Street Teams
Pride Parade Leaders
Pride Parade Walkers
Hospitality Committee
Translators
Photographers
Parties and Special Events
Venue Coordinators
Ushers
Box Office & Membership
Accessiblity & Greeter
Line Control

Street Teams

Personality

You're on the town, you're talking to people and you're someone who knows everyone (or who wants to). You love to be on the guest list or get into a show for free. Talking to strangers doesn't scare you. You like night life.

Tasks

Year round Out On Screen has events or tables at events to spread the word about our program. These events include, but certainly are not limited to: Pride Weekend, Dyke March, Car Free Days, special screenings, co-presentations and more.

Commitment & Reward

You're willing to accompany us throughout the year and frequently from June to August. You get a voucher for every 5 hours volunteered plus you get to get into whatever we take you to for free.

Size of Team

Year round we love as many people as we can get. During Festival season we love 5-10 for each neighbourhood team: Main Street, Commercial Drive, West End, etc.

Pride Parade Leaders

Personality

You're creative, organized and experienced in Pride Parade participation. You have big ideas and you know exactly how to put them into action.

Tasks

Propose and execute Out On Screen's Pride Parade entry. On Saturday, May 28, the Vancouver Pride Society and Fremont Arts Council are facilitating a workshop on Pride Parade presentations. Check out the Pride Parade Workshop Invitation (PDF) for more information.

Pride Parade Walkers

Personality

You're outgoing, fun and like to party. You are not afraid to have 600,000 people look at you (or prepare someone else to have 600,000) people look at them. You're creative and personable.

Tasks

Prepare Vancouver Queer Film Festival's entry into the Pride Parade, participate in the parade and help out at various venues over Pride Weekend.

Commitment & Reward

You want to spend some time in the weeks leading up to Pride preping for the Parade and of course you want to celebrate Pride with the Vancouver Queer Film Festival.

Size of Team

Is 100 too many?

 

Hospitality Committee

Help us welcome visiting artists, and ensure they're enjoying themselves. Help us make sure everyone has a fabulous time, and feels welcome at the Festival!

You have access to a vehicle and a clean driving record, you would be excited to chat with artists while on the road between airport, hotel and venue pickups/dropoffs.

To apply to volunteer for this team contact Theo, programming facilitator, at programming_facilitator@outonscreen.com.

Translators

Can you read and write in another language? Do you want to increase accessibility of the Festival to all communities in the Lower Mainland? Great! Email David at volunteer@outonscreen.com. Please indicate what language(s) you are fluent in.

Photographers

Capture the magic of Out On Screen special events and share it with the world.  You must have your own photography equipment.

To apply to volunteer for this team contact David at volunteer@outonscreen.com.  Please include a link to your online photography profile, if you have one.

Parties & Special Events

Personality

You love parties and event planning. Everyone still talks about how you moved that theme party to the park next door after the neighbour complained. You're a problem solver and you're not afraid to get dirty for a beautiful final product. Plus you love people.

Tasks

Help set up the amazing parties that the Vancouver Queer Film Festival throws. Perhaps drive around picking things up. Perhaps setting up a venue. Then once the party starts rolling you ensure everything goes smoothly.

Commitment & Reward

Most of the parties are during the Vancouver Queer Film Festival. Being available during the day and having a car would be an asset. 5 hours = 1 voucher and you get to be at all the parties.

Size of Team

5-10 volunteers

Venue Coordinators

During the Festival, you stand side-by-side with the Festival staff and make sure our front of house runs like melted butter into sugar. This position does 3 - 4 Festival shifts, usually 5 - 7 hours long, and is responsible for safeguarding and balancing floats and ensuring the shows run professionally and on time.

To apply to volunteer for this team contact David at volunteer@outonscreen.com.

Ushers

Personality

You like to hang out in dark spaces with people you have never meet before. You don't mind making sure people are where they need to be. You like to watch movies.

Tasks

Ushers greet Festival patrons and check tickets, passes and screening slips. They ensure all patrons have appropriate access to their seats and the emergency exits. They double check that the garbage has not gotten too out of hand. In case of emergency, ushers guide patrons out of the venue.

Commitment & Reward

You must arrive 1 hour prior to the first show of your shift and leave after the last screening. You get to watch the movies. Every 5 hours you volunteer gets you 1 Festival voucher, plus free admission into the afterparties the night you are working, plus you get to go to the Festival party.

Size of Team

As many as it takes to have 2 volunteers at every venue every night of the Festival.

Box Office & Membership

Personality

You love counting money and watching how accurate record keeping means perfect tallies at the end of the night. You are a multitasker. You don't mind a rush of activity.

Tasks

Ensure that you keep accurate records of what you have sold. Count floats. Make change. Communicate with the Venue Coordinator about sales. Facilitate the Will Call. Count and document activities at end of shift and reconcile floats and stocks.

Commitment & Reward

You arrive 1 hour prior to the first show at your venue and stay until after clean up at the last show. Every 5 hours you volunteer gets you 1 Festival voucher, plus free admission into the afterparties the night you are working, plus you get to go to the Festival party.

Size of Team

As many as it takes to have 4-5 volunteers at every venue every night of the Festival.

Accessibility & Greeter

Personality

You pride yourself on being friendly and helpful!

Tasks

Greet all the Festival patrons, answer questions and assist patrons with their accessibility needs. You will familiarize yourself with the accessibility issues at the venue and take the appropriate measures.

Commitment & Reward

You arrive 1 hour prior to the first show at your venue and stay until after clean up at the last show. Every 5 hours you volunteer gets you 1 Festival voucher, plus free admission into the afterparties the night you are working, plus you get to go to the Festival party.

Size of Team

As many as it takes to have 1 volunteer at every venue every night of the Festival.

Line Control

Personality

You have no problem talking to people and asking them very important questions like "Do you have a membership?" You like to count and make strangers struggle. You are a good communicator. You see that there is a fine art to ticket ripping. You like to say "queuing."

Tasks

Line control has many subtasks: pass counting, pass tracking, ticket counting, ticket ripping and runner. This is a details job, but it is also a communication job. The Festival folks need to know where we're at and where they need to be.

Commitment & Reward

You arrive 1 hour prior to the first show at your venue and stay until after clean up at the last show. Every 5 hours you volunteer gets you 1 Festival voucher, plus free admission into the afterparties the night you are working, plus you get to go to the Festival party.

Size of Team

As many as it takes to have 4-5 volunteers at every venue every night of the Festival.