LFF DCP Technician

Salary: £30,141 per annum

The BFI is seeking a DCP Technician to join the Technical Services team for the 66th BFI London Film Festival.

The DCP Technician will work on the delivery of the BFI London Film Festival and will be responsible for ensuring that all necessary Digital cinema and video content is produced and distributed in a professional, high quality and timely way.

• Fixed-Term Contract: Mon 22nd August – Fri 14 October 2022
• Contractual hours: 41
• Basis: Full time

Key Responsibilities

• To ensure that all DCP, video and audio content required for the London Film Festival is of world-class standards, and is ready for delivery to its screening location on schedule.
• To validate and QC DCPs delivered for screening at BFI London Film Festival.
• To create, QC and sign off DCPs for films delivered as video files, festival trailers and holding slides as required.

Experience & Skills

• Good knowledge of Digital Cinema, including DCP creation, wrapping, DCP subtitling and distribution processes.
• Good working knowledge of DCP creation hardware and software.
• Good working knowledge of all aspects of cinema and video screening media, including all video and audio codecs, video, disc formats, framerates, subtitling and aspect ratios.

In addition the BFI recognises that now more than ever there is a need for more tangible actions in response to racial inequality and/or disability. We support diversity and inclusion and strongly encourage applicants from our under-represented groups, who identify as D/deaf and disabled and/or are ethnically diverse. We guarantee a first interview to our under-represented groups who meet our minimum requirements.

The role is predominantly based at BFI Southbank.

You will enjoy benefits such as our pension scheme, excellent support for working parents, 28-33 days annual leave, tickets to BFI festivals and events plus many others.

Applications

Further details about the post can be obtained by viewing the job pack on our website.

First interviews will be held on w/c 25 July 2022

The closing date for this position is 20/07/2022 at 00:00