Work at Kaboom: Producer

Kaboom Animation Festival presents the most daring, creative and innovative international animation in a mindblowing festival from 21-30 March 2025 in Utrecht, Amsterdam and online. Besides film, we offer an Expanded Animation program, in which the boundaries of animation are explored. Kaboom Animation Festival is a platform for sharing stories in animation. By selecting previously unheard voices and untold stories and facilitating encounters between the makers and our audience, we stimulate creativity and feed exchange and tolerance. Our team consists of all kinds of different people who love animation: everyone suits Kaboom!

Producer
To help us prepare the upcoming edition of the festival, we are looking for an experienced Producer.

Team & Tasks
Kaboom’s production team is close-knit and well attuned to each other. You will work together with a production coordinator, a program producer, a ticketing & helpdesk coordinator, a volunteers coordinator, a hospitality producer and a production intern, almost all experienced Kaboomers. During the festival, the team is supplemented with location managers and about 80 volunteers. The tasks you will work on are:

• Specials: production of specials that don’t take place in the screening room, like exhibitions, installations, workshops, parties and receptions;
• Logistics: making plans for transport, delivery, catering, decoration and signage and taking care of communicating this planning internally and externally;
• Location production: applying for permits, contact with location holders, preparing the job of location managers during the festival;
• Decoration & signage: production of decoration and signage in collab with the communication department, hiring furniture, producing set construction and execution;
• Volunteers: mapping voluntary jobs, setting up recruitment & selection, inventory of catering in preparation for the arrival of the volunteers coordinator;
• Hospitality: sending out invitations, organizing events, in collab with the hospitality producer.

Who fits us?
Everyone! We welcome everyone who wants to organize a festival with us that excludes no one and is attractive to people from all walks of life. We are an organization in which employees can be themselves and feel safe. In order to be able to perform the tasks as a producer at Kaboom, it is important that you:

• Speak and write both Dutch and English;
• Work in a structured manner (Excel loves you!);
• Are good at communicating within the organization and with the external partners;
• Work independently;
• Like solving problems;
• Are experienced in organizing (film)festivals or other events.

Furthermore, it would be nice if you have a driver’s license and experience with working in database Filmchief.

Practical information
We assume a collaboration with a freelancer, but remuneration via a payroller is also an option.  The job starts in December and then slowly builds up towards the festival. The total job is for 40 days, most of them in February and March. The fee will be based on age and experience, but we aim to find someone available for around € 220 per day, excluding VAT.  We have an office in Amsterdam and a desk in Utrecht that you could work at; working partly from home is an option.

Contact
If you would like to organize this fantastic festival with us, we would like to receive an email (no later than 11 November 2024) in which you explain why this appeals to you and add a CV with your work experience so far. For information, please contact business director Annabet Langkamp, annabet@kaboomfestival.nl.