This year’s 44th edition of Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ Film Festival is seeking three managers to oversee various aspects of festival operations!
If you would like to apply to a position, please fill out the form HERE.
Festival Theater Manager
The Festival Theater Manager will be present at The Landmark Theater (2828 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60657) throughout the festival to oversee the front-of-house operations, including crowd and line control, managing volunteer ushers and ticket scanning, seeing to the smooth turnover of audiences, coordinating timing with projectionists and speakers, ensuring that screenings start on time, handling seating and guest relations, ensuing voting ballots are distributed and collected, managing rush protocols for sold-out screenings, and other aspects of ensuring the smooth operations of screenings. This may include introducing programs when a programmer is not present.
Stipend: $500
Priority will be given to applicants who have experience with the eventive.org box office interface.
*Nights and weekends are required from September 18 – September 24, 2026
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Festival Box Office Manager
The Box Office Manager will be present at The Landmark Theater (2828 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60657) throughout the festival to oversee all ticketing operations, including day-of box office sales, membership and pass sales, pass distribution, and front-line customer service for screenings, including fielding accessibility requests. This also includes training and managing box office volunteers in the use of ticketing software and credit card processing, overseeing line management, handling wait lists and rush lines, filling out daily sales reconciliations and box office reports, and related activities.
Stipend: $500
Priority will be given to applicants who have experience with the eventive.org box office interface.
*Nights and weekends are required from September 18 – September 24, 2026
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Festival Operations + Volunteer Manager
The Festival Operations + Volunteer Manager will work in the festival office at Chicago Filmmakers in advance of the festival to recruit and schedule festival volunteers, and to manage and train in-office volunteers in tasks such as preparing ballots and badges, distributing postcards and posters, creating signage, preparing and packing supplies for transport to venues, load in and out, transport to, and set up at venues, and similar operational tasks.
Stipend: $500
*9:00-5:00 office hours are expected a couple days each week leading up to the festival. The selected applicant will begin immediately.
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