Kaboom Internships
4 Internships available: Communication – Industry – Program – Production
Kaboom Animation Festival
Kaboom Animation Festival is the biggest animation festival in the Netherlands and brings audiences and professionals the most daring, creative and innovative national and international animated films and expanded animation every year. In 2027, the festival takes place from March 12 until 21 in Utrecht, Amsterdam and online. Doing an internship at Kaboom is a fun and rich learning experience. You’ll be a part of the team, manage your own projects with challenging responsibilities, and benefit from supervision by festival professionals to help you carry out your tasks and learn a lot. More information about the festival can be found here: https://kaboomfestival.nl or https://www.instagram.com/kaboomfestival.
To support the organization in the period in which we prepare for the festival, we are looking for interns. Depending on your learning goals one of these internships could suit you:
• Program Assistant (1 November – 15 April): during this internship you’ll work on the festival program. You’ll do the program administration in our database, assist the reviewers in watching the films, chase the curators for their program details, communicate with artists about their selection/programming/festival visit, collect necessary publication details, download films and do a preliminary check on the projection copies, support the production of the various screenings and events during the festival and create a program database manual. Please note: you will learn a lot about how a festival selection is made, but you will not be selecting films yourself;
• Communication Assistant (1 November– 15 April): during this internship you will assist the marketing and communications team in reaching existing and new audiences. You will work on creating engaging content for the website, social media channels and newsletters. You will be in contact with external partners about publications, work on the content planning, support (online) visitors navigate the program and the ticket system and create a marcom internship manual. Depending on your interests and learning goals, the internship could contain more text editing in English and/or Dutch, graphic design, audience research and/or video editing;
• Industry Assistant (1 January – 15 April): during this internship you will assist us in preparing and running the Kaboom Industry Days (16 & 17 March 2027). Tasks will contain industry administration in our database, planning, research of speakers and moderators, collecting publication details, hunting for partner logo’s, making timetables and call sheets, help the hospitality department in preparing the travel and stay of our international guests, help out with volunteer instructions, perform executive tasks to make the production of Kaboom Industry Days run smoothly, prepare/send out/collect the results of an industry survey and create an industry database manual;
• Production Assistant (1 January – 15 April): in this internship you will be helping us to run the festival smoothly. You will assist in preparing festival events, help the hospitality department in preparing the travel and stay of our international guests, work on schedules, invitations and information packages, support ticketing, planning and instruction of volunteers, crew cateringand perform production tasks on the floor during the festival.
Team & division of tasks
Team Kaboom is lean and mean. Next to the two directors, there are heads for the different departments: program, industry, marketing and communication, technical production and production.You will be assigned a fixed internship supervisor. In the period preceding the festival, these departments are expanded with freelancers and interns. During the festival in March, around 80 volunteers help to make everything run smoothly.
Who are we looking for
At Kaboom we love to work with animation fans, geeks, enthusiasts, nerds, weirdos, film lovers,artists, gamers, festivalgoers, loners and showboats. Everyone can be part of Kaboom! Experience is not required, but enthusiasm and availability are. We are mostly looking for people who are willing tolearn and look forward to gaining experience and getting things done. The festival language is English, so sufficient working knowledge of the language is a must.
Practical information
The internships have different running times: 5,5 months for program and marcom or 3,5 months for production and industry. Our interns work 3 days per week on average and are entitled to 1,3 holidays per month. Full availability during the festival (12-21 March) is required and is compensated for (fortime) after the festival. Our offices are closed for a Christmas Break from December 24th – January 3rd (4 holidays). Our office is in Amsterdam but partially working from your home (after instructions) is an option. The internship fee is € 225 (based on 3 days a week). If your studies require you to do research or write a report, we are very open to helping you find your subject.
Contact
To apply, send us a letter of application and a CV (both as PDF attachments) as soon as possible. State clearly why you would like to do an internship with us and which internship position would suit you best. Interviews for program and marcom will be held in the first half of October; for production and industry in November. For additional information and questions please contact business director Annabet Langkamp, [email protected].
