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Digital Festival Production Assistant - Shut In Dance Film Fest

DESCRIPTION:

The Shut In Dance Film Fest, which supports remote collaboration and skill building for dance artists and the artists who work with them, is seeking a production assistant to help with the promotion, growth, and management of the festival, as well as other miscellaneous duties.  

This is a volunteer position for a start-up initiative with growth potential for the right individual. 

Location:

Anywhere!

The assistant can be based in the Los Angeles area, where the Festival Director is based, or can live outside of the area- being remote works just as well.

DESIRED SKILLS

Seeking individuals with experience in branding and creating platforms for the virtual space and a knowledge of the dance and/or film industries.

Desired skills include:

- Basic graphic design

- Basic video and sound editing

- Basic website design

- Search Engine Optimization

- Strategic planning for the virtual space

- Workflow design and implementation for successful completion of tasks and goals

RESPONSIBILITIES

Festival Management/Promotion:

- Recruiting and reaching out to prospective Creative Directors

- Update website with new video tutorials as received.

- Update website with new Creative Directors/Directives for each new cycle of the festival.

- Create and/or maintain submission posts on list serves such as : ArtsJobs, DancingOpportunities, DanceResourceCenter, DanceNYC, DancersGroup

- Create and/or maintain relationships with publications such as : Backstage, BroadwayWorld, DancePlug, LADanceChronicle, DanceMagazine

- Support and maintain partnerships with: Dance Camera West, Dare2Dance In Public, Ballet Boyz

- As well as research/seek additional partnerships and sharing opportunities.

Festival Growth:

Successful implementation of the below could result in promotion to paid Producer position.

- Secure Fiscal Sponsorship

- Work with publicist to secure sponsorship

- Research other avenues for non-profit funding

- Develop a line-item budget and projected sustainability plan

As the scale of project increases, Production Assistant will absorb additional responsibilities and/or assist to expand production team through recruitment/job postings.

TIME COMMITMENT

A minimum of 3 - 5 hours per week with a preferred 3-month minimum commitment.  Please note this is currently a volunteer position, however, successful implementation of Festival Growth (listed above) could result in promotion to a paid Producer position. 

Bucharest International Dance Film Festival, the only cinema event in Romania dedicated to dance films, launched the open call for short dance films, musicals, and animated movies!

BIDFF is the only dance film festival in our country and it was founded out of love for the dance film genre, with the purpose of promoting artists that work across genres and presenting cinematographic projects in which the language of the body explores strong narratives. Each year, the festival has a different theme that reflects upon the contemporary realities and questions the future of the body.

By a surprising and meaningful coincidence, as we are all confronting the global pandemic, utopia | dystopia is the theme of the BIDFF in 2020. The festival looks towards the future and tries to envision it. This year we use utopian | dystopian impulses as an instrument for reflection and dance films as a medium.

We invite film directors, choreographers, visual artists, animators, and musicians to submit their short films to the sixth edition of the festival, that will take place in Bucharest, between September 3 – 6. We also highly encourage filmmakers and other artists to apply if they have a movement themed animation or a short film revolving around the concept of utopia and dystopia.

BIDFF has a regular international and national competition dedicated to short dance films, while also holding the new competitional category for musicals, introduced last year.

CONDITIONS FOR SUBMITTING YOUR FILM

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Short Film Competition

Deadlines:

• Early bird – May 31st
• Regular – June 14
• Late – July 5

We are looking for:

• Short films of maximum 20 minutes, produced in the last 2 years, in the genres of dance film (fiction, animation, experimental, documentary);
• Short musicals of maximum 20 minutes, produced in the last 2 years;
• With a minimum quality of Full HD (1920 x 1080).

We are not looking for:

Music videos, trailers or recordings of performances, films already submitted in the previous years to BIDFF, 1-minute films, commercials.

We offer:

Cash awards for Best International Film, Best Romanian Film and Best Musical;

About the application:

Deadlines for submissions are May 31st (early bird), June 14 (regular), July 5 (late); 

You can submit your application starting the 4th of May;

All applicants will be informed about the outcome of their submission by August 1st, 2020;

Each director may submit a maximum of 2 films in the competition;

You can submit your film using the Film Freeway Platform;

Please check all the fees for submitting your film, according to each deadline before making the application.