Hi all, Nick from Storiara here. We build pre-production software for film and TV: upload a script and it breaks it into scenes, cast, locations, props and wardrobe, and you build the stripboard schedule, the budget and the call sheets from that one breakdown.

Today we launched Storiara Studio, a plan for studios and production companies that run more than one production at a time. It adds a private workspace with your own branding, sign-in through your company account, two-step sign-in for every user, and a log of who viewed, printed or exported what. Scripts are never used to train AI. It also keeps Movie Magic compatibility, so you can import a Movie Magic Budgeting or Scheduling file, work on it in Storiara, and export it back.

I've been making short films for as long as I can remember. 

My first short was back in middle school, where my brother and I pretended we were in Star Wars, dueling with dowel rod lightsabers. By the time I met my co-founders, Spencer and Charlie, in college, my storytelling had (I hope) evolved well past my VFX-obsessed origin story.

We met on the set of a feel-good student short I directed last fall. But this wasn t backyard filmmaking anymore. We quickly got stuck in a hellish landscape of spreadsheets. Nobody s availability lined up, everyone was overwhelmed, and it took forever to finish the film.

Wow. AMC Theatres, a major American corporation, actually chose real creators OVER AI slop.

Pulling the award-winning AI short, "Thanksgiving Day" by Igor Alferov from its Screenvision Media preshow wasn't a small move. It was a recommitment to audiences who's outcry was heard.