Revolver is a premier independent distributor of motion pictures, home entertainment and video-on-demand content. Recent award winning releases include Kidulthood, GrizzlyMan, 13 and Destricted. Our forthcoming slate includes: Destricted, Special, A Guide to Recognising Your Saints and Legacy. Continued growth means we are now looking for ambitious young guns to join our brilliant team in the following roles at our Notting Hill Gate offices. Please do not apply for multiple roles, be focused on what you want to do! •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Web Designer / Developer: Revolver Entertainment are currently looking for regular freelance / full-time Web Designers / Developers. Responsibilities/ Role Description: • Passion for design with an understanding of communicating to target audiences • The ability to undertake creative work spanning the entire web-based workload, including updating our existing website, the creation of individual satellite sites such as www.tellno-one.com and www.u23d.co.uk, database management and HTML email-outs • Ensure branding is consistent and corporate • Assume a ‘hands-on’ role in origination • Possess a thorough knowledge of all technical processes through web design to maintain a consistently high standard of work. Desired Profile/ Skills: • Flash, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Actionscript, FTP, HTML, CSS, PHP, XML, databases, web optimisation, web accessibility, CMS systems and usual office applications Also beneficial: • Experience with SQL and online transactions • VOD delivery • Animation • Video / audio – editing, compression, conversion • rint-based experience working with Illustrator, InDesign and Quark We work with freelancers on an ongoing basis and an opportunity for a more permanent role exists. Please submit your CV and examples of your work if you are eligible to work in the UK and are London-based (or within a commutable distance from London). Rates / salary based on experience. No agencies please. Please send a covering letter and CV to jobs@revolvergroup.com specifying “Web Designer ” in the subject line. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• MARKETING INTERNSHIPS – PAID, ONGOING: Immediate Start Leading independent film distributor Revolver Entertainment is looking for enthusiastic MARKETING interns to join their busy marketing team. This is a great opportunity for anyone looking to get some valuable, hands-on experience in film MARKETING in a young and busy environment. We are looking for people who have a genuine and proven interest in working with the media and who are looking to forge a career in MARKETING. Excellent communications skills are essential, and you should feel as comfortable on the phone to PARTNERS and inputting ideas as you are with desktop research and booking bikes. The ability to work within a small but fast-paced team is a must. Primary tasks will include researching events, contacting cinemas, organizing marketing events, maintaining the marketing database and supporting the marketing team. There is also the opportunity to manage your own projects. You will based at Revolver Entertainment’s offices in Notting Hill, London, working with the MARKETING team on our upcoming releases. The internship will last for 3 months. Revolver’s past theatrical releases include UK smash hit Kidulthood, A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints, Grizzly Man, Jindabyne and Tell No One Please send your full CV and cover letter to paul@revolvergroup.com specifying “MARKETING INTERN” in the subject line. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• PR INTERNSHIPS – PAID, ONGOING Leading independent film distributor Revolver Entertainment is looking for enthusiastic PR interns to join their busy press team. This is a great opportunity for anyone looking to get some valuable, hands-on experience in film PR in a young and busy environment. We are looking for people who have a genuine and proven interest in working with the media and who are looking to forge a career in PR. Excellent communications skills are essential, and you should feel as comfortable on the phone to journalists and inputting ideas as you are with desktop research and booking bikes. The ability to work within a small but fast-paced team is a must. Primary tasks will include researching press stories, contacting journalists, organising press events, maintaining the press database and supporting the press team. There is also the opportunity to manage your own projects. You will based at Revolver Entertainment’s offices in Notting Hill, London, working with the PR team on our upcoming releases, which include Jindabyne (directed by Ray Lawrence, starring Gabriel Byrne and Laura Linney), Ghosts Of Cite Soleil (produced by Wyclef Jean) and Tell No One, the biggest French blockbuster of last year, along with many varied DVD titles. The internship will last for 3 months. Revolver’s past theatrical releases include UK smash hit Kidulthood, A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints (starring Robert Downey Jr.) and Tideland (directed by Terry Gilliam). Please send your full CV and cover letter to press@revolvergroup.com. Then contact Skillset: Interested in film? Want to learn more? Here are our preferred books on writing movies, pitching movies and the film business: Film Business Reading Screenwriting Pitching Movies Film Business Reading •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• The Big Picture: Money and Power in Hollywood   Edward Jay Epstein Synopsis In The Big Picture, acclaimed writer Edward Jay Epstein gives an unprecedented, sweeping, and thoroughly entertaining account of the real magic behind moviemaking: how the studios make their money. Epstein shows how, in Hollywood, the only art that matters is the art of the deal: major films turn huge profits, not from the movies themselves but through myriad other enterprises, such as video-game spin-offs, fast-food tie-ins, soundtracks, and even theme-park rides. But money is only part of the Hollywood story; the social and political milieus–power, prestige, and status–tell the rest. 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Dozens of lesser-known filmmakers such as Steven Soderbergh and Quentin Tarantino began walking away with coveted prizes at Cannes and eventually the Academy Awards. Many of these directors were discovered at Robert Redford's Sundance Film Festival and then scooped up by Harvey and Bob Weinstein, whose company Miramax laid waste to the competition. In Down and Dirty Pictures, Peter Biskind tells the incredible story of these filmmakers, the growth of Sundance into the premier showcase of independent film, and the meteoric rise of the controversial Weinstein brothers who left a trail of carnage in their wake yet created an Oscar factory that is the envy of the studios. 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