Harbor unifies global studios with Nara

Harbor Picture Company has expanded its technology ecosystem with the integration of Nara across its US and UK facilities. Already live in Los Angeles and rolling out in New York and London, Nara enhances Harbor’s enterprise-level infrastructure, giving producers, colourists, conform artists, and engineering teams faster access to media, enhanced accuracy, and real-time collaboration across locations. For clients, this means faster turnarounds, greater confidence in delivery, and the flexibility to work with Harbor talent seamlessly across any geography.

“At Harbor, we are constantly evolving our pipeline to support the ambitions of our artists and the expectations of our clients,” said Massimo D’Avolio, EVP, Head of Post Production, Harbor. “Integrating Nara strengthens our enterprise-level infrastructure and ensures that we continue to deliver with speed, precision, and creative confidence. This is another step in our commitment to combining artistry with innovation to create a seamless experience for filmmakers, studios, and brands worldwide.”

Nara provides Harbor teams with real-time visibility into media storage and metadata. This enables instant validation of file paths, rapid identification of assets, and integrated quality control on elements such as colour space, framing, versions, and titles. The platform also offers advanced storage monitoring, giving Harbor greater oversight of media health and helping ensure projects move smoothly from dailies through final delivery. By integrating Nara, Harbor is also future-proofing its pipeline with tools designed to scale alongside the evolving demands of filmmakers, studios, and brands.

“Nara integrates seamlessly with our existing tools, Baselight and Daylight, which we rely on for dailies, VFX pulls, conforming, and colour grading,” comments Zara Park, Director of Picture Post, Harbor Los Angeles. “These systems already give us robust capabilities, especially for managing complex formats like IMFs, DCPs, and DCDMs. With Nara, we can now view materials in multiple colour spaces. This flexibility enhances collaboration across departments and locations, while maintaining the high standards Harbor is known for.”

Harbor’s Los Angeles team is already using Nara from the start of a project through final delivery. The system supports setup of storage volumes, streamlines communication between operators and producers, and ensures accurate renders and metadata are available at every stage. By extending this integration to New York and London, Harbor further strengthens cross-site collaboration and reinforces its globally connected workflow and connected pipeline – ensuring clients benefit from speed, consistency, and creative excellence across every project and location.

“Harbor has always been defined by our ability to connect artists and workflows seamlessly across genres and geographies,” adds D’Avolio. “Integrating Nara further strengthens that promise. It allows us to move with even greater speed and precision, while giving our clients the confidence that wherever they engage with Harbor, they will experience the same level of excellence and access to world-class talent.”

“We’ve worked with Harbor for many years, and it’s always been a relationship built on trust, professionalism, and high standards,” says Sam Lempp, Head of Business Development for Nara at FilmLight. “Seeing Nara now integrated across their global sites is a proud moment as it reflects our shared focus on efficiency, precision, and enabling the best creative outcomes.”

“Nara has become a powerful tool for our teams, enhancing collaboration and simplifying communication across departments,” concludes Park, “It streamlines workflows, minimises disruptions, and has quickly become second nature. Most of our operators now just say, ‘Look it up in Nara.’”

About Harbor

Harbor is a global leader in creative post-production, founded in 2010 as an artist-led independent studio. With operations in New York, Los Angeles, London, Chicago, and Atlanta, Harbor provides end-to-end post services across feature films, episodic television, and advertising. Its anti-siloed pipeline spans dailies, colour, sound, VFX, and finishing, powered by enterprise-level infrastructure and a relentless commitment to innovation. Harbor’s premium craft promise is built on boutique artistry backed by scale, giving filmmakers, studios, and brands a seamless experience across disciplines and geographies, and the confidence that every project will receive world-class creative and operational excellence.