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October 2023 by Deshay Hill
The most inconsiderate company I've seen when it comes to filming in neighborhoods. They have a permit to park in certain places but then they also park in places they are not permitted to park. Taking even more parking for us that live here. All of our houses do not have drive ways so street parking is all that's available. It's not right to ask our opinion after the filming has been done already. If our opinions were asked before this started then the overall census would have been no, we dont want you filming on our block. But they slick and ask your opinion after but then they dont care anyway they just doing their due diligence in asking our opinion. In a few months or so they will be right back our here filming and take all of our parking permit or not. I would never hire this company if I ever need something professionally filmed. Just a very inconsiderate company.
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January 2023 by Old Andy
I have seen some d*** people in my life but these people are also dangerous. I'm guessing they are feeling a bit more free to engage in disgusting tactics after the famous actor just murdered someone on set and wasn't immediately imprisoned awaiting sentencing.
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December 2022 by Bijoy Debnath
I do any work this industry please give me a chance
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December 2022 by Caroline C.
Seriously can we look into filing a class action lawsuit? How is this legal for them to extort filmmakers like they do?
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November 2022 by Emma B.
Film LA is just a bunch of money greedy under-sexed guys who don't have anything to do and couldn't make it in the industry.Film LA does not enforce permits at all and allows the productionscompanies to do whatever they want for an amount of money. Film way pass what the permit allows, Film LA will look the other way!Over charge you for a permit and not refund you. Film LA has not clue what your talking about and you will never see your money again.Residents are impacted by filming, give Film LA extra money and their "coordinators" will make it all better by not doing anything and keep saying "I understand, I really do understand."Basically, Film LA is a company who claims to be non-profit, but will look the other way if you give them money and more to allow the production company to do whatever they want no matter how illegal it is.These under-sexed guys also think they know way more than you do, even though they don't. They will mansplain the world to you, even though they probably never graduated college, if they even attended.
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October 2022 by Mean J.
A convoluted shit-show and extortion racket, rolled into one stressful nightmare. My advice? If you're a small film, don't shoot in LA. And if you do, shoot all interiors, because this place is disorganized, stressful, and on the grift. $$$ Just awful. In short... The permitting process is confusing and easy to screw up. And then? They leave you to twist in the wind, waiting to communicate with you until the last minute, *the day before your shoot,* which is incredibly nerve-racking. After calling daily for two weeks, our insurance coordinator finally answered the phone the day before our shoot. She was extremely rude, flippant and condescending, informing me I'd done the insurance certificates incorrectly. We were also informed (again -- the *day* before our shoot) that we owed an additional $850 in hidden fees, which was never once mentioned at any time during the weeks prior. We were a small non-profit trying to do a simple one-day shoot with a crew of 3 people. The non-refundable permit fee of nearly $900 had already been very expensive for us. The extra $850 was out of our budget. We ended up pulling the plug on our shoot entirely. I felt absolutely horrible, as this was such a nice, well-intended little project.THE WORST PART?! A week later, they invoiced me for the extra $850, claiming we still owed that $$, even though we didn't end up filming, because they'd gone to the trouble of preparing the permit. When I pushed back, they sent me a rather aggressive email claiming they'd "thoroughly explained" the process and we owed them that money. So we pulled the plug on our shoot for no reason? When we were just going to have to pay that money anyway?! What a joke. Infuriating. What highway robbery. It felt like I was dealing with a bunch of corrupt mobsters. I have produced shoots all over the country and Film LA is by far the worst permitting experience I've ever had.
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December 2021 by Sara Vasquez
Very informative and encouraging. Great guidance if you want to consider filming in your home!
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November 2021 by evanthia mirza
It is illegal to close public spaces for productions. The griffith observatory is A PUBLIC SPACE.
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November 2021 by rachelle ramirez
Just woke up at 6:41 AM to a ticket since this organization takes up blocks of parking in working class neighborhoods.
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June 2021 by C. M.
Even after all the fraud is coming out about the covid situation, especially the dangers of the swab test, FilmLA are still requiring Productions to test people with the toxic and dangerous testing kits. These people need to get with it. I have a friend that works at the door at Costco, they are around thousands of people a day and have never had one test. Better get with it.
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April 2021 by Igor K.
They have setup base camp in a parking lot located just behind my house. They are beyond disrespectful and kept both my children awake for majority of the night. When I spoke to someone on-site they said they will try to keep it down but they got much worse. After a night of hell it is 6:30am and they are still going. Complete disrespect for the neighbors and Neigbor hood. They don't even care about children being able to sleep. This is the cost of making some commercial or show?
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April 2021 by Karen B.
*SCAM ALERT* These people are a f****** joke. Here's three things that all go together - DMV, Post Office, FilmLA. I understand you didn't make it in the industry, but to apply here and take it out on others doesn't make you any better. With productions going elsewhere because of covid I hope this place understands we aren't all f****** ABC STUDIOS. I'm having to dish out an extra thousand bucks so their num nut lowlife can tell me to move my car around back and let every neighbor in the area know I'm filming a girl eating breakfast in the house at the end of the street... and no, you're not getting lunch and don't touch the crafty. All this money for a stamp on paper and a b**** at my door. Might as well bring your parking enforcement car and write tickets while you're here. FilmLA? More like FilmYOUPAY.
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January 2021 by Michael Massaad
I never got around to it, but I finally have....A message that one of their coordinators/permit people sent me after a film shoot. I sincerely hope this person doesn't work there anymore or anywhere in entertainment for that matter.Some context, I still had no clue what he was on about. No lapd or park enforcement showed up, we were packed up and gone.
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January 2021 by Jen Freeman
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December 2019 by Pae White
TERRIBLE This organization should be shuttered. They are lazy about informing neighbors of adjacent filming no matter how many times you ask. They do nothing to ensure that respectful use of public lands, such as city parks is honored.
