Please send me an email at ike@muddywater.co with your resume and a note as to why you want to collaborate.
Job Summary
The Production Coordinator position is an opportunity for emerging and aspiring documentary producers and filmmakers to work on an ambitious slate of independent feature documentary films.
The position begins in January 2025 for three days a week, with the opportunity to extend in a full-time capacity if it's a good fit on both sides.
This is a mainly work-from-home opportunity with an average of one day a week in person, and the opportunity to travel on occasional production shoots.
Looking for New York City-based candidates.
Duties
The Production Coordinator position assumes the following responsibilities:
- Working on several documentary projects simultaneously, on both independent documentaries and short form video journalism work
- Clerical duties including assistance with expense reporting, logging purchase orders, budget upkeep, production paperwork, and office administration
- Providing field support during production periods
- Grant writing, grant submission, and grant tracking for active documentary projects
- Designing treatment decks and websites for upcoming and ongoing projects
- Coordinating upcoming shoots, story research and development, and archival research
- Production-to-post workflow management, DIT, and rights + clearance support
- Assistant editing duties including reviewing dailies, organizing footage, and editing string outs
- Helping develop paper edits, and giving creative feedback on rough cuts
- Assisting in choosing, developing, and producing new documentary projects
- Developing a network of filmmakers, institutions, and funders
- Supporting efforts to bring in new opportunities to the company
- NOT responsible for personal assistant tasks
Ideal Attributes
- Dependable, proactive, organized, and responsible
- Creative, tasteful, discerning, artful, and progressive
- Enterprising, savvy, and resourceful
Ideal Qualifications
- Attention to detail, strong organizational skills
- Graphic design skills in Photoshop, InDesign, and Canva
- Budgeting skills in Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel
- Grant writing skills
- Video editing skills in Premiere
- An understanding of documentary field production; elementary understanding of cinema cameras, audio equipment, media management
Opportunity
- The ability to earn individual credits on each documentary film and video project
- Collaborate with talented and experienced documentary directors and producers
- The chance to grow into lead producing films down the road
Application Requirements
- Write a note explaining why this opportunity interests you, why you're a good fit for the job, why you like documentary filmmaking, and your take on our documentary slate
About the Company
Muddy Water is an independent production company, film studio, artist collective, and record label. The company earned its reputation producing music videos on 16mm for Rosalia, Khalid, Ms. Lauryn Hill, and others.
Muddy Water expanded into documentary work in 2022 and is producing a slate of documentary feature films under the leadership of its Head of Documentary, Ike Rofe.
Muddy Water's documentary division is drawn to high concept, slice-of-life, and immersive documentaries with dynamic characters, locations, and story arcs led by directors with a distinct point of view, as well as a refined and artistic visual style. Our films avoid the overuse of traditional sit-down interviews. We are drawn to topics related to activism, music, art, and food.
All of our documentary films are in the pre-release phase. We are anticipating four of our films to release by the end of 2026. Our films have been supported by The Ford Foundation, Catapult Film Fund, Rainin Foundation, Southern Documentary Fund, and Freedom of the Press Foundation, among others.
Muddy Water Website: https://muddywater.pictures/
Muddy Water Documentaries Slate Deck: https://indd.adobe.com/view/6d28be36-72bb-4b6f-b648-b0232ebfd650
Job Type: Temp-to-hire
Pay: From $200.00 per day
Benefits:
Schedule:
- 10 hour shift
- Weekends as needed
Supplemental Pay:
People with a criminal record are encouraged to apply
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Brooklyn, NY 11221