"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.

Film crew experience unique challenges when it comes to human rights. Not only do they have their personal human rights as employees to consider, but they are often working in environments where not only are gross human rights violations occurring, but they are often asked to intervene, aid or assist - either directly or through the film medium, and the actual human rights legislation or their perception of it or its current state of enforceability or of being enforced, may be vastly different from reality.

The focus and goal for this project is for the internship students to develop an internal training program outside and beyond the traditional classroom HR training at the university level to create knowledge and awareness of the specific humans rights issues the film students are likely to encounter as film professionals. This needs to be in a form that can be converted to a practical in-field series of scheduled and coordinated training moments that can be integrated as on-the-job training.

This training program needs to be incorporated over four years - with the most critical initial situational evaluation training given in first year - as the entire school is anticipated to be spending a year working overseas (currently planned for 2028) in production locations that will include China, India, and North Africa.

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)