FilmCage turns your film school's gear room into an online checkout system. Students reserve on their phones, you approve in a click, and nothing walks out the door untracked.
Paper logs, group texts, and a whiteboard of who-has-what work until they don't — and then a shoot is missing a camera at 7 AM.
Purpose-built for the way film programs actually lend gear — from the student's phone to the checkout window to the front office.
Students browse the catalog, pick pickup and return times, and request a checkout in a couple of minutes — no cage visit required.
The schedule knows what's free for their exact window. If two students want the same camera, only one can book it.
Equipment agreements and pickup/return signatures are captured digitally and attached to every checkout.
A live queue of requests. Approve, deny, or check out on the spot — the inventory updates itself.
Scan gear in and out with a phone camera, and pull up any asset's status instantly at the window.
Cameras, lenses, and cables are tracked individually — you always know exactly which unit is out and which is on the shelf.
Late gear rises to the top automatically, with the student and the shoot it's tied to — before it becomes a lost-equipment report.
Import course rosters; students sign in with their ID and last name. Access follows enrollment, semester to semester.
Admins, staff, and faculty each see the right thing. Grant checkout approval to work-study students without handing over the keys.
Automatic confirmation and return-reminder emails, plus checkouts pushed to Google or Outlook calendars.
Bring your inventory in from a spreadsheet and export your data anytime. Your catalog is never locked in.
Import your inventory (or the spreadsheet you already keep) and your course rosters. Organize by department the way your program already thinks.
Share one link. Students pick their gear and times; FilmCage checks availability and holds the request in your queue.
Review the queue, capture a signature, scan it out. Returns close the loop and put the gear back on the shelf automatically.
FilmCage is free for film schools through the end of 2026. Set up your whole program — every department, every student — at no cost.
After the pilot, pricing stays simple: one flat rate per school — a few hundred dollars a year, never per student. We'll always cost a fraction of what the big equipment-checkout systems charge. That's a promise.
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