Indefatigable creative genius needed

Date 29th Nov 2008
Submitted by lizzie on 29 November 2008 - 1:00am

JOB OFFER: Indefatigable multi-talented creative genius to join Stupid team for one year. London
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We are looking for an immensely hard-working and enormously productive media whizz to provide a non-stop stream of video, audio, text and photo content for our websites, mailing lists, press kits and DVD. You will be working on both the promotion of our new film, "The Age of Stupid", and on the social action campaign, "Not Stupid", running alongside.

"The Age of Stupid" is the upcoming climate blockbuster from McLibel director Franny Armstrong and Oscar-winning producer John Battsek. Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated world of 2055, looking back at archive footage from 2008 and asking: why didn't we stop climate change when we had the chance?
http://www.ageofstupid.net

The aim of the "Not Stupid" campaign, which we're running in partnership with more than 30 NGOs - including Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Stop Climate Chaos, Low Carbon Communities and Plane Stupid - is to turn 250 million viewers into activists and then focus them on the UN climate summit in Copenhagen in November 2009, where the future of our species will be decided.

It promises to be an exhilarating year mixing the excitement - and, dare we say, glamour - of the film's release, with the rare opportunity to work on something that may just have an actual effect on the actual climate. We are looking for someone with 1000% commitment, motivation and good-humour under pressure.

You will be primarily working from our office in Camden, London, alongside the other five members of the core team, but will also be travelling as and when: for the week-long press tour round the UK to support the film's release in March, to lots of international film festivals (without flying, of course) and definitely to Copenhagen in December 09. This month alone we have launched the film at the Amsterdam film festival (where it was the number 1 most viewed film by the buyers, out of 450 for sale at the market), plotted with Greenpeace International on the Rainbow Warrior, screened to the Dutch Parliament, held a fundraising event with Gillian Anderson (where we raised 165K for the campaign) and agreed to screen at the EU parliament. Tomorrow we're heading to Poland to this year's UN climate summit, where we'll be screening to the delegates and also making contacts for next year. So never a dull moment.

Required Skills:
- Filming (with Z1): You will be a one-person-team shooting video blogs, behind-the-scenes at the premiere (hopefully a solar powered cinema tent on Leicester Square), interviews for the DVD and whatever other content is needed.
- Editing (on Avid): Then you'll be quickly editing your stuff for our website, for EPKs, for podcasts, for the DVD etc. You'll know all about different formats and different outputs for different uses. (If you usually use Final Cut we can pay for you to go on a short Avid course. We can't change now as we have our 12 year back catalogue on Avid.)
- Photos: Taking great shots, sorting them, manipulating in photoshop, uploading to our website, sending to the press.
- Web: Updating our websites (the cms is Drupal), plus Facebook, MySpace, YouTube blah blah.
- Writing: Everything from press releases and fundraising proposals to webblogs and DVD box covers, all in our irreverent style.
- Design: Flyers (photoshop), press pack (quark or similar), pledge forms, web widgets and on and on.
- Tech support: When things break, we mend them ourselves.

Useful skills:
- In-depth knowledge of climate change an enormous advantage.
- Experience in a small campaigning organisation and/or small production company very handy.

Job Details:
- Contract: One year, full time
- Starting: 5th January 2009
- Salary: 27,000 UK pounds inc tax
- You don't need to own any equipment, though a fast mac laptop would be very useful.

To apply:
- Send cover letter and CV to <mailto:job@spannerfilms.net>job@spannerfilms.net, along with:
-->> a mock-up e-flyer, including a question they have to answer, for people to win tickets to the premiere of the film
-->> a mock-up press release announcing that Age of Stupid has been nominated for an Oscar
- Deadline: 15th December
- Any questions, email Lizzie Gillett on job@spannerfilms.net
- Please don't call