Junior Co-Artistic Director

Salary: €800 fee

Lago Film Fest is looking for a Junior Co-Artistic Director to join the festival’s team.

We have created this role with the intention of continuing what has been a constant process of growth and renewal of the festival, starting with the artistic direction. By joining the festival in this role, you will get an opportunity to support the artistic directors, a chance to learn firsthand and actively contribute to designing and producing the next edition of the festival by using your own skills and perspective.

Why a Junior Co-Artistic Director?

Lago Film Fest is a project powered by Piattaforma Lago and Francesco Fabbri Foundation. It is a high-profile cultural event that generates a significant cultural impact over the local community. The festival takes place entirely outdoors, and it is embedded in the urban fabric of the small village of medieval origins it inhabits.

For most of the key members of our team, Lago Film Fest has presented an occasion to try their hand at something they had never done before, both on a personal and a professional level.

Over the course of the past 19 years, we have never ceased growing, developing new talent and creating connections between them. We are constantly on the lookout for enthusiastic people to bring into the team, regardless of their level of experience or what stages of their career they’re in.

The opportunity

We are looking for a Junior Co-Artistic Director to join the festival’s team – a visionary, someone willing to embark on a great formative experience and contribute to the festival’s growth.

You will join the team at a time when the festival’s main concept and contents will have already been defined. At that point, we’ll start an exciting phase in which, by keeping a focus on the festival’s mission, we will begin putting the various strands in conversation thus generating new content; we’ll also work on designing the festival’s experience as a whole. This is a complex but thrilling process which will see the participation of a wide range of people – including volunteers, artists, the local community and, of course, the audience.

You will be able to work in close contact with the festival’s directors and the key team leaders in an environment that will allow a constant mutual exchange, on both a personal and cultural level.

Main tasks and responsibilities:

• To design a fantastic festival experience for everyone from staff to audience members;
• To help define the creative and artistic contents of the festival;
• To convey and spread the festival’s vision among the festival’s staff, volunteers, artists and local community;
• To carefully develop a narration of the festival’s contents at each stage of the festival’s communication
• To support with research and development of key partnerships and collaborations
• To explore new creative models of interaction between artists, audiences and local community
• To coordinate all the aspects of the festival’s programming by continuously liaising with artists, comms team, hospitality team, programming and editorial team, and production team

Who we are looking for

We are looking to offer an opportunity to someone who wants to acquire new skills and firsthand festival experience, someone who can hit the ground running and jump right into the game (none of our artistic directors had ever been in a similar role before their LFF experience).

We are looking for a person (no restrictions on age, country of origin and career path) with an obsession for all things cinema and moving image, who finds excitement in creating connections between different art forms. Someone who believes in the importance and in the political, social and economic value that projects like LFF can create.

These are a few essential qualities we’re looking for:

• Sensitive antennae to pick up the latest developments within the arts;
• An artistic visionary with a good sense of reality;
• Energy, persistence and effectiveness in conceiving and realising ambitious visions; a distinctive imagination, able to create and implement ambitious cultural projects;
• A connector and team player – connecting different worlds and able to inspire and motivate people;
• Creativity and curiosity;
• A persistently inclusive approach;
• Persistent, engaging, yet flexible; exceptional relationship management and team building skills; ability to lead and motivate staff teams, artists e local community;
• Ability to work within a team, and capacity to nurture and maintain team relations – both in-person and remotely
• Ability to organise workload autonomously and according to deadlines
• High-level communication skills, orally and in writing
• Ability to manage and monitor many activities simultaneously while maintaining attention to detail, adjusting quickly and instinctively to changing priorities and opportunities
• A strong sense of commitment;
• A good level of English (written and spoken); a minimum knowledge of Italian is a plus but not essential, you will be able to learn Italian when in Lago

Terms and Conditions

The chosen candidate will join the team towards the end of February, with a formal start on 1 March 2023 and termination of the role on 5 August 2023.

The minimum requirements to meet the role’s objectives are:

• Twice weekly meetings (remote)  – the meetings’ frequency will increase in the months of May and June as the festival approaches;
• One week in-person presence in Lago (around April – May)
• In-person presence in Lago, from 1 July to 1 August 2023 – from a week before the festival’s start, up until the end of the festival

These are the minimum time requirements – however, as this is a formative experience, if the chosen candidate were willing to spend any additional days in Lago, we’ll be more than happy to accommodate them for longer.

What we offer:

• Paid accommodation and meals during your stay in Lago
• Total net retribution of €800
• Transport reimbursement to and from Lago ( two return trips to guarantee your in-person presence in Lago)

Although this collaboration will formally start in February 2023 and terminate with the festival’s final report at the end of the event, our policy is to create long-lasting creative relationships and constantly develop and form the new talents that will lead the future editions of the festival.

Applications

Fill in this form by 14 February 2023 to apply for this position.

The closing date for this position is 14/02/2023 at 00:00