"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.

Part of the marketing strategy for the film projects includes a serialized novel published in a print magazine to complement an array of characters from the tv series. This is intended to be followed up with coordinated books by various top sci-fi/romance authors (think Jayne Ann Krentz or Laurell K Hamilton) who would write to an in-progress plotline generally providing the backstory or details generally provided by fanfiction currently.

The primary focus for this course internship would be an author survey to identify the general concerns, bias, and opinions the desired authors might have about the project as well as barriers to agreement.

Our goal at the end of this experience is to have an objective understanding of what the authors would expect from a pitch, the preferred contractual arrangements, any barriers to agreement based on remuneration or business concerns as the obvious and any barriers present but not normally mentioned. Ideally, we should be able to use this survey (run against less obvious authors as a marketing pitch) to increase awareness of the company while still being able to formulate a pitch for the less accessible authors without negatively prejudicing their opinion of the project.

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)