Position filled for 2009.

2 FT posts - two weeks before; the two weeks of the Festival and four weeks after

Based in the Press Department you will be going through the daily papers to find, cut out and file all coverage on the Film Festival. There will be big features and small mentions. There will be comment and listings. You will need patience and a good eye. You must be a neat and methodical person, who can use scissors to cut out in a straight line (daft as it sounds to make this a necessary quality but we have seen all manner of dodgy cutting out!) Other tools of the trade are the photocopier and your very own Pritt Stick.

You will need to start around 8am every day so as to get that days coverage ready to view by 10am.  You'll then remain in the press office until 4pm to respond to requests from distributors and filmmakers for copies of their films' coverage.  In the four weeks after the festival you'll re-sort all of the coverage into sections as directed by the festival staff.  This leaves the Festival with a really great resource which over the coming year is shown to potential sponsors and funders.  In the long term the files will go to the Festival's archive in the Manuscripts Department of the National Museum of Scotland.

So no doubt sometimes a tedious job, but with something to show for it in the end.  This voluntary post would suit someone looking for experience in a press department. This is not a role to take if you want to see loads of films!

Two posts.