Fall Intern - Social Media and Marketing

This is a Part Time Unpaid Internship

Interloper Films
Fall Internship - Social Media & Marketing
In Person - Pasadena, CA

INTERLOPER FILMS is seeking a Social Media & Marketing Intern for Fall 2025!

As part of our in-house team, you'll play a key role in shaping and sharing our brand across platforms as we launch multiple documentary projects-three in distribution/festival rollout, two in production, and two in post. This internship is an exciting opportunity to help craft and execute digital campaigns that elevate powerful, socially relevant films.

What You'll Do:
Design and schedule engaging content for Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and Twitter/X
Work closely with our distribution team to bring marketing strategies to life through creative assets, social rollout plans, and audience engagement tactics
Assist in the creation of trailers, reels, quote cards, and graphics for upcoming projects
Track analytics and performance to inform strategy
Research and help build influencer and press outreach lists
Maintain and update the Interloper Films website and press kits
Contribute to brainstorms, pitch content ideas, and identify trends
Support occasional in-person events, screenings, and premieres

Who You Are:
Passionate about storytelling, film, and digital media
Skilled in Canva, Adobe Creative Suite (especially Photoshop and Premiere), or equivalent tools
A strong writer with a good eye for design and brand voice
Organized, proactive, and a team player
Experience with social media management tools (Later, Buffer, Hootsuite, etc.) is a plus
Interest in documentary or independent film strongly preferred
German speaking is a bonus!

Internship Details:
Start Date: September
Duration: Through December
Time Commitment: 2-3 days/week
Location: In person at our Pasadena office

This internship offers a hands-on role in the marketing and distribution of meaningful, award-winning films-perfect for someone looking to grow their creative and strategic skills in media, entertainment, or the nonprofit space.

Thank you!

Additional Comments:

INTERLOPER FILMS is an international award-winning full-service production company founded by acclaimed filmmaker Ondi Timoner. Best known for her films about ''impossible visionaries'' - people who naturally push boundaries, and films that take on massive subjects impacting society from predictive and unique points of view.

She has the rare distinction of winning the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance twice, for DIG! & WE LIVE IN PUBLIC e Live in Public. Both reside in the permanent collection of MoMA NY.

Timoner was recently nominated for an Emmy for Exceptional Merit for her 2022 film LAST FLIGHT HOME, which was also Shortlisted for the Oscar, and she received the prestigious Visionary Award for Observational Filmmaking from DocNYC.

Interloper develops & produces original feature length documentaries and narrative films, non-fiction television series, web series, & award-winning short films.

Interloper Films's catalog of distinguished features includes: Emmy-Nominated LAST FLIGHT HOME, about Ondi's father Eli Timoner's extraordinary life & intentional death, which premiered at Sundance 2022 and was acquired by MTV Documentary Films for a fall theatrical release; the award-winning feature COMING CLEAN (2020) about solutions to the opioid epidemic; BRAND: A Second Coming (Opening Film, SXSW 2015) about the evolution of comedian/author/activist Russell Brand; COOL IT (TIFF Premiere / Roadside Attractions 2010) about solutions to climate change; WE LIVE IN PUBLIC (Sundance Grand Jury Prize, 2009) about the Internet's impact on privacy & intimacy; the award-winning JOIN US (2007) about mind control; DIG! (Sundance Grand Jury Prize, 2004) about the collision of art & commerce through the eyes of rival bands; award-winning film THE NATURE OF THE BEAST (1994) about Bonnie Jean Foreshaw and the massive miscarriage of justice perpetrated on her; a 10-hour nonfiction series JUNGLETOWN about building ''the world's most sustainable town,'' aired on Viceland in 2017 to rave reviews.