Description:
A great opportunity for film, arts administration and nonprofit management students as well as young filmmakers: learn how a nonprofit film festival works and see hundreds of great movies.Rooftop Films is seeking interns for Summer 2010. Applications are due no later than April 26, 2010. The internships can be done for school credit. Find out your school’s internship or field work credit requirements and we will work with you to accommodate them.
Candidates would be expected to average at least two days a week and one show per weekend, but generally the more time you can commit the better. Our offices are on the border of Park Slope and Gowanus, near the R, F, M and G trains in Brooklyn, so please apply only if you will be able to handle that commute. We welcome graduate students and applicants finishing their 1st year of college (or age equivalent) or older.
Internship tasks can include:
* Organizing film screenings
* Audio and video tech work
* Fundraising and development
* Contacting, corresponding and hosting filmmakers
* Organizing and maintaining film databases
* Logging and capturing films and footage
* Organizing our tape library
* General office and festival work
* Anything else you might be interested in—we want you to see how we work
Qualifications
Candidates should have good experience working with Microsoft Office (particularly Excel) and experience with Filemaker, HTML, design programs or video editing software is a plus. In addition, our interns will have an opportunity to learn a variety of technical skills, including Avid and Final Cut Pro digital editing skills. Internships are unpaid.
How to Apply
Applications are due no later than April 26, 2010. If you are interested, please send a cover letter and resume to summerintern@rooftopfilms.com
About the company
Rooftop Films is a non-profit organization whose mission is to engage and inspire diverse communities by showing movies in outdoor locations, producing new films, teaching filmmaking to young people, and renting low-cost equipment to artists and non-profits. At Rooftop Films, we bring underground movies outdoors
But Rooftop Films is more than a film festival. We are a community. We are a collective collaboration between filmmakers and festivals, between audience members and artists, between venues and neighborhoods. Our goal is to nurture a vibrant independent filmmaking community not only by exhibiting the work of low-budget filmmakers but also by providing essential support systems for those who otherwise have none. Rooftop Films is keeping this vital mode of filmmaking alive and well in New York City and beyond.