Intern/Production Assistant postition opening
Company:
A celebrity is starting a new website that will launch in September. The website will be geared towards women over 40, inspiring them to keep dreaming, helping them to tackle the challenges they face and making them laugh. Video will be a huge part of the site. There will be 6 video series that all have a journalistic spin. The video series include: profiles of extraordinary women across the country, Man-on-Street interviews by our celebrity, and life-style pieces.
Intern
Tasks will include video footage transcription, digitizing of dv tapes on Final Cut Pro, clerical and administrative duties, equipment pickups/returns, and much more. Familiarity with Final Cut Pro software is preferred.
CONTACT: Kate Thomas at KateLaurenThomas@gmail.com
Editor - Part-time Freelancer
Company:
A celebrity is starting a new website that will launch in September. The website will be geared towards women over 40, inspiring them to keep dreaming, helping them to tackle the challenges they face and making them laugh. Video will be a huge part of the site. There will be 6 video series that all have a journalistic spin. The video series include: profiles of extraordinary women across the country, Man-on-Street interviews by our celebrity, and life-style pieces.
Editor - Part-time Freelancer
We need editors for 6 web series. Editors must be proficient in Final Cut Pro- having their own editing system is a huge plus. Editors must be able to and be prepared to also color correct and mix sound, and export videos optimized for the web. Experience with documentary style editing is a must. Pay to be negotiated.
CONTACT: Send resumes and reel links to: Kate Thomas at KateLaurenThomas@gmail.com
Post-Production Producer - Full-time Freelancer
Company:
A celebrity is starting a new website that will launch in September. The website will be geared towards women over 40, inspiring them to keep dreaming, helping them to tackle the challenges they face and making them laugh. Video will be a huge part of the site. There will be 6 video series that all have a journalistic spin. The video series include: profiles of extraordinary women across the country, Man-on-Street interviews by our celebrity, and life-style pieces.
Job 1
Post-Production Producer - Full-time Freelancer
We need someone who can act as the post-production producer on 6 web series. Tasks will include: writing scripts from the footage, organizing the editors and transcribers, organizing release forms associated with the production, and more. This person should be proficient on Final Cut Pro. First-hand experience with video post production for a news station, television company, or film company is a huge plus. Pay to be negotiated.
CONTACT: Send resumes and links to: Kate Thomas at KateLaurenThomas@gmail.com
Independent Filmmaker Project needs interns
CALL FOR INTERNS
The busy season is upon as here at IFP, as we gear up for the IFP Filmmaker Labs, Independent Film Week, and much more.
We need motivated, organized, and go-getting individuals to work for us in our various departments.
All positions are Part time, two to three days a week. This position is unpaid, but college credit, IFP membership and other benefits are available.
For more information and contact info, click on the hyperlinks below.
Programming Intern
Sharp and self-directed individual needed to intern with IFP’s programming department. This is a great opportunity to be a part of the independent film industry, build professional relationships, and to be a part of IFP, America’s oldest and largest organization of independent filmmakers.
Membership/Community Intern
Tech-savvy, organized and resourceful individual needed to intern with IFP’s Community/Membership department. Our intern would assist primarily with Outreach for our upcoming events — Independent Film Week, Independent Filmmaker Conference, as well as general membership initiatives, events, and outreach.
Organized and self-motivated individual needed to intern with IFP for general administrative and program support. This is a great position for someone interested in learning the inner workings and key players of the independent film and arts nonprofit world.
Health care nonprofit hiring graduate journalists
Great opportunity to work with a CNN producer this summer:
Health care nonprofit hiring graduating and graduate journalists
12 hours per week paid freelance position with potential to lead to 40 hours per week in June.
The Health and Happiness Business Incubator is a non-profit being founded by Farhad Attaie and Dr. Ali Attaie, Director of Pediatric Dental at Mount Sinai Medical Center. We are looking for a freelance video journalist to produce a series of news and doctor-focused health care videos. The VJ will research, shoot and edit stories on Final Cut Pro.
The VJ will work with Matt Leung, a freelance producer at CNN and will also have opportunities to interact and network with major medical organizations, including Mount Sinai Medical Center.
To apply, email a resume and links to two to three work samples to Matt@TheTechnologyBeat.com
Mayor Bloomberg to host media training in spring
The AP reported today that “The Bloomberg administration is launching a program to teach struggling New Yorkers about finding jobs in the city’s film and television production industry.”
Read the article here.
International Journalism Festival 2010, Perugia, Italy
From the festival’s director:
The annual *International Journalism Festival *in *Perugia, Italy*, is a leading worldly journalism event taking place in *April *this year.
It is an open invitation to listen to and network with the best of world journalism. The leitmotiv is one of informality and accessibility, designed to appeal to journalists, journalism students and those interested in the role of the media in society. Simultaneous translation into English and Italian is provided. The festival is open to the public *free of charge*.
The 2007 first edition was a modest affair, but by the 2009 third edition there were 80 different events in the 5-day programme, 220 speakers, more than 260 accredited journalists and almost 300 volunteers in attendance from all over the world. Aggregate festival audiences plus visitors to the photojournalism exhibitions totalled about 30,000 despite our promotion being exclusively online and through social networks due to budget constraints. The 2010 fourth edition will be the biggest and best yet.
Perugia is a strikingly beautiful hilltop town of Etruscan origin. It is the regional capital of Umbria, one of the finest parts of Italy. The festival venues are all historic buildings located in the pedestrianised town centre. So how about a spring break in Perugia to enjoy great food, architecture, landscape and journalism? Where else can you tuck into your spaghetti al tartufo nero with Seymour Hersh or Carl Bernstein sitting at the adjoining table?
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The Environmental Film Festival at Yale is looking for films
Yale’s Environmental Film Festival will be held from April 5th to 11th this year, and they’re currently looking for films. From their director:
Hi folks, I’m director of the Environmental Film Festival at Yale (EFFY) this year, which will take place April 5-11 in New Haven. I’m reaching out to you in the hope that you may know of a film (feature, documentary, or short) released after Jan. 2009, that has been under the radar of some of the bigger festivals or is just about to be complete. EFFY showcases films that raise awareness of current environmental and social issues. The mission of the festival is to foster meaningful discourse and to incite social change and environmental stewardship throughout the Yale community and beyond. In light of our mission, screenings/events are free and open to the public. We will choose about a dozen feature-length films this year for competition, a shorts and student film program for competition, and a screening/workshop of one work-in-progress. Last year’s festival included presentations by James Gustave Speth and Jeffrey Sachs as well as the East Coast Premiere of CRUDE, the New England Premiere of EARTH DAYS, and a Special Advance Screening of Disneynature’s EARTH. With the deadline for submissions fast approaching (Feb. 1), please get in touch with me as soon as possible if you have a film, or know of a film, that would be a good fit. While we do not have an open call for films, I would greatly appreciate hearing from you if you know of a great film.
Many thanks, Chandra
Calling Student Entries for Sustainability Film Festival
2010 Student Sustainability Film Festival
Call for entries!
The Northwest Institute for Social Change is now encouraging and accepting entries from high school and college students across North America for its 2010 Student Sustainability Film Festival. We are inviting students to produce and submit short films about projects their communities and colleges have instigated to promote sustainability.
The films should be inspired by real-life events, issues or solutions. For example, has your campus put up a wind turbine? Or, students could examine how and if their school is encouraging alternative modes of transportation, or could consider how their college’s food services has chosen to reduce waste.
Entries are due on Friday, May 14.
Students will be awarded cash prizes for top-ranked submissions, as determined by an esteemed board of noted judges and filmmakers, including Curt Ellis (producer of “King Corn”) and Matt Martin (editor for “No Impact Man”). Each winning film is awarded a $1000 cash prize.
All final selections will be screened at a public event in Portland, Oregon in late May 2010.
Complete rules and submission guidelines are available at: nwisc.com/programs/student_sustainability_film/
Formed in 2007, the Northwest Institute for Social Change is an educational non-profit based in Portland, Oregon. We teach students and citizens about the interplay between media tools and public policy. For more information please visit: MediaMakingChange.org
Producer - Capital 9 News, Albany, NY
Capital News 9
JOB TITLE: Producer
COMPANY: Capital News 9
LOCATION: Albany, NY
TO APPLY: www.timewarnercable.com/careers, Requisition # 116182BR
Capital News 9 launched on October 11, 2002, and is Albany’s first and only 24-hour, 7-day-a-week local news channel. Capital News 9 is one of six local news channel operated by Time Warner Cable’s News Division.
Capital News 9 and its affiliates represent the state-of-the-art in local television news coverage, delivering on a commitment of responsible and community oriented journalism on an around-the-clock basis. Our coverage area extends to more than 325,000 cable households from the Capital Region to the Adirondacks, and the Berkshires. Capital News 9 is an exclusive community service for the customers of Time Warner Cable.
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
- Creates accurately timed newscasts that meet format requirements within established deadlines.
- Produces assigned newscasts and news inserts making decisions on story lineup, video/audio, graphics, and timing to construct the show.
- Writes stories for anchors as required. Stories should be written in a clear and concise conversational manner.
- Coordinates with graphic artists in developing the graphics for the show.
- Performs editing functions or fill in as Executive Producer as required.
- Produces and writes special reports as directed by Executive Producers, Managing Editor or News Director.
- Works with Associate Producers to create the newscast product.
- Responsible for accuracy of facts in the on-air product.
- Maintain a positive work atmosphere by behaving and communicating in a manner that works well with co-workers, supervisors and customers.
- This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive, and employee may also perform other reasonable related business duties as assigned by the supervisor and other management as required.
QUALIFICATIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE
- College degree preferred with minimum two years experience.
Good oral and written communication skills, interpersonal skills, leadership skills, news judgment, computer skills, ability to make decisions and work under pressure. - Ability to shoot and edit videotape preferred.
- Operate various office machines including computer and office software.
- Thorough knowledge of operation and office policies and procedures. Must have ability to handle various tasks simultaneously, organize, prioritize, make decisions and work efficiently and effectively under deadlines.
Time Warner Cable supports a drug-free environment and is EOE M/F/V/D
