Internship credit is available through the Department of Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts; the purpose of this course is to provide professional internship experiences with film, video, and new media production companies, governmental agencies and production units, audio recording studios, and new media industries.
Guidelines
- Prerequisites: must be a BA or BFA Cinema Studies major with a CU GPA of at least 2.00, upper-division standing (57 or more credit hours) and a CINE GPA of 3.00.
- Students may receive no more than 6 hours of internship credit in a single department. Internship hours may not be awarded for work done previously.
- Students should seek out their own internships with organizations that specialize in their area of interest.
- Internships are a privilege. If department faculty determines that the student is not qualified for the proposed internship or if the internship seems unsuitable for academic credit this evaluation will be forwarded to the Chair of Department of Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts.
- The guidelines established by Arts and Sciences for internships must be followed as well as the “Credit Internship Application”.
- This may be a paying internship if the Arts and Sciences guidelines are met.
Apply and Register for an Internship Credit
- Students must work a minimum of 40 hours per semester for one credit hour, with a maximum of 3 credit hours for any one internship.
- Find a faculty member who will agree to be your faculty sponsor (faculty sponsors must be those who regularly teach classes at the rank of “Instructor” or above).
- Fill out the application form.
- Be sure the internship appears on your class schedule before you start your internship.
- Keep a weekly journal of your work experience and work assignments.
- Submit a final internship report by the last day of classes. Your report must consist of the following:
- Cover page: Name; student ID number; dates of internship; company name; name of supervisor; company history, structure/organization and mission/purpose.
- Your weekly journal.
- Your internship evaluation: This is a three-page typed evaluation of your work experience.
- Your workplace supervisor’s confidential final evaluation of your performance, signed, on official company letterhead, and in a sealed envelope or emailed directly by your supervisor to your faculty sponsor.
Faculty Sponsor Evaluation
All of these are due no later than last day of regular class for the semester in which the internship is taken. Based on the above components the faculty supervisor will assess if the student has successfully completed the internship. The faculty sponsor is looking for preface indicators such as workplace attendance, and the student work journal, the successful completion of assigned duties. If these materials are not returned to the faculty sponsor by the date (last day of regular classes for the term) the student will not receive credit for the internship.
Internship Opportunities
- The Boxoffice Company and Fathom Events
- Citizen Pictures
- Fracking the System
- Valerie Steinberg
- Beverly Hills Talent Management
- Cinebody
- American Cinema Editors
- Yakoda
- Chameleon Films
- Austin Film Society
- Texas Film Commission
- Stoopid Buddy Animation
- Local internship
- Buck Ross Internship
- Mass FX Internship
INTERNSHIP LISTINGS
Boxoffice
Remote Internships
8-12 Hours/Week / August - December
3 Credit Hours | Fall Semester, Spring Semester, or Academic Year
8-12 hours/week | Virtual
Trade Journalism:
Work alongside our newsroom in New York City in this virtual internship, covering the latest industry news for Boxoffice Pro—the world’s leading trade publication for the movie theater industry. Hone your reporting and digital media skills in assisting with research, writing, data analysis, and coverage of the cinema business. Our editorial interns will work directly with Boxoffice Pro’s top editors in the production of our daily website, weekly podcast, monthly magazine, and live industry webinars.
Digital Marketing:
Help movie theaters better engage with moviegoers online in our digital marketing internship. Assist with social media, email, and video marketing campaigns used by some of the country's leading movie theater chains. In this role, you'll be involved in the production, curation, and management of editorial and video content across all of today's social media platforms—giving you first-hand experience in marketing major studio releases to audiences nationwide.
Fathom Events
Hybrid Internships [1 Day In-Person (Greenwood Village, CO) + 1 Day Remote]
8-12 Hours/Week / August - December
Marketing:
Work with the marketing team on various marketing tactics including email campaigns, social and paid media, SEO optimization, and influencers to drive awareness for Fathom’s events. From anime to the classics, you’ll get hands-on experience with all our events.
Operations:
Learn how and what it takes to deliver an event at scale. Work closely with the operations team, exhibition, and the Fathom Events Engineers (“The FEE”) to learn the technical and operational tactics implemented for bringing successful events to cinemas.
Programming:
Help the team that identifies, vets, and negotiates which events we bring to the big screen. Work with programming and content providers to help develop FOMO-worthy event cinema experiences.
Finance:
Work closely with the finance team to get hands-on experience on all elements of finance and accounting for running a business.
APPLICATION
Priority Deadline: May 31 | Final Deadline: June 15
- Tell us about yourself: what are your interests and background?
- Which of our internship listings are you most interested in and why are you interested to intern with us?
- Are you interested in having a production component in your internship or are you more interested in an internship that doesn’t involve production tasks?
- Students need to compile at least 8 hours per week to receive credit for this internship. What is your availability during the Fall semester? (It’s okay if you don’t have your schedule 100% confirmed, we just want to get a general idea of your availability)
- If applying for a Fathom internship, are you able to work from the Fathom office in Greenwood Village, CO at least once per week?
List, in order of preference, up to 3 of the internships you’d be interested in
taking:
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Email Your Responses to interns@FathomEvents.com and interns@boxoffice.com
TV Production internships with Citizen Pictures.
2530 Frontier Ave, Boulder, CO, 80301
Mobile: 310-709-2521
Office: 303-455-5200
Fracking the System documentary - all details and application form at link (paid internship):
Valerie Steinberg Productions is seeking spring and/or summer 2023 interns. We are looking for voracious readers with a deep love of cinema, strong opinions, excellent taste, and a sharp understanding of story and character. This is primarily a creative development position (focusing on critical analysis of literary material and films), as well as talent tracking, literary scouting, and packaging – and depending on interest, there is also the opportunity to focus on film financing, budgeting, international co-production, sales/distribution, film festivals, business development, and/or intellectual property. This film producing apprenticeship is an educational opportunity to gain industry knowledge while contributing to the efforts of driving forward a development slate. Work will generally be remote. Please email cecile@valeriesteinberg.com with a cover letter and resume. More information on the company can be found at www.valeriesteinberg.com.
for students interested in being a manager or agent.
Internship program is run by an ex-student from Carnegie Mellon
Beverly Hills Talent Management
Amanda Malia Courtney
Probably not of as much interest but I help run the internship program at a Beverly Hills talent management company that also does production/development work. It’s a great place to work, and the intern program gets a lot of focus. Client list spans onscreen talent to directors and writers, we’re known for comedy but also have a lot of drama and alt clients too. We rep the director of Coda, and the Daniels who are up for Oscars this year for Everything Everywhere All At Once. Plus Judd Apatow, Will Ferrell, etc.
Feel free to send anyone my way - amanda@mosaicla.com!
Cinebody
- A video production software company revolutionizing the way video content is created for brands and organizations. In addition to our subscription software, Cinebody also provides turnkey remote video production services, creating authentic video content for our clients all over the globe
- INTERNSHIP Interests: producing, remote video production, new era of content creation, iPhone filming interest, general small business operations in tech & film
Lumenati
- A video production & content agency in Denver, CO. One of the premier shops in Denver, Lumenati produces content for brands of all shapes and sizes, creating everything from broadcast commercials to quick social posts
- INTERNSHIP interests: producing, directing, filming, on-set experience, post production / editing, animating, general small business operations in film & advertising
All interested prospects can email Gavin at gavin@cinebody.com for Cinebody or gavin@lumenati.com for Lumenati. He can then forward to the appropriate person based on their needs.
We will be accepting application for the 2023 program from May 2-June 30, 2023.
Here is a link to the information page about the internship program: https://americancinemaeditors.org/ace-internship-program/
I reach out today not only as a BFA graduate from CU's Film Studies Program in 2005 (prior to the department’s name change), but also as the Co-Director of the American Cinema Editors Internship Program. Each year, our program selects two official interns to visit multiple editing rooms from various practices (feature films, scripted and unscripted television) with the goal of launching a career in editorial. Before I was the co-director of this program, I was an ACE intern in 2006. This internship program provided me a network of friends and colleagues that has helped me grow in my professional career. Several other universities know of the benefits of the ACE Internship Program, which gives us a disproportionate number of candidates from those schools. I’d love to even out the odds and see more applicants from CU that have the same enthusiasm from editing that I had when I was a student. If you know of any students who are interested in a career in editorial, please tell them about our program.
Since the inception of the ACE Internship Program, many of those who have gone through the program have gone on to have successful careers in editorial. Here are just a few:
• Hunter Via (2001 intern) - Editor of The Chi, Snowfall, The Walking Dead – ACE Eddie Winner
• Joi McMillon (2004 intern) - Editor of Moonlight, Girls, Togetherness – Academy Award Nominated
• Amelia Allwarden (2015 intern) - Editor of Westworld, PEN15, Little Fires Everywhere
• Gretchen Schroeder (2016 intern) - Assistant Editor on Avatar: The Way of Water, Post PA on Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Tyler Nelson
Co-Director, ACE Internship Program
Yakoda Fly Supply - Video Internship
Gain valuable work experience with a local fly fishing brand!
What you need:
To be a CU student, a phone and computer, video samples, a good attitude, an open mind, fishing knowledge a plus (but not required)
What you get:
Learn about video/photo production, how to create valuable brand assets for product marketing, how to catch large fish and and capture epic grip and grins.
If interested, please email rob@yakodasupply.com with your contact info, what you're into, work samples, and what you'd like to learn. Please no pop-ins. Thanks!
LOOKING FOR: FILM INTERNS FOR SUMMER FEATURE
We need young and ambitious technicians and film creatives to help us bring our vision to life.
JOIN US ON THE SET OF "THE SCARS OF OUR HANDS": A MODERN, WESTERN TAKE ON AN OLD, ARTHURIAN LEGEND.
Send in your CVs and a 1-2 minute video explaining what you could bring to the team to production@chameleonfilmstudios.com Internship applicants must be available during all of July, 2023.
Stoopid Buddy Animation Studios
Local Internship Here on Campus!!
Name of the Company:
University of Colorado Boulder’s Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence
Name of Project:
Preventing Violence Together, funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Brief description:
For more than 30 years, the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV) at the University of Colorado Boulder has used lessons learned from research to design, implement, and evaluate strategies to prevention violence in schools and communities. One of our current projects, Preventing Violence Together, is funded by the U.D. Department of Homeland Security and seeks to educate people on the warning signs for violence and radicalization to terrorism, along with the need to report those signs to Colorado’s anonymous tip line, Safe2Tell. The project is using educational programs, training presentations, and social media to promote awareness. The project is in partnership with the university’s police department and other campus offices. For additional information, see:
Title of internship:
Video Production Intern for the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence
Number of interns desired:
1-2 for Summer 2023
Responsibilities of intern:
As the video production intern on the Preventing Violence Together Project, you will use your skills in story boarding, script development, video production, and video editing to help plan and create a series of brief (3-15 minute) high-quality videos on violence prevention topics (e.g., warning signs, upstander reporting) for our social media accounts and training presentations. The intern will be expected to work as part of the project’s multi-disciplinary team of researchers, practitioners, and law enforcement officials at CU, including attending
weekly meetings in-person and via zoom as the project dictates. The intern(s) will be expected to have their own or secure access to video production equipment, and they will need to provide their own transportation to video shoots and meetings.
Hours per week of position:
10-20 hours per week for 6-8 weeks
Compensation:
$16-$18/hour depending on experience level
Detailed instructions to apply (including required materials from applicant and who/how to
submit them):
To apply, submit a cover letter (2-pages max), resume, and the contact information for three references via email to Dr. Sarah Goodrum at Sarah.Goodrum@colorado.edu. The cover letter should describe your coursework, volunteer, and/or employment experiences related to video production and multidisciplinary team collaborations, including creating, shooting, and editing videos (e.g., storyboarding, script development, staging, lighting, set-up, graphics). Please include hyperlinks to samples of your video production work in your cover letter or resume (e.g., YouTube, Vimeo).
Length of internship:
6-8 weeks
Location of internship:
University of Colorado Boulder
Desired start date:
June 1, 2023 – August 15, 2023
Recurring (Y/N):
No
Contact person (name and contact info):
Dr. Sarah Goodrum
Senior Research Associate
Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence
Institute of Behavioral Science
University of Colorado Boulder
Boulder, CO 80309
Cell: 970-980-6333
Email: Sarah.Goodrum@colorado.edu
Contact Geoff Marslett at Geoff.Marslett@colorado.edu if you have any questions.
Buck Ross Internship for Honorarium & Credit
If interested, please email info@buckross.com with your contact info, what you’re into, work samples, & what you’d like to learn. Please no stop-bys. Thanks!
Payment for Services
Buck Ross Productions or “Buck Ross” will offer it’s equipment to students for use whenever equipment is available and usage requests are reasonable. For both internships, there is a $300 honorarium awarded to the student at the completion of the internship. For the internship for credit, BRP will aid in reviews and paperwork needed for the student to also gain credit hours at CU (if applicable).
Time Commitment
The honorarium internship is a semester long and offered year round depending on position availability. The internship for credit is a semester long and offered near the start of each school semester and/or summer.
Equipment
Students will need to provide a working phone and computer. Buck Ross will provide any and all needed additional
equipment from video editing systems to all needed camera equipment.
Description of Duties
Administrative and post production management. Assistant camera work and editing duties. Sound recording. And yes, coffee getting.
Location
Buck Ross Productions (office & in-field)
1912 Pearl Street Boulder, CO 80302
(720) 289-1912
Supervisors
Ryan Ross, Founder
Carly Chaben, Producer
What Students Will Learn
This is real world film/video production work in a local company. Students will learn about all stages of video production (pre-production, shooting, editing) as well as the different business elements involved with production company management (marketing, admin, organization, etc).
Hours of Work Required per Week
For either internship opportunity 8-10 hrs/week is required. For honorarium internship, the term is a semester long
(around 3 months). For the college credit internship, the term is usually a semester in length, but contingent on the
amount of credit student is working for and the advice of the university.
What we’re looking for
We have an opening for a student or someone early in their career who is interested in a 4-month internship working alongside our team to create animations, motion design and visual effects for our diverse set of clients.
This role can be an aspiring motion designer, visual effects artist, or producer who would like to learn the ropes of project management.
You'll be working on branded short-form content and feature films and series during your time with our team.
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Job Status: Part-time, Hourly, 15-20 hours per week
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Location: Mass FX Media, 2710 Walnut Street, Denver, CO
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Rate: $17.50/hour