Hello all,

I am thinking of coming to the United States to join a mentor program with career connection. The program sounds almost too good to be true. I'm wondering if anyone knows anything about the program and if it is legitimate or a scam as all I can see from London is a website.

You can check it our at www.film-connection.com

I would be very greatful if anyone who has done the program or has any information about it would let me know.

Thanks Chris.

I skimmed over it, and it seems like you are paying 8 grand to work for free. Get an internship instead, sometimes they pay you. In short, seems like a rip off.

I definitely would NOT recommend this. WHY? Because I did it and got set up with an internship which basically boiled down to lugging around equipment... 6000 bucks just to set up lights and tripods. And after a while, they were difficult to reach and was dissatisfied with their services. And I don't even know if I can get a refund... after a while I spent so much time and effort on trying to reach them that i got so fed up. Perhaps it was a lesson to me that people in the business can't be trusted and you must be smart in who you deal with.

You're better off investing that money towards your education or buying a new camera. Besides, all you have to do is just call up production companies- introduce yourself and say that you'd like to have an internship... set up an interview... they'll either say yes we'd like to meet or no not right now... which sure as hell beats spending thousands of dollars on some shady thing. My dad always warned me to look out for things that sound "too good to be true" and the career-connection mentoring program is exactly that!