Clearance Services · Los Angeles

Lauren
Oliver

Clearance that protects your creative work without killing it. We find the yes — and when we can't, we find a way around the no.

"We get you to the martini shot."

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18
Years in Clearance

What We Do

Clearance that serves
the creative work

Most clearance people are the ones who say no. We're the ones who figure out how to say yes — or find a smarter path when we can't. We handle the full range of clearance and production services across features, series, docs, and digital content, bringing in additional specialists as the project demands.

Rights Clearance

End-to-end clearance of third-party materials — footage, photography, artwork, and more. We work from existing script clearance reports to research, track, and resolve every flagged item, and flag new risks as they emerge through production. Our job is to find solutions, not roadblocks, from first review through final delivery.

Footage Research & Archival Clearance

One of our strongest specialties — and one many coordinators don't fully master. We handle extensive footage research, chain of title verification, and rights clearance for commercials, TV, and features. Experienced working at Jukin Media's level, where volume, speed, and accuracy are non-negotiable.

Product Placement

Coordination of on-screen product placement from initial outreach through agreements and on-set supervision, balancing creative and commercial requirements.

Compliance & Delivery

Clearance trackers, fair use logs, cue sheets, releases, and all documentation required for final delivery — maintained with meticulous accuracy throughout the production lifecycle.

Production Liaison

Available for on-set and in-house engagements in the Los Angeles area. Experienced working directly alongside line producers, legal teams, and post as a trusted production partner.

"Nobody wants a clearance coordinator who kills great ideas. My job is to protect the work — and find a way to keep it."

18 years as an independent clearance contractor
On-set experience as a line producer's assistant
In-house clearance at a major Hollywood studio
USC Annenberg, Journalism · Minor in Film
Fluent in fair use, archival rights, and clearance documentation

Two perspectives most clearance coordinators don't have

I'm Lauren Oliver, and I've been doing this since 2007. Here's what I'll tell you upfront: clearance people have a reputation for being the ones who say no, slow things down, and make everyone's life harder. That's not how I work. My job is to protect the creative work — which means finding ways to keep the ideas you love, not reflexively killing them because something looks complicated.

I can do that because I understand both sides of the table. I've worked as an assistant to line producers on set, and I've worked in-house at a major studio. That means I know what clearance looks like from the crew perspective — the time pressure, the creative investment, the chaos of production — and I know what it looks like from the studio side, where compliance and documentation actually live. Most coordinators know one or the other. I've worked both.

Footage research is one of my strongest suits, and it's an area where a lot of coordinators fall short. Knowing what's actually clearable — chain of title, platform restrictions, what will hold up at delivery — before a director falls in love with a clip is the whole game. I've done this at volume through Jukin Media for both commercials and TV, where the pace is relentless and the margin for error is zero.

I studied journalism at USC with a minor in film, which gave me the research discipline and copyright foundation this work demands. I operate as an independent contractor and bring in trusted specialists when the project calls for it — so you get senior-level attention without the overhead of a larger shop.

Selected Credits

Studio & Platform Experience

A24 Features · Series
Netflix Features · Digital
Sony Pictures Features · In-House
Disney Features
Focus Features Features
Paramount Features
NBC / Universal Features · Series
Jukin Media Archival · Digital
Big Door / YouTube Digital · Promos

Let's Work Together

Let's get you to the martini shot

We're taking on new projects — features, series, docs, and digital content. The earlier you bring us in, the smoother it goes.

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Based in Los Angeles · Available for on-site and remote engagements