Volunteering at Tallgrass
We truly couldn’t pull off our festival without the support of our dedicated volunteers. Join the team! No filmmaking skills required. We have opportunities every week in Wichita!
An Essential Part of Our Organization
Whether they are building décor for our parties, selling tickets at the box office, chauffering filmmakers or screening films, we could not accomplish our year-round mission without them. From students to retirees, if you’re interested in movies, community events and are stubbornly independent, we encourage you to discover the possibilities.
Volunteer Benefits Include
- Access to Wichita premieres of some of the best independent films from around the world
- A one-of-a-kind Tallgrass t-shirt
- Community service hours if applicable
- Food & beverage during shifts, plus access to our volunteer lounge
- Celebrations of volunteers with fun screenings and more year-round
- Being a part of a community of film-loving Wichitans who love supporting local art
- Bragging rights for playing an integral role in the country’s most Stubbornly Independent film festival
- Ticket perks! These range from 1 general admission ticket to the film festival or film center based on 3-5 hours of work to a Tallpass for over 25 hours in a year.
Sign Up to Volunteer
Apply to be a pre-screener
Our volunteer pre-screening committee assist with the reviewing of films submitted to Tallgrass. The programming staff carefully selects applicants based on their knowledge and interest in film and their strength in writing and film analysis.
The Tallgrass Film Festival considers hundreds of film submissions internationally each year, each viewed multiple times by different screeners. The primary task of a committee member is to thoughtfully view and identify films of interest to the Tallgrass Film Festival programming staff.
It’s one thing to say you like movies, but it’s another to commit to watching hundreds of films of varying quality, genre, language, subject and length, while succinctly, yet critically evaluating/scoring them at the required level. Doing so in a timely and consistent manner will be critical as well.
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Benefits/Perks:
Screening committee volunteers will receive a festival ticket/fest pass benefits based on the total number of films they have reviewed at the end of the pre-screening period.
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Tech Requirements:
Because the pre-screening process is entirely online, you can live anywhere, but you need reliable access to the Internet for streaming HD video and a personal computer or tablet.
