Intern - Graphic Design

This is a Part Time Unpaid Internship

The Maysles Cinema seeks students with practical graphic design knowledge to present information about events (poster, flyer and calendar design), using the visual riches of the films exhibited at the theater, to cultivate an expanded, non-traditional audience for documentary and independent film.

At the Maysles Cinema, our print materials are key to meeting the challenge of developing a diverse, lively audience for documentary film and discussion - across boundaries of race, class, gender and generation. We, at Maysles, take an “old-school” approach to our visual marketing, designing posters for various films and festivals that function as unique visual works of art in their own right, much as movie posters did in the past. We value originality of approach and consider the designed materials to be an element of our collaborative curation with all the latitude for freedom of expression and proper acknowledgement this implies. The promotional materials produced by these young artists (posters, flyers, surveys) will be showcased in mini-exhibits or become permanent fixtures of the space itself (which functions as a casual gallery).

Tasks
• Design promotional materials in the form of posters, flyers, website material, calendars, paintings/photos etc. as promotional works of art on display at the cinema
Skills:
• Practical graphic design experience (firm understanding of InDesign/Photoshop and Illustrator)
• Originality of approach
• Comfort in and with various graphic design formats
• Ability to work with diverse source material
• Ability to appeal to a varied audience with a solid understanding of community outreach