"A healthy business ecosystem is a web of mutually beneficial partnerships that enhance the quality of life and add value to everything and everyone taking part in the journey." ~Spirit Wolf Entertainment Value Statement.

"An entrepreneur is someone who is willing to live a few years like most people won't, so that he can spend the rest of his life like most people can't." - Unknown

As part of an inter-related group of non-arm's length projects, the internal College for Production Film Professionals is designed to build a top tier production company capable of big budget theatrical film production.

Students are expected to behave as employees from Day One. They will participate in a highly cooperative, non-standard training program intended to develop good work habits organically through experience; develop corporate resources and assets for film production; as well as act as film crew for several commercial projects where their labor is an intrinsic part of the production budget. They will be living in various conditions mimicking real-world situations as regards film production - both low and high budget.

This will include tents, off-road remote locations, urban environments with limited accessibility, travel under various conditions that could range from RV to camelback. They will be expected to fill all production positions under professional supervision. As such, they will be required to move equipment under all weather conditions, put up and take down stages, sets, and living accommodations. They will be required to participate in all cooking, cleaning, and kitchen duties.

The goal is not just to train someone who could fill one specific job role within an established production company, but for students to participate in the actual production of several independent film and tv projects where their participation is a way to finance the projects, and to train future employees who will be expected to operate within a highly mobile and flexible film crew in terms of cross training and the ability to adapt to unpredictable situations domestically and overseas.

Students will be expected to create and facilitate several community tie-in projects that will have various levels of visibility as charity or special interest projects. As a result, the students and the productions activities will be under scrutiny from special interest and political groups even before any films are made public.

• The primary focus for the internship has been taken from the Riipen course description. Develop a program to support the inclusion, engagement and retention of diverse employees (e.g., women, ethnic minorities, LGBT)
• Our goal at the end of this experience is: To have the planned course of studies examined from the viewpoint that the training program will closely mimic the type of employment Spirit Wolf and related production companies will provide. The goal here would first be to identify if there are actual known issues in this industry from the perception outside the industry (the student pool) that would limit their inclusion as employees, analyze whether this is actually a problem for the intended job environment and develop a defense and/or plan to ameliorate perceived or actual limitations.

The report (which is intended to be used in the construction of business plans, and grant proposals) will need to not only provide a defense for areas of contention if warranted, but to develop suggestions during the internship and feedback process for reasonable alterations to the curriculum where needed.

We will plan to communicate with our virtual intern team using these communication tools: Riipen messaging, Zoom, email

Student's primary contact: Natalie Durdle (owner, Otsukaiban/Spirit Wolf Productions)