If anyone asks you for money, they're not legit. Only legit, when someone takes out a percentage of your cut. Legit sites My casting files Actor Access Chicago casting calls/ Midwest casting calls just to name a few.
Try craiglist but don't answer ads with weird letter script or no real contact names-look for ones with real email addresses film company ones see?and no pictures of lot of faces with masks that's fake too
Hold now I don't ask for money from anyone when I'm casting and it worked for me I can actually point you too actors that I've castes off the site. I don't know how deep it gets for actors but for casting all you have to do is contact the persons directly
It's funny that everyone still says the same old "never pay anyone" for representation or access to casting calls and yet every single step or turn you take runs you into yet another brick wall (digital) requiring $9.99 a month or $149 per year or $1.99 per application or $2.99 per photo or video reel or for your full resume/profile to be visible to the public. Gig salad and/or gigmasters keeps a 20% booking fee and I do all the work! Casting Networks, you have to pay for. Casting Frontier, which looks like it's just a clone of Casting Networks is also pay to apply for work. Actors Access, same. And there's 20 more you can sign up and pay for some with real castings and others total scams! I left my agency because they wanted me to pay an additional 20% out of my paycheck after agency fees were already sent to them separately plus they were getting paid for sourcing talent by some of the production companies with exclusive contracts. Not only were they demanding double dipped commission rates but they also earn a sales commission for anyone suckered into upgrading to a paid subscription on any one of the 3 different websites/accounts they required all "talent" to sign up for and fill out (one for principal and a duplicate but separate one for background/extra work..) Meanwhile, I was still self submitting for anything and everything I could find on my own because I wasn't working enough to cover all this "career investment expense" and yet I WAS THE COMMODITY THEY DEAL IN BEING SOLD/TRADED. *This agency recently became SAG affiliated too if you can believe it.. at which point they required exclusive contracts to be signed by all the talent and I left since I couldn't afford to sign away 20% of all my income while not earning enough to pay rent and self promoting/booking myself.
look it's a very tough business and there are only so many roles so you have to get connected to a movie family or be in one like charlie sheen and martin sheen anyone in that family can get a role or will smith so anyone in his family can get a role
Sorry to hear about what you went through with your agency Asraiya... thank you for keeping us aware. I would like to know the name of that agency so I steer clear of it. Best wishes for you!
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Never heard of it.
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It is not real I wrote to them on craigslist for jobs and they don't even have the real name on the ad working there-it is a scam to get money!!!!!!
Thank you Nastassia! I knew it was too good to be true, lol.
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If anyone asks you for money, they're not legit. Only legit, when someone takes out a percentage of your cut. Legit sites My casting files Actor Access Chicago casting calls/ Midwest casting calls just to name a few.
Try craiglist but don't answer ads with weird letter script or no real contact names-look for ones with real email addresses film company ones see?and no pictures of lot of faces with masks that's fake too
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Great advice, thanks guys.
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It's legit I have gotten actors off of the site myself for some of my projects
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Hold now I don't ask for money from anyone when I'm casting and it worked for me I can actually point you too actors that I've castes off the site. I don't know how deep it gets for actors but for casting all you have to do is contact the persons directly
Thank you Allen, I will look into how it is from an actor's prespective.
It's funny that everyone still says the same old "never pay anyone" for representation or access to casting calls and yet every single step or turn you take runs you into yet another brick wall (digital) requiring $9.99 a month or $149 per year or $1.99 per application or $2.99 per photo or video reel or for your full resume/profile to be visible to the public. Gig salad and/or gigmasters keeps a 20% booking fee and I do all the work! Casting Networks, you have to pay for. Casting Frontier, which looks like it's just a clone of Casting Networks is also pay to apply for work. Actors Access, same. And there's 20 more you can sign up and pay for some with real castings and others total scams! I left my agency because they wanted me to pay an additional 20% out of my paycheck after agency fees were already sent to them separately plus they were getting paid for sourcing talent by some of the production companies with exclusive contracts. Not only were they demanding double dipped commission rates but they also earn a sales commission for anyone suckered into upgrading to a paid subscription on any one of the 3 different websites/accounts they required all "talent" to sign up for and fill out (one for principal and a duplicate but separate one for background/extra work..) Meanwhile, I was still self submitting for anything and everything I could find on my own because I wasn't working enough to cover all this "career investment expense" and yet I WAS THE COMMODITY THEY DEAL IN BEING SOLD/TRADED. *This agency recently became SAG affiliated too if you can believe it.. at which point they required exclusive contracts to be signed by all the talent and I left since I couldn't afford to sign away 20% of all my income while not earning enough to pay rent and self promoting/booking myself.
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look it's a very tough business and there are only so many roles so you have to get connected to a movie family or be in one like charlie sheen and martin sheen anyone in that family can get a role or will smith so anyone in his family can get a role
Oh WOW, I want to find out how to get connected to a movie family, that would be awesome.
Sorry to hear about what you went through with your agency Asraiya... thank you for keeping us aware. I would like to know the name of that agency so I steer clear of it. Best wishes for you!