How To Volunteer For The Tribeca Film Festival
Jaunted contributing editor Christine M. Bord has a passion for movies and for volunteer travel. Here's her experience of combining both.
Volunteer vacations don’t have to be about saving wildlife or building houses. Most film festivals also need volunteers to make sure their events go off without a hitch. There are usually pretty good perks too. Like free movie tickets, swag, food and the opportunity to meet people with shared interests.
Two years ago, my boyfriend and I took a weekend getaway to the Big Apple and worked as volunteers for the Tribeca Film Festival. The volunteer coordinator was kind enough to schedule our boyfriend and us for the same shifts in the same theater. We took tickets, answered questions and worked the concessions stand at Tribeca Cinemas, a cool gallery, theater and event space on Varick Street. Our daily shifts only lasted about four hours giving us plenty of time to enjoy everything else the city had to offer.
For each shift we worked, we received a ticket to any movie screening that wasn’t sold out. And of course there was swag, like t-shirts, canvas bags, food vouchers for area restaurants and all the free popcorn we could eat! But the best part was hanging out with like-minded film geeks who were all very generous to the "out-of-towners."
This year’s Tribeca Film Fest runs from April 22nd through May 3rd. You can still apply to volunteer on the festival’s website. And if you’re looking for a place to stay, Hotel Chatter suggests Bobby DeNiro’s Greenwich Hotel or Smyth on West Broadway.
Related Stories:
· Tribeca Film Festival [Official Site]
· How To Volunteer At The Sundance Film Festival [AC]
· Volunteer Travel [Jaunted]
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