CINEWORKS INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS SOCIETY JOB POSTING

Position Title: Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Intern (CIFI)

Deadline to apply: Friday, 18th June 2023, Midnight

Start Date: Monday, 3rd July 2023

End Date: Friday, 1st September 2023

Wage Rate: $18 per hour.

Period of Internship: Contract position, 30 hours per week for 9 weeks (480 hours).

Schedule: 5 days a week @ 6.5 hrs p/day with a half hour unpaid meal break, 2 paid x 15 min coffee breaks.

Schedule: Monday to Friday, 11:30am - 6pm; with flexibility for weekend and evening events.

Applications: Interested applicants should send a cover letter and resume to the attention of the Cineworks Executive Director: Dan Small (admin@cineworks.ca).

Please note: Given the volume of interested candidates for the intern position, only candidates that are short-listed will be contacted.

The Organization

Established in 1980, in Vancouver, on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society is a non-profit artist-run centre that supports independent filmmakers, media artists, and arts audiences through facilities and initiatives that assist in the production, distribution, and exhibition of independent, non-commercial analogue and digital films. The initiatives of Cineworks provide facilities aimed at maximizing creative human employment potential in the relief of poverty and increasing the awareness of the investigative, expressive, and transformative powers of the moving image.

Applications Welcome

Cineworks is committed to upholding the values of inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility. We strongly encourage applications from peoples of underrepresented groups and those who have faced systemic barriers at institutions, including cis, trans, two-spirit and non-binary, and BIPOC. We also recognize that diverse lived experience and knowledge can support a candidate’s eligibility outside of formal education and/or employment classifications.

The Goal of the Position

Thank you to one-time funding from the Government of Canada through the Youth Employment and Skills Strategy, this position is designed to offer work experience with Cineworks as a non-profit organisation dedicated to supporting independent filmmakers, media artists, and arts audiences through facilities and initiatives that assist in the production, distribution, and exhibition of independent, non-commercial analogue and digital films. The CIFI will have the opportunity to work with three mentors, two graduates from the Simon Fraser University Film Program and a third with extensive experience in analog film processing techniques to learn about different streams of community work related to independent filmmaking in Vancouver. Through one mentor stream, the CIFI will be engaged in facilities and filmmaking equipment initiatives that support non-commercial filmmaking. Through the other mentor stream, the CIFI learn about developing, planning, promoting, and hosting film related events (academic salons, workshops, screenings) that highlighting analogue and digital film practices. Through the third mentor stream, the CIFI will have a chance to garner filmmaking knowledge related to analog processing (including darkroom development).

Tasks And Responsibilities
  • •   Working with three mentors to learn about different aspects of the community work related to independent filmmaking in Vancouver.
  • •   Working alongside the Cineworks Program Coordinator (CPC) to provide research, support, and program assistance to the Cineworks Program Coordinator in the development of education related to analog and digital film media.
  • •   Assist the CPC in developing, planning, promoting, and hosting film related events (academic salons, workshops, screenings) highlighting analogue and digital film practices.
  • •   Working alongside the CPC to assist with outreach through various channels including social media to the independent filmmaking community.
  • •   Assisting the CPC in the development. administration and collation of a survey of member interests related to independent filmmaking workshops, screenings, and education events.
  • •   Design and deliver a membership educational event (e.g. film screening based on the interests of the CIFI).
  • •   Assist the CPC in research and development of a program planning document examining barriers participation in film related activities for marginalized or underrepresented communities.
  • •   Working alongside the Cineworks Facilities and Equipment Manager (CFEM) to learn about the provision of low-threshold analog and digital filmmaking equipment and facilities for production and post-production.
  • •   Work alongside the CFEM to support Cineworks’ community-building and partnered programs (e.g., the coordination of F-O-R-M Festival commissioned film productions).
  • •   Collaborate with the CFEM in the design, administration and interpretation of a member survey related to facilities and equipment.
  • •   Collaborate with the CFEM in the post-production, screening, and publication of an orientation video.
  • •   Collaborate with the CFEM in the developing a plan for lowering the barriers to equipment rental (e.g. performing research related to lowering costs for key pieces of filmmaking equipment).
  • •   Design and deliver a membership engagement event related to filmmaking equipment (e.g. a screening).
  • •   Working alongside the Analog Film Technician to learn about celluloid film processing techniques.
Key Team Accountabilities
  • •   Collaboration as part of the staff team.
  • •   Exercising effective team membership.
  • •   Creating an environment for continuous improvement.
  • •   Contributing to a safe and respectful environment for everyone attending Cineworks programs, events, or workshops.
  • •   Effective management of mulptiple timelines with regards to events, programs, workshops and off-site meetings.
Key Competencies
  • •   Strong written and oral communication skills.
  • •   Creativity.
  • •   Self-motivation and enthusiastic.
  • •   Eagerness to learn.
  • •   Person-centred approach.
Workplace Ethics

Cineworks promotes an inclusive and respectful working environment in which all staff, members, and the public are entitled to equitable and fair treatment. The CIFI is expected to uphold and contribute to this respectful and welcoming environment. The CIFI will exercise confidentiality towards sensitive, personal, and private information encountered through professional communications during their employment at Cineworks.

To apply please submit a resume and detailed cover letter addressing your relevant experience to the responsibilities above, to: admin@cineworks.ca.