Complaint Review: SOMAR Film & Productions

After a very last minute booking, I have filmed for them, giving them a great deal with a nice "first time customer discount", and even went the extra mile to deliver the footage to them through a lengthy online process (big files = long uploads) that ate up more of my time. Four months and a lot of emails, plus an official registered letter, after, I still haven't been paid for my work. They made excuses, promises, sent me a cheque with the wrong amount that they asked me not to cash, yet still nothing. Then I learned that they've been taken to the court of small claims, and lost, for similar problems, and that other freelancers are in the same conflictual situation with them all over the US and Canada. They also don't have any local offices like they pretend, only fake addresses. They hire local people, then don't pay them. We also suspect that the list of clients they show off on their website is just as fake as all the five star reviews that show up in various places. A little cross examination shows that these reviews are posted by fake accounts that all review the same businesses positively.