This year OpenRules was approached by a film production company that wanted to optimize their movie production scheduling process. They wanted us to build a scheduler that receives the following input: multiple scenes, estimated time to prep and film the scenes, shooting locations, day and night shifts, all characters, cast members with their availability and associated costs, production units, and other related information. The objective of the scheduler is to schedule a production process over a certain period subject to time constraints, actor preferences, location availability, union requirements, and various soft and hard constraints. We’ve successfully and quickly developed a working prototype that satisfied major customer’s requirements and produced good schedules for this particular client. Then we expanded this development to a generic Movie Production Scheduler now available for solving similar scheduling problems with more custom constraints and preferences.