Sargent-Disc’s Okta roll out is coming soon! We previously sent out guides on how to download the Okta Verify app and how to recover your passwords, if you missed these, check the links below!
In the below guides you will learn how to log in for the first time and set up the Okta Verify app. For full Okta Knowledge base guides click here
Okta, an integrated identity and mobility management system, allows users to connect to applications securely from any devices 24/7 using multi-factor authentication (MFA).
Please see below guides for how to log in for the first time and set up the Okta Verify app.
For a short video on Okta and how to install the app check out the below video or click here
A: Okta, an integrated identity and mobility management system, allowing users to connect to applications securely from any devices 24/7 using multi-factor authentication (MFA).
Okta supports the following web browsers: Microsoft Edge, Firefox, Safari and Chrome.
This new sign–on process is security that relies on more than just your password, and is similar to what most financial institutions employ to protect your personally identifiable information. In short, MFA is a better way to secure your account.
Yes, MFA is an important part of Sargent-Disc’s commitment to security and protection of your documents and is required to access your account beginning September 22, 2024. MFA adds the additional necessary security that is necessary to protect your account against today’s sophisticated cyber threats.
You will receive a message to say your account has been locked and will be automatically unlocked after 30 minutes.
Okta Verify is a multifactor authentication (MFA) app that allows users to confirm their identity when they sign in to their Okta account.
To install Okta Verify, please refer to the below video/ guides:
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZu–diVQCg
Apple: https://support.sargent-disc.com/portal/en/kb/articles/review-2-downloading-okta-verify-app-apple
Android: https://support.sargent-disc.com/portal/en/kb/articles/review-2-downloading-okta-verify-app-android
If you’ve forgotten your password when migrating your account to Okta, please refer to the following guide:
If you’ve forgotten your password when logging in (after account has been migrated) refer to either of the following guides:
Forgot Password with Okta Verify app installed: https://support.sargent-disc.com/portal/en/kb/articles/review-2-forgot-password-with-okta-verify-app
Forgot Password without Okta Verify installed: https://support.sargent-disc.com/portal/en/kb/articles/review-2-forgot-password-without-okta-verify-app
Correct! A password will no longer be needed to sign into SD applications if you have the Okta Verify app installed with biometrics enabled.
Want to know how to install the app / setup biometrics? Refer to FAQ: What is Okta Verify app / how do I install this?
On the SD login page, click the ‘Forgotten username’ tab and enter the required fields to be sent an email to recover your username.
Yes! Follow the guide on how to setup Okta Verify once logged into your account: https://support.sargent-disc.com/portal/en/kb/articles/review-2-setup-okta-verify-app-later-after-account-has-been-migrated
Please contact our Customer Support team for further assistance. Our Customer Support team can be reached by calling 01753 639007 or emailing support@sargent-disc.com
For any errors received during migration or sign in process, please contact our Customer Support team with the error code.
Okta allows you to have more than one device linked to your account. You can setup additional mobile numbers / additional devices on Okta Verify.
Refer to the following guide: https://support.sargent-disc.com/portal/en/kb/articles/review-2-link-additional-devices-to-account
When migrating your account via your mobile device, you will be given two options to setup Okta Verify (via email and text). It is important you have the Okta Verify app installed before going through this process.
Sargent-Disc’s Okta rollout is coming soon! It is important to recover and save your passwords in advance to a ensure a smooth migration. Below, you will find links to guides for the most commonly used password managers, browsers and operating systems to help you through this process
Members of the team were pleased to return to France last week for the opening weekend of the 77th Festival de Cannes. Sargent-Disc were involved in a number of events designed to bring together international delegates.
With the festival having wrapped on Saturday 25th May, we reflect on the winners. The prestigious Palme d’Or was awarded to Sean Baker’s Anora – the US comedy-drama follows a sex worker who must fend off the parents of a Russian oligarch who are keen to action an annulment after she finds herself married to him.
Jacque Audiard’s Emilia Perez took home the best actress prize shared by Adriana Paz, Zoe Saldana, Karla Sofia Gascon and Selena Gomez. Whereas Jesse Plemons took the award for best actor for Yorgas Lanthimos’ Kinds of Kindness.
Star Wars filmmaker George Lucas was met with a standing ovation as he was presented with an honorary Palme d’Or by Francis Ford Coppola.
For the ninth time, Sargent-Disc hosted the International Producers Reception at the Members Club, Plage du festival on Saturday 18th May. Producers and financiers came together in a relaxed setting to establish new relationships and build on existing ones. The company gives thanks to the British Film Commission, International Federation of Film Producers Associations (FIAPF), New Zealand Film Commission, Producers Alliance for Cinema and Television (PACT), The Production Guild of Great Britain (PGGB) and Screen Producers Ireland for their support with the event.
The team was proud to sponsor the annual brunch held by Women in Film and Television (WFTV) again, held on the Coutts boat on Sunday 19th May. The event offered the opportunity for women, established and new to their careers, to meet and converse about the state of the industry.
Following a successful Royal Television Society Programme Awards – the first year with Cast & Crew as the headline sponsor – Sargent-Disc, with Cast & Crew held a reception for those working within production finance and the production office on Wednesday 27 March at the Century Club, 61 – 63 Shaftesbury Avenue, London W1D 6LQ.
The evening saw members of the industry meet to discuss the current state of the industry, alongside the range of leading products and services offered by Cast & Crew and Sargent-Disc.
At Sargent-Disc we understand the production process and the pressure on production accountants to deliver accurate results, on time, every time. For over 35 years, Sargent-Disc has been proud to support their efforts as they work hard to bring us the best in global film and television.
Today, as part of Cast & Crew, we deliver a full range of integrated production payroll and accounting solutions including CrewStart™, Digital Purchase Order and PSL+ to productions at the forefront of the entertainment industry. These solutions save time when breaking out timecards, sending and approving contracts, onboarding cast and crew, approving expenditure, and cost reporting efficiently and securely.
Alongside this we are committed to investing in and supporting the film and television community at home and abroad. We are a member of the Producers Alliance for Cinema and Television (PACT), a major patron of the Royal Television Society (RTS), a business partner of the Production Guild of Great Britain (PGGB), and work with them to inform and educate their members.
This year also marks the 10th year of Sargent-Disc being a proud sponsor of two Production Management Diploma at the National Film and Television School (NFTS). The John Sargent Scholarship was also setup to support production accounting new entrants. Working with the film school is just one of the ways we strive to support emerging filmmakers.
Looking to the future, together with Cast & Crew, we value the importance of continuing to develop our offering and believe that technologies will increasingly allow us to make intelligent solutions that can take even more of the stress out of production accounting.
Contact the team to discuss how our solutions can streamline your production workflows.
CrewStart™, part of Sargent-Disc’s Digital Production Office®, is designed to help your team automate the processing of contracts, start forms, daily rate vouchers and timesheets.
We have enhanced CrewStart to allow invoices to be captured and approved as part of the timesheet process in our latest release.
CrewStart™, part of Sargent-Disc’s Digital Production Office®, is designed to help your team automate the processing of contracts, start forms, daily rate vouchers and timesheets.
In the latest release, our patented approval and signature process has become even faster.
Members of the Sargent-Disc and Cast & Crew teams were delighted to be in Belfast last week to meet the members of the Production Guild of Great Britain’s (PGGB) Northern Ireland (NI) committee, Northern Ireland Screen and others working in the vibrant NI production industry.
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It was our absolute pleasure for Sargent-Disc (a Cast & Crew company) to be Headline Sponsor of the 2022 Edinburgh TV Awards, which took place on Thursday 25 August at a glittering ceremony hosted by writer and comedian Sophie Ducker.
A total of 20 awards were presented on the night including the prestigious Channel of the Year title, which went to Channel 4 whose Director of Content Ian Katz was on hand to receive the Award from Jury president Sue Vertue. Other winners in the most sought-after categories included Sharon Horgan and Clelia Mountford’s company Merman (Motherland, This Way Up) which was named Production Company of the Year, whilst Firecrest Films (Michael Palin’s Travel of a Lifetime, Life: Behind Bars) received the Small Indie of the Year Award.
Sargent-Disc’s Sarah McKenzie, Business Development had the honour of presenting the Best Drama award to the team behind hit drama The Responder starring Michael Freeman, made by Dancing Ledge Productions for BBC One. Best International drama went to Pachinko, representing the first win at the awards for Apple TV+. Netflix’s Sex Education took home the Best Comedy Series award whilst the TV Moment of the Year Award went to See Saw Films / Netflix’s Heartstopper for Charlie and Nick’s First Kiss.
We were particularly delighted to celebrate the first ever recipient of Edinburgh’s new Climate Impact Award. The prize went to Channel 4 documentary Joe Lycett Vs the Oil Giant, by Rumpus Media, and it was a fantastic moment to see this important new category introduced at the first Edinburgh TV Awards following the critical signing of the Climate Content Pledge at Cop26 last year.
The awards topped off an exceptionally well-attended Festival, where the return to an in-person, live event for the first time since 2019 was resoundingly welcomed by industry. The atmosphere buzzed throughout three days of packed-out events.
Ahead of the festival, Sargent-Disc Director Laurence Sargent reflected in this Broadcast article on Edinburgh’s significance in the UK TV industry calendar, celebrating its reputation for “providing a platform for challenging issues to be explored and important conversations to be had.”
This year was no exception, with broadcaster Emily Maitlis’ McTaggart Memorial Lecture, ‘Boiling Frog: Why We Have to Stop Normalising the Absurd’, provoking powerful discussion around news and impartiality. In it, Maitlis warned against the rise of populism and highlighted the role that reporters and broadcasters should play “to hold power to account without fear or favour.”
Elsewhere, Rose Ayling-Ellis’ powerful Alternative MacTaggart Lecture saw the deaf actress, BSL campaigner and Strictly Come Dancing winner urge the TV world to “be braver and have the courage to make changes”, such as bringing deaf consultants in to work with writing teams. Stressing the important difference between representation and access, she urged the industry to think about both in her impactful speech, which provided valuable insight into the stark realities of life as a Deaf person working in television.
For more information about the 2022 Edinburgh TV Awards sponsored by Sargent Disc (a Cast & Crew Company), click here.
Best Comedy Series – Sex Education, Eleven Film for Netflix
Best Documentary – The Return: Life After ISIS, Alba Sotorra Productions and MetFilm for Sky Documentaries
Best Drama – The Responder, Dancing Ledge Productions for BBC1
Best Entertainment Series – The Lateish Show With Mo Gilligan, Expectation and MoMo G for Channel 4
Best International Drama – Pachinko, Media Res / Blue Marble Pictures in association with Apple for Apple TV+
Best On Demand Service – BBC iPlayer
Best Popular Factual Series – Uprising, Rogan Productions, Lammas Park and Turbine Studios for BBC1
Best TV Actor – Comedy – Daisy Haggard in Back To Life
Best TV Actor – Drama – Jodie Comer in Help
Best TV Presenter – AJ Odudu & Mo Gilligan for The Big Breakfast
Breakthrough Talent – Actor – Danielle Macdonald
Breakthrough Talent – Presenter – Munya Chawawa
Channel of the Year – Channel 4
Climate Impact Award – Joe Lycett Vs the Oil Giant, Rumpus Media for Channel 4
Production Company of the Year – Merman Television
Small Indie of the Year – Firecrest Films
Global Success Award – ITV Studios
Variety Outstanding Achievement Award – Diane Morgan
TV Moment of the Year – Heartstopper: Charlie and Nick’s First Kiss, See Saw Films for Netflix
Ones to Watch / Random Acts Live Pitch – Alex Rodrigues, Thanks Boss.
