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DocuCinema offers both paid and unpaid internships. Most are intended to last a semester. With the cooperation of your school, we offer course credit.

current internships offered

Outreach Coordinator Assistant – UNPAID internship 

This unpaid position is for an assistant to the outreach coordinator of the Shelter: connect project.  The Shelter: connect project is a series of workshops about the design-for-good movement.  Workshop participants learn how to create media about architecture and design projects. Participants also may develop design-for-good projects in the workshops.

We are looking for an assistant with internet research skills to help us find schools and universities that would host workshops. We also need research into statistics and metrics about the design for good movement and its effectiveness. The assistant will help develop an online questionnaire about the workshops and help to administer it.

What you’d be doing:  Developing research, preparing online questionnaires.

You’ll be learning about the design-for-good movement, how to develop educational workshops, and how to use Google Docs to create questionnaires, as well as Wufoo.com, an online questionnaire and reporting tool.

We meet in a conference call every week and in person about once per month or more often if needed.

Course credit can be offered, pending arranging this with your school.  This internship is offered as part of the Shelter project, a non-profit project that has the fiscal sponsorship of the San Francisco Film Society.

Please write down your reasons for wanting to intern with DocuCinema.

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Social Media Captain for Movie Promotion – UNPAID internship

We are doing online promotion and community awareness for a documentary film called Shelter. It is about architects and designers who are using good design to build disaster relief housing around the world. The Social Media Captain will create content and post to our Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, LinkedIn and blog feeds. We will provide research material for posts. You provide the 140 character sparkle.  Opportunity to create short videos or articles and post to our blog and receive writing/author credit.

Skills needed:  You can write and do basic research. Photography or basic image-making a plus.

We will provide:  We will show you how to use Google Reader, Feedly,  zite, Hootsuite and WordPress.

The work is done in a virtual office and you can use a laptop or iPad to do it. We meet by conference call one time per week and in-person once per month.

Course credit can be offered, pending arranging this with your school.  This internship is offered as part of the Shelter project, a non-profit project that has the fiscal sponsorship of the San Francisco Film Society.

Please write down your reasons for wanting to intern with DocuCinema.

*(denotes required field)