Work for Reason.tv!

Reason.tv is seeking talented individuals interested in advancing the message of Free Minds and Free Markets through video journalism and related multimedia productions.  Reason's top priority is talent: established and aspiring producers, videographers, editors, researchers, and marketing professionals will all be considered.  

The 2010 Searle Film Fellowship at Reason.tv is a year-long, full time program that gives aspiring video journalists the opportunity to create substantive, original content that explores the ideas of free minds and free markets.  Initial responsibilities will depend on experience and could range from research assistance to video editing to producing independent pieces to developing marketing and distribution plans.  Fellows will also participate in training in production techniques appropriate to their skill level. Fellowships are full-time salaried positions with benefits; salary will depend on experience.    

Resourcefulness, a willingness to pick up miscellaneous tasks and reliability are a must. The ideal candidate will also have a strong interest in libertarian ideas, the field of documentary filmmaking or video journalism, familiarity with shooting and editing, and content distribution and marketing.

Applicants at any level of experience will be considered.  To apply, please submit the following materials via email to [e-mail] by December 30, 2009:

• A cover letter with a summary of your experience and an explanation of your interest in Reason.tv;

• A resume, including contact information for three references;

• Samples of your work, if applicable to your level of experience. If available online, include links in the email; if you prefer to mail a reel, please send TWO copies to: Reason Foundation, Attn: Amy Pelletier, 3415 S Sepulveda Blvd, Suite 400, Los Angeles, CA 90034;

• Three one-page segment sketches you would like to produce (or help produce) at Reason.tv.  The format, style, and level of detail are at your discretion.    

Please direct questions about the fellowship and application process to Amy Pelletier at [e-mail].

Comments

[sage]

If the guy’s head is a camera then what does he need to hold one in his hand for? Or is it so he can do a 3-D movie like Avatar? Just admit it, Reason, you’re jumping on the Avatar bandwagon! Why don’t you sell us on investment opportunities in emu meat while you’re at it?

[Krishna]

Just admit it, Reason, you’re jumping on the Avatar bandwagon!

It’s not a bandwagon. It’s a chariot, thank you very much.

[Death Panelist]

I think that’s a film camera for the head, and a camcorder in hand. So really, it’s a representation of Reason coming to grips with the obsolescence of its old media (print mag), and adapting by using new media (reason.com).

However, they don’t realize the graphic itself becomes obsolete December 31, so the joke’s on them.

[Jeff P]

I’m a grizzled old 25 year TV veteran desperate to get out of his current job. Can apply? And can I crash on your couch?

[Ratko]

Crap, beat me to the couch.

Made a couple super 8mm short films people seemed to like. Planned to publish a porno magazine with a photographer friend backin the 70s, featuring the not so great extra loose ladies, but got side-tracked when that Flynt jerk used our idea first.

Anyone camping in the bathtub yet?

[Jaybird]

Will that guy then post his films to youtube?

[BakedPenguin]

Does directing pr0n count as experience? ‘Cause I… have a friend who might like to apply.

And I know you guys will love his clip reel…

[Ratko]

Damn, just happened again.

Oh, “pron” sorry, my mistake, at first glance it looked like porn.

Does your friend who directs pron usually watch you shave his face in the morning?

Ever directed those large Vietnamese tiger prons? They’re good dipped in butter and garlic.

[BakedPenguin]

Ratko, hang around the Internet much? Or is it just smartass fail?

[VikingMoose]

man, baked, you got yerself some GIGANTIC prons!

[greg]

Where is the work to be performed? On-site or tele-commute?

[Paul]

Is this just for US citizens?

[Death Panelist]

…unlike the presidency.

[Morris]

“…talented individuals interested in advancing the message of Free Minds and Free Markets through video journalism and related multimedia productions” to a public that would sooner buy shit sandwiches from deformed dwarfs. Do make a contribution.

[The Art-P.O.G.]

Morris is so much more entertaining if you imagine him looking and talking like the Man From Another Place on Twin Peaks.

[The Expatriate]

Actually, I picture him looking and talking like a sassy, gay black man.

*shrugs*

[Kant feel Pietzsche]

Even more so if you imagine him as Jim Carrey’s talking anus in Ace Ventura.

[Morris Mirror]

Full of shit! Full of shit!

[Ike]

Is this a location-dependent position?

[Ska]

That image makes me want to hear Kraftwerk.

[na]

The graphic is appropriated from the cover of Cinematic Orchestra’s score for Soviet documentarian Dziga Vertov’s “Man With a Movie Camera.”

[Some dude]

I think that photo is photoshopped.

[Jeff P]

How is it this position hasn’t been filled yet? I am carpet-bombed with broadcat and production resumes daily. With TV downsizing and centralization a full 15% of the industry is out of work.

[Sean W. Malone]

They’re taking their time to get to know all the candidate (like me!), I think, Jeff… That said, you should email me and we should work on some projects together.

[Clich? Bandit]

Do I get to throw snowballs at cops?
YEEE HAW!

[VikingMoose]

no.

[S]

Filler comment

[P brooks]

I’m a grizzled old 25 year TV veteran desperate to get out of his current job. Can apply? And can I crash on your couch?

Can you knock the rear view mirror off a Hummer with a snowball at twenty yards?

[P brooks]

Did not read thread before adding *my* snowball reference; am unsurprised I was not first.

[P brooks]

Morris is so much more entertaining if you imagine him looking and talking like the Man From Another Place on Twin Peaks

Or a highly agitated Donald Duck.