BFI Future Film Festival volunteers

The BFI Future Film Festival is looking for a team of enthusiastic and committed volunteers to help us during our annual film festival for 16-25 year olds between Weds 15 – Sun 19 Feb 2017. We are looking for people who have a strong interest in films and filmmaking and want to get some experience in events and customer service, and filming and editing events.

This is a great opportunity to learn how a busy youth film festival is run, and you will have plenty of opportunity to enjoy various events during the festival that can count towards V-Inspired volunteer hours.

The BFI Future Film Festival supports young filmmakers and film enthusiasts aged 16-25 from all across the UK and internationally. The festival is packed with practical workshops, industry masterclasses, panel Q&A’s and networking opportunities. We also screen and give awards to the best short films that have been submitted to us by young filmmakers aged 16-25. The tenth edition of the festival will take place between 15 – 19 Feb 2017.

As a volunteer you will have the opportunity to be involved in a variety of festival support roles, from manning the festival ticket and information desk, looking after guest speakers, ushering audiences to our events spaces, serving refreshments in our networking areas, and filming and editing events, vox-pops and interviews for output on our social media. Please let us know if you have any experience in events, customer service or filmmaking in your application.

We will ask you to work between one and five days of the festival from 8am to 5pm, with the option of staying on for our networking drinks between 5-7pm each day. You will also be given lunch and refreshments throughout the day, travel costs within zones 1-6, and will have time to participate in festival events. Successful candidates will need to be available to attend an introductory meeting on Monday 13 Feb at BFI Southbank at 5pm.

To apply please complete the application form and send to opportunities@bfi.org.uk. Please include “Future Film Festival Volunteer application” in the subject header of the email and let us know if you are able to volunteer on all of the festival days or just some of the days.

Please note, this is an unpaid voluntary position.

The closing date for applications is 5pm on Thursday 9 February 2017.