Dub School Los Angeles scam

As a victim of this blatant, ludicrous, I-Can’t-Believe-This-Is-Even-Real Netflix exec orchestrated and sanctioned scam that violates the Krekorian Talent Scam Prevention Act (AB 1319) in multiple ways, you may be entitled to at least 3x your money back. You should contact the California Labor Commissioner's Office - Talent:

talent@dir.ca.gov

510-285-3397

Here’s a good news article to read that explains the Krekorian Talent Scam Prevention Act that protects performers from scams where they have to pay for the opportunity to work: 

https://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-casting-directors-charges-20170209-story.html 

And here’s a summary of the law from the State of California: 

https://www.bizparentz.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/AB1319NotificationLetterRevised2_10_2010.pdf 

Here’s a few places to find general information on this law that protects all artists in California from scammers: 

https://www.bizparentz.org/krekorian-act/ 

https://www.childactor101.com/ab1319

California Labor Commissioner - Talent Service bond list: 

https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/DLSE-Databases.htm

^ go down to “Talent Service Bonds”, and there’s a list of all surety bonds by year. 

These Netflix execs simply do not care. Go get your money back.

This “school” has no surety bond with the California Labor Commissioner as a Talent Service provider, and is also operating as an Advance Fee Talent Representation Service (they’re making you pay to add you to their roster, and the same people making the casting decisions are evaluating you at the “school”), which is illegal in the state of California. 

Their website promises the opportunity to work, and guidance toward a career, for paying participants.

Their draped-in-approved-Netflix-clips social media promises paying participants will be added to the roster of talent, and also advertises itself as an “internship”. 

This is one of only two recording studios in the US that these execs allow to record live action English dubbing for Netflix. And multiple times, these Netflix execs hosted the "Dub School" operators at their Sunset Blvd office and framed them as the creative "North Star" for attending recording studios and directors. These execs also called casting professionals into the Sunset Blvd office and told them they will no longer be used for Netflix English dubbing. 

And not only are you being illegally made to pay for the opportunity to work, but these Netflix execs have such disdain for talent that they orchestrated and sanctioned this “school” while they are also quietly sending most of the work to Canada for A.I. training. So unless you flew in for the week from Montreal for the "school", this seems to be maliciously predatory. 

I mean how ridiculous is all of that? It's like cartoon villain stuff. And I would not blame the recording studio or the instructors etc-- every one in the chain is coerced to blindly do whatever Netflix wants because they control most of the work. They reasonably assumed legality because it is orchestrated and sanctioned by Netflix.

I would go get my money back if I were you!