Seeking a camera operator for 2-4 days of shooting on Amtrak trains. This is a paid position.
About the project: Flyover Country is a documentary film in pre-production with support from the LEF Foundation.
DATE: Flexible dates Dec., Jan. Feb.
LOCATION: Flexible—this is filming on Amtrak trains, so involves some short-distance travel. Ideal departure cities are Atlanta, New Orleans, Orlando, Chicago, Washington DC, or Albuquerque.
PAY commensurate with experience; maximum 8-hour day.
EQUIPMENT will be supplied—for the sake of continuity, we'll use Canon 5D Mark ii to match previous footage.
Please be vaccinated. Precautions will be taken regarding COVID in terms of masks and social distancing.
Interested candidates, to apply, please send a reel and (optional) CV to flyovercountry.film@gmail.com
About the director: Jessica Hankey is a Cambridge-based filmmaker and artist whose projects foreground the ways in which individual lives and sociopolitical realities merge together. These works blur the boundaries between documentary approaches and fictional drama in order to explore the role of storytelling in daily life. A recipient of a 2021 Moving Image Fund grant from the LEF Foundation and a 2019 Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellow, Hankey attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2015 and has exhibited at venues that include the Museum of Modern Art, NY, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, The Rubin Center for the Visual Arts in El Paso, Texas, and Bowdoin College. Her work has been screened at Anthology Film Archives and Vox Populi, reviewed in Artforum, The Chart, and Glasstire.
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