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Registration: Vancouver International Film Festival Society Volunteer Programme
Thank you for your interest in volunteering for VIFF 2024. Please be sure to read about the Festival Volunteer Teams before you apply: READ.
All applicants, including Volunteer Alumni, must go through a screening and selection process. Team placement is based on your interview, availability, and skill set. Lead volunteer applicants will go through a secondary screening process.
All applicants must be 16 years or older. Some teams and venues require volunteers to be 19 and older.
All items with (*) must be filled out in order to submit your application. Applicants are contacted when positions become available.
All Volunteers must attend an orientation for specific training for their team. Pre-festival Teams will schedule orientations for August and Festival Teams will schedule their orientations for September.
Please add volunteer@viff.org to your address book. We will be contacting you through email so this helps to make sure our info doesn’t end up in your junk folder.
YOUR PREFERRED NAME AND PRONOUNS WILL APPEAR ON YOUR NAME BADGE AS TYPED
Phone Interview
TEAM INTERESTS:
Volunteers not selected for a Lead position will still be able to volunteer for the festival with any of the other festival volunteer teams available.
Applicants for Lead positions must send their resume to volunteer@viff.org with the subject LEAD APPLICATION FOR VIFF 2024
This is to volunteer not only during the Festival but also at the VIFF Centre thereafter. VIFF year-round volunteer commitments are once a week in addition to the minimum shifts for the Festival.
During the 11 days of the festival, we send out a daily Volunteer Newsletter chock-full of festival info for our volunteer teams. In submitting this application, you are consenting to receiving emails regarding the VIFF Volunteer Program. If you want to be on any of our other email lists, please sign up.
The daily newsletters will feature volunteers from the festival. If you would like to be considered, a user picture in your application and answering these next 3 questions is mandatory!
Thank you for your application! Applications are reviewed in the order they are received. Due to the high volume of applications, it may take up to four weeks before we contact you.