Complaint Review: Alfred Hallenberger

I am a working producer in Hollywood. I met Alfred through an aspiring producer while I was in production and did not have time to fully vet out Alfred - that was a big mistake. I trusted my coproducer when he said Alfred had access to investor after investor and matching funds and this and that. 

He was a massive d*** on the phone, but he seemed to know how to talk the talk and was interested in funding a script we had some attachments on. So I gave him access to some of my people - another big misake - while I was still in production. 

So over the course of the next two weeks, he gets everyone all riled up about all the wonderful things he can do and all the money he can raise and match and do this or that. So I'm excited. I finish production and I have him come over so we can start doing contracts and finalizing deal points. So the guy comes over with this holier than thou attitude and treats everyone like s***. He's bossing people around, barking orders, and negotiating for everything under the sun. So I ask him to proof up. I simply ask him what it is he's bringing to the project since he's never - i repeat NEVER made a movie before. And he keeps saying he's got all these investors, but he won't put us on the phone with'em. Not his distributors, not his investors, or his bank. And this is after he has all the proof of our attachemnts, directors and actors and the offer of a minor MG from a small distributor. And the guy just wouldn't come clean. He literally wanted us to sign over all of our film rights so he could "try" to raise money for a movie. I almost beat his a*s. He's an idiot. Don't let him waste your time. He's nothing but a mouth piece. Hollywood is full of them.

I did give him the opportunity to bring investors to the table, but he failed miserably. He's such a d**k no one wants to work with him and he doesn't even have investors. He has people that might have money that some times pick up the phone when he calls, but they've never invested money with him I know this because he's never brought a project to fruition, NEVER .He's never financed anything other than real estate deals which is straight up bank lending. If he calls you do not attach him to your project. Make him pay you an option. Make him sign contracts. He is a time waster. At the very least make him introduce you to his imaginary investors. I have two friends who told me he said he could bring matchng funds to and he wasted three months of their time and one of them lost their original investor. 

Don't d*** around with this guy. He's a d****e and he's just going make you look like a d****e to the people who could actually help you for thinking he's real.