OPPORTUNITIES BULLETIN #191 April 2019

• Assist in implementing procedures, practices and processes to meet operational, logistics and services needs.
• Assist in the coordination of all administrative and legal contracting with the Head of the Department and with RFC's legal advisor.
• Liaise with RFC’s Administration Department regarding seeking price offers, travel, bookings, purchasing, quotations, catering and logistics for all projects and programs.
• Assist in interrelated correspondence with the team members, applicants and participants.
• Assist in breaking down applications and identifying their missing material. Responsible for preparing all administrative documents relevant to the department’s projects and programs.
• Responsible for filing all documents relevant to the department’s projects and programmes.
• Assist in drafting administrative correspondence with the team members and interlocutors as needed.
• Assist in providing general and specific information for the department’s reporting, monthly, annual and upon request. Assists in updating the content related to the Regional Training programs for social media and the RFC website in correlation with the other departments.
• Work with the financial department to help set up financial reports, monthly, annual and upon request.
• Coordinate and translate publication materials with related parties such as participants and RFC’s other departments.
• Attend workshops, venues and events as required by projects and Project Manager;  this might include overnight stay.
• Perform other administrative and logistical tasks or duties that may be assigned by the Manager.

• A BA in business administration or any relevant field.
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in a similar position.
• Excellent communication and writing skills in Arabic and in English. French and/or German is a plus.
• Experience in filmmaking and knowledge of film production and culture is a plus.
• Capacity to work autonomously and under pressure.
• Excellent team player.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to details.
• Flexible and creative.

• To work closely with the Supervisor in planning and implementing filmmaking workshops and related activities at Irbid Film Center;
• To coordinate logistical and financial tasks for the workshops; including preparations for the workshop;
• To provide reporting requirements when needed;
• To liaise among the workshops’ trainers at all stages of the programs/workshops;
• To assist in writing and distributing workshops announcement and callouts;
• To process and track all workshops’ paperwork, including participants’ forms, questionnaires, scheduling applications and invitations and prepare final reports and lessons learnt;
• To assist the participants by providing appropriate information;
• To assist, organize and implement film-related activities.

• University degree in filmmaking or any related field.
• Experience in filmmaking and the film industry is a plus.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, especially with local community.
• Ability to manage and support groups and activities.
• Excellent command of Arabic, and very good knowledge of English.
• Excellent computer literacy.
• Excellent organization skills and ability to work with different schedules.

• Feature-length narrative and documentary projects (60 minutes and above) at their development, production and post-production stages.
• Short narrative, documentary and animated films (5 to 25 minutes) at production stage only.
• Development of TV series.

• The competition is open to filmmakers residing in Jordan or abroad. Either the director or the producer should be Jordanian.
• The film must be at least partly shot in Jordan.
• The film should not exceed 20 minutes.
• The film has to have been produced in 2018 or 2019.
• Each director can submit one film only.
• Only short narratives and documentaries can be submitted. Animated films or experimental films will not be accepted.
• The film must be subtitled in English or French, if it is in Arabic; or subtitled in Arabic, if it is in English or French.
• The director or producer should provide 2 DVD or Blu-ray copies of the film (which will not be returned). Sending the film electronically by link is not acceptable.

• The application form should be typed (not handwritten).
• A printed hard copy of the application form along with the film copies must also be submitted, in addition to sending the application form by email to: marian.nakho@film.jo 
• The application form should cover technical details regarding the film, synopsis (40 – 100 words) and the filmmaker’s information.

Note: A committee will select among the submitted films those entitled to compete.

By hand:
The Royal Film Commission - Jordan, 1st Circle, Jabal Amman 5 Omar Bin Al Khattab Street (off Rainbow Street).
Attention: Marian Nakho
Subject: Jordanian Short Film Competition
From Sunday to Thursday (9:00 AM – 4:30 PM).
Tel: 06 4642 266/ ext: 23

By mail:
Royal Film Commission – Jordan
P.O. Box 811 991 Amman 11181 Jordan
Attention: Marian Nakho
Subject: Jordanian Short Film Competition

PRIZES:

• There will be two prizes based on the selection of the jury and two prizes based on the audience vote for the documentary and fiction categories.
• The four winning films will receive a trophy created by the Jordanian sculptor Hazem Al Zubi.
• The two Jury prizes for the best narrative and best documentary will be invited by the French edition of the Franco-Arab Film Festival in France to present their films (on condition of providing the necessary authorizations for the trip). The full stay will be covered (accommodation and plane ticket).
• In addition, the RFC will offer a one-year subscription at the Film Library to the four winners.

The deadline for submissions is on Thursday, May 23rd, 2019. 

For further information, please contact:
Marian Nakho at the Royal Film Commission - Jordan at the following e-mail: marian.nakho@film.jo
Or call: 06 4642266/ ext. 23

• January 2019 : call for films - Deadline for registering and sending films: 15th April 2019
• May / June 2019 : an international Selection Committee chooses the films which will be shown in the finals
• November / December 2019, finals of PriMed : the International Jury watches the films and decides the winners; meetings of Mediterranean Young People Jury; public screenings and meetings; awards ceremony.

• must have been produced after January 1st, 2018;
• must not have already been submitted to a previous edition of PriMed;
• in the case of a documentary series or a film with more than one episode, only one episode can be submitted;
• in the case of a co-production, the programme may only be entered into the competition by one of the producers, with prior agreement from the other partners. The name of all the co-producers must be included in the application form.

1. completed prior to September 1, 2018; or
2. previously submitted to TIFF for Festival consideration; or
3. had theatrical releases, been for sale on DVD/VOD, aired on television or been publicly posted online in North America;