THE CHALLENGE
Arab drama and film runs on scripts that mostly circulate informally — a writer knows a producer, or doesn't. Writers outside those networks have no route in. Production companies looking for material have no catalogue to search.
Underneath sits the reason writers stay cautious: sending a script means losing control of it. There's no accessible way to establish that you wrote something on a given date, and no record of who accessed it afterwards. That fear alone keeps material out of circulation.
THE APPROACH
How we approached it
A categorised script library that production companies can search, with writers depositing work into it.
Protection is the foundation, not a feature. Cryptographic timestamping establishes existence at a point in time. Official deposit certificates give the writer a document. Access logs record every view, so the writer sees who read the script and when.
The whole product is Arabic-first: RTL from the document element down, built with logical CSS properties throughout rather than mirrored physical ones — the difference between an Arabic interface and an English one flipped. IBM Plex Sans Arabic for interface text at generous line height, Aref Ruqaa for display. Eastern Arabic-Indic numerals in editorial contexts, Western numerals in forms and tables where scanning matters. A restrained editorial palette built for a literary product rather than a dashboard.
THE RESULTS
What we delivered
- Cryptographic timestamping with generated deposit certificates - Per-script access logging visible to the author - Categorised library searchable by production companies - Arabic-first RTL architecture using logical properties throughout