The festival has extensive experience in selecting, training and organizing volunteers’ work since 2003. This is a serious and challenging task both for us, and for our volunteers that requires a certain level of multitasking, fast-pace working and observing deadlines. The festival team runs a rigorous volunteers selection and training process before they start working. Every year we receive about 100 applications from those who want to become a volunteer of the Film Festival, but only thirty people join the team.

In all the years of the festival’s existence more than 600 volunteers gained an invaluable experience, learned to plan and manage their own projects. Sometimes our volunteers become potential employees, and many of them are still working in the film industry. And it goes without saying that all volunteers of the Pacific Meridian are passionately in love with cinema. 

Volunteers take part in every step of the festival organization process, starting with preparing for the opening ceremony and meeting guests at the airport and finishing with the final screening on the day of the festival closing.

Volunteers help the following services: 

• Accreditation and Complimentary Tickets Service
• Hospitality and Transportation Service
• Film Screening Service
• Press Center Service
• Information Service

If you are at least 18 years old, physically fit, work well under pressure and handle responsibility well, you are fluent in English (knowledge of an Asian language is very much appreciated), love cinema, want to gain invaluable and memorable experience, look at the behind-the-scenes festival organization, make new friends and become part of a great event – join in!

People living in other cities or foreigners can also apply if they have substantial knowledge of Russian and are going to stay in Vladivostok at the time of the festival. 

• Competent Russian and good communication skills
• Self-discipline and reliability
• Time-management skills and ability to prioritize
• Punctuality
• Working well under pressure
• Adaptability and quick thinking and decision-making abilities
• Good command of the English language (knowledge of any other foreign language is also appreciated)
• Readiness to follow instructions and work in a team
• Enthusiasm and passion for work

We always welcome new ideas and ability to put them into practice! 

«Nothing fires up your mind or refreshes your soul more than a complete change of your life mode. Volunteering can bring you astonishing opportunities: immersion into new contexts, synthesis with previously unknown cultures, critical restructuring of thinking while code-switching from you native tongue to a foreign one, and expansion of your circle of friends.»

The fim festival is not only about watching films. There are workshops, open discussions, exhibitions that can become an inspiration for those who love cinema or just be valuable for self-education. 

Meeting film industry professionals is a part of an intense work schedule of the festival. It is up to you to establish a further connection. Networking goes hand in hand with future professional success. 

Festival work is very intense, interesting and demanding, but if you are good at time-management and are properly motivated, there is a chance to watch films and talk to their creators. Here we have films that go beyond conventional standards and are unlikely to be shown anywhere else.

And, certainly, every volunteer will be properly registered, uniformed and fed. For the time of the festival you receive an official Volunteer badge, our trademark striped shirt with the festival logo and meals.

If you have any questions or problems with your application, please,
feel free to write us – volunteer@pacificmeridianfest.ru