Official Selection Programmer
Wildscreen Festival 2024
Remote
Salary: £1,000 flat fee
Wildscreen is looking for a new cohort of programmers for the 2024 Wildscreen Festival Official Selection competition.
About Wildscreen
Wildscreen’s Official Selection Competition is back for 2024, October 14-18.
This biennial festival, placed at the heart of the natural world storytelling industry, is on the lookout once more for its next batch of Official Selection Programmers.
Since 1982, Wildscreen have honoured the most remarkable achievement in the craft of natural world filmmaking through the Wildscreen Panda Awards. In 2020, they launched their Official Selection to find bold, authentic and varied stories that speak to different audiences, and it is for this Official Selection competition that they are seeking a new cohort of programmers.
Echoing their charity mission to connect people with nature through storytelling, and democratise the creation of and access to nature’s stories, Wildscreen are keen to gather a diverse programming team again this year, one that mirrors the diverse range of films and filmmakers that submit for consideration to the festival. In 2022, 46% of the directors submitting work were from an underrepresented group, whilst films were submitted from 40+ countries.
About the role
Programmer responsibilities include helping us to share the call for entries to diverse networks, watching between 12 to 24 hours of shorts & features, attending approximately 3 virtual meetings with the programming team and working with Wildscreen to curate a programme of content for the Official Selection between May and July this year.
This is a paid position, with a flat fee of £1,000.
Hours: 12-24 hours total of film viewing + approximately 3 virtual meetings
Contract: Fixed-term
Further information on the awards and the festival’s previous selection can be found by visiting the Official Selection page of our website.
How to apply
To register your interest in this position, please fill in the short application form below.
The closing date for this position is 29/01/2024 at 11:59