Omaha Film Festival Academy 2020

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The OFF Academy is a two day filmmaking conference for 7th-12th grade students held at Aksarben Hilton Garden Inn ballroom. Approximately 200 people attend and participate in the program each year. Each session is 45 minutes. Students are seated at round tables 7-8 students to a table so they may collaborate together. Over the past four years the OFF Academy has worked with over 600 students from 31 area high schools along with many parents, educators, and visiting film professionals.

Volunteer attire may be jeans, or khakis, Academy T-shirt or solid color shirt, and tennis shoes or comfortable shoes. Lanyard w/Academy badge will be given to volunteers the day they arrive. Volunteers may use their badge to attend screenings at the Omaha Film Festival located at Aksarben Cinema on March 3-8th, 2020.

Working Conditions - Volunteers will be indoors at Aksarben Hilton Garden Inn Ballroom. Dress in layers if you get cold or warm easily. The room typically starts out cooler and then heats up as more people enter. One session may be held across the walkway at Aksarben Cinema so you may have to walk across the alley way to the back entrance of the Cinema leading students to the designated theatre space. You will be standing for long periods of time. Breakfast and Lunch will be provided for you or you may bring a lunch. Coffee and water available. The hotel has a small snack area where sodas and other beverages may be purchased.

Tasks - During your volunteer time you may: W elcome students and special guests at ballroom door, scan badges as people enter ballroom, do a headcount of attendees, handout papers to students, pick up papers from students, reset tabletops with educational materials, hand out raffle tickets to students, inventory raffle table items at end of day, assist hotel staff with lunch/breakfast buffet table set up, pick up lunch plates from table and set on trays for hotel staff removal, monitor drink dispensers and notify hotel staff when they need to be refilled, assist presenters as needed with requests, reset stage with bottled water and chairs as needed, facilitate learning with students at table, walk microphone around room so students may speak into microphone, hand out teacher welcome bags, lead students to different learning areas, assist visiting filmmakers in finding a table for their lunch and learn with students

Special Requirements - Be kind and welcoming to all students, listen attentively when students speak with you so they know they matter

Parking - Volunteers may park in the free parking garage attached to the Aksarben Hilton Garden Inn and enter into the lobby of the hotel through the ground level garage entrance.