Seen. Made. Paid.

The studio of tomorrow today

We get storytellers seen, get their work made and get them paid.

Bring us a brief

Trusted by studios, agencies and brands

How we do it

How we get storytellers seen, made and paid

Seen.

We run events and competitions all year round to grow the community and get your work seen at the biggest industry events in the world, from the London Film Festival to Cannes and Tribeca. Your film screens in front of an expert panel, a live audience and the people who commission and buy.

Big Screen Hack on stage at the IMAX — Premiere night at the IMAX

A full room at the Big Screen Hack event in New York — Tribeca, New York

A frame from lilies — Screened at Cinéum Cannes

Expert panel · Emmy and BAFTA winners

Public vote

London · Cannes · New York

Made.

Bring an idea or a brief. We match the right team from day one, shape it in real-time previs, and make the strongest version.

The briefA 30-second ad for Northwind, a steel bottle that keeps drinks ice cold.

Team matched from the brief

Previs frame: water poured over ice — Direction A · Ice cold

Previs frame: the bottle on a mountain trail — Direction B · On the trail

Previs frame: the Northwind bottle in the dark — Real-time previs, made in StoryMachine

Paid.

Brand commissions and distribution partners take the work to an audience, and the money goes back to the people who made it.

Key art for a series in development — Series in development

Distribution RecDek House

Brand commissions

Paid to the storyteller

What we offer

The studio of the future gives you tools to create, predictive creative intelligence and ways to make money.

Tools to create

Real-time previs for ads, films and series. Direct in plain words and see it as you think it.

The canvas 02

Predictive creative intelligence

Know which idea works, and for whom, so you create better before anyone spends.

The brain 03

Ways to make money

Paid brand briefs matched to the right creators, and distribution deals that put the work on screen.

Get paid

01 · Tools to create

From brief to ad, in real time.

01Brief
Most of our work starts as an ad. A brand brings a brief, a script or a single line.
02Match the team
The brief is matched to creators from day one: a director for an ad, or a whole team for a film.
03Explore in real time
The team and the brand see directions as previs while they describe them, and change them in plain words.
04Predict
Creative Predictive Intelligence shows which direction works best, and for whom, before anyone spends.
05Make
The team makes the chosen direction, with each shot sent to the model best suited to it.

After Hours· Example ad brief

The brief

A 30-second ad. Late-night city energy, intimate, not polished.

From the brand

Creative intelligenceReads the brief

Team matched from the brief

DirectorAds and short film

EditorFast-cut social

SoundMusic and mix

Real-time previs

Direction A

The quiet ritual

Restrained

Direction B

Her eyes

Character-led

Direction C

After hours

Energetic

Predicted response

Strongest direction: C

The team makes it · model router

Shot 5 · The leap

Video modelBest for motionImage model

02 · Predictive creative intelligence

A creative brain that learns what works.

Every film made, judged, voted on and watched teaches it what audiences respond to, and why, so you create better.

00Brain scansTesting
01Expert panelLive
02Public votesLive
03Views and watch timeStarting
04Eye trackingTesting

Silhouette of an expert panel member — **Expert panel**Emmy-winning editor

Watching

**Eye tracking**Where attention goes, frame by frame

Which storyWhich creatorWhich cut

Know what will win before it's made.

03 · Ways to make money

Good work should pay.

Two routes to getting paid. Brands bring us briefs, and partners take the strongest stories to an audience.

Team matching

Paid briefs, matched from day one

Most of our work is advertising. When a brand brings a brief, we match it to the right director, or a whole team for a film, at the very start. The people who make the work get paid for it.

Distribution

From the cinema screen to TV

Distribution partners like Fairground on The Roku Channel, and RecDek House, take the strongest stories to an audience. Big Screen Hack Greenlight films get development support with StoryMachine and Fairground, and a share of the revenue when they air.

Case studies

Seen, made and paid, for real.

lilies · Muja Studios

Big Screen Hack to brand work

Muja Studios: from a warehouse job to ads for global brands

Seen
Jabir Mohammed was working in a warehouse when he made lilies on his own in 48 hours at Big Screen Hack. It won Best in Show and the Panalux Award, screened at Cinéum Cannes, then won the OMNI Golden AI Performance award in Sydney against more than 3,800 entries.
Made
Through our creator network he went on to make ads for Tottenham Hotspur and Tata Consultancy Services. Since then he has worked for Riyadh Air and Atlético de Madrid through the Spanish studio Somos Capra.
Paid
He founded Muja Studios, which is now a Big Screen Hack partner.

“It's not about the tools. It's completely about the networking, it's completely about the visibility of your work.”

Jabir Mohammed, Muja Studios

Tottenham Hotspur

Made by Muja Studios, a Big Screen Hack winner matched to the brief through our creator network.

Tata Consultancy Services

Made by Muja Studios, a Big Screen Hack winner matched to the brief through our creator network.

Watch the film Film · Winner and StoryMachine's pick

Hard Times Make

Amir Levi-Krone

A one-take dark comedy on a New York rooftop: a broke man is stood up by his only friend, finds a reason to smile, then loses it all.

Watch the film Film · Winner, The Greenlight

Not Your Puppet

Pablo Fernandez Eyre

In a Hollywood where puppets are the stars, a young assistant sparks a rebellion. Now being developed into a series with StoryMachine and Fairground.

Watch the film Film · Finalist

The Aime

Enav Horovitz

Gigi switches off AIME, her AI assistant, and sends her family into chaos, finding out what AI is really for.

Watch the film Film · Highly commended

La Divina Commedia: Inferno

Gianluca Fratellini

Dante and Virgil's journey into the Inferno, brought to the screen.

Watch the film Film · London 2026

The Glass Tail

Roos van der Jagt

A shy little mermaid discovers that the beauty she hides holds every colour of the rainbow.

Watch the film Film · London 2026

The Discovery of Consciousness

Zvezdin

A trailer: a scientist takes on the oldest question in spirituality and measures what no one else could.

“I was really amazed at the quality and fidelity of the videos. We’ll definitely work with Big Screen Hack and StoryMachine again.”

Ben, SmartyPlants

Testimonial from an expert panel member to come

The community · Big Screen Hack

Storytellers, proven in public.

Big Screen Hack brings filmmakers together to make work in days, screen it in cinemas and have it judged by people who make films for a living. It is where we find the storytellers we back.

1,000+storytellers have taken part