The production system for AI filmmaking ◆ Private beta

See the whole film before it exists.

Script in — finished shots out. Forge Cinema breaks the screenplay into scenes, holds every character to their dossier, boards every shot, animates each frame with AI and exports rendered video ready for your edit. The whole production runs in one system — and your financiers can read it too.

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SCENE 12 / HARBOUR / 6 SETUPS ONE CHARACTER · NO REROLLS
00 / Inside the system

Not a promise. A working system.

Forge Cinema storyboard: dark scene strip with frame reference panel
StoryboardEvery frame carries its reference, size and brief — the scene plays from the strip.
Forge Cinema scene breakdown table
Scene breakdownCast, timing, INT/EXT, props — the table a production actually runs on.
Forge Cinema node canvas with image models
Node canvasPrompts and references flow into any model — the result lands in a numbered shot.
01 / The thing that breaks

One character. Six setups.

@saide — character bible
References34 images · 4 folders
Wardrobe@wool-coat
Appears inSc. 8, 11, 12, 14, 19
StatusLocked

Every generator can produce a beautiful ten seconds. None of them can produce the same face twice on purpose. In Forge Cinema the character isn't a prompt — it's an entity with a handle, a reference set and a wardrobe note, and every frame that tags @saide inherits all of it. That is the difference between footage and a film.

In

A script goes in

Forge Cinema reads it, breaks it into scenes, and builds the boards — every shot numbered, cast, timed and owned.

Inside

The whole production runs here

Dossiers, boards, generation, review, sign-off — one system the entire crew works in, from first breakdown to final frame.

Out

Finished shots, ready to cut

Every board frame animates into a rendered video shot for your edit bay — plus a scene breakdown export, and boards financiers read without translation.

Ten seconds is content. Ten minutes is cinema.

We build for the second one.

02 / Positioning

Built for the picture, not the feed

Most AI video tools optimise for the single viral output — presets, effects, a community feed. That work is real, and it is not filmmaking. A film is a thousand decisions held consistent across months, departments and revisions. This is built for that job.

Tools built for clips
Forge Cinema
Unit of work
One clip
One picture — scenes, shots and the whole schedule
Memory
Your last prompt
A project bible that outlives every prompt and every model
Continuity
Reroll until it roughly matches
@handles bind a character, location, prop or costume to every frame it appears in
The crew
One account, one person
Producer-controlled access, department roles, per-shot ownership
What you leave with
A file in a downloads folder
Rendered video shots for the edit, a scene breakdown export, boards and a shot list
03 / The pipeline

Script to boards, in one system

Stage 01 — Preproduction

Everything the film is made of

Attach the script; Forge Cinema reads it and proposes the cast and locations for you to confirm. Four departments hold the rest — characters, locations, props, costumes — and nothing is described to the machine twice.

  • Characters, Locations, Props, Costumes — galleries and folders in each
  • Every entity gets a unique @handle you can tag into any shot
  • Script lives in the project — PDF, DOCX or TXT, readable in-app
  • The producer invites the crew by email and decides who can do what
Stage 02 — Production

Generate, then place it in the film

An infinite node canvas where prompts and references flow into a model — and the result flows straight into a numbered shot of a numbered scene.

  • Prompt and reference nodes → model → result, wired on one canvas
  • Model-agnostic: new image and video models plug in through an adapter
  • Jobs run async — queued, generating, ready, failed — the canvas never blocks
  • Full history: preview, model, prompt, author, date, cost
  • Import a scene breakdown from XLSX, or build the scene list by hand
  • Every frame animates into a rendered video shot — exported for the edit
  • Scene breakdown exports back out once the boards are locked
Stage 03 — Postproduction

Designed in, shipping next

Compositing, masking and assembly already sit in the architecture and land after the first release. We would rather ship the pipeline solid than the demo wide.

  • Node compositor, painter, channel and blur tools
  • Mask extraction, mask by text, matte grow and shrink
  • Sequence assembly and export
04 / The storyboard

Two views of the same scene

Directors think in frames. Producers think in rows. Both are the same data — change either one and the scene updates.

Scene 12 readiness88%
SCENE 12 · 6 SHOTS · 00:50
05 / Before you upload a script

The boring part that decides everything

Confidentiality

An unreleased script is the most valuable file you own

Material is scoped to its project. Only people the producer invited to that project can open it — there is no shared library, no public feed, no discovery surface.

  • Project-scoped access, granted by the producer alone
  • HTTPS only; passwords salted and hashed; login attempts rate-limited
  • Uploads validated by type and size; executables rejected
  • Sign-ins, generation jobs and token operations all logged
  • Daily database backups, fourteen-day retention
Longevity

Models change monthly. Your production shouldn't.

Forge Cinema doesn't bet the product on one generator. Image and video models sit behind a single adapter layer, so a better model next quarter is a catalogue entry — not a migration. Your dossiers, scenes, shots and boards stay exactly where they are.

06 / Cohort 01

Ten seats.

The first cohort is ten productions. Not a metric — a constraint: every team gets onboarding with the people who built this, and that doesn't scale past ten. Teams with a project in front of them go first — features, series, shorts, spots.

  • Access before public launch
  • Onboarding with the people who built it
  • Direct influence on what ships in the first release
  • No newsletter — we write when there's something to open
Cohort 01 / 10 productions —
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A FORGE CINEMA PRODUCTION

Your film, from the first frame.

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