Film & Production
Manage your production, your crew and your footage from one place
A sample client site in Film & Production
Fictional names, prices and reviews, showing the kind of site you can build.
Ads and short films from idea to delivery, on a clear shoot schedule
Start a project- 210
- productions
- 11
- awards
- 4K
- delivery
30-second ad
Script, shoot and edit
SAR 28,000
Event coverage
Two crews and a recap film
SAR 9,500
Gear rental
Cinema cameras and lights
SAR 1,200/day
“We review the edit and comment on the exact second.”
“The shoot days and locations schedule was clear to everyone.”
Challenges
- Scheduling crew, equipment and shooting locations changes daily, and coordinating over WhatsApp and Excel causes errors and clashing appointments.
- Production budgets branch into many line items (crew, equipment, locations, travel, post-production) and are hard to track in real time.
- Reviewing the day's footage (dailies) and getting the director's and producer's approval takes time and moves through disorganised links and groups.
- Film commission requirements, permits, contracts and electronic invoices (ZATCA) need careful organisation and follow-up.
- Selling cinema tickets, scheduling screenings and tracking occupancy need dedicated systems instead of relying on expensive off-the-shelf tools.
Systems you can build
- An internal production management system: projects, the shooting schedule (call sheet), crew tasks and the status of every scene.
- A budget dashboard: cost line items, actual spend against plan, and overrun alerts.
- A booking and scheduling system for equipment and crew to prevent clashes between projects.
- An external dailies review platform: the editor uploads the clips, and the director and producer comment and approve.
- A cinema ticket booking site/app with screening times and electronic payment.
- Automation for contracts, electronic invoices and crew notifications over WhatsApp.
Ready prompts: copy and paste into Uttra
Production operations room system
Build me an internal system for managing film production operations that brings every project (films, series, commercials) into one dashboard, each project with its stages (prep, shoot, post-production) and a daily shooting schedule (call sheet) showing the scenes, locations, crew call times and the status of every scene in real time. Make the system support fine-grained roles and permissions (RBAC): executive producer, production manager, assistant director, crew coordinator and an observer, each seeing and editing only what concerns them, with secure login, two-factor authentication and an audit log recording who changed what and when. Design an indexed database that handles thousands of scenes and tasks, use task queues to generate shooting schedules and crew notifications without slowing the interface, and caching for the dashboards that are opened often. Make the interface English-first with Arabic support, responsive on mobile at the shooting location, and accessible, with instant alerts on scheduling conflicts or a late task. Add automatic daily backups, rate limiting, and monitoring and logs (observability) for every sensitive operation. Connect crew alerts to WhatsApp via an API key from the secret store, and make the system production-ready with a professional user experience, tests and short documentation of how it works.
Client and financier portal
Build me an external portal where the client or financing body (an agency, a government entity, a financier) follows the progress of their production project transparently: completion percentage per stage, key deliverables, a budget summary approved for display, and the timeline, with the ability to approve stages and comment on them. Give each client their own account and a space fully isolated from the others through strict roles and permissions (RBAC), secure login and two-factor authentication, so no client ever sees another project's data. Design the portal to serve hundreds of concurrent users at delivery time: an indexed database, caching for recurring reports, and a content delivery network (CDN) to display attachments, images and approved footage fast from anywhere. Apply world-class security standards: data encryption, protection against common attacks, rate limiting, and backups, with an audit log for every approval or comment. Make the interface English-first with Arabic support, responsive on mobile, and accessible. Add ZATCA-compliant electronic invoicing for the payments, and connect approval notifications to WhatsApp via an API key. Deliver it production-ready with a clean experience, tests and short documentation.
Production and permits automation engine
Build me an automation engine for film production that automates the repetitive work eating the production coordinator's time: generating shooting schedules and sending them to the crew automatically over WhatsApp before the shoot day, creating contracts and purchase orders from ready templates with one click, issuing ZATCA-compliant electronic invoices for clients and suppliers, and reminders about expiring permits and film commission requirements. Design the engine on reliable task queues that process thousands of scheduled operations with automatic retries on failure and a log for every operation, so no message or invoice is ever lost. Make the automation rules customisable from an interface with roles and permissions (RBAC) and secure login, with a full audit log. Apply world-class security: encryption of the keys in the secret store, rate limiting towards the messaging providers, backups, and monitoring with alerts when any integration breaks. Connect WhatsApp, the local payment gateways (mada/Apple Pay/Moyasar/HyperPay) and ZATCA via API keys. Make the interface English-first with Arabic support and accessible, and deliver it production-ready with tests and short documentation of every automation path.
Cinema-goer experience app
Build me a mobile app (and companion site) for the cinema-goer experience: browsing films and upcoming releases, screening times, a real-time seat map, booking and electronic payment, digital tickets with a QR code, a loyalty and points programme, and notifications about new releases. Make seat booking instant and safe, preventing double booking entirely through seat-level locks and real-time updating of the auditorium state, so it withstands demand peaks when a big film launches. Design an architecture that scales to millions of users: an indexed database, sharded when needed, caching for the screening schedules and seat maps, task queues for issuing tickets and notifications, and a content delivery network (CDN) for posters and trailers. Connect the local payment gateways (mada/Apple Pay/Moyasar/HyperPay) via API keys in the secret store, send the tickets over WhatsApp and email, and issue ZATCA invoices. Apply roles and permissions (RBAC) for the customer and for the box office staff, secure login, and world-class security (encryption, protection against attacks, rate limiting, backups). Make the app English-first with Arabic support, fast, accessible, and production-ready with tests and documentation.
Distribution and streaming platform (VOD) for millions of users
Build me a video-on-demand distribution and streaming platform (VOD) for local cinematic content, with the primary focus on an architecture that withstands millions of concurrent users. The platform offers a catalogue of films and series, content pages, subscriptions and bundles, renting or buying an episode/film, resume tracking, and recommendations. Make the streaming adaptive-quality (adaptive streaming) over a global content delivery network (CDN), with task queues for video transcoding into multiple qualities on upload without slowing the platform. Design an indexed database sharded for content, users and viewing history, a caching layer for the most-requested pages and catalogue, and load balancing to withstand launch peaks. Apply roles and permissions (RBAC): viewer, content editor and administrator, with secure login, two-factor authentication and protection of the content against unauthorised downloading. Connect the subscriptions to the local payment gateways (mada/Apple Pay/Moyasar/HyperPay) and issue ZATCA invoices. Adopt world-class security (encryption, protection against common attacks, rate limiting, backups) and monitoring, analytics and logs (observability) for every viewing session. Make the interface English-first with Arabic support, responsive and accessible, and production-ready with tests and short architectural documentation.
Questions about Film & Production
You describe your idea to Uttra in your own words and it builds you an internal control dashboard (one screen from which you run everything) containing: • Every project (film/commercial/series) with its status and stages. • A daily shooting schedule (call sheet) showing the scenes, locations and crew call times. • The crew list, their roles and the status of every task. All of it in one place instead of Excel and group chats, and you can edit by clicking directly and add fields whenever you need.
With Uttra you build an internal booking system that shows a calendar per camera/piece of equipment/crew member and blocks double booking automatically. When a producer books a piece of equipment for a given date, it disappears from availability for the other projects at that time, and you get an alert if a conflict arises. The result is clearer coordination and less wasted shooting time.
Uttra builds you a budget dashboard that splits cost into line items (crew, equipment, locations, travel, post-production). You enter the plan for each item, the actual spend updates as it happens, and the spend ratio appears in colour with an alert as you approach the limit. You can produce a report per project to show the executive producer or the financing body.
With Uttra you build a simple external platform where the editor uploads the day's clips, and the director and producer can watch and write notes pinned to the timecode, then press approved or needs changes. Every note is saved and organised instead of getting lost in links and chats, and you can protect access with dedicated accounts for the team.
Uttra builds you a site or mobile app showing the films, screening times and a seat map, where the customer books and pays electronically. You connect a local payment gateway (mada, Apple Pay, Moyasar or HyperPay) via an API key in the secret store, and the ticket reaches them over WhatsApp or email. You own the whole system instead of paying ready-made platforms a fee on every ticket.
You use Uttra's task scheduling for the repetitive automation: • Sending the shooting schedule and reminders to the crew automatically over WhatsApp (by connecting a messaging provider through an API key). • Generating contracts and purchase orders from ready templates with one click. • Issuing ZATCA-compliant electronic invoices for clients and suppliers. It cuts manual errors and saves the production coordinator hours.
Instead of paying monthly subscriptions for each tool (project management, dailies review, ticket booking) that you don't own, with Uttra you build your systems once and own the code (export it or connect it to GitHub). The positioning is goodbye to rented technology: you pay once and develop whenever you want, instead of a recurring cost that grows with your team and your project count.
Start with whatever costs you the most time, usually the shooting schedule and project management. Describe your team and your production stages to Uttra and you get an initial dashboard to try on one project. Once it settles, add the budget, then dailies review, then the customer-facing side (booking/tickets) step by step. Every system you build integrates with the one before it, because you own it entirely.
The key is not to upload the heavy original video and then serve it as is, because it's slow for a director reviewing from their phone on location. The solution you build with Uttra works like this:• When the editor uploads a clip, it enters a processing queue that automatically generates a compressed preview version at several qualities, so it opens fast on any connection. • The video is served through a content delivery network (CDN), so it arrives quickly from the point nearest the viewer instead of one distant server. • Notes are pinned to the timecode down to the second and saved in an organised way with an approved / needs changes status, protected by accounts and permissions for every team member. So the review becomes fast and tidy even when the team is spread across several cities.
This is the most critical moment, and you handle it with two layers: stability and conflict prevention.• To prevent a seat being sold twice: the system holds the seat with a momentary lock for a few seconds while the customer chooses, and any second request for the same seat is rejected instantly, so no double booking happens no matter the pressure. • To withstand the peak: load is spread across more than one server, with caching of the seat map and screening schedules, and a queue for issuing tickets and notifications after payment is confirmed, so the interface stays fast. • Plus rate limiting that stops any automated attempts, and monitoring that alerts you the moment load rises. The result: the customer books with confidence, and you can be sure the system holds when demand surges.
The idea is to build them in Uttra on one database and one unified authentication, so they become a single ecosystem you own entirely, not scattered subscriptions. In practice:• One login and permissions system (RBAC) serving all the systems, so an employee signs in once and sees what concerns them. • Data is shared: the project in the production system appears in the budget, and the finished film moves to the ticketing platform and then to VOD with the same identity. • You connect them to shared integrations (WhatsApp, local payment, ZATCA) through the secret store once. And you can start with one system (usually the shooting schedule or the budget) and add the rest step by step, each new system integrating with the previous one because you own all the code.
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