MUBI

A London-headquartered streaming service, film distributor and producer focused on arthouse, independent and world cinema.

About MUBI

MUBI is a streaming service, production company and film distributor with its headquarters in London. Its catalogue is mainly world cinema: arthouse, documentary and independent films, along with cult and classic titles. The service is available in more than 190 countries. It works on both the screen and the cinema side of film, producing and co-producing films and releasing them in cinemas as well as online.

The company was founded by Efe Cakarel, a Turkish entrepreneur, who launched it on 14 February 2007 as The Auteurs. It was renamed MUBI in 2010 because its creators wanted a name that all audiences could say and spell, without the burden of exclusionary meaning. A careful, curated approach runs through the service: a new title is added each day and one is taken away, which is meant to help viewers discover films rather than scroll endlessly. We did not find a formal mission statement in the pages we read, so that is a gap.

In the UK, MUBI's address is 1 Newburgh Street, London W1F 7RB, and the operating company is Mubi UK Limited. It began releasing films in UK and US cinemas in 2016. It also runs MUBI GO, which gives members weekly cinema tickets to selected new releases. A careers-site listing shows a UK director role covering distribution and MUBI GO, and a job-site profile gives about 412 employees, though that number is from a third party and may be out of date.

Alongside the streaming service, MUBI runs Notebook, a free film criticism and news publication that has run a Movie Poster of the Week column since 2009, and a twice-yearly print Notebook Magazine launched in 2021. It also makes podcasts and has held its MUBI Fest film festival since 2023. Films it has produced include Memory, One Fine Morning and The Mastermind, and it released The Substance, which won an Academy Award for makeup and hairstyling. The range of roles is wide: programming, film acquisition, distribution, marketing, publishing, product and engineering all appear in its work.

For anyone starting out, the useful point is how many different jobs one film company needs. People who love film can work on editorial writing, social media, cinema partnerships, subtitling and localisation, subscriber support or the technology behind the app. We have not checked the careers pages, so look at MUBI's own site and its Notebook pitch guidelines to see how its teams describe the work.

What they do

• {'desc': 'A curated library of arthouse, independent and world cinema.', 'title': 'Streaming'}
• {'desc': 'Making films and releasing them in cinemas, including in the UK.', 'title': 'Film production and distribution'}
• {'desc': 'Weekly cinema tickets to selected new releases.', 'title': 'MUBI GO'}
• {'desc': 'Film writing online and in a print magazine.', 'title': 'Notebook'}

Key facts

• Founded 14 February 2007 as The Auteurs, renamed MUBI in 2010 (Wikipedia)
• Headquartered at 1 Newburgh Street, London W1F 7RB (job-site profile)
• Streaming available in over 190 countries (Wikipedia)
• Began UK and US cinema releases in 2016
• About 412 employees per a third-party profile (unconfirmed)

Website: mubi.com