Participating 48HFP New York teams receive three months of complimentary access to Robin, MusicAtlas’s platform for discovering real, commercially released music.
NEW YORK — MusicAtlas has partnered with 48 Hour Film Project New York to give participating filmmaking teams complimentary access to Robin, its music discovery platform for filmmakers.
Teams participating in the 2026 New York competition can activate three months of complimentary Robin access during the official 48-hour competition window, giving filmmakers a new way to discover music during production and continue exploring options as they finalize their projects afterward.
Robin helps filmmakers search commercially released music from real artists across major labels, publishers, and independent catalogs using scene descriptions, sonic similarity, lyrics, mood, energy, and natural-language prompts.
During a 48-hour production cycle, music discovery can quickly become a last-minute scramble. Robin is designed to reduce that friction by helping filmmakers move from a creative idea or scene description to relevant music quickly, without relying solely on traditional metadata, manual tagging, or generic stock libraries.
“Access to music publishers has long been a struggle for independent filmmakers. MusicAtlas has streamlined the process and made it accessible for everyone. Thank you for partnering with us and allowing our teams access to Robin for the competition.” — William L Jones, City Producer, 48 Hour Film Project New York
“Finding music for film should be fast, intuitive, and connected to real, licensable catalogs. Robin helps filmmakers search across commercially released music from major and independent artists, labels, and publishers — not just generic library tracks — and quickly identify songs that actually fit a project.” — Neil Shah, Founder & CEO, MusicAtlas
Robin is not a stock music library and does not generate music. It is designed to help filmmakers discover music that already exists and may be available for licensing.
Filmmakers can search, listen, organize potential selections, and request licenses through MusicAtlas. Music surfaced through Robin may require separate approval from the applicable master and publishing rights holders before use.
Although activation is limited to the official competition window, participating teams receive three months of Robin access. This allows filmmakers to continue reviewing music as they refine edits, prepare festival versions, explore alternate cues, and pursue licenses after the 48-hour filmmaking weekend has ended.
The partnership reflects MusicAtlas’s broader work connecting filmmakers with commercially released music and the artists, labels, publishers, and rights holders behind it.
MusicAtlas also operates the Robin Film Grant, which provides selected filmmakers with funding toward licensing music discovered through Robin. The next application cycle opens October 1, 2026.
Robin is MusicAtlas’s music discovery platform for film, television, games, and advertising. It enables creative teams to search, discover, organize, and request licenses for commercially released music using natural language, scene descriptions, sonic similarity, lyrics, mood, energy, and other contextual signals.
The 48 Hour Film Project challenges filmmaking teams to write, shoot, edit, and complete an original short film over the course of a single weekend. The New York competition brings filmmakers together for an intensive 48-hour creative production cycle.
MusicAtlas is building the search and intelligence layer for recorded music. Its platform helps listeners, artists, filmmakers, and music industry professionals discover, understand, and match music using audio, lyrics, metadata, and cultural context.
Learn more about Robin access for participating 48 Hour Film Project New York teams at musicatlas.ai/robin/48hourfilm/newyork .