Long timelines, many stakeholders, funders who want updates, and hours of footage under review. Cutvey keeps the business of documentary work from eating the filmmaking.
Phased budgets for phased money. Documentary funding arrives in tranches — development, production, post — and Cutvey's payment schedules mirror that. Invoice a foundation or brand funder per milestone, see what's collected vs. committed vs. spent across a project that runs eighteen months.
A crew and contributor database with history. The fixer in Santiago, the archival researcher, the colorist who did your last three films — roles, rates, W-9s, and every project you've done together. When funding lands and it's suddenly go-time, your crew list is a filter, not a memory exercise.
Shoot days, wherever they are. Call sheets with locations, local weather, and contacts work as well for a verité day in a fishing town as a sit-down interview in a studio. Releases tracked per subject, because your E&O insurer will ask.
Review across many cuts and many voices. Rough cut for the edit team, fine cut for exec producers, festival cut for the sales agent — versioned review with timecoded comments keeps two years of feedback attached to the frames it refers to, not buried in inboxes.
Client work funds the passion work. Most doc shops keep the lights on with brand and nonprofit projects. Run both pipelines in one place: the commercial jobs that pay this quarter and the feature that pays in prestige.
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