How Rights Holders Can Submit Work to StillsLab

Rights holders can submit their work to StillsLab at no cost, and accepted frames join the same library, search, and quality level as the rest of the catalog. The site provides a Submit Your Work option for this purpose, and submissions can be marked Official when frames are supplied by the film's rights holder at full source quality. If you own or control the rights to a film, series, music video, or commercial and want your frames represented in a filmmaker-facing stills library, this is the route to use.

What the submission program is

StillsLab is a library of movie stills, TV frames, and music video or commercial screenshots aimed at filmmakers — used for cinematography references, shot lists, and mood boards. Alongside its general catalog, it runs a rights-holder submission channel with these stated terms:

• No cost to submit. Rights holders can submit their work at no cost.
• Same library, same search, same quality. Accepted frames are not placed in a separate or downgraded section — they sit in the same library and are returned by the same search as existing content.
• Official marking. Frames supplied by the rights holder at full source quality can be labeled Official, which distinguishes them from other entries.

You can see this in practice in the catalog: the Laibach x Senidah - Love Machine entry (54 stills) carries the note that frames were supplied by the film's rights holder at full source quality — the kind of listing the submission program produces.

Who this is for

The submission route is intended for rights holders — the people or organizations that own or control distribution rights to a title. That typically means:

• Production companies and film rights owners
• Distributors and sales agents handling a catalog
• Music video producers or labels holding rights to a video
• Agencies or brands behind commercial work

If you are a fan, archivist, or filmmaker who does not hold rights, this channel is not the right fit — the program is framed around rights holders submitting their own work.

How to submit

1. Go to the site and find the submission entry point. StillsLab surfaces a Submit Your Work call to action on its homepage, next to the rights-holder message. Use that to begin.
2. Identify yourself as the rights holder. The program is explicitly for rights holders, so be ready to establish that you control the work you are submitting.
3. Supply frames at full source quality. The Official designation depends on frames coming from the rights holder at full source quality — so prepare your best available masters rather than compressed or re-encoded copies.
4. Wait for the work to be added to the library. Once accepted, your frames appear in the same browse and search experience as the rest of the catalog, and can carry the Official marker.

The page evidence confirms the offer, the no-cost term, the same-library guarantee, the Submit Your Work option, and the Official/full-source-quality condition. It does not publish a detailed step-by-step form, turnaround time, or a separate submission portal URL, so treat the on-site Submit Your Work entry as the starting point and follow whatever it asks for.

What you get, and what to check before submitting

Before you submit, confirm two things: that you genuinely hold the rights to the title, and that you can provide full source-quality frames — because the Official designation is tied to both. If you can meet those conditions, the submission is free and your work lands in the same searchable library filmmakers already use.

For anything beyond these terms — review timelines, formats, or account requirements — check the site directly, since the available page evidence covers the program's conditions but not its full operational detail.