Driving Innovation in Film and TV Media Creation and Distribution
Agents of Change
MovieLabs is a Technology Joint Venture of the Major Hollywood Studios
We research, experiment and develop new solutions and practices that improve the technologies, processes and tools used in the film and TV industry. ​From media creation through distribution, MovieLabs drives innovation and develops specifications and resources for the entertainment community.​
We developed a bold 10-year vision for the adoption of new technologies to aid in content production, post and VFX, commonly referred to as the 2030 Vision.
We drive new technologies and standards that make digital content distribution more efficient, including the MovieLabs Digital Distribution Framework.
Help shape the future of media creation
The MovieLabs Industry Forum
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Introducing
2030 Greenlight
2030 Greenlight is a MovieLabs sponsored project which brings together industry leading technology and service providers to jointly build and deploy interoperable solutions which directly address the challenges faced by filmmakers today.
MovieLabs Showcase Program
Case Study Library
Read how other companies have successfully implemented elements of the 2030 Vision to drive change and improve efficiency in their workflows
Strategic Objectives
Featured Initiatives
2030 Vision for the Future of Media Creation
The 10 year vision for the future of media production, post and creative technologies.
Common Security Architecture for Production
A new zero-trust architecture to improve the security of cloud-based production workflows.
Evolution of Production Workflows
A new approach to enabling interoperable, flexible workflows that remove friction and mundane repetitive tasks.
Movielabs Digital Distribution Framework
A suite of compatible specifications that enable automation, cost reduction, and improve the consumer’s experience of digital media.
Ontology for Media Creation
A common approach to improve communication about workflows and enable automation between people, tools, and systems.
Visual Language
A new graphic library to draw and share content workflows between participants and tools with unique open-source icons for our industry​.
MovieLabs Member Studios
Together with our member studios, we partner with major technology companies, service providers, system integrators, standards organizations and start-ups to encourage new technologies that will transform and improve our industry.​
Latest MovieLabs News
MovieLabs Announces Industry Forum Leadership Council and Inaugural Members to support Global Implementation of the MovieLabs 2030 Vision
Leon Silverman Appointed Chair of the MovieLabs Industry Forum
MovieLabs Releases New Utility for Checking Implementations of the Ontology for Media Creation JSON.
OMC JSON Validator helps developers test their Ontology apps with useful error messaging and suggested best practices
MovieLabs Releases v2.6 of the Ontology for Media Creation
Release Includes both Fixes and New Features
Most Recent 2030 Blog Posts
How to Avoid Identifier Mayhem: Best Practices (Part 3 of 3)
This is the final installment of the three-part blog series on identifiers. In the first part, we examined why identifiers are important in the professional media creation universe. In the second part (link), we discussed what well-designed identifiers look like and...
How to Avoid Identifier Mayhem: Concepts (Part 2 of 3)
This is Part 2 of the Identifier Blog series. In Part 1, we examined why we care about identifiers in media creation workflows. In this part, we will explore several concepts related to identifiers as well as how the MovieLabs Ontology for Media Creation (OMC) defines...
How to Avoid Identifier Mayhem: Introduction (Part 1 of 3)
Introduction The MovieLabs white paper, The Evolution of Media Creation, i.e., 2030 Vision, laid out a future where significant media creation processes happen across multi-cloud infrastructures1, redundant tasks are eliminated, non-creative repetitive tasks are...