Bart Primus

No guys, I'm real. Just playng around in these forums and saw "film-connection" so I registered to offer a positive opinion for a program that worked for me. Anyway, whatever, blah blah blah. My experience with them was a positive one. It's not brain surgery, they say they are gonna get you out on film sets and for me atleast they did. A bunch. Who did film connection hook me up with: Verizon Wireless comm. (camere dept.) Minnie's First Time (camera dept. -- this is an Alec Baldwin film) Ludacris music video directed by Spike Jonze (grip dept. -- cos' I wanted the exp. in different dept. Deathride (a low budget horror movie directed by a famous Japaneese director named Suzuki) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (this was when I was in NYC, before I transfered to L.A.) True Religion jeans comm. etc. etc. What can I say? They told me I was gonna get on film sets and they put me there. For me it worked cos' it was 5,000 as opposed to 100,000 for NYU or USC -- I learned what I needed to know, but I worked hard. They opened the doors, I walked through and kicked ass. Made connections. My mentor knows a lot of people and he introduced to me to everyone he knew. You're paying to get in the door and learn hands on. Which is cool, my buddy just graduated from NYU and he's now a PA on sets. I'm actually ahead of him minus the 95,000 tab. Honestly, he even admits he doesn't know more than me, and I'm already a 1st and a 2nd AC and getting paid. peace bp

My experience with Film-connection was good. I signed up in New York City originally -- within 10 days or so I got my books, and three days after that I was working on film sets in the Camera Dept. Then I decided to move out to LA when my wife got a job out here, I called up Jimi Petulla and he transferred my education out to L.A. -- I got a new mentor and I was working on film sets in the camera dept. within two weeks. In the program I worked with a bunch of different camera depts. on smaller budgeted and major budgeted movies. They really worked for me and put me in contat with about 60 different cinematographers. Now I'm working as a 2nd AC for pay, and I just shot my first short as a DP. I didn't have any negative experience with them. The reality for me is that this program gets you the contacts while you're learning, where as regular film school teaches you but when you get out you have no contacts. Just one man's opinion. Bart