Manchester Animation Festival 2023

Become a MAF Young Ambassador!

4 October 2023

We are very thrilled to announce an exciting new scheme at MAF HQ called the MAF Young Ambassadors!

The MAF Young Ambassadors will be a handpicked team of passionate young content creators who are enthusiastic fans of the world of animation and all it has to offer! The aim of the MAF Young Ambassadors Scheme is to invite 8 young creatives into our team, to take a peek behind the curtain of the UK’s biggest animation event and help us to create fun, engaging content that spreads the good word of animation across the internet!

The selected Young Ambassadors will:

• • Gain valuable insights of the behind the scenes process of a major film festival.
  • Work with our team to gain essential skills in social content creation for the UK’s largest animation event.
  • Gain special early access to our film programme, to then create content based around your favourite festival picks!
  • Help us to create fresh new content for our social media platforms that help us reach new audiences.
  • Attend the festival to capture the magic of MAF, and help our social team cover all of our very special events.
  • Have the cost of your festival pass, plus travel* to and from the festival covered by MAF in full. (*within the UK only)
  • And most importantly have a fun, worthwhile experience that will be a great first stepping stone in your career!

  In order to be eligible for the scheme you must:

  • Be between the ages of 18-22
  • Have access to your own smartphone or laptop computer
  • Be available to give one day a week remotely on the scheme from 18th October to 30th November
  • Be available to attend at least two days of the festival in person (which runs 12-17 Nov 2023)
  • Be available to give one day a week remotely during the online part of festival (which runs 18-30 Nov 2023)
  • Have experience in creating social media content through graphic design, animation or video on Twitter, Instagram and/or TikTok
  • Be able to provide links to previous content you’ve created for social media

  We’d also love it if you:

  • Are familiar with MAF’s editorial tone-of-voice as displayed across social media and be confident in adopting that yourself.
  • Are an avid TikTok, Instagram, X user with experience creating Reels/TikToks and an eye for up-to-the-minute social trends.
  • Are comfortable providing live-coverage of events as-they-happen, posting fun, engaging and accurate updates.
  • Are someone with a proactive, get-up-and-go attitude who’s eager to get involved and contribute ideas amid a busy festival environment.
  • Have access to image editing software like Photoshop / PhotoScape X
  • Are comfortable lending your voice to reels/TikToks or occasionally appearing on camera 
  • Have an understanding of SEO and the ability to write short blog posts.

  Applications for the scheme are now CLOSED. All applicants will be notified via email by Fri 18 Oct.  

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