Investing in the Future of Film at no cost to the University

FilmLab is the only professional, established production company dedicated to helping students produce their films, and we don’t charge a fee for it. We believe in learning by doing, so we’re not interested in doing the work for your students, or interfering with your educational methods, we’re just here to help make the logistical side of things easier, and cheaper, for everyone in your program.

Over the last three years, we’ve had students from USC, SVA, Pace, Columbia, Oberlin, and the New School to name a few, reach out for help with their student productions.  In helping these projects, we learned that students are overpaying for gear and production insurance, from 3rd party vendors, the same way that professional filmmakers often do later in their careers.  Insurance brokerages are notorious for arbitrary inflations in price quotes for policies that students don’t need, or don’t have the time to peruse in detail.  

It’s a simple model, but a new one:  the more projects we help, the stronger we become as an entity, the more substantial the benefits become, the more effectively we’re able to return those benefits back to the entire film community.  By helping you, we’re helping ourselves; in saving you money, we’re making ours, and we’re investing in a more informed, more protected, more empowered future for the film industry at large.  

Rather than continue to serve the needs of random individual students, we’ve begun to partner with Universities to ensure that all of your students get our help and guidance, instead of a select few who happen to be referred to us.  Help us change a paradigm that has long benefitted folks who aren’t authentically invested in filmmakers or community, by allowing us to become a part of the most integral aspect of every industry:  our education.  We look forward to hearing from you.  

The FilmLab Team