In partnership with Greenlit, the grant provides funding and access to new tools for discovering and licensing commercially released music from major and independent catalogs.
MusicAtlas today announced the Robin Film Grant, a new initiative designed to support filmmakers while introducing a faster and more effective approach to finding and licensing music for film and video projects.
The program will award one selected project with a $1,000 cash grant to be used toward third-party music licensing fees. Applications are open from April 1 through May 15, 2026. The grant is presented in partnership with Greenlit, a platform supporting filmmakers with tools for production, financing, and networking.
The Robin Film Grant centers around music search and discovery for filmmakers. Applicants receive access to MusicAtlas’s Robin platform, where they can search for music using natural language, sonic similarity, lyrics, and creative prompts. Robin is designed to make it significantly faster and easier to find relevant, licensable tracks from commercially released music catalogs — the kind of music that can carry a pivotal scene, shape emotional tone, or land a closing credit moment.
Filmmakers can organize, save, and shortlist music as they explore, creating a more streamlined workflow for sourcing tracks that fit their scenes and creative direction. As part of the application, filmmakers build a shortlist of music that could be used in their project.
“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 MusicAtlas’s music discovery engine for film, television, games, and advertising. It enables creative teams to search, discover, and shortlist music using natural language, sonic similarity, lyrics, and scene descriptions across global catalogs.
Greenlit is an operating system for filmmakers that provides tools to streamline production, raise capital, and bring projects to life more efficiently.
MusicAtlas is building the search and intelligence layer for recorded music, enabling discovery, analysis, and matching across audio, lyrics, and cultural context for listeners, artists, and the music industry.
Filmmakers can learn more and apply at musicatlas.ai/robin/film-grant.