Audiovisual content creation often involves actors at many distributed locations. Tighter integration of these actors, among others by means of an efficient electronic content exchange, is urgently needed to improve the economics and to speed up especially high end, digital film production workflows. In this paper, we present the vision for a networked and managed audiovisual content production environment that may be distributed around the world. Necessary steps and major challenges towards the realization of this vision are presented here and solution approaches are sketched. A focus of this paper is on the specific challenge of fast wide-area data transport at multi-gigabit data rates. Currently a discrepancy exists between the available network bandwidth and the ability to "fill this pipe" in order to transport uncompressed imagery at 4k resolution. A new, but already deployed, solution for this issue is elaborated. The paper concludes with an outlook on the next steps towards our vision to make globalized content production more efficient.