We are 100% volunteer run, which welcomes an exciting opportunity for those looking to expand their experience in the film industry for a good cause.
FAQs
Who is it for?
Rianne Pictures was set up with the ethos that you can enter the film industry despite your background, experience level or qualifications. Meaning that anyone can apply to volunteer here. All members of the team here are volunteers, working collaboratively together to achieve our development programmes, produce our award winning shorts and host our BIFA accredited international film festival Women X, along with many other events and workshops.
How long is it for?
We offer long term and short term volunteering, with training included and opportunities for further mentoring and development. Some volunteers have been with us for over 8 years!
As much as we operate year round, there are certain times of the year where we are understandably busier than usual, predominantly from January to September in preparation for the Women X Film Festival and its script competition. 90% of our volunteering is done online remotely, so it really doesn't matter where you are based! Currently we have team members from all over such as Cardiff, Essex, Glasgow, Manchester, London, Newcastle, Sheffield the list goes on….
What can I achieve from this?
Each of our year round volunteers and junior programmers have development plans where they work towards personal goals they want to achieve from volunteering at Rianne Pictures, and we love to celebrate these achievements as we work on them together.
A little bit like how Mel wanted to create and host craft sessions at the festival, which we have successfully incorporated since the 2023 festival, Emily who wanted to lead more Experimental programming at the festivals such as the 2024 strand ‘Under The Skin’ and Ashton who created a fun way of audiences voting on which films they liked most at the festival on their way out of the screenings.
Our volunteers have used their skillsets to move on to exciting roles within the film and TV industry, and working with various international film festivals such as London Film Festival, Opencity Documentary Film Festival, Sheffield DocFest and Leeds International Film Festival.
Open Volunteering Opportunities
Festival Screening Assistant
Darlington Hippodrome
September
This role is required throughout the festival weekend at our venues in Darlington, you’ll be greeting audience members and working alongside the screening team to ensure smooth running of the exhibition of films and the enhanced elements of screenings such as Q&As, roundtable discussions and special events.
This role is required throughout the festival weekend at our venues in Darlington, you’ll be working with the industry and events team ensuring smooth running of the events within the festival, meeting and greeting audience members and our filmmakers.
This role is required throughout the festival weekend at our venues in Darlington, you’ll be working with the front of house team ensuring the checking in of audience members and ensuring our filmmakers have everything they need for their screenings, as well as managing our merch desk.
This role is required throughout the festival weekend at our venues in Darlington, working with our festival marketing manager to capture all content required and manage our social channels to showcase what is happening at the festival, including our portrait station and interview booth.
This role is required throughout the festival weekend at our venues in Darlington, it’s quite varied as you’ll be based across all elements of the festival as and when they require additional resource.
This role is required throughout the festival weekend at our venues in Darlington, you’ll be working closely with our festival director, ensuring events are running to schedule and managing her commitments across the festival weekend.
Festival Events Assistant
Darlington Hippodrome
September
Festival Front of House Assistant
Darlington Hippodrome, Darlington Library
September
Festival Marketing Assistant
Darlington Hippodrome, Darlington Library
September
Festival Runner
Darlington Hippodrome
September
Festival Director’s Assistant
Darlington Hippodrome, Darlington Library
September
Script Reader
Remote
May - July
This role is a remote opportunity for anyone interested in reading scripts as part of our development programme and festival script competition, you’ll provide your thoughts on the scripts and highlight any exciting potential to our senior development team. A keen eye for detail and passion for stories is desired.
Interested in joining?
Amazing! We can’t wait to hear from you, Just pop some details in this form and we’ll come back to within 1-2 weeks with availability and more information.