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Picturestart LLC
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Full Time Paid Internship
JOB DESCRIPTION: Internship
SUMMARY:
PICTURESTART is seeking interns for Fall 2022. Our interns will have hands-on opportunities to learn and immerse themselves in day-to-day creative activities, including reading, evaluating, and discussing material, writing coverage, drafting filmmaker/talent lists, and tracking submissions. The ideal candidate is excited to learn about the creative side of entertainment at a quickly growing media company, has strong attention to detail, a positive attitude, and a positive attitude and eagerness to learn. This is a paid internship, to start late August 2022. Ideally the intern is based in LA with access to a car. Picturestart is proud to be an equal opportunity employer dedicated to establishing and fostering a diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible workforce. We welcome and consider applicants for employment regardless of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, citizenship, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, pregnancy status, military/veteran status, disability, or any other protected category.
FULL JOB DESCRIPTION:
PICTURESTART is looking for full or part-time Interns. Position to start late August 2022. Responsibilities include, but not limited to:
•Read submissions and write coverage
•Check avails
•Help with variety of office tasks
•Completing research projects
This is a great opportunity for someone who is interested in entertainment, loves TV and Film and is eager to learn about the industry in a fast-growing company.
ABOUT PICTURESTART:
PICTURESTART, which focuses on ''discovery of voice'' content and storytelling, is the media company founded by producer and former studio executive Erik Feig, who has produced, supervised and originated the production of Academy Award-winning films including La La Land and The Hurt Locker, along with book adaptations and films geared toward the youth market, including The Twilight Saga, The Hunger Games series, Divergent series, Red series and Step Up series.
PICTURESTART most recently wrapped production on AM I OK? starring Dakota Johnson and Sonoya Mizuno, directed by Tig Notaro and Stephanie Allynne, and CHA CHA REAL SMOOTH directed by Cooper Raiff, and starring Cooper and Dakota Johnson. Both films premiered at Sundance 2022, with CHA CHA winning the Audience Award. PS is currently in post production on a variety of projects, including LUCKIEST GIRL ALIVE with Mila Kunis and directed by Mike Barker, based on Jessica Knoll's NYTimes best-selling novel; SHARPER directed by Ben Caron and starring Julianne Moore, Sebastian Stan and Justice Smith; raunchy comedy STRAYS voiced by Will Ferrell and Jamie Foxx, and directed by Josh Greenbaum; and the ambitious video game adaptation BORDERLANDS starring Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jamie Lee Curtis and Jack Black and directed by Eli Roth. On the TV side, PICTURESTART is currently in production on GREASE: RISE OF THE PINK LADIES, based on the iconic musical GREASE.
PICTURESTART also has a rich and diverse slate of projects in various stages of development, across film, TV and audio: the highly-anticipated Sue Mengers biopic starring Jennifer Lawrence; the action-packed epic true story about Japan's first African samurai, YASUKE; the high-school-cheating caper remake of the Thai hit BAD GENIUS; and UNPREGNANT, a teen road-trip comedy based on the acclaimed novel written by Jenni Hendriks and Ted Caplan, which premiered on HBO Max in September 2020 - just to name a few!
QUALIFICATIONS
•Current college students, or recent graduates
•Excellent analytical and written skills
•Familiarity with Google workplace (sheets, docs, etc.)