Castglo Entertainment
Castglo bridges actors, voice talent, models, and filmmakers across Nollywood and the African creative ecosystem. It provides portfolio showreels, audition submissions, casting director role postings, and applicant tracking.
Context & Friction
Casting calls in the entertainment industry are disorganized across social media DMs, causing directors to miss top talent and creatives to miss audition deadlines.
Architectural Response
A sleek, media-rich casting directory with talent cards, video reel playback, filtered character searches, and submission status tracking.
Key Engineering Decisions & Outcomes
Engineered lightweight video previews with lazy loading to prevent mobile bandwidth throttling.
Built fluid motion transitions between casting call overviews and role submission modals.
Designed accessible role specification tags (age range, language, dialect, location).
Implementation Stack & Data Flow
Next.js with Framer Motion, Radix UI primitives, Tailwind CSS, and optimized media delivery for portfolio headshots and showreels.