My Internship Experience

By: Irlanda Silva

Napa Valley Film
Festival

Duration: March 2017 - June 2017

Position: Administration

Mentor: Carrie
Markham/Administrative Director
 Process of Applying For Internship

❖ Long, medium, short term goal in CCR

❖ Blair Hunt/Education Program Manager
presentation in level 3 digital media class
➢ Reached out then got an interview!
❖ Layout edits to resume
❖ Interview: best interview I’ve had!
Napa Valley Film Festival
NVFF Mission NVFF Vision

❖ Non-profit organization ❖ Envisioned a Fall film festival

❖ Founded in 2009 and ❖ Leveraging Napa’s outstanding
❖ Headquartered in Napa food, wine and hospitality
❖ Envisioned a cultural arts
Cinema Napa Valley’s mission is to
organization that would support
celebrate the cinematic arts and
the art of cinematic storytelling
enrich the community by presenting
❖ Providing educational and
an annual world-class film festival
career opportunities for local
and year-round education and
students.
outreach programs.
Why did I choose NVFF?

❖ My medium term goal for CCR, it was going to

be graded
❖ Office close to school, 7 minute walk!
❖ Position was offered, so I went for it!
❖ Future Art Director? Perfect.
Expectations

❖ A LOT of work
❖ Just filling papers
Work Environment at NVFF

❖ Around 10 offices plus one

conference room
❖ Team meetings on
Wednesdays at 12pm
❖ Fridays, the office is empty
Learning Objectives
❖ Administrative Work
➢ Customer service, filing/organizing paperwork,
answering phone etc.
❖ Business Structure
➢ Attending team meetings, getting to know the
organization.
❖ Hospitality in Napa
➢ Wine industry, food industry, film industry, and
tourism
Accomplishments & Challenges

❖ Being part of team ❖ Tight deadlines

meetings
❖ Finished projects on
time
 Learning Experience

❖ Structure of a business: meetings, communication

❖ Media impact in society
s i g n
❖ I decided my future career!
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Film
Next Steps
❖ 4 year university for Film/Media Studies
❖ Focus: So Cal, more opportunities
❖ UC: Los Angeles, Irvine, Riverside
❖ CSU: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chico
❖ PRIVATE: U San Francisco, Chapman, University of Chicago, Seattle
University, Otis College of Art
❖ University Of Southern California
➢ Best film program in the country
■ Internship based
■ Real world projects
 Thank you!
Any questions?