Toward web-scale workflows for film production

The screen business encompasses all creative and man-agement aspects related to film, television, and new me-dia content, from concept to production and distribution. Companies in this industry face increasing competition due to market globalisation. To stay competitive, they are turning to contemporary technology-enabled business improvement methods, such as business process manage-ment. Processes in the screen business, particularly film production, generally consist of highly interdependent steps that manipulate heterogeneous data and involve a va-riety of stakeholders in a distributed and mobile work en-vironment. Despite its potential benefits, the use of work-flow systems for automating film production processes is largely unexplored. This paper presents a case study tha