Fall Intern - Searchlight Creative Advertising

Job Description

About the Role & Program

Searchlight Pictures is a filmmaker-oriented company that focuses on distinctive films helmed by world-class auteurs and exciting newcomers. Founded in 1994, the company's titles have grossed over $5 billion worldwide, amassing 43 Academy Awards including five Best Pictures winners since 2009: Slumdog Millionaire, 12 Years a Slave, Birdman, The Shape of Water, and Nomadland; 58 BAFTA awards, and 34 Golden Globe Awards!

Creative Advertising Team is much more than making movie trailers and posters! As an intern on our team, you will experience the full cycle of film advertising from developing marketing strategy (that includes creative development) to budgeting, music, legal clearances, finishing and in-theater placements). If selected for this role, you will report to the VP of Creative Advertising.

What You Will Do
• Support the team with logistics, scheduling, and production related activations
• Assist with maintaining department charts, documents, and files
• Prep materials and participate in weekly meetings
• Track entertainment industry advertising and brand marketing trends

Required Qualifications & Skills
• A curious, creative, meticulous film lover
• Passionate about learning all aspects of the creative advertising process
• Proficient with Mac and Microsoft Office – Word, Outlook and Excel
• Understanding various AV formats / aspect ratios for TV and digital platforms
• Outstanding communications skills both written and verbal
• Open to taking creative direction and making changes in a timely fashion

Preferred Qualifications
• Expertise with AVID, FINAL CUT, Adobe Creative Suite, After Effects, Photoshop, Premiere.

Education

Undergraduate students in their senior year or recently graduated within the past six months pursuing a bachelor's degree in advertising, public relations, communications, marketing, or related field.

Eligibility Requirements & Program Information

Candidates for this opportunity MUST meet all of the below requirements:
• Be at least 18 years of age
• Possess unrestricted work authorization
• Have not completed one year of continual employment on a Disney internship or Disney College Program

Additional Information
• The approximate dates of this internship are August 2024 through December 2024
• Able to be fully available for the duration of the internship, 40 hours each week
• Able to provide own housing for the duration internship program in the Burbank, CA area
• Able to provide/have reliable transportation to/from work

The pay rate for this internship in California is $21.70 per hour. Select benefits may be provided as part of the compensation package, such as medical, financial, and/or other benefits. To learn more about our benefits visit: https://jobs.disneycareers.com/benefits.

About Searchlight Pictures:

Searchlight Pictures is a specialty film company that both finances and acquires motion pictures. It has its own marketing and distribution operations, and the films are distributed internationally by Twentieth Century Studios.

This position is with Searchlight Pictures, Inc., which is part of a business we call Searchlight Pictures.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rz0knq-3-149-214-60-42 in your application.