Open Filmmaker Toolkit

Free, open-source tools and templates for documentary and independent narrative filmmakers. Open a tool in your browser, load your project file, and keep working: your data never leaves your computer.

Status: Early release. Every tool is a first version, so expect rough edges, and tell us what's broken or missing from the new issue page. Where it's headed: the Roadmap.

Contents

• Quick start
• What this is
• The tools
• How our tools work
• Shared project file
• Who it's for
• Repository layout
• Validation
• Licenses
• Not legal advice
• Maintainers
• Contributing

Quick start

The easiest way in is the toolkit's home page: every tool, by stage of production. Click a tool to use it in your browser. Open it once and you can install it as an app that works without an internet connection.

To use the tools offline, or to work on them:

1. Clone the repo, or download it as a ZIP:

   git clone https://github.com/open-filmmaker-toolkit/toolkit.git
   

2. Open tools/clearance-log/index.html in Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari.
3. Click Open file and choose samples/the-river-keeps.oft.json.
4. Make a change, then save. The same file opens in the music cue sheet.

That's it. No install, no build step, no account. Each tool is one self-contained HTML file. Open index.html for the home page, which works offline too.

What this is

The toolkit has two halves:

1. Tools we build to fill the gaps, especially the paperwork that runs on hand-built spreadsheets today: clearances, releases, rights, funding and impact. They are listed by production phase in TOOLS.md.
2. A directory of other people's open-source tools, sorted by production phase, so filmmakers don't pay for what's already free. See Other open-source tools, also linked from the home page.

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