Social Media Manager ​/ Production Assistant

Social media manager / production assistant - a job post by Blake Van Curen

Experience with Instagram, Tik Tok, Facebook, and short-form content preferred. Light to moderate photo/video editing skills required.

Must be reliable, creative, comfortable working independently, and available for the five-day October shoot in the Catskills.

Please include examples of social content, campaigns, graphics, or videos you have created or managed.

Dark Passage Films | Psychological Thriller Short Film

Location: Remote through pre-production / Catskills, NY for production
Start: Immediately
Commitment: August through October 2026
Production: Five-day shoot in October 2026
Production Pay: $250/day
Additional Compensation: $150 upon successful completion of first month
Housing, meals, and production transportation provided during shoot

Dark Passage Films is seeking a Social Media Manager / Production Assistant to join the team behind an upcoming psychological thriller short film as we enter crowdfunding, pre-production, and production.

We are currently launching a Seed&Spark campaign with a $40,000 fundraising goal
, and we are looking for someone who can take ownership of the film's growing online presence and help turn our existing platforms into an active community around the project.

We already have a dedicated film website along with Instagram, Facebook, Tik Tok, and Discord accounts. What we need now is someone who understands how to turn production materials, story elements, behind-the-scenes content, campaign updates, and creative ideas into consistent social content that people actually want to follow, share, and engage with.

This role begins with the crowdfunding campaign, continues through pre-production, and transitions into a paid on-set Production Assistant position during the film's October shoot in the Catskills.

For the right person, there is also real potential for continued paid work with Dark Passage Films on future productions.

The Social Media Manager will work directly with the filmmakers and production team to:

• Develop and maintain a consistent content calendar
• Create and schedule content for Instagram, Tik Tok, Facebook, Discord, and other appropriate platforms
• Promote the Seed&Spark campaign throughout its fundraising period
• Develop creative ways to highlight campaign incentives, milestones, cast, crew, locations, production updates, and the filmmaking process
• Edit supplied photography, graphics, behind-the-scenes footage, and short-form video content
• Perform light-to-moderate photo and video editing for social platforms
• Source appropriate supplemental imagery or content when relevant to the film or campaign
• Write captions and help shape the project's online voice
• Engage with followers, filmmakers, horror and thriller communities, independent film audiences, and potential campaign supporters
• Identify opportunities to organically expand the project's reach
• Help build awareness and momentum around the film leading into production
• Continue creating and capturing content throughout the October shoot

You do not need to be a professional graphic designer or full-time video editor, but candidates should be comfortable taking raw materials and turning them into polished, engaging social content.

Experience with tools such as Adobe Creative Cloud, Canva, Cap Cut, Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Lightroom, or similar platforms is a plus.

A strong understanding of Tik Tok, Instagram Reels, short-form video, and current social media trends is particularly valuable.

The selected Social Media Manager will also receive a paid Production Assistant position on the film's five-day October shoot in the Catskills, New York.

Production compensation is:

Dark Passage Films will additionally provide:

The Social Media Manager will also receive a $150 good-faith payment after successfully completing the first month of the social media role.

The production portion of the position is intended to give the selected candidate meaningful hands-on set experience while allowing them to continue documenting and promoting the project from inside the production itself.

We are especially interested in someone who is:

• Creative and proactive
• Comfortable working independently
• Reliable and consistent
• Social-media savvy without needing every post dictated to them
• Comfortable identifying content opportunities on their own
• Interested in filmmaking and storytelling
• Familiar with short-form video and visual content
• Capable of light-to-moderate photo and video editing
• Excited by horror, psychological thriller, suspense, or elevated genre films
• Interested in gaining both entertainment marketing and physical production experience
• Interested in developing relationships within the independent film industry
• Able to stay involved from crowdfunding through production

Film-industry experience is welcome but not required
.

A talented film student, recent graduate,…