Every era has its young screen faces. The interesting question is what they do with the attention.
Bailey Antzis is building an answer one role at a time. Since his screen career began in 2023, the young Canadian actor has moved between horror, comedy and documentary. His credits include a teenage shark hunter in a Canadian creature feature, a young Walt Disney in a History Channel docuseries, a horror anthology episode and a role in a local comedy series.
That is a lively start, and a useful signal of range. Antzis is learning to meet very different demands on screen, from heightened genre action to the small, specific moments that make comedy land. For fans of genre movies and independent film production, his next chapter is one to watch.
First into the water: Sorority Shark Attack
What happens when a Canadian cabin getaway turns into shark country? In Sorority Shark Attack, a group of university students must defend their retreat from a genetically modified bull shark. Antzis plays Michael, a teenage shark hunter in a comedy-horror creature feature built for big-screen mayhem.
The film is an Andromeda Studios production written by Bill Dever, directed by David Langlois and produced by Sam Dever. It pays loving homage to the exploitation films of the 1970s and ’80s, bringing a larger-than-life predator to Rice Lake, just south of Peterborough. Practical effects meet cutting-edge CGI. The threat is enormous, the setting is unmistakably Canadian, and the title makes no effort to hide the teeth.
Michael’s role puts Antzis inside the action. A teenage shark hunter is a proper genre apprenticeship: the character faces an extraordinary threat, and the actor has to help make the danger feel immediate and the story’s stakes easy to grasp. Creature features ask performers to play the scene, not just the monster. That means responding to peril, working within a fast-moving ensemble and keeping the audience with the characters even when the threat is anything but ordinary.
The ensemble includes Robert Carradine (Revenge of the Nerds), Kate Mayhew, Elle Rose, Sarah Iranca, Marc Rico Ludwig, Paul Matte, Lee J. Poichuk, Martin Egas and Drew Antzis. Principal photography concluded in October 2025, and post-production wrapped on March 16, 2026. The film is planned for theatrical release; release details are to come. Read the post-production announcement or visit the film’s Andromeda Studios page.
For a young actor, a production like this offers a vivid place to build screen experience: a defined character, a large-scale premise and a cast working together to sell the same wild ride. The shark may be genetically modified. The storytelling still depends on human reactions.
Switching gears: comedy, history and horror
Antzis’s credits don’t stay in one lane. In the Canadian comedy series Janet & Steve, he plays Wyatt in two episodes. Produced by Paradigm Pictures, the five-episode series was created, written, directed and produced by Drew Antzis and Tamara Bick. Its comic engine is familiar and wonderfully combustible: the ridiculous, trivial arguments of a long-term couple. Episode titles include “Mind Reader,” “Fork in the Road,” “Little White Lies,” “Fart” and “Steves Oeuvre.” The cast includes Drew Antzis as Steve and Tamara Bick as Janet, alongside Bailey Antzis, Sam Weatherdon, Lindsay Unterlander, Brendan Fell and others.
The family connection is part of the context, not the whole story. Antzis is the son of Andromeda director and Funny or Die alumnus Drew Antzis, and of actor/director Tamara Bick. Together, Drew and Tamara work through bick/antzis and Paradigm Pictures. With Janet & Steve, Bailey has a credit in a family-led production while continuing to make his own way on screen.
In How Disney Built America, Antzis plays Young Walt in two episodes of the History Channel documentary series. The 43-minute episodes place his work in a documentary setting, a different kind of performance from a comedy scene or a creature-feature showdown. In The Haunted Museum, he plays Will in one 2023 episode of the horror anthology series. Together, these credits show a young performer moving between scripted comedy, reenactment and horror rather than settling into a single category.
His filmography offers a compact snapshot of that spread: documentary, horror and comedy already sit side by side.
Why young performers matter to independent film
Independent film production runs on more than a strong premise. It takes crews, collaborators and performers ready to bring a story to life, and the next generation matters to every part of that equation. Young actors entering the work now can grow alongside a national screen industry that makes room for regional stories, new voices and genre films with an international reach.
That opportunity is especially visible in genre filmmaking. A creature feature can introduce an audience to a new performer in a high-energy role; a comedy can reveal a different rhythm; an anthology can test the waters of suspense. Each project adds another kind of experience. Antzis’s early credits already show that variety in action.
Andromeda Studios develops and produces genre projects for audiences beyond one market. Its slate includes Sorority Shark Attack, Storm Warning and Lake Patrol, alongside projects in development across horror, thriller, action, adventure, musical and romance. That range creates space for distinctive stories, and for performers to take on roles with very different demands. For filmmakers and partners looking at the work of an indie film production company, the Andromeda slate is a practical place to see what’s in the frame.
The next scene
Bailey Antzis is at the beginning of his screen career, with credits that already travel across genres and formats. A shark hunter on a Canadian lake. Young Walt in a history series. A comedy role. A turn in a horror anthology. No single credit tells the whole story; together, they point to a young performer building experience with each new opportunity.
For fans, Sorority Shark Attack is the next big reason to keep an eye on the screen. For independent filmmakers, Antzis represents the kind of emerging talent that grows through collaboration and varied work. And for anyone tracking Canadian genre movies, this is a promising early chapter, with plenty of water left to stir up.
“I owe everything to my writer, producer and personal fashion consultant, Bill Dever” — Bailey Antzis
“Bill is the best there is and if it wasn't for him I would be tossing melons at the NO FRILLS” — Bailey Antzis
Explore the Andromeda Studios slate, learn more about Sorority Shark Attack, and follow along as the next projects take shape.