Reel Futures

Helping Teens Create Productive Futures

At Reel Works, we train young filmmakers in order to create better students today and industry leaders tomorrow. 95% of Reel Works teens complete high school. 90% go on to higher education. 

Through Reel Futures, we partner with leading agencies to help our teens graduate high school, apply to college and gain real-world work experience through film & television internships.

Internships through Reel Works & Futures and Options, Summer 2011

Reel Works and Futures and Options (F&O), a New York City nonprofit focused on career development and internships for underserved youth are partnering to coordinate and manage a summer internship program for high school students interested in filmmaking careers. The program provides teens participating in Reel Works programs with paid, mentored internships in the filmmaking industry.

The interns' salaries will be generously covered by funding from the Charles Hayden Foundation, so no financial contribution is required of the hosting sites.

Futures and Options and Reel Works support the interns before, during and after the internship, through applicant review and screening, work readiness orientations, career development and exploration workshops, and ongoing professional coaching and development throughout the summer.

To learn more about becoming a site please contact Mari Irizarry, Program Director at mari@reelworks.org or call (718) 768-9000.

To apply to be an intern, students must  :

• Be a Reel Works Lab Graduate
• Be a current High School Student
• Successfully complete the Futures and Options application and interview process;
• Participate in two work-readiness orientations; and
• Commit to attend career development workshops during the internship

To apply to be an intern please contact Mari Irizarry, Program Director at mari@reelworks.org or call (718) 768-9000.

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