The Olympia Film Society is hiring a Festival Director and Programmer for the 28th annual Olympia Film Festival!

Applications are due in the OFS office Monday, May 9th, 2011 at 5:00pm!

The 2011 Olympia Film Festival is in need of your creative
energies! OFS is now accepting applications for two positions:
Director and Programmer for our 28th annual Olympia Film
Festival this November 11th through 19th. Both are part time
temporary paid positions starting in May and lasting through
December. Ever had the desire to share your creative vision for
film and film-related events with our community? Here’s your
chance!

Drop off or mail your application to The Olympia Film Society, Attn: Festival Hiring Committee, 416 Washington St. SE # 208, Olympia, WA 98501,

or e-mail all required materials to jobs@olympiafilmsociety.org.

APPLICATION MATERIALS ARE ATTACHED OR SEE THE URL BELOW:

More information can be found on our website at:
 http://www.olympiafilmsociety.org/about/job-opportunities

REMEMBER, IT'S YOUR FESTIVAL MAKE IT HAPPEN!

THANKS!

http://www.olympiafilmfestival.org/movies/polish-bar/

The OFS Octopus lives at the Historic Capitol Theater in Olympia. 

He believes in you.

OFS Octopus video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY8I26oVZPM

Dear Esteemed Film and Video Artists!

Below is a description of a new project this year for the Olympia Film Festival.  We are enlisting Film & Video Artists in the creation of a short Video in, around, and about our Sponsor's location to air before their featured film at the 27th Annual Olympia Film Fest!  Earn credit towards a Full Pass.  This year is NOT TO BE MISSED!  Interested?  Read on.

RE: The Sponsorship Video Project

Thank you so much for volunteering your time and talents in spearheading a new project for this year’s 27th Annual Olympia Film Festival!

We’re really excited about the Sponsorship Video Project, and your participation in it, and would like to make this process as smooth as we can for all involved. Sarah and I will be acting as executive producers. We will be reviewing scripts and checking in with the filmmakers throughout the production schedule. We are available to assist you in meeting realistic production goals by aiding with access to equipment (production and post-prod), sets and props, offering motivation, and lending other assistance you may need towards the completion of your video.

Here are some guidelines and some technical information to keep in mind throughout production:

Please send us a copy of your script so we have an idea of what your video is going to look like and what it will take to get it done. If your script calls for an orca to stroll down 5th Avenue, we’re here to help you brainstorm ways to make this happen, without a live killer whale…

Minimum 30 seconds to 2 minutes maximum.

All the movies, whether 16,9 or 4,3, will happen in a 4,3 aspect ratio...

that means if it's 16,9 it will be letter-boxed, and 4,3 will fill the screen.

Because the film submission deadline for the 27th anual Olympia Film
Festival has been extended (see details below) so has your opportunity
to help program the festival...we have added two additional
programming meetings in September!

Programming Volunteer Meetings are at 5:00pm at 416 Washington Street
SE #208 on the following dates:

August 11
August 25
September 1
September 6
September 10

To All Filmmakers:
Submit your feature, short, or whatever it may be to one of the
coolest alternative film festivals on the west coast. To submit your
work please go to our website, www.olympiafilmfestival.org and fill
out the submission form (please note that there is a fee for
submitting a film: $20/feature - $15/short). Or, if you have any
questions, feel free to contact the festival programmer; Ivan Peycheff
at program...@olympiafilmfestival.org.

Early submission deadline is August 25th, 2010. Final deadline is
September 17th, 2010. So get those entries in and take that step
toward fame and fortune! Who knows, you could be the next Federico
Fellini… or Ed Wood. The only way to find out is to submit your work!

FESTIVAL CONTACT
2010 Programmer: Film Submissions/Programming Committee/Filmmaker Info
Ivan Peycheff
Email:  offprogram...@olympiafilmsociety.org

HERE'S HOW: (THE NEXT FEST PROGRAMMING MEETING IS TOMORROW!)

It's that time of year again when the fine, fine films for the Olympia
Film Fest must be chosen!
Anyone that is interested in helping out with the programming this
year is most welcome to come to the Programming Volunteer meetings.
(schedule below) So if you want to be part of the action, please come
to the Film Society office (416 Washington Street SE #208, Olympia).
If any of your friends might be interested in helping out, encourage
them to come to the meeting too.

Regularly scheduled programming meetings on the second and fourth
Wednesdays of the month up until the submission deadline on September
1st. Programming Volunteer Meeting Schedule:

July 28 @ 5pm

August 11 & 25 @ 5pm

Sept. 1st @ 5pm (submission deadline)

Please feel free to email Ivan Peycheff, OFF Festival Programmer if
you have any questions:

offprogram...@olympiafilmsociety.org

IF YOU WANNA SUBMIT YOUR MOVIE TO SHOW AT THE FESTIVAL, HERE'S HOW:

www.olympiafilmfestival.org

THE 26TH OLYMPIA FILM FESTIVAL PRESENTS NEW, INDEPENDENT, RARE, INTERNATIONAL, AND FANTASTIC FILMS FROM AROUND THE WORLD!

OCTOBER 21st, 2009 – OLYMPIA, WA. The curtains part as the Olympia Film Festival hosts several concert-worthy guests including Dame Darcy and Death By Doll, and a very special visit from Steven Severin of the famed Siouxsie and the Banshees in his only Northwest performance with his original score for the classic The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. With generous support, in the form of a $5,000 grant from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, we’re bringing several exciting guests to create stronger relationships between filmmakers and the Olympia community.

Several Northwest premieres are spotlit including the adorable Etienne!, as a man takes his terminally ill pet hamster on a bicycle trip up the California coast; the British crime comedy Down Terrace featuring cast from the original The Office; and the ‘lost’ feature Shut Yer Dirty Little Mouth starring Glenn Shadix of Beetlejuice and Heathers.

Contemporary documentary cinema shakes the house with Henry Rollins biting hard on American waste-ism in H for Hunger; Jennifer Maas unveiling ‘60s and ‘70s Seattle soul musicians with Wheedle’s Groove, and the colorful creation Sissyboy, based on the legendary Portland performance troupe, with a special one-night-only performance!

Of special note for Olympians is Simone Bitton’s somber documentary, Rachel, an investigative report into the untimely passing of peace activist Rachel Corrie..

Can someone please explain to me why people are trying to sneak into the Olympia Film Festival? OFS is a struggling volunteer-run organization, it's not like we're The Man. Everyone I've caught has had the money to buy a ticket, and if they're really so poor, a single hour of volunteer work would earn them a free ticket. I find this very frustrating.

Come see a Great movie during the Olympia Film Festival, "Great Speeches From A Dying World", AND help support EGYHOP, a shoe-string-budget, direct-service-providing, all-volunteer-run, non-profit group serving homeless and low-income populations in downtown Olympia.

First, about the movie (quoted from the festival guide):

• "Filmmaker Linas Phillips spent nearly two years getting to know nine of Seattle’s homeless population. The result is a unique and compassionate exploration of the hard luck, wrong turns, and broken dreams that reside on the city’s streets. This film uncovers circumstances that have landed (and keep) these people lost and penniless—most involving abuse, addiction, and mental illness. But it also finds kindness and hope. Each subject was asked to recite a famous speech from history that they felt related to their lives. The words of Shakespeare, Lincoln, JFK, and others are reinvested with meaning as they’re tied to these personal stories. From atop the Space Needle high above the parking garage in which she lives, Deborah delivers a speech by former slave Sojourner Truth asking, “Ain’t I a woman?” Jose’s recitation poses a question that most in the film have pondered: whether it is nobler to suffer outrageous fortune or to die. We’re reminded that the authors of these canonized speeches, the downtrodden folks reciting them, and each of us are all part of the same human endeavor. With beautiful photography and a musical score by Lori Goldston, Great Speeches is one of the most intimate encounters with homelessness on film and a moving meditation on the fragility of life.
• Director will be in attendance for Q & A following the screening. " 

And, then, a short description of EGYHOP:

The Olympia Film Society is now hiring two summer paid positions:

• Festival Director - Coordinate and oversee all aspects of the Olympia Film Festival.
• Festival Programmer - Oversee programming operations of the Olympia Film Festival.

The application deadline for these two jobs has been extended until Wednesday, 4/23 5pm.

Application here