, no portfolio and no studio contacts can still be listed, because the agency does the filming and the pitching. It also suits men, including gay and bi performers and straight performers open to gay shoots, because the FAQ names those orientations explicitly and the application has a gay-for-pay option. Performers interested in fetish work have a stated route: the site says some studios specialize in it and that interest can be specified at contact.

Several things count against it. Pay is set by whichever studio hires, so there is no agency rate to compare with a platform that states a split or a per-scene fee. There is no promise of work, and the timeline belongs to the studios: the site itself says contact may come months later, or not at all. The audition requires on-camera sexual activity, not just a photo, and the application collects detailed personal and physical information before any studio has shown interest. A performer who needs predictable income or control over every booking gets neither from a database that studios browse at their own pace. A performer who wants personal details held tightly has the consent rule to point to.

The point that stands out is the free entry. The agency says the cost falls on the studios, which pay a fee for access to the videos. That is the agency's own statement on its FAQ. The site also says "there is a lot of money in this business" between traditional films and Internet-based ventures. It adds that "hundreds of amateurs are discovered every year". Those are marketing lines about the industry, not a promise about what any performer will be paid here.