ThinkTea is free for film jams.

Every feature, for every crew — free from two days before your race to the final cut, then read-only for 30 days to export or keep. No trial, no credit card.

Taking part? Open the link your organizer shared to start or join a team.

Running something else? Game jams · Animation challenges · Hackathons · Art & comic jams

Everything a crew needs, in one shared workspace

Notes pinned to the exact frame of a cut — click one and the playhead jumps there
Step through footage frame by frame while you review
50 GB of storage per seat, pooled — enough for rushes, not just the edit
Shot lists, call sheets and a production board in the same place as the footage
Real-time collaboration, so the director and editor are in one document
Image and PDF annotation for storyboards and lookbooks
No AI. Ever.

The feedback lives on the frame it is about, instead of a spreadsheet of timecodes somebody has to cross-reference at 3am.

Two days early, editable for the whole jam

Access opens two days before your jam so nobody’s installing at the starting gun, and every team is free and fully editable right through to the closing whistle. After the jam ends the workspace stays read-only for 30 days so you can export or decide.

Pick your own dates. Global Game Jam sites, we’re looking at you: choose your 48 hours and just tell us when you register.

Who qualifies

Film jams and 48-hour races, student film festivals, screenwriting sprints, and any organised filmmaking competition with a deadline. Any size — a single-campus race counts as much as a hundred-city event.

How crews get in

Organizers

Organizers: register your event below. Once we approve it you get a public event page — set your crew and seat caps, then share the link.

Participants

Participants: open your event’s page to start a crew (and share its invite link) or browse and join an open one. Each crew gets its own shared workspace.

Register your film jam

A few details. We review by hand and email your event page link — usually within a day.

Your estimate helps us size your event’s team and seat caps — set it a little above your expected turnout. You can ask us to adjust it any time.

For organizers: a ready-to-paste blurb

Organizers won't write their own sponsor blurb — so here's one, ready to paste:

[Event name] crews get ThinkTea free — a shared workspace for shot lists, production boards, and notes pinned to the exact frame, with no AI. Start or join a crew at thinktea.me/jam/[your-event].

Need a logo? Grab the brand pack — logos and a sponsor badge for every event type, SVG and PNG in light and dark, plus 50- and 100-word descriptions. Download the pack (ZIP) — or browse the files in the README.

What we ask in return

Please credit ThinkTea on your jam’s page and sponsor list — our name, logo, and a link back. That’s the deal: the full toolset for your whole jam, a mention in return. It takes a minute, and it’s how the next jam’s organizers find us.

After the jam

When the jam ends the workspace turns read-only for 30 days — every page, board, and upload stays exactly where it is, and export is always one click away. To keep editing (and keep it for good), any member can subscribe to Team ($4/seat per month) and it becomes theirs — the whole crew’s work, carried straight over. Workspaces that aren’t kept are removed after the 30 days.

No AI

ThinkTea has no AI features and never will — your work isn’t training data and your feedback isn’t autocompleted.

Questions? A real person reads jams@thinktea.me.