Prepare → Submit → Review → Agree → Onboard → Deliver
Use this route when you own or represent a production and want FilmMerge to assess a distribution, licensing, or placement pathway.
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The FilmMerge pathway
How It Works
A practical overview of the filmmaker and buyer journeys—from first contact through onboarding, review, delivery, licensing, and ongoing account support.
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Two audiences, two controlled journeys, one clear operating model.
Filmmakers begin with title readiness and review. Buyers begin with organisation verification and access. Both routes move through defined checkpoints before private activity begins.
Request → Verify → Activate → Explore → Evaluate → License
Use this route when you represent a platform, broadcaster, distributor, institution, exhibitor, or other professional content buyer.
View buyer journeyFor filmmakers
Open the filmmaker page From a reviewable production to an organised distribution relationship.
Review the filmmaker pathway
Understand FilmMerge’s content focus, services, eligibility expectations, and the materials needed for a meaningful review.
Submit the title and core information
Provide accurate production information, review material, rights context, artwork, and the required contact details through the designated submission route.
Complete content and readiness review
FilmMerge targets an initial response within approximately 15-30 business days once the required information is available. Complex titles may need further checks.
Confirm the applicable engagement
When a title progresses, the parties clarify scope, rights, territories, responsibilities, commercial terms, and documentation before work begins.
Complete filmmaker onboarding
Approved contacts receive sign-in details, communication guidance, a title checklist, and the account setup instructions needed for the next stage.
Prepare delivery and authorised activity
The accepted master, metadata, artwork, captions, rights records, and destination-specific materials are coordinated for the agreed distribution or licensing pathway.
For buyers
Open the buyer page From verified organisation access to a controlled licensing conversation.
Request verified buyer access
Provide the organisation, professional role, territory, platform type, and content or licensing needs required for FilmMerge to assess the request.
Complete organisation verification
FilmMerge reviews the organisation and intended use so private catalogue, screener, and licensing activity remains connected to authorised buyers.
Confirm contact and access details
FilmMerge confirms the organisation, territory, responsibilities, and catalogue access needed before sign-in details are activated.
Explore the available catalogue
Approved buyers can review available titles, metadata, availability information, and the materials provided for professional evaluation.
Request materials or controlled viewing
Use the designated title route to request further information, a protected screener, or a licensing discussion where available.
Coordinate terms and delivery
The relevant parties clarify rights, territories, windows, commercial terms, contracting, delivery, and records through the agreed communication and contracting steps.
Operational checkpoints
What protects clarity as each journey advances.
These public principles explain why FilmMerge separates interest, verification, agreement, onboarding, and authorised activity instead of treating them as one step.
An enquiry is not an approval
Browsing, submitting, or requesting access starts a review. It does not by itself create an account, agreement, placement, licence, or entitlement to confidential materials.
Information is checked before each next step
Rights, identity, organisation, title, technical, and delivery information may need to be confirmed before the journey can continue.
Agreements govern title-specific activity
Public pages explain the normal route. The applicable agreement and authorised records govern the actual rights, territories, commercial terms, responsibilities, and permitted actions.
Your account keeps relevant information together
After signing in, you can see the records, requests, updates, and guidance relevant to your FilmMerge relationship.
Before you begin
Prepare the information that allows the correct decision to be made.
Accurate preparation does not guarantee approval, but it reduces avoidable delays, prevents incorrect assumptions, and helps each request reach the appropriate FilmMerge contact and next step.
Visit Help CentreFilmmakers should prepare
- A reviewable title and accurate production information
- A clear rights position and disclosure of existing commitments
- Available artwork, trailer, credits, metadata, captions, and master details
- An authorised contact who can complete onboarding and delivery actions
Buyers should prepare
- Organisation identity, professional role, platform type, and territory
- A clear acquisition, programming, screening, or licensing use case
- The content categories, rights, windows, languages, and delivery needs being considered
- An authorised contact able to evaluate titles and coordinate terms
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