The application period is now over. We thank all the applicants and will contact people for interviews.

Job description: Assistant Director

The Assistant Director is responsible for assisting the Executive Director in all aspects of the organization’s main events including the Women’s Film Festival, Films On The Go, youth workshops and the annual industry Film Forum.

Activities include:

- Print traffic (organizing and handling film submissions and screening copies)
- Film solicitation
- Selection committee support
- Marketing and promotion (creating online and offline content, print materials)
- Securing workshop mentors and participants
- Editing event trailers
- Fundraising (grant writing, support materials)
- Technical support for screenings
- Updating festival website
- Documenting events
- Light administrative duties

-Bachelor/Master of Arts, Business, Women’s Studies, Film Studies, and Communications are considered an asset, but any discipline will be considered.
Candidate must adhere to the Graduate Transition to Employment Program requirements:
- Graduates (including international students) who have successfully completed a post-secondary program (minimum duration of one academic year) at Memorial University of Newfoundland and are currently unemployed or under-employed (working less than 20 hrs/week or not in an area related to their field of study); and
- Graduates who are not an immediate family member of the employer.
Note: Preference will be given to Non-EI eligible graduates (i.e. Currently not receiving E.I. benefits; and have not received E.I. benefits within the last three years; or have not received E.I. maternity or parental benefits within the last five years)

Both men and women are welcome to apply. Email applications to margaret@womensfilmfestival.com.

We’re bringing the best short films from the 2012 St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival on a cross-province adventure!

April 23rd, 2013, St. John’s – Each summer, Films on the Go takes the best short films from the St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival to movie screens across Newfoundland, bringing a night of great movies to some of our province’s greatest towns.

This year’s line-up of eight local and international shorts celebrates Film On The Go’s eighth birthday! Highlights include Newfoundland-born director Stephen Dunn’s Life Doesn’t Frighten Me, which was selected for the Tribeca Film Festival this year, and Michele Lemieux’s Here, There and the Great Elsewhere, chosen as the year’s most innovative short film by The Atlantic magazine.

Films On The Go arrives in Corner Brook on May 4, at the Grenfell Theatre; Norris Point on May 5, at the Bonne Bay Marine Station; Gander on May 6, at the Arts and Culture Centre Art Gallery; Twillingate on May 7, at the Orange Hall; and Fogo Island on May 8, at the Fogo Island Film House.

The eight short films showing each night are: Winners, directed by Elsa Morena; Desperate Scribbles, directed by Martine Blue; Chef de Meute (Herd Leader), directed by Chloe Robichaud; Here and the Great Elsewhere, directed by Michele Lemieux; Assembly, directed by Jenn Strom; Life Doesn’t Frighten Me, directed by Stephen Dunn and starring Gordon Pinsent; and Seconds, directed by Jordan Canning.

The full film schedule is available on our website here.
Films on the Go is presented in part by the Canada Council for the Arts, Canadian Heritage, the Newfoundland and Labrador Film Development Corporation, the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador and the CBC.