Cinema and other visual work are known to be among the most powerful and natural communication mediums. Today the power to reach people through these mediums is being consolidated into fewer and fewer corporations.

The increased availability and affordability of digital technology has brought the capability of capturing and editing video to the masses. At the same time the proliferation of high speed Internet access, Divx compression, cd-burners and peer-to-peer file sharing applications offers a new inexpensive distribution medium.

But the nascent cinematic artist still lacks tools fundamental to a production such as applications for scriptwriting, storyboarding and production scheduling. OpenCinema.org proposes to not only fill this void, but also to encourage a new form of cinematic art based on the philosophy of Open Source Software where video projects are the collaborative effort of many and encouraged to be shared with the artistic community and general public easily shared through the use of Creative Commons which can also be an artistic resource for soundtrack music, stock footage or stories.