TV Project Film Coordinator (Volunteer)

This volunteer position enables Land Of Welcome to
• To share positive stories about new Australians that foster acceptance towards them.
• Attract a broader range of people from highly supportive of people seeking asylum to less supportive.
Your contribution to the achievement of Land Of Welcome’s objectives will be recognized by a formal certificate of appreciation. A job well done may open new opportunities for you with people within our network who might benefit from your skills.

The tasks:
Coordinate film projects with camera person, film editor and other crew members
Agree the film requirements to meet the individual film brief and distribution channel. There will be a high level of autonomy, provided that the films achieve their agreed brief.
We have a number of possible film projects in the pipeline (subject to funding).
Films will need to contribute to making Australia more compassionate to people seeking asylum. Specifically that means
1. Appeal to the wider Australian audience through human emotions we all share
2. Create personal connection between the character and viewer
3. Share human stories around shared interest in a heart touching and entertaining way
4. Involve new Australians in production and decision making where possible.
5. Enable new Australians to develop new film, business and marketing skills where possible, involving external experts to teach those skills.
6. Portray new Australians as people to be valued and respected rather than as victims
7. Create a desire for viewers to attend their local Land Of Welcome picnics
8. Raise the profile and build the brand image of Land of Welcome
Attend at least 4 picnics/year.

Skills required
Prior experience in filming TV shows, short films ideal. Present samples of successful projects. A personal or family background of seeking asylum would be viewed favourably as we hope that large % of the film crew will be of a similar background.

About the organisation

Land Of welcome is a not-for-profit association of volunteers focused on making Australia a more welcoming community. In our vision of success, new Australians with a refugee or asylum seeker background, feel welcome and valued, and settled Australians have discovered new perspectives and are actively involved in positive change.

Land Of Welcome 10 Year Strategy Christmas 2013 – 2023

Our goal is to give as many Australians as possible an opportunity to develop a friendship with people coming from refugee backgrounds. Picnics facilitate this through learning about each other’s cuisine.

Influence starts with seeing past our disappointment in others who don’t support refugees. These people won’t attend an event to support refugees. For friends with this attitude who love spending time in our company and love to cook, we can bring them along to participate in a whole new cooking experience we ourselves loved. So that, over time they can have a new perspective and rethink their attitude.

We will seek ways to make our picnics socially acceptable for those not supportive of refugees, like creating a team’s Master Chef TV series in which members of the public can participate by attending one of our picnics. Turning picnics into fun lighthearted competitions extends friendship opportunities.

Introducing new friends with a refugee background to our circle of friends away from the picnic, through clubs, an action packed heart touching play or film of a former refugee’s life, are other influence means.

Our Target: 10,000 picnics per year within nine years, run by an alliance of 10,000 volunteers
Set up and promoted through established networks such as sympathetic political parties, advocacy groups, churches, social media and TV.

The 6 Strategies for achieving the Goal of Land Of Welcome
1. As our organization attracts additional volunteers, smaller picnics will be run in suburbs where volunteers live. Eventually these picnics will be run throughout Australia.
2. Australians will develop friendships with refugees and invite them home.
3. Australians will invite refugees to join local clubs and community groups so members become friends with refugees or know other club members.
4. Have dinner parties in people’s homes at which refugees and Australians teach each other their cuisines. Video the cooking demonstrations and share them with family/ friends online. In the long term we have thousands of online cooking demonstrations and create a community-based viral social media campaign.
5. Create our own Master Chef inspired competitions, judged by celebrity chefs, football coaches, journalists…, and nationally televised.
6. Finance TV shows, preferably series about the biographies of refugees so that Australians see them no different than you or I.

Our core activities include monthly friendship picnics, volunteering in projects that facilitate the successful integration of new Australians, and generating funds for projects benefiting new Australians.