Our start-up production company focused on family entertainment is seeking 1 to 3 partners with strong industry connections. We have a writer/producer/director with an extensive commercial background and general business management in place plus a documentary in post-production, 5 near-ready scripts, and lots of treatments.

We need veteran producer with:
- Extensive development thru distribution experience
- Upper level connections with studios, distributors and talent agencies (our projects are primed for
PBS/Participant/Walden/Disney/WB)
- 5+ years of securing funding projects up to $10 million
- Multi-platform experience with teleplay, screenplay, theatrical, documentary and commercial formats

Also you must have:
- High energy
- Endurance
- Starch integrity
- Experience focusing a temperamental creative partner
- Ambition for producing high quality family-centered, economically profitable entertainment

CURRENT PROJECT
Documentary on no-cost answer to improve K-12 education nationwide
Status: Post-Production, current 4-hour cut from 500+ hours of HD footage
Budget: $50,000+ cash and/or in-kind to lock print; $200,000+ for PR/advertising, audience engagement, and DVDs for schools
Urgent Needs: Editor, Animation/Titling, color and sound correction, distribution partner

FUTURE PROJECTS WITH SCRIPTS
Coming of Age Drama - $1-2 Million
Romantic Comedy - $10+ Million

Ideal partners are mid-level or encore career professionals looking for more freedom, involvement and pride in daily work. If you are located or willing to commute to North LA County / Ventura County, that is a plus. Compensation/revenue share will be based on assets/skills, experience and project vs. partnership agreement options. Send resume, IMDb link, and 500+ word overview of what you can bring to a new company.

Film and stock researchers needed for a national broadcast documentary about how new technologies are changing the world. We are an award-winning LA based production company. Prior film research experience required. Please send a bio and tell us something about yourself to Steve at luminous content@gmail.com

We’re looking for a passionate self-starter and food-loving dynamo to join our little farm to help us set up community screenings and launch our campaign.

Simply put, we are looking for someone to be our point person for our Community Screening Campaign. The film was produced as a piece of a larger movement, we want you to enhance this film’s impact and outreach. If you have aspirations in documentary filmmaking or furthering the food movement through grassroots activism, this is an extraordinary opportunity to blend a social action campaign and marketing strategies in a hybrid distribution model and foster real change.

Candidates will ideally love food, the planet, and environmental documentaries, a desire to wake the masses up, and a passion for outreach work. We’re looking for detail-oriented, reliable, self-motivated, hard-working and insightful candidates capable of working remotely. You live in Los Angeles, can work roughly 10+ hours a week.

Contact: Kip
kip@pasturepictures.com

Need two-man crew for two days, October 23-24, 2012 in greater Kansas City area. Documentary involving interviews with wounded warriors. Call Stephanie (in California) at 661-297-0047.

The Cinema Department at San Francisco State University seeks candidates for a position in documentary filmmaking at the rank of Assistant (tenure-track) or Associate (tenured or tenure-track) Professor, to begin in Fall 2013, subject to the University’s financial ability.

Qualifications
M.F.A., Ph.D., or equivalent degree preferred, but applicants with distinguished professional experience and a bachelor’s degree will be considered. University teaching experience preferred. Strong documentary filmmaking skills required. Interest in new media practices and distribution modes is desirable. The successful applicant will be an accomplished documentary filmmaker who is proficient in all areas of documentary filmmaking and who is knowledgeable about writing, producing, and financing documentary films, documentary film history, and the critical discourse surrounding documentary practices. The candidate should be poised to make innovative contributions to a department committed to creative expression, critical thinking, and social engagement.

Responsibilities, Areas of Specialization and Teaching Range
The candidate will teach courses in documentary production as well as additional courses within his/her specialty, ranging from cinematography, editing, and documentary screenwriting to producing and financing documentary films, with a normal course load of 3 courses per semester. The candidate must be adept at teaching in a dynamic interdisciplinary program that integrates animation, filmmaking, the study of media and culture, and screenwriting. Other duties include supervising MFA thesis projects and independent study projects, working with undergraduate students to help develop their projects, undergraduate major advising, curriculum development and other committee assignments.

Rank and Salary
Assistant or Associate Professor; salary competitive, commensurate with qualifications. As part of the California State University system, SFSU provides generous health, retirement, and other benefits, including domestic partner benefits.

The Department
The Cinema Department, housed in the College of Liberal & Creative Arts, has 19 tenured/tenure-track faculty and serves approximately 700 undergraduate and graduate students. We teach production and theory as a common enterprise and offer a B.A. in Cinema, M.A. in Cinema Studies, and M.F.A. in Cinema as well as an Animation Emphasis that is open to both cinema and non-cinema majors. For more information, please visit http://www.cinema.sfsu.edu

The University
San Francisco State University, a member of the California State University system, serves a diverse student body of 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students. The University seeks to promote appreciation of scholarship, freedom, and human diversity through excellence in instruction and intellectual accomplishment. SFSU faculty are expected to be effective teachers and demonstrate professional achievement and growth through research, scholarship, and/or creative work.

To Apply
Review of applications will begin 11/12/12. Applications must include a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, statement of teaching philosophy, DVD sample of creative work, and three recent letters of reference. Address to:

Daniel Bernardi, Department Chair
ATTN Documentary Search Committee
Cinema Department, FA 245
San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Ave
San Francisco, CA 94132

Initial interviews of top candidates will take place in mid-December via Skype. Applications accepted until selection of candidates for campus interviews.

The University is an Equal Opportunity Employer with a strong commitment to diversity, and we especially welcome applications from members of all ethnic groups, women, veterans, and people with disabilities.

We approaching the final cut stage for our documentary and are looking for original music and original graphics. They are both paid positions. We are looking to go to Canne, Berlin, SilverDocs, Toronto, and Sundance to name a few. This is a very independent production, with a very big a new subject. If it has enough legs, we will try for Oscar nomination. Will work to the end of 2012 with director, edit, and producers.

We will require a demo from each candidate. This is a very unique subject and can bring wanted recognition.

Please contact david@dehilster.com.

Need young energetic and creative person with an interest in social justice to create website, and assist Producer on documentary about the school-to-prison pipeline for low-income minority students with learning disabilities. A staggering 70% of these kids are in the juvenile justice system.

Please contact Lisa Gross at lisa@faircruve.com

Meridian Hill Pictures (www.meridianhillpictures.com) is seeking to hire a full-time Editorial Director to join our Washington DC-based production team. The position offers an ideal opportunity for a talented, creative and enterprising editor to exercise their artistry on a diverse range of interesting and challenging documentary projects. The Editorial Director will serve as the studio’s primary editor for in-house independent films — both features and shorts. The ideal candidate will have great skill and finesse in creative, non-fiction storytelling techniques and have experience editing films that have enjoyed festival, theatrical or televised distribution, in addition to working with partner non-profit organizations. S/he should be passionate about crafting compelling stories through the editing process and committed to community-based and participatory filmmaking approaches. S/he will be enthusiastic about bringing their own strong individual creative and artistic sensibilities into a highly collaborative environment where ideas are respected and embraced. The ideal candidate will have demonstrated mastery managing digital/tapeless HD media post-production workflows, and proficiency with Final Cut Studio, Adobe Premiere and Creative Suite, and content delivery to a variety of formats.

The position is paid on a full-time, salaried basis with excellent benefits including an employer-sponsored healthcare plan, paid holidays and time-off, and access to the company’s community garden plot. Meridian Hill Pictures studio is based in NW Washington DC, in the Josephine Butler Parks Center, a multi-organization “greenhouse” for advancing green spaces and rebuilding communities in DC. The position offers an excellent opportunity for an enterprising editor seeking an opportunity to flourish creatively and professionally at an exciting and growing mission-driven production company.

For more information on how to apply, please visit: http://www.meridianhillpictures.com/about/jobs/

At LDRK, we make short-form documentary-style profile videos for businesses and nonprofits that tell engaging stories. (We also produce some scripted commercials and motion graphics projects.)

We're looking to expand our network of associated documentary filmmakers throughout the US. When filmmakers are in our network and we receive projects in their area, we check in with them to see if they're available to shoot.

We take care of preparing questions and scheduling interviews & locations--that is, pre-planning. We also take care of post in-house (we're located in the Austin, TX area).

We're always looking for filmmakers that have the equipment and the experience to collect interesting and telling b-roll and conduct professional, quality interviews.

If this sounds like something that would interest you, please get in touch.

Shooting a documentary in Jamaica and looking for a superstar shooter/producer who can go down for a couple weeks to shoot interviews/b roll, etc and spend time following the subject in his daily life. EP will be coming and going so must have strong producer skills and be able to capture key moments without supervision.

Shoot is at the end of November (approx. 15th - 26th) so it does require working over Thanksgiving weekend. It's a low budget project but rate is negotiable and all expenses, travel, lodging, etc. will obviously be provided.

Must have experience shooting and producing documentaries. Please email Tiffany4616@gmail.com.