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Account Coordinator
Assistant Director
Advertising Specialist
Advertising Specialists are responsible for organizing an advertising agency campaign by and
serving as a liaison with clients. You will be adept in pitching new accounts, managing projects,
and communicating ideas to creative teams.
Art Director
Art PA
An Art Production Assistant or Runner assists the production designer on set to help
decorate sets and arrange props and art pieces. You do what it takes to design and support
the artistic vision of a story on screen.
Boom Operator
Business Owner
Camera Operator, Television, Video, and Film
Casting Assistant
Communications Specialist
Communications Specialists help businesses by managing all internal and
external communication of a company and represent the company to the outside world.
You draft media statements, answer media inquiries, compile publications, plan events and
press conferences.
Creative Director
Creative Directors lead and guide the creative process to ensure copywriters, designers, and
others achieve main goals and enhance branding through storytelling.
You bring designs to life.
Film and Marketing Production Company Owner
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Film and Video Editor
Freelance Videographer
Gaffer
Grip
Line Producer
Location Manager or Location Scout
Marketing Specialist/Coordinator
As a Marketing Specialist/Coordinator, you market products by developing and
implementing marketing and advertising campaigns. You can track sales data, maintain
promotional materials inventory, plan meetings and trade shows, maintain databases, and
prepare reports.
Motion Graphics Designer
Producer
Production Assistant and Production Coordinator
A Production Assistant or Coordinator handles a variety of duties across departments.
You gain experience with a full array of production personnel, including directors, camera
operators, costume designers, etc. You can help prepare the set with lights, props, equipment
etc., print and distribute daily paperwork (e.g. scripts, call sheets), or help with answering
phones, assisting with information, and is ideal for you if you are organized, friendly,
enthusiastic, and like variety each day.
Props Master
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Sales Representative
As a Sales Representative, you are responsible for selling a company's products by identifying
leads, educating prospects on products through calls, trainings, and presentations, and
providing existing customers with exceptional support.
Screenwriter
Screenwriters prepare their script in a way that enables readers to envisage the setting,
emotion, and the way it will work on screen. You collaborate with producers, directors, and
actors to draft and redraft their script, often working to tight deadlines.
Script Supervisor
Social Media Specialist
Special Effects Coordinator
UI/UX Designer
UX-UI Designers are generally responsible for collecting, researching, investigating, and
evaluating user requirements. You will be responsible for delivering the best online user
experience, which makes your role extremely important for our success and ensuring customer
satisfaction and loyalty.
Unit Production Coordinator
Video Technician
Video Technicians are crucial for live productions. You maintain and operate video
production equipment under the supervision of a technical director. The equipment may
include video cameras, screens, projectors, media servers, and the grip kit.
Audio Video (AV) Technicians set up and operate the video, audio, and lighting equipment to
enhance live events. You assemble microphones, mix sound boards, coordinate graphics,
operate spotlights, manage video recordings, and provide technical support.
Web Designer
Web Designers plan, create, and code internet sites and web pages, many of which combine
text with sounds, pictures, graphics, and video clips. You are responsible for creating
the design and layout of a website or web pages. It and can mean working on a brand-
new website or updating an already existing site.
A Career in Less Than a Year for You. Where Do you Want to Go?
Film & Marketing Leaders Start Here
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The Digital Skills Workforce Gap: 75 MILLION JOBS WILL BE DISPLACED,
133 MILLION NEW, DIGITAL ROLES WILL EMERGE
Just in time is a…
…Double-Major Intensive Digital Film and Marketing Degree and Diploma Program
Jobs in the Film Industry are there for those who network, are resource and are focused, inspirational, leaders.
Once a lm or a TV show job ends, a person who is equally trained in digital marketing production as they are
in lm production can use their skills to create long-term, on-going marketing jobs that use similar creative and
storytelling talents.
The Digital Skills Workforce Gap requires diverse talents among adaptable workers. In between lms and TV
projects, a graduate of The Institute of F.I.L.M.S. can demonstrate their equal talent in marketing production.
It is why The Institute of F.I.L.M.S. is dedicated to Teaching Dreamers to Create F.I.L.M.S.
F.I.L.M.S. are not just Movies. F.I.L.M.S. are Focused Inspirational Leaders of Marketing, Movies, and Storytelling.
Job listings on June 1, 2021:
April 16, 2021 10,356 vacancies for Digital Marketing
Jobs in Miami, FL, on jooble.org
9,939 vacancies for Digital Marketing
Jobs in Tampa, FL, on jooble.org
Landing your first job in 2021
requires flexibility. The outlook is
8,754 vacancies for Digital Marketing
positive. Jobs in For Lauderdale, FL, on
Landing your first job in 2021 requires flexibility. The outlook is positive. jooble.org
April 16, 2021, Joel Brown
“There are definitely pockets in the market that are extremely strong right now,” says Scott
Singer, founder and president ofInsider Career Strategies Resume Writing & Career Coaching in 7,938 vacancies for Digital Marketing
Hallandale Beach, Fla. “Marketing is doing well. Even sales.
Jobs in Orlando, FL, on jooble.org
Anything associated with a core business’s mission, helping it become more profitable.
“Especially with a lot of companies where they’ve had to be more creative over the last year,”
Singer says, “people that can think creatively outside the box and contribute in a meaningful 7,117 vacancies for remote Digital
way” are in demand. Marketing jobs on indeed.com
Overall, the jobs market is very good, Singer says, and will continue to improve. Anyone (June 1, 2021).
“involved in helping a business operate more efficiently, more cost-effectively, and deliver a
return, they’re going to find themselves in demand.”
5,082 vacancies for Digital Marketing
Last month, in contrast, the nation added 916,000 jobs, the third consecutive month of
accelerated hiring, and unemployment, at 6 percent, was less than half what it was a year ago. Jobs in Jacksonville, FL, on jooble.org
Companies hiring Digital Marketing
Small Businesses Get Creative to Survive During the Pandemic: Innovations adopted during professionals include:
the crisis drive revenue and generate new opportunities.
Kathy Gurchiek.
September 19, 2020
One example: Moriarty’s Gem Art, a family owned
jewelry business, created a livestreamed gem
show through YouTube using YouTube Studio
software. The company advertised the
livestreams through its website, by e-mail and
via social media. More than 1,000 people now
watch the two-hour show that airs every other
Wednesday in additional to selling gems online
and from far away. Revenue is up.
…and Many Small, Medium, and Large Businesses
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The Hollywood Reporter, March 22, 2021
Brad Hall, president of Entertain-
mentCareers.Net, says that as of
February “we are back to the
exact same job flow we had one
year prior (to the pandemic).”
Some say the COVID era has reaffirmed their commitment to making it. “In some ways, it
strengthened me as a person. I’m more resilient,” says Thomas Jankowski, who picked up gigs
doing uniquely pandemic-era work, including tech support for online screenings and as a
production assistant charged with driving and sanitizing equipment; he also recently landed a
full-time role as an agency assistant.
And while her pilot may be on ice, Diana Romero, a
screenwriter, has recently written for a web series and is looking to be staffed on a show:
“This pandemic did actually show me that this is exactly where I want to be.”
Businessweek, May 26, 2021
Now, though, more than a year
into a pandemic, the future of
entertainment seems clearer. Pop
culture has moved online—for
everyone.
Streaming services, already a major priority, fast became the only way most people got their film and TV fixes. Netflix
Inc. added 26 million customers in the first half of 2020, a record for new subscribers. And so media companies set aside
legacy businesses and learned how to stream.
The globalization of the movie business is a sign of what’s to come for TV as well. International markets contributed 83%
of Netflix’s new sign-ups in 2020 and now account for more than 60% of its user base. It will be only another year or
two before African, European, and Middle Eastern customers outnumber those in the U.S. and Canada. Disney+, HBO Max,
and Amazon.com Inc. are expanding their international streaming operations as well. India already accounts for a third
of Disney+ subscribers, thanks in large part to the unique inclusion there of cricket, a national obsession. Disney
is hoping to use its formula in India—a mix of sports, original series, and low prices—to expand its reach across South
Asia.
As American media companies look abroad for growth, they’re also bringing the stories they make there back home.
Netflix is investing billions of dollars in programming in more than a dozen languages, and consumption of these shows
is soaring everywhere.
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MovieMaker magazine, January 2021
While NY and Los Angeles are
consistently ranked high among
cities, three other cities in Florida
and Georgia are also listed.
St. Petersburg, FL
St. Petersburg pulled in 15 feature films in the last year, most with budgets under a million. Two bigger projects in the
area were Lady of the Manor, starring Justin Long, Judy Greer, Melanie Lynskey and Ryan Phillippe, and Fear of Rain,
which starred Harry Connick Jr. and Katherine Heigl and filmed downtown.
Since Florida lacks a film incentive program, the St. Pete Clearwater Film Commission smartly devised a cash rebate
incentive in 2005. The program, which has helped more than 1,800 production companies, pays up to 10% on qualified
expenditures in Pinellas County’s 24 municipalities.
The region has some of the most gorgeous beaches in the country, and with 361 days of sunshine, you’ll have ample
opportunity to enjoy them. It also offers skilled crews and plenty of production facilities and equipment rental houses.
And its embrace of film includes the forward- thinking, worldly Sunscreen Film Festival, which celebrated its 15th year in
2020.
Another positive: The state’s nonprofit industry agency, Film FL, requires all productions applying for a permit in the
region to read and adhere as closely as possible to its recommendations for clean and healthy sets.
Miami, FL
Miami is the home of 2020’s top-grossing film, Bad Boys for Life. Okay, 2020 was not a
normal year, but Miami’s reputation as a vibrant film center spans decades. Endlessly
photogenic, with gorgeous weather almost always, Florida is just a few rich tax incentives
away from posing a major challenge to neighboring Georgia.
The state currently has a two-tiered grant system with a maximum of $100,000 for
Miami- Dade County projects of $1 million or more and $50,000 for projects of $500,000
to $1 million. And FilMiami smooths the permitting process with a one-stop system across
several jurisdictions.
“Miami has been a playground for indie filmmakers for a few simple reasons. In a city less
saturated with productions, people tend to be generous with their venues, rentals, excite-
ment, and tolerance for filmmakers,’” says Miami-born artist-moviemaker Jillian Mayer.
Miami-Dade County has a wide array of locations, but also a kind of light — especially in
2017 Best Picture winner Moonlight — that you can’t capture anywhere else in America.
Atlanta
A 30% tax credit, great weather, excellent crews and a slew of blockbusters
have made Atlanta a force for years. But the home of The Walking Dead,
Watchmen, and much of the Marvel and DC cinematic universes is also an
innovator when it comes to the industry’s fight against COVID-19.
Tyler Perry was one of the first high-profile moviemakers to prove that filming
could safely resume when he quarantined cast and crew this past summer,
and even used private flights to ensure safe travel to his own Tyler Perry
Studios. The Georgia Film Office also issues a short, jargon-free guide to
shooting safely.
Atlanta has continued to thrive as a film center during COVID-19 — and even
grow. In fact, Pinewood Atlanta Studios rebranded in 2020 as Trilith, a
location that includes a small town with its own homes, restaurants, parks,
and schools — as well as production facilities within walking distance.
Atlanta isn’t just home to big productions, but indie ones, too — and Film
Impact Georgia provides a twice-a-year grant program for making shorts.
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Elliott Grove, Raindance, December 2020
Filmmakers are always looking for work. The challenge
of how to find work during COVID in the challenge of
2020. Here are some ideas of what you can do. At
the bottom of this page you will see an A-Z of
twenty-seven different websites where you can look
for film work!
Work from home
There are many jobs that filmmakers can do from home, and get paid:
Editing:People are always looking for an editor
Sound and sound design:Do you have the ability to create excellent foley?
Animation:There are various roles you can do remotely.
Writing: Copywriting, script editing, blogging , research and translation
services are just 4 of the paid jobs you can do from home.
But what of script writing for commercials?
Many were written this past year remotely.
It’s a great exercise to analyze what kind of work you are looking for. Then you need to prepare your resume and reel.
Don’t forget to clean up your social media too! Companies these days will check out your social profiles, often before
they read your resume. These are various places you can look for film work:
Arts Hub is a rolling database of jobs and events in the Creative Circle: If you’re looking for a full-time job (we
arts world. It also regularly publishes articles with careers know, health insurance is expensive), you might consider
news and advice. using a staffing agency such as Creative Circle that
matches you with companies. You can apply for jobs
Artjobs: a range of job opportunities within the art and through their site or meet with a recruiter who can help
culture sector. find opportunities for you.
Behance: Abode’s platform, Behance,allows you to show- Creative Cow Career Center: If you work in post-produc-
case your work and apply to both full-time and short-term tion, Creative Cow is good for applying to editing, VFX
creative jobs. Companies can also view your work and and animation jobs. Most of the jobs are based in Canada
contact you directly. but they have listings all over the world.
Craigslist:Despite its reputation,Craigslisthas loads of CrewsControl: focuses on matching their clients with the
independent film-related posts on here, with good genui- perfect crew, anywhere in the world. They also require
ne people and cool projects. Just don’t get lost in its their DPs have a minimum of 10 years of experience and
antiques section or the fascinating depths of itsmissed own their own broadcast-level camera package–but once
connectionspage. you get in you’ll be working in no time! It’s free to apply
to be a DP for Crews Control, however they take a “15%
Creative Access: Creative job opportunities from paid Crews Control commission” from your standard rate on
intern to full time. any job you get through them.
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Entertainment Careers: The membership fee for Entertain- ScreenSkills: has loads of advice on those wanting to
ment Careers starts at $9.95 monthly and includes early start out in the (creative media) industry, plus plenty of
access to job posts, application tracking and customized job opportunities and learning courses.
email alerts. Note that many of the jobs here can also be
found on free sites, but some are members only. Shooting People: This website, founded by a group of
independent filmmakers, offers connections for cast and
Facebook:Its job-search function is a great place to find crew, funding, scripts and more. They also host a short
job vacancy adverts. Many top companies now use film competition which could give your career a nice
Facebook to advertise their vacancies. Production kick-start.
Freelancers is one of many groups too.
One of the most popular film job sites out
Flare Studio: On Flare Studio, brands post briefs for there, Staff Me Up, offers a free version as well as a paid
content they want created and you can respond to the version and is great for applying to freelance gigs. The
brief by uploading your work with the chance to get paid. free version limits you to five job applications per month,
The only downside is it’s competition based, so you have but if you’re willing to spend a few bucks you can easily
to upload your completed work before you find out if you apply to unlimited jobs, add cover letters, and see your
are selected. status for each application.
Gumtree: Another “everything” website like Craigslist. Stage 32: Stage 32 advertises as a social network and
You can find anything on here from cheap film equip- educational hub for film and television, or “Lynda meets
ment to a desperate director looking for someone just LinkedIn.” In addition to job listings they offer virtual
like you! classes, discussion boards and feedback for writers.
Pricing varies, but it’s free to create a profile.
posts jobs from remote startups, softwa-
re companies, agencies, and ecommerce businesses. Storyhunter: is free to join and when you work as a
Once you create a freelancer profile, companies can freelancer on Storyhunter, you don’t pay any fees–the
contact you directly for work and you can apply to jobs. whole thing is entirely free! You need to be vetted by
This is great if you’re an editor and can work remotely. their pros but once you are you’ll be able to browse
projects and apply to any you like!
Indeed: Not specific to film, Indeed is great for applying
to full-time staff positions. You can easily upload your UpWork: allows freelancers to search for projects and
resume and include cover letters for each job. send proposals to clients. It’s free to join, but freelancers
are charged a sliding fee based on their earnings. The fee
KFTV: is a great international search engine and forum for the first $500 you earn is 20% and decreases to 10%
hub for finding fellow creatives, equipment rental, pre and after that.
post-production services, broadcasting facilities and
anything else you can think of. Zip Recruiter: allows you to apply to full-time jobs with
one click once you’ve uploaded your resume and you can
The Knowledge:is a database of over 20,000 production even request info about the salary if it’s not listed. They’ll
suppliers within and outside of the UK. It doesn’t require also email you with recommended jobs in your field. Like
registration, but if you do you get freebies! the above two sites, it’s not specific to film production,
but there are some hidden gems to be found, particularly
Launching Films (Film Distributors’ Association): if you are staff positions at larger media companies.
looking forknowledge of more business- focused aspects
of film, and includes job listings. Linkedin.com: A great
place to find work. ‘Nuff said.
COMPANIES HIRING:
Mandy: One of the main media job-posting boards.
Check it outfor all your cast and crew needs.
POP:A great place to look for work on film sets, both in
front of and behind the camera.
ProductionBeast: allows freelancers to apply to unlimited
jobs, set their availability and show off their work for free.
If you work in multiple cities, you can sign up for a starter
profile for $3.99 a month and appear in crew listings for
up to three cities, so it’s great for anyone bi-coastal.
Production Hub:This huballows you to create and explo-
re profiles whether you want to offer up your production
skills or scout people for your own project.
RadarMusic:Into film AND the music industry?This site
is perfect for getting a directing gig on a music video.
ScreenDaily.com: This website mainly offers film news
and reviews of new releases, but also features a film
Many Independent Studios!
industryjobs hub.
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