Documentary Filmmaker

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Description

This is a temporary position beginning in May 2025 and ending in August 2025 that is being hired to produce a short documentary film for the Entrepreneurship for the Public Good (EPG) program. The employee will travel throughout Eastern Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia with the EPG students and staff as they tour facilities, meet with leaders and entrepreneurs, and experience what the region has to offer. The film crew will shoot footage for the film as well as assemble a mass library of photographic images that can be used for marketing purposes. On return from the program, the remainder of the work will consist of editing the footage into a short feature film project.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Utilize specialized film and photography equipment
• Capture high-quality video and photographic images
• Make critical decisions regarding location, viewing angles, and image capture
• Use specialized software to edit multimedia film and images
• Edit video footage into a coherent film that tells a story
• Coordinate with EPG Director and other team members on the project
• Produce high quality documentary film
  
  

What You'll Bring

Education required to ensure success in this position:

• Bachelor’s Degree
  
  

Experience required to ensure success in this position:

• 1-3 years of experience
  
  

Special skills, knowledge and abilities:

• Knowledge of proper use regarding specialized multimedia equipment (film cameras, digital photography, etc)
• Knowledge of specific software programs for multimedia editing
• Skill with utilizing multimedia film and photography equipment for capturing a variety of footage
• Skill with utilizing specific software for multimedia editing and filmmaking
• Ability to choose shooting locations, angles of view, and frame film subjects
• Ability to operate highly specialized equipment in a safe and productive manner
• Ability to edit film footage into short feature and briefer cuts for marketing and promotional purposes
• Ability to work with producer, executive producer, and other team members to successfully execute documentary film project
  
  

License, certification, or registration necessary:

• N/A
  
  

Physical requirements:

• Ability to navigate campus/public buildings and grounds
• Ability to travel extensively throughout the region
• Ability to operate a motor vehicle
  
  

Environmental conditions:

• Includes frequent travel requirements for on-site and location-based shooting
  
  

Ability to operate the following vehicles or equipment:

• Operate College vehicles for travel purposes
• Utilize specialized film and photography equipment
  
  

Founded in 1855, Berea College is nationally recognized as the first coeducational and interracial college in the South. Berea has a longstanding commitment to interracial education and is one of the most racially diverse private liberal arts colleges in the United States. With an emphasis on service to Appalachia and beyond, Berea enrolls more than 1,500 students from 46 states and U.S. territories and more than 70 countries. Berea College admits students who are unable to afford tuition and provides all of them with a no-tuition promise, valued at more than $204,000. Berea’s students excel in the College’s supportive yet demanding academic environment, and most are the first in their families to attend college. As one of only nine federally recognized Work Colleges, all Berea students are expected to work 10-12 hours weekly in various positions across campus. Berea College is listed #20 in overall ranking in the U.S. by the Wall Street Journal/College Pulse college rankings, 2023. The Washington Monthly ranks Berea College #2 Best Liberal Arts College and #1 in Social Mobility, 2023. Money Magazine ranks Berea #20 Best Overall College and #10 for Best in the South, 2023. Berea College is also the only institution in Kentucky to receive the 5-Star Rating from Money Magazine, 2023.

Located where the Bluegrass Region meets the Cumberland Mountains, the town of Berea (pop. 16,000) lies forty miles south of Lexington and is approximately two hours from Cincinnati, Louisville, and Knoxville. More information about Berea College is available at www.berea.edu.

Berea College, in light of its mission in the tradition of impartial love and social equality, welcomes all people of the earth to learn and work here.

Berea College is always looking for talented, self-motivated individuals to join our team. If you think you are ready to be a part of an exciting team, then we encourage you to continue with this applicant friendly, online job application!

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Over the past century, various leaders of the College have applied the College’s inclusive scriptural foundation and spirit to their expanding world and welcomed those whose beliefs were consistent with the Christian gospel of impartial love. Therefore, Berea College today affirms its inclusive Christian tradition even as it respects the traditions of Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, and Hindus, as well as other faiths, and those holding no religious beliefs. We strive not to ignore our differences, but rather seek to understand each other honestly and respectfully, and together create a climate where anyone can openly discuss what they believe without fear of sanction. To that end, all persons who are willing to share in the spirit and the work of the Great Commitments as shaped by its preamble are welcome to study, to teach, and to work at Berea

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