Job/Internship opportunities

OPE Partners is a boutique talent management and film/television production company based in Los Angeles, California. A passion for comedy is a plus. Intern tasks include script coverage, information tracking, and day to day office operations. Seeking students that can work 2-3 days a week. This is an unpaid, in-person internship, and college credit is required. If interested, please email cover letter and resume to opeinternships@gmail.com. Subject line, ‘Name // Spring 2027 Intern Application’

Applications are  due on Wednesday October 14th by 12pm PST. 

Opportunities include:

• August Wilson's Fences Prop Apprenticeship 

• August Wilson's Fences Costume Apprenticeship 

• August Wilson's Fences Technical Direction Apprenticeship 

• Destiny of Desire by Karen Zacarías Directing Apprenticeship 

Please encourage your students to apply this week! They can learn more at CTGLA.org/Apprenticeships

Paid • Part-Time • Hybrid • Los Angeles

Interested in entertainment, audiences, research, and data?

Fanthropology Co. is a boutique entertainment insights firm that helps studios, streamers, and creators understand their audiences and use those insights to inform content and marketing strategy. We combine data, creativity, curiosity, and collaboration to help our clients better understand their audiences.

Learn more at https://fanthropologyco.com/ .

We’re looking for a college student or recent graduate who is curious about entertainment and interested in gaining hands-on experience in audience research and strategy.

What You’ll Do

● Learn how audience research is conducted and used in entertainment

● Gain exposure to qualitative and quantitative research

● Learn to use research tools and data platforms

● Assist with light research, project coordination, and presentations

● Track project timelines and deliverables

● Participate in strategy sessions and client preparation when applicable

● See how audience insights inform content development, marketing, and audience engagement

Who We’re Looking For

● Currently enrolled in college or recently graduated

● Interested in entertainment, research, marketing, strategy, data, or media

● Curious, organized, dependable, and eager to learn

● Strong communicator who works well independently and as part of a team

● Interested in how data can help tell a story and solve creative and business challenges

No prior audience research experience is required—we’re looking for someone who is excited to learn.

Internship Details

● Pay: $20/hour

● Hours: Part-time, with scheduling coordinated around the intern’s school or other commitments

● Location: Hybrid — a combination of remote work and in-person work at our Los Angeles office.

The in-person schedule will be determined with the intern based on project needs and availability.

● Status: Paid, non-exempt, at-will internship

● Academic Credit: May be completed for academic credit if required by your school, but academic credit is not required

If you're interested in learning how audience data, entertainment, and strategy come together, we'd love to hear from you.

Please submit your resume and a brief note about your interest in the internship to sonja.gomes@fanthropologyco.com

PAID — Los Angeles–Based Cinematographer / Director of Photography
Music Video and Narrative Short | October 2026

We are seeking a Los Angeles–based cinematographer/Director of Photography for two upcoming independent projects: a music video and a narrative short film with an approximate running time of 10 minutes.

I will serve as the director and producer of both projects, and our company will provide the funding and handle all project payments. We are looking for a creative, resourceful collaborator who can translate my vision into compelling images and help organize an efficient shoot with a small, capable crew.

Local availability and timing are essential. Applicants must currently be based in greater Los Angeles and available to meet in person as soon as possible. Preparation will begin promptly, with filming targeted for October 2026. The music video has a particularly tight timeline, so the ability to move quickly through discussions, budgeting, preparation, and crew assembly is important.

Who we are looking for

A cinematographer with strong visual storytelling skills, practical production experience, and a collaborative approach to working with a hands-on director/producer.

Recent film-school graduates with strong completed work are welcome, as are cinematographers with approximately three to five years of relevant experience or more. Training at AFI, USC, UCLA, Loyola Marymount University, NYU Tisch, Chapman, or a comparable film program is valued. Equivalent professional experience is also welcome. Regardless of educational background, applicants must currently be based in the Los Angeles area.

Directing experience is a plus but is not required. This engagement is specifically for the cinematographer/DP role.

We particularly welcome candidates with an established network of camera, lighting, grip, sound, and production-support collaborators who can help assemble a reliable small crew quickly.

Responsibilities

Collaborate directly with the director/producer on the visual approach, lighting, composition, camera movement, and photographic execution.

Review concepts and scripts, contribute to shot lists, and develop practical shooting plans.

Participate in location scouting and assess photographic, equipment, and logistical requirements.

Prepare an itemized proposed shoot budget based on each project’s creative and production needs.

Recommend and help assemble a small, dependable local crew, ideally drawing on people with whom you have worked successfully.

Source appropriate camera, lens, lighting, and grip packages; obtain quotes and coordinate rentals following company approval.

Help coordinate filming permits and location requirements, either directly or through an experienced production coordinator or location professional working under the director/producer.

Work within the approved budget and schedule, flagging potential issues and obtaining approval before additional expenses are incurred.

Establish a reliable workflow for footage backup and handoff to postproduction.

Budgeting and production planning

Candidates should be comfortable translating a creative brief into a realistic estimate of the resources and costs required to shoot it.

The proposed budget should identify preparation and shooting days, crew positions and rates, equipment rentals, and anticipated production expenses. Location fees, permits, insurance, transportation, meals, and other relevant costs should be included or clearly identified as estimates requiring confirmation.

We do not expect a cinematographer to personally handle every production function. We do expect the ability to put together a clear proposal, obtain input from appropriate collaborators, and identify any additional production support needed.

Separate budgets should be prepared for the music video and the short film. Preliminary estimates can be developed after reviewing the creative materials and discussing scope.

The director/producer will retain creative and production oversight. Our company will approve expenditures and handle all payments. The cinematographer is not expected to finance the projects or advance production expenses.

Experience and qualifications

Strong cinematography work demonstrating lighting, composition, camera movement, and storytelling.

Experience photographing music videos and/or narrative short films.

Ability to prepare and execute efficiently with a small crew.

Experience developing shoot budgets, obtaining quotes, and working within agreed financial parameters.

Familiarity with Los Angeles equipment-rental resources.

Practical knowledge of local filming-permit and location processes, or a trusted collaborator who can manage these requirements.

Clear communication, sound judgment, and dependable scheduling.

Availability for an initial in-person meeting in Los Angeles promptly.

Equipment ownership is not required. Please distinguish equipment you own from equipment you would recommend renting.

Compensation and scope

This is a paid project engagement funded by our company.

Please provide your preparation and shoot-day rates, the number of hours covered by your day rate, and any separate equipment or proposed crew costs. Scope, rates, and payment terms will be agreed before work begins.

Applicants may be considered for one or both projects. Exact shoot dates, number of shooting days, and delivery requirements will be established after reviewing each project.

Editing, color grading, and other postproduction services will be scoped separately. If you offer these services or have collaborators to recommend, please indicate this in your application.

To apply

Please send:

A brief introduction, your location within greater Los Angeles, and relevant experience.

Your earliest availability for an in-person meeting and your preparation and filming availability during October 2026.

Your website or cinematography reel, plus two or three relevant completed projects. Identify your exact role on each.

Your preparation and shooting rates, with equipment costs listed separately.

A brief description of your experience preparing shoot budgets, coordinating rentals, and handling or coordinating L.A. filming permits.

Details of your regular crew or production-support collaborators and how quickly you could confirm their availability.

Whether you are interested in the music video, the narrative short, or both.

Shortlisted candidates may be asked for professional references.

lily.wang@great-great.com

I’m looking for a Director of Photography for a paid position on my 15-episode vertical comedy series, Emily Is a Magnet for Miracles. I’m the creator, writer, director, and producer. We’re preparing to shoot the first three episodes of fifteen as an initial production block in Los Angeles.

The episodes are around three minutes, composed for a vertical 9:16 frame.

I’m looking for someone with a strong visual sense, narrative filmmaking experience, and an interest in helping shape a consistent look across the episodes. Film students and recent graduates are welcome to apply. The DP position is paid. Interested filmmakers are invited to send a reel or portfolio, a brief note about their experience, availability, day rate, and any camera or lighting package details to emily@emilywagnerstudio.com. I’m setting up conversations now.

My filmmaking work includes a long creative collaboration with Julie Delpy. We co-wrote and I starred in her short Blah Blah Blah, which premiered at Sundance. We later co-created and starred in Looking for Jimmy, which premiered at AFI Fest. I also starred in The Talent Given Us, written and directed by my brother, filmmaker Andrew Wagner, an Official Selection at Sundance. I went on to star in two more feature films that premiered at Sundance, Chronic Town and Julie Delpy’s 2 Days in New York.

My television credits include playing Paramedic Doris Pickman throughout ER’s 15-season run and appearing in Delpy’s Netflix series On the Verge. I also createdMotherhoodlum, an early original YouTube comedy series, writing, directing, producing, editing, and starring across 20 episodes.

My IMDb profile is here. More about the series is here: Emily Is a Magnet for Miracles.

SEEKING 20 STUDENT PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS FOR A ONE-NIGHT THEATRICAL EVENT AT ROYCE HALL @ UCLA 

MONDAY OCTOBER 19TH • 12:30pm – 10:30pm 

LETTERS LIGHT AND LOVE 

PAY IS $175 + dinner 

Each Production Assistant will be assigned a performer to stay with from the moment they enter the Royce Hall stage door for sound check to the moment they exit after the show. Production Assistants must be discreet, respectful, responsible and able to handle high-end talent without nerves. 

Letters, Light and Love is a one-night-only event on Monday, October 19th at Royce Hall. The production tells the story of the Jewish people and their connection to each other and their homeland from across the world through authentic letters spanning more than two thousand years. Drawn from philosophers, artists, pioneers, Holocaust survivors, statesmen and ordinary men and women, the letters accompanied by song, weave together a powerful story of identity, resilience and hope. Beyond fundraising, it is an evening about memory, culture and the enduring power of storytelling—one that seeks not to make a political statement, but to tell a timeless human story. 

Contact Jennifer Murphy at Jennifer.murphy@ucla.edu with interest

The DATALAND Student Tour Guide Program is a year-long museum education and public engagement initiative for undergraduate and graduate students interested in the intersections of art, technology, science, design, and culture. 

Student Tour Guides are trained—and compensated—to lead engaging, research-informed tours of DATALAND. To be considered for the inaugural cohort, submit an application during the recruitment window, which opens September 21 and closes Friday, October 9.

Trailer Editor: All Kinds of Beings (black-and-white documentary short, Lisbon)

"All those who have made me are present today." In Lisbon, where they say the earth shook the day she was born, a woman searches beneath the surface of her own life, and finds herself.

I'm looking for an editor to refine and finish the trailer for this ~20-minute film. The trailer will be used to raise funding for the film, in grant applications and conversations with potential partners, so it needs to convey the film's world and voice clearly as well as its mood. There's already a solid rough cut mapped to a shot-by-shot working script, and new footage and narration from a recent shoot in Portugal are coming in now. The job is refining and finishing, not assembling from scratch.

The right person is at home in a slow, observational, voiceover-led register (think Ida, Roma, and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NFEWJjRpjs) rather than a fast-cut commercial style. Black and white is locked.

Compensation: a stipend of ~$200 to start, with room for more depending on scope and fit. It's best suited to an editor building a reel on a distinctive, festival-minded project, and it comes with a real credit. For the right person, this may grow into an ongoing relationship with the project.

To apply, send a reel or 1–2 links to your work closest to this register, plus a line on why the project interests you, to Ron Hamad at ronaldlhamad@gmail.com.

We are looking for a UCLA film student or emerging filmmaker to help us film several short videos (1-5 minutes for content) and 10-15 minutes for educational purposes at my office in Beverly Hills. We need someone comfortable using a 35mm canon eos 90d camera and an iPhone, setting up shots, good angles, lighting and background in video editing.

This is a paid, entry-level opportunity that could lead to additional filming projects. If interested, please send your availability, a short introduction, and examples of your work to Katie at katiebkennedyy@gmail.com.

Looking for a videographer to help create short-form visual content built around unreleased music. The shoots will be kept small and straightforward, allowing the videographer to work independently.

Someone who can also edit independently would be ideal, but editing experience is not required.

This is paid work within an independent-artist budget. Anyone interested can send examples of their work or their Instagram page, along with their contact information, to meadowsfrank43@gmail.com. I’ll share the music and additional project details with them directly.

The Glendale International Film Festival (GIFF) returns September 23–28, 2026, and we’d be excited to have college students from throughout the region join our festival volunteer crew.

We’re reaching out to film-school faculty, department leaders, and administrators with a simple request: would you please share this opportunity and the attached flyer with your students and student groups?

Volunteering with GIFF offers an opportunity to get behind the scenes of a working film festival and gain hands-on experience supporting filmmakers, guests, screenings, Q&As, special events, and festival operations.

GIFF VOLUNTEERING AT A GLANCE

• September 23–28, 2026 | Glendale, CA

• Flexible shifts, typically about four hours

• Ages 16+

• Training provided; no prior festival experience required for most roles

• Opportunities in Guest Experience, Ticketing, Q&A Support, Festival Operations, Special Events, Photography & AV, and more

• Community service hours can be documented

• Students may participate individually or as part of a class, club, or group

Students can scan the QR code on the flyer or visit our volunteer page to learn more about the opportunities and complete the Volunteer Interest Form:

GIFF 2026 Volunteer Information

Students simply tell us about their interests and availability, and our volunteer team will follow up to help match them with appropriate festival opportunities.

We’ll begin confirming schedules and assignments September 14, so the sooner students express interest, the better opportunity we'll have to match them with their preferred roles and availability. We will continue welcoming volunteers after September 14 as opportunities remain available.

If you have questions or would like to discuss having a class, club, or group volunteer together, please contact us at volunteers@GlendaleArts.org.

Young Storytellers is looking for volunteer mentors to help Los Angeles students to craft their own, unique screenplays based on their imagination and lived experiences. No experience writing or mentoring is required! Once these stories are complete, performers come and bring their stories to life at a Big Show, an in-school assembly that celebrates the hard work of our students and showcases their stories to their friends and family in the community.

What is Young Storytellers?

Young Storytellers equips young people to be the driving force of their own narratives. We’re passionate about bringing people together and creating stories to raise the voices of those who don’t often get heard. We believe that when a young person understands the power of their own story—made of their unique background, culture, race, gender, sexuality, ability, immigration status, geographic location, and economic status—it creates a more empathetic and equitable future for everyone. We raise voices, one story at a time.

Mentoring with Young Storytellers!

It only takes an hour a week, during your lunch break, to help a Young Storyteller tell their story. In our programs, public school students are paired with mentors (you!) to work with them as they imagine, develop, and write their own original story. At the end of the program, professional actors audition for the students and perform their scripts at an in-school assembly, called the "Big Show." 

What is the commitment? 

Your commitment will be an hour a week - during lunch hours - for 9 consecutive weeks. We're now actively placing volunteer mentors in our 30+ Los Angeles schools for this spring! Visit our Volunteer Portal to explore schools and schedules. You can select the sites that fit your needs and we’ll take it from there! 

What will you gain as a mentor?

Our volunteers tell us that the time they spend mentoring is the most fun they have all day and is even the highlight of their week! As a mentor, you will empower students and watch them grow. You'll also meet amazing people (other volunteers, like you) and build friendships that last a lifetime!