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Meet the Third Coast Festival staff, shown here at the 2008 TCF Awards Ceremony - equal parts exhausted and happy.
(Left to right: Gwen Macsai, Julie Shapiro, Johanna Zorn, Delaney Hall)
Internships / Job openings
The TCF is currently not hiring, but we are seeking interns for 2010.
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Third Coast Festival Executive Director Johanna Zorn is the founding
mother of the Festival and she enjoys working with
the entire TCF crew on every aspect of this project. Additionally, Zorn takes the lead
when it comes to budgeting, fundraising and public relations. Zorn has worked
at Chicago Public Radio for more than two decades, including ten years as the
Executive Producer of Chicago Public Radio's acclaimed documentary series
Chicago Matters. She continues to contribute to the series as both an editor
and a reporter. In her spare time she’s raising three children.
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| Third Coast Festival Artistic Director Julie Shapiro has been with the
Festival since its inaugural year (2000). She works on every
aspect of the Festival and manages a great deal of the artistic and logistical
details of the project. Before moving to Chicago, Shapiro worked at very many records stores before landing at the Center
for Documentary Studies at Duke University, and produced Storylines Southeast, a public radio series about literature. These days, Shapiro teaches radio documentary around town, is a dj with CHIRPradio.org, can occasionally be heard on the public radio airwaves, and keeps a blog about sound(s). |
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| Gwen Macsai is host of Re:sound, the Third Coast Festival’s weekly program on Chicago Public Radio. An award-winning writer, producer and humorist, Macsai’s radio work has aired on All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Weekend Edition Saturday. She's also the creator of the television sitcom What About Joan starring Joan Cusack, and author of Lipshtick, a book of humorous first-person essays. |
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| Third Coast Festival Producer Delaney Hall joined the TCF as an intern in June 2006. She now produces Re:sound, hosts our podcasts, and develops features for the website. Hall also helped launch the Sounding Point Radio Workshop at Street Level Youth Media and works on radio projects of her own. Before moving to Chicago, she lived in Austin, Texas, where she went to school, wrote for various newspapers, worked in a rare books library, and generally enjoyed the lone star state. |
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We're also supported by friends near and far:
Chicago Public Radio Station Manager Torey Malatia provides vital input and support; thanks to former staffers Roman Mars, Paul Flahive, Lauren Dee and Katia
Dunn for all their hard work; we owe a huge debt of gratitude to former
web-managers Marck Bailey and Elizabeth Meister. Our informal
advisors (too many to list here) are invaluable with their suggestions and direction.
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| 2010 INTERNSHIPS |
The TCF is now accepting applications for three internships:
- Festival Intern
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TC Website Intern
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Re:sound Intern
For each six-month term, interns will work 2-3 days per week assisting TC staff with general Festival upkeep, as well as specific duties (depending on the term) relating to the Third Coast Filmless Festival, the ShortDocs Audio Challenge, the annual TC Competition, annual TC Conference, TC weekly show Re:sound, annual National Broadcast, public events and website programming. And everything else the Festival’s up to.
All three internships call for strong communication, curatorial, and organizational skills, a deep interest in audio/listening culture, comfort around computers and relevant software, and a willingness to generate new ideas and work closely with a small team. Each internship involves lots of listening. Applicants should be familiar with the Third Coast’s various projects, and should know their way around thirdcoastfestival.org. Additional skills per internship are listed in separate descriptions below.
All 3 internships will follow this schedule in 2010.
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A-Term |
B-Term |
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March - July |
August – December |
Application Deadline*: |
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July 5 |
Decision by: |
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July 19 |
* Application materials must be RECEIVED by Feb 1 and July 5.
All internships are unpaid, but we believe they'll provide a unique and relevant experience for anyone interested in pursuing a career in the documentary audio / public radio in the US and beyond. Read on for information about each internship, and how to apply.
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Festival Internships
A-Term Festival Interns assist with general organization, curatorial, and logistical Festival responsibilities, especially in relation to the Third Coast Filmless Festival and the annual ShortDocs Challenge. Duties include: communicating and working with featured producers, maintaining databases, promoting projects and live events, contributing audio feature ideas for the website. Interns work closely with TC staff and the TC Website Intern. 2 days per week.
B-Term Festival Interns assist with general organization, curatorial and logistical responsibilities, especially in relation to the Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition and annual Third Coast Conference. Duties include: working closely with producers, processing Competition entries and helping plan the judging weekend, organizing materials and volunteers for Third Coast Conference. Interns work closely with TC staff and the TC Website Intern. 3 days per week.
Besides the skills listed above, Festival Internship applicants should be comfortable with database software and possess an innate love for systems - and improving upon them. Excellent writing skills are crucial for this internship. People skills are a must. Design skills are a plus. Experience planning and promoting public events would also be helpful. |
TC Website Internships (aka the Audio Librarian Internships)
A-Term TC Website Interns assist with keeping thirdcoastfestival.org current and maintaining a robust social networking presence for the TCF. Duties include: contributing website features, managing timely information, uploading new content, helping promote site to new audiences, building the TC Filmless Festival and ShortDocs Challenge’s presence on site. Interns work closely with producers, TC staff and Festival Intern, and spend a lot of time listening and collecting work for the audio library. 2 days per week.
B-Term TC Website Interns assist with keeping thirdcoastfestival.org current and maintaining a robust social networking presence for the TCF. Duties include: contributing website features, managing timely information, uploading new content, helping promote the site to new audiences, and building TC/RHDF Competition winners’ presence on site. Interns work closely with producers, TC staff and Festival Intern, and spend a lot of time listening and collecting work for the audio library. 2 days per week.
Besides the skills listed above, TC Website Internship applicants should be comfortable with basic CMS software, familiar with and excited about the benefit of social networking communications, and motivated to bring new audio work to the Festival’s attention. Excellent writing skills are crucial for this internship. People skills are a must. Design skills are a plus. An innate love for systems – and improving upon them - would also be helpful. |
Re:sound Internships
A-Term Re:sound Interns will assist with all aspects of producing the Third Coast’s weekly radio show on WBEZ. Duties include: listening to and curating documentaries to feature on the program, communicating with featured producers, suggesting show themes, helping to develop and edit the host’s script, collecting found and original audio to use in the collaged interstitials that characterize the sound design of the program, and – for the motivated intern – producing short features and segments for the show. There will also be an assortment of administrative tasks including: website upkeep, archiving old shows, filling out check requests, and other sundry duties. 2 days per week.
B-Term Re:sound Interns will assist with all aspects of producing the Third Coast’s weekly radio show on WBEZ. Duties include: all of those listed above PLUS helping out with the production of the 2010 Third Coast Broadcast, a national two-hour special featuring the winners of the annual Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition. Interns will communicate with winning producers, help select excerpts of the winning documentaries, assist in planning and structuring the two-hour Broadcast, help out with producer interviews, and – for the motivated intern – lend a hand with production. There will also be an assortment of administrative tasks including: website upkeep and helping with the distribution of the Broadcast. 2 days per week.
Besides the skills listed above, Re:sound Internship applicants should be comfortable with ProTools.
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HOW TO APPLY
To apply for any of the internships, send the following to Julie Shapiro / TCIAF / 848 E. Grand Ave /
Chicago, IL / 60611. At this time applications are not accepted via email.
> a cover letter (for all internships)
This personal statement should be no more than 500 words, and should explain which internship you’re applying for and why you’d like to get involved with the Third Coast. We'd also like to know a little more about you as a person.
> your résumé (for all internships)
> writing sample (for Festival and TC Website internship only)
Suggest a radio documentary you think should be featured on thirdcoastfestival.org, explain your choice and generate appropriate text for the feature. See 2009 audio library for examples.
> production sample (for Re:sound internship only)
Send a CD with 2-3 pieces you’ve produced, along with a brief description of each track. These pieces could be journalistic stories (narrated or non-narrated), soundscapes, or audio fictions, so long as they demonstrate strong production skills, and careful attention to sound and story.
> names and contact info for 3 references (for all internships)
Include at least one personal and one professional reference.
Please contact Julie Shapiro with questions about requested materials and/or the Festival and TC Website Internships. Please contact Delaney Hall with questions about the Re:sound Internship.
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