Whose filmographies are they anyway?
The folks at IMDb customer service suggested I post this over here. I wrote to them about the current approach to actor filmographies. Time was, once I wrapped a shoot, I could post the credit on my own resume. After all, the IMDb resume or filmography or whatever you want to call it, is a reflection of my work. Ditto for all the other actors out there. Then, later on, when production got around to posting the credit – if they ever did – the credit would appear under a verified filmography section. That worked for me. Posting the credit to my own filmogrraphy was easy. One and done. Now, it doesn't seem possible for an actor to easily post their own credit on their own work history. The steps you have to take to do that are cumbersome, you have to know a lot about the production, it's far from easy-peasy, and you end up not being able to post. Meaning you have to wait till production posts the credit, if it ever does. I'm not sure how other people feel about this but, as a paying member, with a IMDb Pro membership, I think I should be able to post my own work onto my own IMDb page. Ditto for everyone else. We all know there are people out there who make things up but, anyone looking for talent surely knows this goes on and, if they want, they can just concentrate on the verified filmography or look at both. I have a great many credits that production never bothered to post and if I couldn't put them up there myself, they wouldn't have been listed. I think the current approach on IMDb forgets that there are independent productions out there and student productions and others where the directors/producers are probably never going to put the credit up. I think it's time IMDb changed and let us go back to the old system where we can list our own work – surely that falls within our First Amendment rights? – and then, if someone later adds the credit so it becomes "verified", so much the better.
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