Nancy Mosser Casting is looking for extras for "Smart People," the feature film starring Dennis Quaid and Sarah Jessica Parker shooting here through much of December.

The Pittsburgh agency is looking for people 18 and older, especially those who can play students and professors, along with Caucasian newborns who will be less than a month old on Dec. 6. Mosser encourages new or expectant mothers to call as soon as possible.

Go to www.mossercasting.com or call 412-434-1666 for more information.

Free screening

Fresh from the 31st annual American Indian Film Festival, "When Your Hands Are Tied" will be shown twice this week at the Carnegie Museum of Art Theater.

Pittsburgh-based filmmaker Mia Boccella Hartle will present her film, which explores the ways young Native Americans have found to express themselves while maintaining strong traditional lives.

"When Your Hands Are Tied" introduces Navajo rappers, punk rockers, skateboarders and break dancers. The 55-minute documentary will screen at 6 p.m. Wednesday and again at 7:30 p.m., followed by a discussion. Admission is free.

The American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco showcases films by and about American Indians.

Film kitchen

The next Film Kitchen program will examine an organization that delivers more than 100,000 hot lunches daily in Mumbai, India. It's the subject of a documentary produced by Paul Goodman, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business.

Working with a small film crew, he documented the system that allows 4,500 dabbawallas, most of them illiterate, to use rail, bicycle and foot power to deliver home-cooked meals to workers around Mumbai.

A reception will start at 7 p.m. tomorrow and the film will screen at 8 at the Melwood Screening Room, 477 Melwood Ave., Oakland. The filmmakers will attend for a question and answer session. Admission, $4.

Festival collaboration

The Pittsburgh Jewish-Israeli Film Festival is collaborating with the Three Rivers Film Festival on tomorrow's presentation of "Close to Home." It's being shown at 7:15 p.m. at the Regent Square Theater, Edgewood.

The 90-minute movie, in Hebrew with English subtitles, is about two female Israeli Defense Force recruits who patrol the streets of Jerusalem. One wants to meet men, the other to be a stand-up soldier. Admission, $7.

Braddock in Big Apple

Three of Tony Buba's award-winning short films will be screened Saturday at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. They are part of the Black Maria Film Festival: The Legacy of the Short Film running from Nov. 18-22.

Included in what is called Program 1: "Mill Hunk Herald," 1980, a musical trip inside a Steel Valley workers magazine; "Braddock Food Bank," 1985, exploring the moral dilemma of making a film or giving to charity; and "Fade Out," 1998, a look at the ripple effect of decisions, including the location of a new highway.