AddressSalary: £32,952 - £38,613 per annum
The BFI is seeking a LFF Cinema Content Producer who will play a critical role in the delivery of the BFI London Film Festival.
About the role
Working with other Cinema Content Producers and the wider LFF Content team, you will be responsible for ensuring that all necessary Digital cinema and video content is produced and distributed in a professional, high quality and timely way.
Fixed Term Contract: 19 August – 25 October 2024
Key responsibilities include:
- As part of the LFF Content team, to ensure that all DCP, video and audio content required for the London Film Festival is of a world-class standard and is ready for delivery to its screening location on schedule.
- To keep abreast of developments in DCP creation standards, hardware, software and systems to ensure that all DCPs are created to the highest quality and meet all required DCI specifications for transfer and screening.
- To be aware of an act in accordance with BFI’s environmental sustainability plans and approach at all times
- To work with the LFF Marketing and Events Teams to ensure that all Marketing and Event content is produced to a high standard and to schedule across the LFF.
We are looking for candidates who have:
- Good knowledge of Digital Cinema, including DCP creation, subtitling and distribution processes
- Good working knowledge of all aspects of cinema and video screening media, including all video and audio codecs, framerates, subtitling and aspect ratios
- An understanding of the international film industry and current issues within it
- Ability to use initiative and work as part of a technical team working to a flexible roster.
A full list of responsibilities and minimum requirements can be found in the job description.
About the BFI
We are a cultural charity, a National Lottery distributor, and the UK’s lead organisation for film and the moving image. We believe society needs stories. Film, television and the moving image bring them to life, helping us connect and understand each other better. We share the stories of yesterday, search for the stories of today, and shape the stories of tomorrow.
At the BFI you’ll enjoy benefits such as excellent support for working parents, 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays and additional paid time off at Christmas), tickets to BFI festivals and events plus many others.
We support diversity and inclusion, and as an organisation recognise that we need to address under representation within our teams. As such we strongly welcome and encourage applicants from our under-represented groups; who identify as D/deaf and disabled and/or are Black and Global Majority. We guarantee a first interview to our under-represented groups who meet our minimum requirements.
Further information
Further details about the role, the BFI and our benefits can be obtained by visiting our website.
First interviews will be held on Thursday 11 July 2024
Second interviews will be held on Tuesday 16 July 2024
The closing date for this position is 02/07/2024 at 23:59
