LFF Content Technician (Delivery)

Salary: £29,748 - £31,557 per annum

The BFI is looking for an LFF Content Technician to join their team on a fixed-term contract.

The LFF Content Technician plays an important role in the LFF Content Team, working with the Southbank Content Technician to support the receipt, distribution and return of film, digital cinema and video content during the London Film Festival.

The roles require experience working with file delivery platforms, file systems, and the ability to keep track of competing priorities in a fast-moving festival environment.

Fixed Term Contract: 28 August – 23 October 2024

Key responsibilities include:

• To assist the Content Team in the receipt, logging and delivery of all LFF film, digital cinema and video content for LFF screenings across all venues and online platforms.
• To ensure that all Digital Cinema Packages (DCP), film prints, and video content received are correct as advertised in the LFF brochure and are accurately logged for delivery.
• To Quality Control (QC) video screening files on arrival, reporting issues promptly to Content and Projection Team colleagues.
• To work closely with the LFF Screenings Coordination Team, the LFF Content Administrator and the LFF DCP Technicians across all LFF content delivery.
• To work closely with the BFI Player and LFF Press and Industry teams to ensure timely and accurate file delivery for LFF Online platforms.

We are looking for candidates who have:

• Good working knowledge and experience of digital cinema, digital library and video projection systems.
• Knowledge of database management useful, especially Artifax.
• Good working knowledge of file delivery platforms with some experience of file systems desirable.
• Demonstrated ability to liaise effectively with other departments, with BFI clients/partners, and colleagues.
• Good organisational skills with the ability to prioritise and to manage and meet deadlines.

A full list of responsibilities and minimum requirements can be found in the job description.

About the BFI

We are a cultural charity, a National Lottery distributor, and the UK’s lead organisation for film and the moving image. We believe society needs stories. Film, television and the moving image bring them to life, helping us connect and understand each other better. We share the stories of yesterday, search for the stories of today, and shape the stories of tomorrow.

At the BFI you’ll enjoy benefits such as excellent support for working parents, 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays and additional paid time off at Christmas), tickets to BFI festivals and events plus many others.

We support diversity and inclusion, and as an organisation recognise that we need to address under representation within our teams. As such we strongly welcome and encourage applicants from our under-represented groups; who identify as D/deaf and disabled and/or are Black and Global Majority. We guarantee a first interview to our under-represented groups who meet our minimum requirements.

Further information

Further details about the role, the BFI and our benefits can be obtained by visiting our website.

First interviews will be held on w/c Monday, 22 July 2024
Second interviews will be held on Friday, 26 July 2024

The closing date for this position is 11/07/2024 at 23:59