Health & Safety
The Health & Safety team flags risks and offers mitigation methods from prep through post. They review scripts, locations inspection reports, proposed hazardous activities plans, and risk assessments.
Virtual Production
Amazon MGM Studios Virtual Production is powered by AWS. Stage 15 provides a camera-to-cloud workflow with direct connection to AWS S3 storage to make dailies instantly available to creative teams around the globe.
Production Resources
The Production Resources team secures and deploys goods and services to productions globally. We aim to connect the right vendors with the right productions, lead deal negotiations, and manage vendor relationships. The Amazon MGM Studios Production Executive will connect us with the production team during prep.
Preferred Vendors Guide
Tech Menu
Studios Technology
Trying to figure out what software and workflows will work best? Studios Technology will provide guidance, ensure technology is deployed successfully, and provide support during production.
Choose from dozens of preferred apps on the Tech Menu for free or at a discount. Preferred apps have business and security approval, and are supported by the Studios Technology Support Desk.
Engage with us early by emailing technology-services@amazonstudios.com to schedule a kickoff call. We’ll explain the choices on the Tech Menu and offer guidance based on the production’s specific needs.
The Support Desk is available 24/7 at support.amazonstudios.com to help with access requests, system issues, and other support for preferred applications.
Risk Management
The Risk Management team helps set up insurance and resolve any big issues, such as cast travel, cast insurance, or special coverages. As soon as anyone is on payroll, insurance for the project needs to be in place. Risk Management also assists with claims and issue certificates of insurance or other insurance documents.
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Production Real Estate
The Production Real Estate team can assist in finding stages, writer’s rooms, office space and production support spaces. Please provide a rough idea of the dates and cities where the production hopes to shoot, or would like to compare. We will contact our global network of sound stage facilities to check availability and place holds for the production.
Production Travel
The Production Travel team is the go-to resource for all things travel related and makes travel decisions based on practical restrictions and risk factors, as well as Amazon MGM Studios policy and local requirements. The team also provides strategic travel information including market trends, entry requirements, quarantine restrictions, and more.
Production Travel also provides productions with Amazon’s corporate travel discounts. Contact the team to set up your travel account and access these cost savings.
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Travel Account Opening Form (password: AZStravel)
Production Security
A production's first point of contact for anything security-related is Production Security.
The Production Security team is your go-to team to ensure the safety and security of your team, crew, talent, and physical assets.
Engage the security team as early as possible, preferably during the kick-off call with Amazon MGM Studios, so they can assess any risks and highlight areas that should be addressed and/or built into the budget.
Email Production Security at production-security@amazon.com
The Content Security team helps you manage and mitigate digital risk to protect pre-release content and other sensitive information.
Email Content Security at content-security@amazon.com
Physical Production Assets
The Physical Production Asset team provides guidance on managing costumes, props, and other physical assets. Once your production has a Production Coordinator, reach out to the Physical Production Asset team for next steps. The Physical Production Asset team supports productions from early prep through wrap, and beyond.
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