The annual Blackbird Film Festival is giving out three credits to Fall 2023 interns. The festival team is looking for individuals to join as Film Judges. Filmmakers and enthusiasts attend the festival each year, experiencing the inside of creative minds and the uniqueness of each individual.
What is the Blackbird Film Festival
The Blackbird Film Festival is a non-profit organization founded in 2015, based right here in Cortland. Its purpose is to celebrate the works of independent filmmakers. While showing their work, participants also build connections with experienced filmmakers to further help their future career.
The festival was initially for teen filmmakers, but in 2016 the Blackbird Film Festival opened submissions to all filmmakers to encourage collaboration, inspire creativity, and share perspectives from around the world.
The festival shows more than 95 films across all genres!
Internship
Blackbird is looking for highly motivated film submission judges to watch and review films for the spring 2024 festival.
"This is an unpaid position in which you will be assigned a number of films (mostly short films under 20 minutes) to watch and review each week during the Fall 2023 semester. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 10:20am to 11:10am, Film Judge interns are required to meet (in-person) to discuss the films they watched the previous week and vote on which films move forward in the process!"
Film Submission Judges are required only a few things:
- To have a sharp eye for production quality, character development, and overarching story themes
- To be strong writers who are self-motivated
- To attend all weekly meetings on campus (MWF, 10:20 am-11:10 am)
- To be responsible with deadlines
- At least 18 years old
As a submission judge you have three responsibilities
- Watch and review weekly film assignments
- provide constructive critique
- help to curate Blackbird’s festival program
How to Apply
The School of Arts and Sciences has sent an email to all Cortland students, with details and this link to the Google form used to apply.
The application deadline is May 10th, 2023
Meetings will begin August 28th, 2023 and end December, 8th 2023