Firelight Films and Media Seeking Interns for Summer 2024!

Firelight Films and Firelight Media are seeking interns for Summer 2024!

Firelight Films is the award-winning documentary production company behind the films of Stanley Nelson (SOUND OF THE POLICE, ATTICA, CRACK: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy, MILES DAVIS: Birth of the Cool, BLACK PANTHERS: Vanguard of the Revolution, Tell Them We Are Rising) while Firelight Media is dedicated to developing emerging documentary filmmakers telling underrepresented stories, and moving them from the margins to the forefront of mainstream media through high-quality, powerful productions. They produce films that expose injustice, illuminate the power of community, and tell a history seldom told by mainstream media. Firelight is also dedicated to developing emerging documentary filmmakers telling underrepresented stories and moving them from the margins to the forefront of mainstream media through high-quality, powerful productions.

They are looking to source their next cohort of Firelight interns for the upcoming Summer 2024 semester which is set to take place from Monday, June 10th, 2024 and run through Friday, August 23rd, 2024. Interns support many aspects of their work including pre-production research to artist support program tracking, and by doing so helps them further their mission of making an impact through documentary film.

Please note: The internship program is currently operating on a HYBRID basis.

For more information about Firelight Films and Media, visit About | Firelight Media.

If you are seeking internships and think there may be interest within your department for Firelight’s internship program, please email your resume to internships@firelightmedia.org.

Post-Production Film Intern Needed in Williamsburg, Brooklyn NOW!

Are you a HUNGRY post-production intern and able to intern in Williamsburg, Brooklyn? If so, read on:

Catherine Rehwinkel is producing for director/producer/EP Andrew Neel  (GoatKing KellyDarkonAlice Neel).  She is seeking a hungry post production intern to start in February: We need help with several projects we are developing at SeeThink Films. Centrally, there is a doc in production (about artists working in the advertising industry).  There is a 2024/2025 slate of feature films at various stages, both fictional and documentary which will be entering post-production, and a couple of feature documentaries with existing footage in the can which are now ready to begin assembly ASAP.

We are offering: 

•a monthly stipend for the duration of part-time internship—up to 12 mo—the basis of which is up for discussion; 

•a chair/machine at the SeeThink Films office in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY

•potential opportunity to work as an assistant editor on sizzles/trailers

•the chance to gain experience working with an award-winning editor (of feature films & Super Bowl commercials) 

•mentorship within a tight knit community of filmmakers 

Working together with myself and our editor, post intern duties would include things like: 

•transcripts / supporting paper edits from director, producer, editor

•offline media encoding

•project setup (likely in Adobe Premiere)

•creating & exporting selects stringouts

If interested, please write to catherine@seethink.com.  If it feels like a match, I would love to get a coffee/tea in Manhattan/Brooklyn to discuss further.

Catherine Rehwinkel (she/her)
creative producer
SeeThink Films
FSU FILM BFA, 2007 // ITP NYU MPS, 2016

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