Festival Internship

START DATE: March 24, 2025
END DATE: June 27, 2025

WHAT YOU’LL DO

As an ATX TV Festival Operations Intern, you will work with the ATX TV Team to brainstorm, strategize, and execute the annual ATX TV Festival (May 29 – June 1, 2025), as well as other ATX TV and Membership events. Our internship program is an excellent place for students who are interested in the entertainment and events industries, but aren’t sure what they’d like to do within those industries!

This internship covers a wide and ever-changing range of duties – including event planning and production, programming research, and content creation – and provides invaluable support to all areas of ATX TV. Along with your fellow interns, you’ll have the opportunity to explore the different festival departments, shadow team members, and pitch an event to be added to the ATX TV year round programming for the 2025-2026 festival year (August 2025 – April 2026) as a final project. Example projects include organizing a community event, developing an ATX TV Member event, creating a piece of content, or implementing a social media campaign.

In addition, interns will participate together in an ATX TV Orientation to learn about the organization, as well as Zoom Lunch & Learns with ATX TV Festival Staff and virtual panels with Industry members to explore different careers.

Example internship duties include:

Festival + Events:

• Assist Operations Team with festival logistics leading up to and during ATX TV Festival Season 14, including administrative work, picking up / dropping off festival materials, supplies, etc. 
• Attend & assist with production of local and virtual ATX TV and Membership Events (March – June). 
• Assist Programming Team with research and planning. 
• Reviewing digital and print materials (festival guide, itineraries, website, etc). 
• Attend Festival Team Meetings, as required.

WHO YOU ARE:

• Have at least 10 – 15 hours available Mon. – Fri., plus occasional evening / weekend flexibility for year round events. Internship includes both remote and in person work (located in Austin, TX).
• Must reside in Austin, TX starting May 5, 2025 through June 2, 2025 to perform in person internship duties
• Have FULL in person availability leading into and during ATX TV Festival, Season 14 (May 26 through June 2, 2025). 
• Be able to provide your own transportation.
• Be willing to brainstorm, collaborate, and problem-solve with Team ATX TV and fellow interns! 
• Knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite (particularly Photoshop) or Canva a plus.
• Knowledge and familiarity with basic posting features on all major social platforms (Facebook, Instagram, X/Twitter, TikTok) a plus.
• Frequently required to stand/walk for long periods of time and/or assist with moving boxes, equipment, etc. during events. Ability to lift 50 lbs. Manual dexterity is required for keyboard and computer use.
• An overall interest in / appreciation for television and events is a must!

WHO WE ARE:

ATX TV is a celebration of all things television. We are a community that is unabashedly passionate about TV, and we produce events and create content that encourage attendees to discover the new and explore the past. ATX TV Programming ranges from reunions, discussions on current favorites, and premieres of new series to intimate one-on-one conversations and large-scale panels, spotlighting talent from all areas of television. Our Events are places where industry and fans come to watch, talk, and experience TV together both virtually and in person. 

The ATX TV Team is small, yet mighty. We value respect and inclusivity, and all who enter our doors (in person or virtual) are members of our TV Family and will be treated as such. Everything we do is approached with integrity and a sense of importance. These values influence each piece of programming or content we create, document and presentation we make, email we send, phone call or meeting we have, and product or event we produce. 

We also have a lot of fun, and we talk about and watch a ton of television – streaming, network, limited series, indies… if you can call it TV, someone on our team probably watches it! If you love TV as much as we do, we’d love for you to work with our team!

START DATE: March 24, 2025
END DATE: June 27, 2025

WHAT YOU’LL DO

As an ATX TV Social Media Intern, you will work closely with the ATX TV Social Media Manager to brainstorm, strategize, and execute the digital marketing for ATX TV Events, including the annual ATX TV Festival (May 29 – June 1, 2025) and ATX TV Membership events. Our social media internship program is an excellent place for students who are interested in gaining a working knowledge of digital marketing within the entertainment and events industries, as well as learn more about the different types of career paths in both industries. 

This internship covers a wide and ever-changing range of duties —including programming research, social media strategy, content creation, and event production — and provides invaluable support to all areas of ATX TV. Along with your fellow interns, you’ll have the opportunity to explore the different departments of ATX TV, shadow team members, and pitch an event to be added to the ATX TV year round programming for the 2025-2026 festival year (August 2025 – April 2026) as a final project. Example projects include organizing a community event, developing an ATX TV Member event, creating a piece of content, or implementing a social media campaign.

In addition, interns will participate together in an ATX TV Orientation to learn about the organization, as well as Zoom Lunch & Learns with ATX TV Staff, Advisory Board Members, and Panelists to explore different industry careers.

Example internship duties include:

Social Media: 

• Work with Team ATX TV to execute social media strategy for ATX TV accounts leading up to/during the festival and events, and assist with weekly asset creation and scheduling.
• Help maintain and increase social media engagement with the ATX TV audience. 

Content: 

• Create shareable clips for event and festival promotion.
• Live capture and posting during in-person Austin-based events leading up to the Festival.
• Assist Social Media Manager with branded content/partner content creation leading up to and during the Festival.
• Live capture and posting during the Festival (combination of Festival events and Social Suite content).
• Assist Social Media Manager with post-Festival content creation, including cutting panel clips, photo selection, and more.

Festival + Events: 

• Attend & assist with production of local and virtual ATX TV Events and Programming (March – May). 
• Assist Operations Team with festival logistics leading up to and during ATX TV Festival Season 14, including administrative work, picking up / dropping off festival materials, supplies, etc. 
• Communications & outreach with local brands / sponsors / vendors.
• Review digital and print materials (festival guide, itineraries, website, etc). 

WHO YOU ARE:

• Have at least 10 – 15 hours available Mon. – Fri., plus occasional evening / weekend flexibility for year round events. Internship includes both remote and in person work (located in Austin, TX).
• Must reside in Austin, TX starting May 5, 2025 through June 2, 2025 to perform in person internship duties
• Have FULL availability leading into and during ATX TV Festival, Season 14 (May 26 –  through June 2, 2025). 
• Be able to provide your own transportation.
• Be willing to brainstorm, collaborate, and problem-solve with Team ATX TV and fellow interns! 
• Knowledge and familiarity with basic posting features on all major social platforms (Facebook, Instagram/Threads, X/Twitter, TikTok, Blue Sky) required.
• Knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite and/or Canva a plus.
• Familiarity with ATX TV Brand a plus.
• An overall interest in / appreciation for television and events is a must!

WHO WE ARE:

ATX TV is a celebration of all things television. We are a community that is unabashedly passionate about TV, and we produce events and create content that encourage attendees to discover the new and explore the past. ATX TV Programming ranges from reunions, discussions on current favorites, and premieres of new series to intimate one-on-one conversations and large-scale panels, spotlighting talent from all areas of television. Our Events are places where industry and fans come to watch, talk, and experience TV together both virtually and in person. 

The ATX TV Team is small, yet mighty. We value respect and inclusivity, and all who enter our doors (in person or virtual) are members of our TV Family and will be treated as such. Everything we do is approached with integrity and a sense of importance. These values influence each piece of programming or content we create, document and presentation we make, email we send, phone call or meeting we have, and product or event we produce. 

We also have a lot of fun, and we talk about and watch a ton of television – streaming, network, limited series, indies… if you can call it TV, someone on our team probably watches it! If you love TV as much as we do, we’d love for you to work with our team!