India's first crew directory

Find the
right crew.
Skip the chase.

Editors, DOPs, colorists, art directors, animators, and AI filmmakers. Verified, filterable, and reachable. No more WhatsApp group hunts.

I want to hire I want to be discovered

2,400+ verified crew
across 180+ production houses

2,400+
Verified crew
180+
Production houses
₹12Cr
Projects matched
4.8★
Avg. rating

Every craft.
One directory.

01 · Coverage

Video editors

Feature, web series, ad film, promo, wedding, and social editors. Filterable by software and style.

DOPs

Cinematographers by camera brand, lens familiarity, and specialty (drone, gimbal, underwater).

Colorists

Grade artists across DaVinci, Baselight, and hybrid DOP-colorist practitioners.

Art directors

Production designers by era, set type, genre, and scale. From 1920s to sci-fi.

Animators

2D, 3D, motion graphics, title design. Toon Boom to Houdini.

AI filmmakers

Storyboarders and trailer cutters using Midjourney, Sora, Runway, and custom LoRA workflows.

How it works.
Both sides.

02 · The flow

If you're hiring

  1. Post a brief

    Tell us the cut you need, the budget, and the timeline. Two minutes, no account gymnastics.

  2. Get a shortlist

    We match verified crew to your brief and send it over, usually within 24 hours.

  3. Reach out direct

    Unlock a contact and ping the crew you want. No agency sitting in the middle.

If you're crew

  1. Build your reel

    One profile, your best work embedded from YouTube or Vimeo. Verified once, seen everywhere.

  2. Get matched to briefs

    Briefs that fit your craft land in your inbox. No feed to refresh, no bids to chase.

  3. Reply by email

    One tap: Yes or No, straight from the mailer. Every reply sharpens what reaches you next.

The match engine brief × reel → hire

A producer's brief and a crew member's reel converge in the folio.in match engine, which sends a shortlist by email. The crew replies Yes or No in one tap, and every reply feeds the ranking so the next shortlist is sharper.

Two inputs

Brief · producers
Reel · crew

The engine

The match

Verified crew, ranked to your brief and sent over — usually within 24 hours.

Match mailer

Yes or No

One tap from the inbox — no login, no feed to chase.

Yes No

Signal loop — every Yes or No feeds the ranking, so the next shortlist reaching that crew is sharper than the last.

03 · Why folio

Built for the way the industry actually works.

Not a generic freelancer marketplace with a film skin. Every decision here starts from how crew get hired on the ground.

  1. Email is the interaction layer

    Match mailers, not another dashboard to babysit. Reply Yes or No from your inbox and get on with the shoot.

  2. Verified before it's visible

    Every profile is ID-checked and reference-backed before it goes live. The reel is real, so is the crew behind it.

  3. Filter the way work is briefed

    Search by software, camera body, grade suite, or era. The taxonomy is built by people who've been on set.

  4. No dead ends

    Never a blank ‘no results’ screen. Every search routes you to close matches or to posting a brief.

From the field.

04 · What crew say
Found a colorist who nailed the grade in two days. That used to be a week of WhatsApp and dropped threads.
Ad film house Producer · Mumbai
I stopped chasing work. The briefs come to me now, and I just reply yes or no from my phone.
Rohan K. Colorist · Bengaluru
Every DOP on here has a real reel and real references. It saved me from one very expensive bad hire.
Casting, web series Production house · Delhi

Questions.

05 · Good to know
Is folio.in free for crew?

Yes. Building a profile, embedding your reel, and getting matched to briefs is free for crew, always. You only ever hear from producers who are serious enough to reach out.

How do producers reach me?

A producer unlocks your contact for a small fee, then pings you directly over email or WhatsApp. You stay in control of who you reply to — nothing is auto-shared.

What can I list my work under?

Editors, DOPs, colorists, art directors, animators, and AI filmmakers. If you wear more than one hat — say DOP and colorist — you can list under both on one profile.

Do I need to be in a metro?

No. Crew across India are on folio.in. Briefs filter by location only when a shoot needs someone local — otherwise the work finds you wherever you are.

How do you keep listings real?

Every profile is ID-verified before it goes live, and testimonials are phone-verified from the person who actually hired you. No borrowed reels, no invented credits.

Ready when you are

Post a brief. Meet your crew.

Post a project