Summer Intern - Video Editing/Post Production
Fortune Cookie Productions
Santa Monica, CAThis is a Part Time Unpaid Internship
• Internship Start Date/Season: Summer 2026
• Internship Duration: 2-3 months
• Time/Days Required: Approximately 10-15 hours per week (flexible schedule)
• Workplace Requirements: Remote or hybrid options available
Responsibilities may include:
• Editing documentary footage, trailers, teasers, and promotional videos
• Assisting with assembly edits, rough cuts, and fine cuts
• Organizing and managing media, project files, and footage archives
• Syncing audio, organizing interviews, and preparing timelines
• Creating social media edits, reels, and short-form promotional content
• Incorporating music, graphics, titles, and basic color correction
• Assisting with film festival deliverables and promotional materials
• Collaborating on creative storytelling and pacing
• Supporting post-production workflows from ingest through final delivery
Ideal Candidates:
• Students pursuing filmmaking, post-production, editing, cinematography, media production, or related fields are encouraged to apply.
Applicants should have prior editing experience and be proficient with:
• DaVinci Resolve
• Adobe Premiere Pro
• Basic knowledge of Adobe After Effects is a plus
• Experience organizing media and managing editing workflows
• An understanding of storytelling, pacing, continuity, and visual composition
Candidates should be creative, organized, dependable, detail-oriented, and comfortable working independently while collaborating on creative projects.
What You'll Gain:
• Interns will receive hands-on experience working on active documentary films, film festival projects, commercial productions, and entertainment content.
• Working closely with an experienced industry professional, interns will gain practical knowledge of professional post-production workflows, documentary storytelling, editing techniques, color finishing, promotional content creation, and film festival preparation.
• This internship offers valuable mentorship, portfolio-building opportunities, résumé development, and real-world insight into the creative and business sides of filmmaking and post-production.
• College credit is available.
Additional Information
Fortune Cookie Productions / KEN SAX Photography offers a unique opportunity to work directly with an award-winning filmmaker and photographer whose work encompasses documentary films, television, commercial advertising, celebrity photography, and entertainment productions.
Employer will allow resumes sent in the body of the email OR as an attachment. Apply Online