Saturation Partners with MovieLabs Industry Forum to Advance Production Finance Standards
LOS ANGELES, February 14, 2025 - Saturation.io has become a member of the MovieLabs Industry Forum, joining major studios and technology companies to advance interoperability standards for production workflows across the entertainment industry.
About the Industry Forum
The MovieLabs Industry Forum is a collaborative effort that includes major studios, including Disney, Warner Bros., Paramount, Sony, and Universal, as well as technology partners including Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Autodesk. The Forum's mandate is to drive the future of media creation by bringing industry stakeholders together to develop shared standards and interoperable workflows.
Saturation's Role
Saturation will participate in working groups addressing real-world implementation of interoperable workflows, bringing production planning and budgeting perspectives to the initiative. As a platform that touches budgets, actuals, payments, and cost reporting across thousands of active productions, Saturation is uniquely positioned to contribute to standards that affect how financial data flows between production tools.
"Production planning and budgeting sit at the center of every project," said Jens Jacob, CEO and producer at Saturation. "By joining the MovieLabs Industry Forum, we're contributing to the conversation about how production data should move between systems. Our goal is to help build standards that make the entire production finance workflow more seamless for everyone involved."
About MovieLabs
MovieLabs is a non-profit 501(c)(6) research and development joint venture founded by the five major Hollywood studios: Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal City Studios, Walt Disney Pictures, and Warner Bros. Entertainment. The organization serves as an innovation hub dedicated to solving industry challenges through next-generation technologies, with core focus areas spanning production security, interoperable workflows, content protection, and digital distribution frameworks.
MovieLabs' 2030 Vision has become the industry's reference framework for the future of media creation, addressing how production workflows, security, and standards need to evolve. The Industry Forum supports this vision through initiatives including the 2030 Greenlight program, a Showcase library of industry solutions, and a Fireside Chat series with technology leaders. For more information, visit movielabs.com.
About Saturation
Saturation.io is a modern production budgeting and expense management platform built for film, television, and commercial production. Trusted by thousands of production teams worldwide, Saturation provides real-time visibility into budgets, expenses, and financial performance from prep through wrap. For more information, visit saturation.io.
