Victoria Elena Nones Utterly Incompetent Producer/Teacher Chicago Illinois

Get ready for a Big Mac

Compliment: You are great at making believable promises

Criticism: First off the whole reason I wrote my issues down here is because you can't take any criticism at all.  If people could see the way you act behind this rebuttal they would know you as the fraud you are. You want to "discuss" my concerns?  Ok cool. Let's start with how you have tried and ARE TRYING to turn us against each other.  You forced us to critique a program tht we were like a month into, made us do it openly WHILE WE WERE STILL IN THE PROGRAM, and then straight up just rejected any suggestions or criticisms.  Because why, you're perfect?  I am like 90 percent sure you punished anybody who actually had anything to say because people dropped out pretty soon after that. 

And all the crap you've been talking and doing since I couldn't take it anymore just really made me realize how right I was to put this out there.  How badly do you want to boot me out of your group that you're on the warpath and getting all of us against each other?  I'm sick of tiptoing around you and your cult leader bullsh*t, Victoria.  So if you wanna "discuss" my "concerns then let's do it here where you can't try to fli[ it around and try to convince me that what I heard straight up with my goddamne ears is a lie. 

First off, the program isn't "free" if you're getting 20% of the donations that I raise with zero help from you.  Yeah, real charities take like 9% if that, and they provide services and stuff.  Cool that we get a space, but I don't know or understand any more about production, structure, preparing a shoot or what I need for it.  Or cameras, what anyone on the crew does, the actualy business, any of that.  I honestly feel more lost about what I'm doing than when I came in the program, so while you're really strong on the fact it's "free" I can't imagine paying to know less than I did before.

How are you accelerating anything?  You said you had crew and equipment that we were going to have a chance at using.  Not only did that turn out to be students, YOU DIDN'T EVEN HAVE ANY LINES UP!!  Like I said earlier, basically crashing an event and trying to grab college students while they're leaving at the end is so embarassing.  So desperate and especially because I couldnt even ask good questions, because I had no idea what to ask. Unbeilievable that you don't see how that might be a "concern."

How about I'm really sure that my project is either not going to get done or it's going to be terrible because you have given zero support on finding real crews once your plan to use college kids failed.  The one piece of crew you did provide, that you said came with equipment?  Well, he didn't.  Oh and trying to rent anything needs insurance that you decided not to provide for any of the twelve projects you decided to take on.

Most frustrating of all, you keep just straight out ditching us.  This is YOUR PROGRAM, where you're supposed to be working with writers on accelerating our scripts, so how can you get all of us excited and then skip?  Are you going to say the same thing you always do, that "You never said you were going to be there every class."  Yeah ok, but anyone reading this is gonna know that excuse is bullsh*t, and you should too.

Compliment: You are excellent at maintaining confidence in the face of overwhelming odds.

Criticism: You literally don't know how to produce, you don't know how to develop scripts, you don't even seem to know how to structure a program to do those things.  Here's a tip though, reading chapters out of "You're a Bad A*s" isn't part of it.  A large part of this is on me, to be fair, cause I should have googled you to see what you had produced.  But to be even more fair, you misrepresented yourself as someone who could mentor a group of funny women to successful production, and you aren't.  You can't.  You don't know what you're doing.

YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING

If you want to make this program better, here's the first place I would start: you shouldn't be involved at any level.  Find someone who is competent and either producing or teaching.  Honestly, find someone good at fundraising who can put even a little money behind a couple of these projects.  Just bring in someone on a permanent basis that has some actually useful knowledge to pass on.  And stop saying we should be able to shoot on iPhones and have it be just as good, because even I know that's embarrassing.  Unless you wanna blog, which it sounds like you maybe do.  I want "Chicago quality" to be every bit as good and creative as "Hollywood quality," but it never will be if you're the one leading the charge.

use your conwoman skills for good and get some people with money to be as excited about developing Chicago talent as we were to come do what seemed like a dream program.  Make amazing promises of all the women you can help, and then you can take 15%, because at that point you will earn it.

And quit acting like you're the victim here just because I reached my breaking point with you incompetent bullsh*t and decided to call you out.

Respond here, in public.  I'm not giving you my name.

Hi! This is Victoria and I am sorry to hear that you had a bad experience in our free WiCo script accelerator program. We would love the opportunity to chat with you constructively about your concerns and look for solutions together. Since this review is anonymous, I am unable to identify who has these concerns out of our group of 12 women selected to the free script accelerator program, but I welcome the opportunity to chat in person, offline to remedy.  Please contact me directly and let's find a way to help you feel better and chat about ways we can strengthen the program to improve it for future iterations. 

Best,

Victoria