INTERNSHIP
OUR INTERNSHIP PROGRAM IS CURRENTLY CLOSED. WE EXPECT TO RESUME INTERNSHIPS IN FALL 2011.
The Film Posse offers a limited number of internships throughout the year to college and university students. Listed below is information about our internships, with a link to a pdf version of the same info at the bottom of the page. After reading about the activities in which our interns are engaged, interested students should contact us. Go to the email page, complete the form and upload both a cover letter explaining your interest in the position AND your resume in one PDF document that includes your name as part of the filename.
INTERN ACTIVITIES
Filmmakers Tracy Heather Strain and Randy MacLowry, principals of The Film Posse, seek interns for research assistance and administration on a variety of documentary and non-fiction projects. Based in Fort Point Channel, the producers create high-quality and innovative documentaries primarily for national public television broadcast. The company recently completed an episode for NOVA, public television’s premiere science strand, about the nature of time. For American Experience, the award-winning PBS history series, productions include “The Gold Rush,” a two-hour episode on the California gold rush; “Building the Alaska Highway,” the story of the Army constructing the 1,500-mile Alaska Highway in 1942; and “A Brilliant Madness,” the story of Nobel Prize winning mathematician John Nash. Other projects include an episode for the 2009 Dupont-Columbia award winning PBS series Unnatural Causes on health disparities, an episode for the three-part public television series RACE: The Power of an Illusion, and short videos for museums and other clients. Our current project is the first feature-length documentary on the late playwright Lorraine Hansberry, best known for the groundbreaking play A Raisin in the Sun.
We seek responsible, versatile, and resourceful students, especially those studying in the fields of American studies, history or government; African American studies; women’s studies; and theatre history to assist in researching and developing our current productions. Candidates must be detail-oriented with strong interpersonal, organizational, analytical, writing, and research skills. Requirements include: library, telephone and Internet research skills along with a basic knowledge of Macintosh computers and word processing software. A familiarity with Filemaker Pro database software application, web-based software applications, scanners and Adobe Photoshop is a plus. The time commitment is 8-16 hours per week; hours are flexible. This is a non-paid internship. The internship can be completed for academic credit, but it is not required.