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Filmmaker Program

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Your real project. Your honest notes.

Plan, shoot and cut a real film in CSF. When something helps, or gets in your way, tell us from inside the app. Your feedback pays for your Pro plan.

Make the film here, and tell us how it went

Break the script down, build the schedule, send the call sheets, run the set from the crew app and cut the takes. Along the way, tap a thumb up or down, or record what you see when something breaks. That feedback pays for your Pro plan, and it decides what we fix next.

Open at any level. The bar is a real project and honest notes.

Your side of the trade

What you work with while you make the film and tell us how it went.

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The whole production in one place

Script, breakdown, storyboards, shot lists, stripboard, budget and call sheets, in one project. A short, a feature, a series or a music video.

The set in every pocket

The crew app carries the call sheet, the crew map and department chat. Video Village sends the live picture to whoever needs to watch.

A filmmaker at a desk at night recording a walkthrough of his schedule, index cards pinned on the wall behind

Three buttons at the top of every project

Thumbs up, thumbs down, and a record button. A short recording of the thing that broke tells us more than a page of notes.

Pro, paid for in feedback

Keep telling us how it goes and you keep Pro. We look at what came in each season.

New tools, first

You try new features on your real project before they ship, and your notes shape how they land.

Four filmmakers around a kitchen table late at night showing each other cuts on laptops

A community of makers

A private room with the other members in it. Trade techniques, find crew, get notes on a cut.

A way into the Fellowship

Members hear first when places open in the Filmmaker Fellowship.

How it works

  1. 1

    Start a real project

    A short, a feature, a series, a music video. Anything you mean to shoot counts.

  2. 2

    Tell us how it goes

    Use the thumbs and the record button at the top of the project whenever something helps or gets in the way.

  3. 3

    Keep Pro while you do

    Once you are in, your feedback pays for your Pro plan.

    We look again each season at what you have sent since the last one.

Open at any level

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Buttons, top of every project

Join the Filmmaker Program

Tell us what you are making and when you plan to shoot. We read every one by hand.

Send a link to past work if you have one.

Before you join

What counts, and how it keeps going.

Any filmmaker with a real project, at any level. A first short counts the same as a fifth feature.

A person answers these, by email.

Tell us what to build next

Make a real film in CSF, and let your feedback pay for Pro.