SVI-BIFFF

Name: SVI-BIFFF
Start: 2016-03-28
End: 2023-04-23
Location: Bruxelles, Belgium

Code: 89d0aa33-206c-11e8-ab43-0242ac11000c Copied

Belgium Art Culture Education Festival Art Culture +2 Fixed dates

About the project

SVI-BIFFF

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

The Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFFF) is a 13 days film festival created in 1983 that takes place every year. It presents films in competition that are horror films, thrillers and science fiction films. 2000 artists and professional are invited to share their passion and experience about cinema in a fantastic atmosphere. It is a unique concept and one of the most important festivals for genre films in the world. It welcomes more than 50 000 spectators every year and more than 150 films from many different countries are shown.
The festival is composed of international films competitions, competitions of face and body paintings, many creative workshops and master classes, a special day dedicated to Japan Animation, a Zombie Parade, and many more crazy events!
The line-up is more international than ever, however we dedicate a special part of our program to home-grown Belgian artists.

The Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival has as its purpose to reveal and to promote the cinematographic works in the fantasy, science-fiction or thriller genre and to promote the worldwide development of the film industry towards the professionals and towards the public.

Welcome to the Hall of fantasy, gore, science-fiction, thriller and surrealism !

💼 What the programme involves

Volunteers are young people (18-35 years old) who have to be extremely motivated, flexible, reliable and enthusiastic. They cannot have any physical condition. And most important, they must love cinema and particularly fantastic genre!

Volunteers will be part of the local team composed of more than 100 volunteers. They will have to be ready to work at least 5 hours every day. Tasks will be clarified continuously during the festival but volunteers will mainly work with the public: ticket control, public circulation, general information…

Volunteers might also have to do some physical work before and after the festival.

Do no imagine you will simply enjoy the festival. It will also be hard work !

The job will be more or less the same throughout the whole festival, you have to be aware that it could be repetitive. Volunteers will have to work during the whole festival, from the beginning to the end. They will have to be present 2 days BEFORE.

If you plan it in advance, you will be allowed to take 3 days break maximum. During their free time, you will be free to go to the festival and enjoy the films and events (projections start at 3:00 PM and end at 1:00 AM).

Be ready to sleep little and to go to bed late!

🏠 Accommodation on site

🍲 Food

The organisation will give volunteers food/drink tickets (approximately every 2 hours during working hours) during the festival. The equivalent of only one meal will be provided every day depending on the volunteer's work schedule.

There are a lot of shops, small snacks (pizza, fries, sandwich, Chinese…) and bars in Brussels.

→ You need to have a small budget for other meals (about 8€/day)

⚠️ Requirements

Casual clothes should be enough, but it should also be comfortable in order to be reactive and flexible during the rushes. You will be provided a BIFFF T-shirt.

Brussels is a rainy town so be ready for this and don’t expect the temperature to be very hot in April. You must remember that you will spend some times outside for different activities.

No specific material is required out of a sleeping bag.

The languages required to participate in the project are English and French, or Flemish. Knowing the basics of French is very necessary. If you do not speak French, it is mandatory to be fluent in English.