Community over Competition
There are enough challenges to overcome, enough obstacles to traverse, and enough gatekeepers to appease. FilmLab is dedicated to making your filmmaking process a cheaper, and easier one. We’re not your competition, we’re your community.
A New Paradigm
If you’re interested in attaining discounted gear, guidance and introductions to our fiscal sponsor partnerships, production insurance, crew recommendations, or anything else under the banner of FilmLab,, without giving up ownership of your film or IP, we’re interested in saving you time and money. Every film we empower, empowers the community at large.
A Case Study
Without Us.
An independent film shops around and the best deal they can find for their specific gear needs is $2000. Additionally, they approach an insurance brokerage and ask for a short-term insurance policy, they get a quote for $1500. Their total cost for gear and insurance is $3500.
With Us.
This film hears about us and inquires. We take that same gear list and manage to source it for $1650 instead of $2000. We review their list, their shoot dates, and their production needs, and arrive at a fee of $1000 In total, we charge them $2650. This not only saves the production $850, but gives the production access to our relationships, our vetting process of vendors, our insights about the logistics of the production, and a vast array of knowledge from doing this so regularly in comparison to almost any independent film company. For $850 less, the production gets its gear and insurance needs met, in addition to a plethora of other benefits.