Verification

Any user can become Verified on enCAST if they qualify.

Being verified adds extra advantages to your profile:

Actors

• Appear higher in the search results
• Preference when being promoted to CDs for projects
• Able to contact other users directly on the site

CDs and Talent Agents

• Able to contact actors and other users directly on the site
• Automatically publish a casting after editing
• Talent agents can connect with the actors they represent, with each actor's consent

What does Verification mean? #

Verification simply means that we have checked your profile and can confirm you are a professional Actor, Casting Director, or Talent Agent and that you are who you say you are.

Then, when your profile is verified, an orange tick is placed on your Calling Card.

Being verified means that visitors and other users of the site know exactly who they are dealing with. In other words, they know they can trust that the profile is genuine and that the user has good experience in the film industry.

IMPORTANT: if you are an actor you do NOT need to be verified to submit to castings. Verification is an extra and does NOT affect your submissions at all.

Verification for Actors #

To become verified and claim the orange tick:

• You must be a Pro Actor
• Your profile must be complete (you can Auto Check your profile with this link)
• You must have a good number of acting credits on IMDB as an actor - generally 10 or more named roles (i.e. characters who have names, not "uncredited" or "man" or "angry woman", etc); these should include at least 3 feature length films or 3 recurring roles in a tv serials (i.e. more than 3 episodes)
• Your showreel must include different scenes from at least 3 professional film/tv productions
• You need to send us your photo ID (please see FAQ below) or you need to have an IMDb Pro profile and write to us from the contact email you have there

When you are ready to be verified, AutoCheck your profile to make sure there are no omissions. When the AutoCheck is complete, you can follow the instructions to continue to verification.

As an Actor, why do I need IMDB credits?

The reason we ask for a minimum number of IMDB credits is simple; Casting Directors want to know that you have worked on reasonable sized productions and have experience on set.

If you do not yet have enough IMDB credits, you should chase up previous productions and see if they are on IMDB already and then add yourself to them. You can also think about adding productions as well.

See here for why some actors fail verification: Why Wasn't My Profile Verified?

Verification for Casting Directors & Talent Agents #

Verification has the same stages for everyone: you run some automatic checks, you ask us to verify you, and then we check your profile by hand. Which way you verify depends on your account email address:

• Through your company: your account email is on your company's website domain (for example you@yourcompany.com). You do not need to send us any ID. We check your company and your profile by hand.
• As an individual: you use any other email address, such as Gmail or Hotmail, or you do not work for a company. You upload a photo ID, which we check, and then we check your profile by hand.

What everyone needs

Whichever way you verify, first make sure your profile is complete. We will not verify a profile with gaps, so check you have:

• Your real name (the name of the individual, not the company).
• A short bio (your mini bio) saying who you are and what you do. If you work for a company, tell us about the company too.
• Your location: the country where you work and operate. You will find it in Edit Profile, on the Basic Info tab.
• The languages you speak.
• At least one picture of yourself. A casting director or talent agent without a photograph cannot be verified.
• A verified email address. If you have not yet clicked the link in the verification email we sent you, go to Verify your email and ask for a new one.

Verifying through your company

• Add your company name and company website to your profile.
• Your account email must be on that website's domain. If your website is www.yourcompany.com, your email must end in @yourcompany.com. This is how we know you belong to the company.
• When all the checks pass, click Request verification. We look at your company's website and IMDb, confirm that it works in casting or talent representation, and check your profile by hand. You will get an email with the result.

NB Your verification is tied to your company email. If you later change the email address on your account, your verification is removed and you will need to verify again.

Verifying as an individual

• A personal email address is fine.
• Add the nationality of your ID. You will find it in Edit Profile, on the Extra Info tab.
• Your name on your profile must match your ID.
• You can still add a company name to your profile. It is shown on your profile, but it is not part of your verification.
• When all the checks pass, click Request verification. You will then be asked to upload a photo ID (JPG or PDF). We compare it with your name and nationality by hand, then delete it. After that we check your profile by hand, and you will get an email with the result. You will not get an email when your ID is approved, because the profile check is the final step.

Running the checks

When your details are ready, go to Verify Your Company (also in your profile menu). The checks run automatically every time you open the page, so there is no button to press. You will see a table with one row for each check: name, location, email verified and IMDb, plus nationality if you are verifying as an individual. The last row tells you which way you will be verified. A green tick means the check passed. A red cross means something is missing, and the Details column tells you what and where to fix it. Fix it in Edit Profile and come back to the page, and the checks will run again.

Once everything passes, click Request verification. If you are verifying as an individual, the page then asks you to upload your ID.

After you have asked to be verified

We check your profile by hand. We look at your name, bio, location, languages and picture, and for a company we also look at the company itself. If only a small thing is missing, we may write to you through your enCAST inbox and ask you to complete it. Once it is done, we verify you.

When we verify you, you will get an email and the orange tick appears on your Calling Card.

What if I am not verified?

If we cannot verify you, we will email you with the reason and what to change. Update your profile in Edit Profile, then go back to Verify Your Company and click Request verification again. If you uploaded an ID the first time, you do not need to upload it again.

Adding your IMDb link

Search for your name on IMDb. On your page, look at the address bar: the part beginning nm followed by digits is your IMDb ID. Paste only that part into the IMDb field on Edit Profile. See Your IMDb Profile for a step by step guide.

What if I do not have an IMDb page?

The IMDb check cannot pass without one, so the first job is to get onto IMDb. It is free, and IMDb lists casting directors and agents as well as actors.

• Search IMDb for your name first. Many professionals already have a page, created from a production credit, and do not know it.
• If there is no page, add yourself to a production you worked on. Log in to IMDb, open the title, choose Edit page and add your credit under Casting Department (for casting directors) or the appropriate crew role. IMDb reviews the addition, usually within a few days, and that creates your page.
• Once your page exists, copy the nm number into your profile and the checks will run again.

If you have professional casting or agency experience but none of it appears on IMDb, contact us and tell us which productions or clients you have worked with, so we can look at your case.