Lecturer (Filmmaking - Producing)
Media and Communications,Media Studies,Creative Arts and Design,Other Creative Arts
Short info about job
Company: Manchester Metropolitan University
Department: School of Art
Salary: £34,520 to £39,992 pro rata (Grade 8)
Hours: Part Time
Contract type: Permanent
Type / Role: Academic or Research
Phone: +44-1438 9563018
Fax: +44-1350 8660766
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Detail information about job Lecturer (Filmmaking - Producing). Terms and conditions vacancy
Hours: Part time 0.5
Department
Manchester School of Art is a centre of excellence in teaching and practice led research, located in the centre of Manchester, a city that is now the second largest creative, digital, and media hub in Europe. The creative industries are growing faster here than in any other city in the UK, with the recent development of Media City and Space film studios as markers of the ambition Manchester fosters.
The university is committed to contributing to the creative future of the city by working in partnership with professionals at national and international levels. We produce innovative researchers and graduates who have originality, creativity, and ambition to lead the future development of their related industry. The BA (Hons) Filmmaking is evolving and has become one of the largest undergraduate programmes in the Manchester School of Art, and is central to the future planning for an international Screen School, with an advisory board co-chaired by Danny Boyle and Nicola Schindler. The filmmaking degree offers a unique programme that blends industry film production standards, with artist moving image traditions, grounding learning with an art school ethos with a commercial industry facing sensibility.
We aim to produce the most creative and stylish students (from professional artists to commercial movie directors). Recent alumni have won BFI producers vision awards, the prestigious Deutsche bank award for Creative Enterprise, and Elton John’s ‘The Cut’ music video competition.
Role
We are seeking a contemporary film producer who is industry connected with experience of teaching in a higher education environment. We are looking for a candidate who works in film production with experience of HE teaching who has the ambition to blend your industry role with academia. The successful candidate will support the programme academic team in implementing professional standards of production, in particular supporting the third year students Major Projects. The BA (Hons) filmmaking created a production company for this purpose, culminating in a film festival screening at HOME, Manchester's stunning new art house cinema. We are looking to add to our team someone with skills and experience in narrative/drama filmmaking who can take these artistic skills in to an industry context. This is a great opportunity for an enthusiastic and creative practitioner to join us.
Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate will be an active drama film producer with experience of teaching in an HE environment. You will have experience of raising and closing funds for short films and feature films, regularly attending the main national and international film festivals to market and distribute your films, and be able to bring a contemporary experience to teaching students. Supplementary skills and/or knowledge of Directing and Screenwriting would also be beneficial. The ideal candidate will be a dynamic filmmaker and teacher who ideally has experience in Higher Education and understanding of the principles of running a production company within an HE context.