Job Description: Assistant Editor, Feature Documentary “African Woman’s Voice”
Requirements: Basic French fluency, experience in DaVinci Resolve, some documentary editing experience
Role:
This is the first pass of assistant editor work on the documentary footage. We are seeking a French-speaking assistant editor to review footage taken over 5 years in Mali in West Africa and help make selections of the most important elements of footage so that a rough cut can be assembled. The footage is all in French with some in Bambara.
Documentary length: 60-90 minutes
Responsibilities:
- Review all timelines in Davinci Resolve
- Add subtitles in english to all footage if needed
- Mark notable moments in each timeline
- Create timelines of selects for each scene (ideally 5-10 min of interview and chosen broll)
- Create timelines/buckets of THEME statements ie “women’s representation in media”, “FGM”, “Massitan’s mother”
Timeline: 3 months.
Pay (selects and themes): $2,400 for 3 months.
Pay will be broken into 3 payments of $800
- Payment 1- At footage handoff
- Payment 2 – At first delivery (50% of timeline selects)
- Payment 3 – At final delivery (100% of timelines and 5 theme buckets)
About the project:
Our film is called “African Woman’s Voice” – co-directed by Cameron Kit based in NYC and Erica Pomerance, a powerhouse documentarian based in Montreal.
Logline: “African Woman’s Voice” follows courageous young journalist Massitan Coulibaly over 4 years as she fights to make women’s voices heard in the media in Mali, West Africa.
Here is the website.
Here is the film Teaser.
Massitan’s story is a shining example of the determination required to increase women’s voices and promote women’s rights through independent journalism in the face of rising authoritarianism, sectarian violence and attempts to control media in Mali and across present- day Africa.