Alma Film Festival Launches Internship Program to Develop the Next Generation of Global Creative Leaders
Las Terrenas, Dominican Republic | Atlanta, Georgia
The Alma Film Festival announces the launch of its Internship Program, a strategic initiative designed to cultivate the next generation of filmmakers, cultural producers, marketers, and media professionals. Rooted in the festival’s Six Pillars of Purpose — Conversation, Connection, Community, Collaboration, Cultural Diplomacy, and Collective Growth — the program provides immersive, hands-on experience within a globally connected film ecosystem.
The Alma Film Festival Internship Program is designed for emerging creatives seeking meaningful engagement in:
• Programming and Curation
• Marketing and Social Media
• Production and Events
• Editorial
• Communications
Interns will work alongside festival leadership and international partners in both remote and on-site capacities, gaining direct exposure to festival operations, global programming strategy, digital storytelling, and audience engagement execution.
“This initiative is about more than professional development,” said Anthony R. Page, Founder and Festival Director. “It is about building lasting relationships. We are committed to mentoring emerging leaders who will help shape the future of global cinema — particularly across the Global South — and who understand that cultural work requires intentional collaboration and long-term investment.”
Structured as a six-week engagement requiring approximately 20–25 hours per week, the internship allows for up to 135 total hours for academic course credit. Additional hours beyond the required credit minimum are optional and may be completed based on project needs and intern availability.
Through this program, Alma aims to create a bridge between academic institutions, emerging professionals, and the broader creative economy — offering interns direct access to filmmakers, scholars, technologists, and industry stakeholders connected across 35 countries in dynamic and emerging cinema markets including Fiji, Brazil, Jamaica, Switzerland, South Africa, among others.
The internship reflects Alma’s broader commitment to sustainable ecosystem building: developing talent pipelines, strengthening international creative networks, and cultivating professionals who carry forward a spirit of cultural responsibility, global awareness, and collaborative innovation.
Applications are now open.
About the Alma Film Festival
The Alma Film Festival was created in response to structural gaps in the global film ecosystem. By design, it is a next-generation destination, experience-based film festival and cultural convening—one that functions as a cultural intelligence engine, bringing together filmmakers, scholars, technologists, artists, institutions, and audiences from across the Global South and its diasporas.
Rooted in scholarship, innovation, and deep audience engagement, Alma prioritizes fewer films with greater intentionality, creating space for meaningful dialogue, relationship-building, and long-term collaboration. With up to 80% of the program dedicated to Global South cinema, the festival showcases narrative features, documentaries, shorts, animation, experimental works, audio storytelling, and new media—centering films that engage cultural memory, social relevance, and creative innovation.
Programming is curated in partnership with global entities and agencies, reinforcing Alma’s role as a platform for shared authorship rather than extraction. Through this approach, the festival has cultivated a global community of stakeholders spanning more than 51 cities across 35 countries.
Beyond screenings, Alma integrates fellowships, symposia, performance laboratories, editorial platforms, and emerging technologies—positioning the festival not simply as an event, but as an ecosystem. Guided by the principle “The Necessity of Something New,” the Alma Film Festival advances cultural diplomacy, fosters cross-regional collaboration, and contributes to the development of sustainable creative economies worldwide.
At its core, the Alma Film Festival is a global gathering designed to nurture both ideas and people. It embraces a kaleidoscope of cultures while intentionally shifting the social dynamic from competition to connection—creating space for collaboration, understanding, and shared growth. Alma moves us from extraction to exchange, from visibility to value, and from presence to purpose.
We are doing something new.
There is a necessity for something new.
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