Queer Women of Color Film Festival 2017 – New Volunteer

Our 13th annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival is FREE and open to the public the weekend of June 9-11, 2017. We believe whole-heartedly that hard work is sexy. And we have a number of volunteer positions to fit your strengths and ensure that you have fun! Please come join us as a volunteer, Thank you!

First Name *

Last Name *

Email *

Street *

City *

State *

Phone *

Alternative Phone

Can you attend the Mandatory volunteer orientation? *

CREATING DISABILITY ACCESS
Volunteers represent QWOCMAP values around disability justice. We ask that you be willing to commit to the following:

1) Being SCENT-FREE.

2) Ending isolation for Deaf & Hard-of-Hearing community members by following communication practices.

3) Working to create equity and access for members of the disability community by following QWOCMAP Policies & Procedures.

Can you commit to disability justice and be responsible for your own learning around it?

Where do you want to apply your time and talents? What are your strengths? What is FUN to you? *

Film Festival(a public face or behind the scenes, I want to be IN community.)
QWOCMAP Office (I’m waaay behind the scenes person.)
Parties (Social butterfly, that’s me!)
I’m down to help in any way that you need! (I’m a rockstar!)

FESTIVAL CREWS
The Film Festival is led by fabulous CREWS that run everything, from bar & catering, to childcare and ushering.

Long-term volunteers lead each Crew and work with you side-by-side to create a great Film Festival and volunteer experience.

Each Crew has its own distinct personality and ways of having fun.

Please rank your interest below:

Access/Self-Care *

1 – Not Feeling it
2 – Maybe?
3 – If you really need me
4 – I can do this
5 – I love supporting where ever I can
6 – I want to be here
7 – This is my calling. No where else I want to be.

Do you speak any languages other than English? *

Please List

What is your level of fluency?

Do you speak ASL?

Are you familiar with creating SCENT-FREE access?

Do you have experience, training and/or certification as a crisis counselor?

If yes, where did you gain your experience, training and/or certification?

BAR
This fun & hardworking Crew is always busy: they set up before each screening, serve drinks during our free receptions, and serve drinks after each screening.

1 – Not Feeling it
2 – Maybe?
3 – If you really need me
4 – I can do this
5 – I love supporting where ever I can
6 – I want to be here
7 – This is my calling. No where else I want to be.

CATERING
This enthusiastic Crew requires a commitment to friendliness, food safety and creating beautiful presentations. They are busy during set up and during our free receptions.

1 – Not Feeling it
2 – Maybe?
3 – If you really need me
4 – I can do this
5 – I love supporting where ever I can
6 – I want to be here
7 – This is my calling. No where else I want to be.

CHILD CARE
This Crew is committed to safety and FUN for all children. We want families to enjoy their Film Festival experience together.

1 – Not Feeling it
2 – Maybe?
3 – If you really need me
4 – I can do this
5 – I love supporting where ever I can
6 – I want to be here
7 – This is my calling. No where else I want to be.

Do you have experience providing child care?

Are you a licensed or certified child care provider?

Do you know CPR for children?

DONATIONS & SILENT AUCTION
This Crew runs the Silent Auction table and passes the donation box to audiences. It requires big personalities, great smiles and a hint of sauciness or butch smolder.

1 – Not Feeling it
2 – Maybe?
3 – If you really need me
4 – I can do this
5 – I love supporting where ever I can
6 – I want to be here
7 – This is my calling. No where else I want to be.

FRONT DESK
This Crew is the administrative heart of the Film Festival. It’s great for friendly and organized folks who love creating happiness and checking tasks off their lists.

1 – Not Feeling it
2 – Maybe?
3 – If you really need me
4 – I can do this
5 – I love supporting where ever I can
6 – I want to be here
7 – This is my calling. No where else I want to be.

GREENING
This Crew works with BAR & CATERING to ensure the general beautification of the Brava Theater, and helps to maintain our 97% diversion rate (via compost, recycling and trash) as we strive toward Zero Waste.

1 – Not Feeling it
2 – Maybe?
3 – If you really need me
4 – I can do this
5 – I love supporting where ever I can
6 – I want to be here
7 – This is my calling. No where else I want to be.

PARTIES
This Crew meets at party venues to set up and work the party, including the door, safety and guest wrangling.

1 – Not Feeling it
2 – Maybe?
3 – If you really need me
4 – I can do this
5 – I love supporting where ever I can
6 – I want to be here
7 – This is my calling. No where else I want to be.

PICK-UP/DELIVERY
This Crew is in charge of making it happen behind the scenes, and they represent the Film Festival to local businesses that support us through in-kind donations for our silent auction and receptions.

1 – Not Feeling it
2 – Maybe?
3 – If you really need me
4 – I can do this
5 – I love supporting where ever I can
6 – I want to be here
7 – This is my calling. No where else I want to be.

Do you have a DRIVERS LICENSE?

Do you have a VEHICLE that you would be willing to use?

If yes, what TYPE of vehicle do you have?

Truck
SUV
Van
Station Wagon
Sedan
Other

SAFETY/SECURITY
This Crew is first at the lobby doors, and sets the tone for creating a welcoming and accessible environment. The Crew works with a philosophy of efficiency, de-escalation and equity. Members provide security at the door, and support the rest of the Festival Team.

1 – Not Feeling it
2 – Maybe?
3 – If you really need me
4 – I can do this
5 – I love supporting where ever I can
6 – I want to be here
7 – This is my calling. No where else I want to be.

USHERS
This Crew works to seat everyone inside the theater. They also ensure the comfort and safety of audience members, including those who need scent-free or service animal seating, and those with mobility issues or who use wheelchairs.

1 – Not Feeling it
2 – Maybe?
3 – If you really need me
4 – I can do this
5 – I love supporting where ever I can
6 – I want to be here
7 – This is my calling. No where else I want to be.

AVAILABILITY
Volunteer shifts are in 4 hour slots based on Film Festival needs.

As a volunteer, we rely on your total commitment and follow-through because you are key to the success of the Film Festival.

Please check your availability and ONLY commit to the shifts that you know that you can complete.

Thank you VERY much!

Friday, June 10, Load-In, Reception, Opening Night Screening

1 – 5pm (load-in & set up)
3 – 7pm (set up & reception)
5 – 9pm (reception & screening)
8pm – 12am (After Screening)
Not available Friday

Saturday, June 11 – Filmmaker Roundtable, Reception, Featured Screening

10am – 2pm (private brunch)
1 – 5pm (set up & panel)
3 – 7pm (prep reception)
5 – 9pm (reception & screening)
7 – 11pm (reception break down)
Not available Saturday

Sunday, June 12 – Centerpiece Screening, Reception, Closing Night Screening, Strike, Load-out

12 – 4pm (set up)
2 – 6pm (reception & screening)
4 – 8pm (screening, strike & load-out)
6 – 10pm (screening, strike & load-out)
Not available Sunday

Why do you want to be a volunteer? Check the 2 that most apply to you

Give to QWOCMAP
Make friends
Give to my community
Personal enrichment
Hard work is sexy!

What will you contribute to our Festival Team? (great sense of humor, hustle mode, creativity, glitter, etc.)

Please list your prior volunteer experience and/or any customer service roles you have held

Please check your strengths

Anticipate Needs
Conflict Resolution
Meticulous
Customer Service
Problem Solving
Relationship Building

Describe any experience you have as part of a large team

Check the terms that best describe you

Collaborative
Cordial
Diligent
Fabulous
Focused
Friendly
Giving
Hard-working
Humble
Organized
Prompt
Respectful

What will be the most challenging thing for you about volunteering? What will be the easiest thing for you? Why?

PERSONAL & DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION
We understand that some people may have concerns about providing this kind of demographic information.

It is strictly confidential and self-determining, that is, it is up to individuals to choose how they self-identify.

Please be assured that all information you provide will remain anonymous.

Any information will be used solely for statistical purposes. It will have an effect on future funding for QWOCMAP because it is one of the ways that we can ensure that our community is represented and COUNTED.

We are aware of the major limitations in data collection using U.S. Census categories, as well as the history of census categories and their effect on LGBTQ people of color and the multiple communities to which we belong. As we strive to create equity and justice, we use these categories only because we are a part of a larger data collection effort. We want to honor you, our beloved community, in all of your beautiful complexity.

We ask about disability so that we continue working to create a welcoming and accessible Film Festival.

Thank you!

How do you know about QWOCMAP and our Film Festival?

I’m a QWOCstar/TPOCstar volunteer!
My running crew, friends, peeps
Facebook
Twitter
QWOCMAP email newsletter
Other

Are you a QWOCMAP Filmmaker?

If yes, who do you know?

Are you a QWOCMAP donor?

List any languages that you speak other than English?(ASL, Spanish, Tagalog, Mandarin, Yoruba, etc.)

Country of Birth

Please answer the following questions as best you can.
The U.S. Census also uses the term “Latino, Hispanic or Spanish origin”. QWOCMAP does not use Hispanic or Spanish. Additionally, we use the X at the end of words like Latinx as a gender neutral term, instead of @ or o/a. In Spanish the X is pronounced like the e in the word felices.

Are you Latinx?

Race -Which of the following best describes your race (according to U.S. Census categories)? – Select all that apply

North African (Egyptian, Moroccan)
Pacific Islander or Native Hawaiian
Asian
Black or African American, non Latinx
American Indian or Alaska Native
White, non Latinx
Other race or mixed race

Race/Ethnicity – With which of the following races and/or ethnicities do YOU identify?

AMEMSA (Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, South Asian)
South Asian
Multi-racial
Southwest/West Asian (Afghan, Iranian/Persian)
African Descent
First Nations/Indigenous/Native American
White/European descent
North African (Egyptian, Moroccan)
Southeast Asian
East Asian
Other

Please specify tribal affiliation, national identity, ethnic identity. (e.g. Aymara, Afro-Boricua, Maya, Choctaw, Anishinabe, Ohlone, Nicaragüense)

Sexual Orientation – With which of the following orientations do you identify?

Two-Spirit
Same-Gender Loving
Queer
Pansexual
Lesbian
Bisexual
Gay
Straight
Asexual
Other

What is your gender identity?

Female – cisgender
Male – cisgender
Transgender
Gender nonconforming
Intersex
Other

What pronouns do you use?

She, Her & Hers
He, Him & His
Them, They & Their
Zie/Ze & Hir/Hirs
Other

Birth Date

// (MM/dd/yyyy)

Highest Level of Education

Employment Status

Current Position (if applicable)

Estimated yearly income from all sources

Less than $10,000
$10,000 to $24,999
$25,000 to $49,999
$50,000 to $74,999
$75,000 to $99,999
$100,000 to $149,999
$150,000 to $199,999
$200,000 or more

Creating Access
Volunteer positions may require long periods of standing, sitting, working in the dark, being exposed to lights, climbing stairs, lifting (tables, chairs, boxes, etc.) and other physical tasks.

Other positions may be more physically comfortable but require working with large crowds and around lots of noise.

Please describe anything that might be an issue in performing the functions of a volunteer position so that you can have a great experience.

E.G. allergic to service animals, carry epipen, chemical injury/no scents, counting audience numbers from a chair, working in a quieter space, need lots of light, no lifting, light lifting, elevator is great but no stairs, etc.

Are you a part of a disability community?

Access for Volunteers – What do you need to be the great volunteer we know you can be?

EMERGENCY CONTACT INFORMATION
We will only use this information if needed.

First Name

Last Name

Relationship to you

BEST NUMBER TO CONTACT IN AN EMERGENCY

Questions?
We’ll be happy to answer you,
please email:
festival@qwocmap.org
or call:
415-752-0868