FilmCom
Platform · For film commissions
The operating system a film commission runs on.
A location library a scout can actually search, an intake that turns a property owner into a listing, and a way to send a production a package of real places instead of a folder of photographs.
What it does
Three jobs, done properly.
Find the place
Locations searchable the way a scout thinks — by what the place reads as on camera, what period it passes for, what a truck can get to, how much power is on site, and what it sounds like at 6am.
Sign up the owner
A property owner walks through what a shoot actually involves, what they are agreeing to, and what they are not. Consent is recorded with the words they were shown, not assumed from a form submission.
Send the package
Staff assemble a set of locations against a production's brief and send one link. The scout sees a considered answer to their question instead of a shared drive.
Two people have to be served
A commission sits between a production and a neighbour.
For the commission
- One library instead of a drive, a spreadsheet and somebody's memory
- Owner intake that arrives complete rather than needing three phone calls
- Scout verification before anyone is given a property owner's address
- A record of who consented to what, and when
- Staff moderation before anything reaches the public
For the scout
- Search by period, terrain, access and infrastructure — not by folder name
- Photography that shows the location, not the county's best sunset
- Straight answers on power, vehicle access, cell coverage and ambient noise
- A named contact at the commission who can arrange a visit
- No cold-calling a homeowner who never agreed to be called
The part most systems skip
Consent is the spine, not a checkbox.
A location library is a list of other people's homes, barns and businesses. Get that wrong once — publish an address nobody agreed to publish, send a stranger up a private drive — and a commission spends years earning the county back. FilmCom is built so that failure is difficult rather than merely discouraged.
Addresses are never published
Owners give a full address so the commission can do its job. The public site shows photographs, a general description and proximity. The address stays with staff.
No listing without a yes
A property is not listed until its owner has consented through the normal route. That rule binds the commission's own seeding too, or it is worth nothing.
Scouts are verified first
Name, email and production company are checked before a site visit is arranged, and the owner is given a code to confirm the person at the gate is who they say.
In the field
Built against a real county, not a wireframe.
FilmCom is in pilot with the Yosemite Mariposa Film Commission in Mariposa County, California — Gold Rush Main Streets, oak woodland, working ranch land, a fairgrounds with a dirt arena and a 3,000-seat grandstand, and the western gateway to Yosemite.
Every feature above exists because a real commission needed it on a real property. The owner onboarding was written for people whose barn is also their livelihood.
Every county has locations. Most cannot show them.
If you run a film commission — or you are trying to start one — we would rather show you the working system than send a deck.