Duties:- Project management and allocation of resources on projects- Drive improvement in creative input and output.- Ensuring collaboration and knowledge sharing within the team.- Improve operational efficiencies of the business.- Manage and track cost efficiency of individual projects.- Report and reacting to P&L data.- Identify and develop new business opportunities and successfully maintain existing ones.- Invoicing and billing clients for jobs on a weekly basis.- Attending industry events to network and promote Gorilla to new contacts.

MIEFF 2017 Highlights:- Successfully took the festival through difficult managerial change in 2017.- Champion, nurture and support young emerging curatorial talent.- MIEFF2017 posters landed a Silver award at the prestigious Graphis Festival in NY- Moscow Times, L’OFFICIEL, Governmental TV channels, Culture Radio and a broader press coverage hit the news on MIEFF.Duties:- Pitching integration routes to potential sponsors.- Producing chosen scenario from development to integration with a team of designers, coders and talent.- Designing and seeing through collaboration scripts with larger institutions and foreign film festivals. - Facilitating structured communication between PR, curatorial and production departments. - Effective hiring of talent via thorough interview process.- Improve operational efficiencies.- Monitoring creative copywrite updates across main audience-facing publications.- Developing and maintaining relationships with partners and sponsors. - Art direction and supervision of the festival's website update, visual print and online content.

Managerial Duties:- Setting up core image and strategy of the festival.- Copywriting and art direction of the festival's website, supervision of its construction and launch. - Technical checks, schedule monitoring, line managing the venue’s technical and front house staff during the festival (2016).- Planning and execution of the touring program of the festival (Los Angeles as part of UCLA “Far From Moscow” Festival, December 2016; London, UK @ Сalvert 22 Foundation, February 2017)- Curating and organizing of the non-competition program in collaboration with Film London Artists' Moving Image Network (FLAMIN) (2016)- Submissions selection and forming of the competition program 2016.- Developing and maintaining relationships with partners and sponsors. - Art direction and supervision of the festival's visual print and online content from concept development through to release. - Supervision of running of SM platforms. - Screening introductions and panel discussions’ moderating.

Freelance employment on a project with a Russian client:Bespoke Menu system and animations for the world’s first 360-degree panoramic screen at Russian Premiere League FC Krasnodar’s opening of the Stadium.Assisting on:- stage of concept development - co-ordination of the project including various trips to Russia with The Mill team- agency relationship building- co-ordination with all technical suppliers

Bookings Assistant -> Post-producer

MA Applied Imagination in the creative industries