Would you like FREE tickets to the Out in the Desert Film Festival 2012?

Well, if you volunteer for 2 programs during the festival or 6 hours outside of the festival, you will receive a FREE Ticket for a Screening of your Choice. (Opening Night, Centerpiece and Closing Night not included.)

We need your help - won't you give us a few hours of your time?  

Check out some of the jobs we need to fill.

Also, why not stop by our launch party Wed. Jan. 11 @ Fluxx Gallery and check out the festival program.  Have some food and drinks and then sign up to help us out.

People are always saying that you're the hostess-with-the-mostest. Put that accommodating smile and sense of goodwill to use welcoming Out in the Desert's guests to Tucson. Match them with the finest of hotels, host homes, festival buddies and serve as the ultimate travel liaison.

Do you have a Fantastic Home? And don't mind guests? Though some filmmakers/actors will be able to be put up in hotels, we cannot supply accommodations for everyone. If you have a home, condo or apartment that is just FABULOUS with one or more fantastic guest rooms, and are willing to have an artist stay with you, it would be greatly appreciated! (Private rooms only please.)

Do you like meeting new people? Are you friends with everyone? Do you know Tucson well? Then why not be a Festival Buddy to some of our incoming guests? This includes picking them up from the airport, getting them to their hotel or host home, showing them around town and then getting them to the Theater on time. (What a better way to meet a Director or Actor!)

So you like to get around? You know all the Hot Spots in the LGBT Community? Well then we need you! Our print schedule and other promotional material outlining all of our films and events will be available at different times of the year. When we have stuff, we will need to have it distributed to bars, clubs, movie theaters, coffee shops and anywhere else in the city and suburbs that gay and lesbian film lovers may be. We need volunteers to go to locations to drop off the materials and hang posters.

New Media Advisor

You don't keep up with trends, they keep up with you. Be the eyes, ears and voice for what's new/now/next in LGBT cinema and art. Then put it on all of our social networks... and we mean ALL.

Community Criers

If you like to talk and text well then we have the job for you! Help spread the word about Out in the Desert and The Southwest LGBT Film Society - be just like the town criers of the 1700s, but in the new high-tech world of 2011. Tell everyone about our events, films, and parties however you want - MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, phone calls, email, etc. You can even carry a bell around town if you want or wear a sandwich board!

Volunteer Assistant

Find fun and innovative ways to recruit volunteers for Out in the Desert. Whether they are long-term volunteers, or just want to help with the festival, every volunteer is important! We need you to help us find people as crazy about LGBT cinema and art as we are, then get them to help out. You also help our Volunteer Chair manage volunteers at events and screenings.

Event Raffle/Silent Auction Committee Member

Be a member of a group of go-getters to help Out in the Desert raise additional funds by obtaining exciting Event raffle prizes / Silent Auction items from local and national businesses.

Theatre Manager

To you, there's no better vacation than running an international film festival or Monthly Screenings program. From making sure films start on time, to managing volunteers, and handling all the little emergencies, you're totally at home with a clip board. You are the one that makes the festival magic happen and happen smoothly. You need at the theater for your shift 30 minutes before it starts.

Box Office Attendants

Only you decide who gets a ticket (well, not only you, but you can tell people you're the one that gets to make all the decisions). You'll get to make everyone's day as they scramble for the last-minute tickets. You need at the theater for your shift 30 minutes before it starts.

Guest Services Attendant(s)

You can't help but be helpful. That's why we want you at the Festival and Screening Guest Service's table. Whether it's helping filmmakers find their way, selling passes or memberships, as well as Raffle Tickets to anxious audience members, you've got it all covered and can multi-task with the best of them. You need at the theater for your shift 30 minutes before it starts.

Theatre Attendants (Ushers)

Be the audience's tour guide from the time they enter our theatres to the time the credits roll. Help them to their seats, give them their program and film ballot, watch the movies with them (making sure everything looks and sounds good), and make sure they fill out their ballots. Did we mention that you get to watch the movies for FREE? You need at the theater for your shift 30 minutes before it starts.

Host / Hostess

You're that very special person you're the one in the spot light. You get to welcome the audience tell them a few important pieces of information, introduce filmmakers and crew as well as local business people, and than you stay in the theater to make sure everything go well. At the end of the film if there is a Q&A you make sure that runs smooth and on time. That's right you get to see the film for FREE.. You need at the theater for your shift 30 minutes before it starts.

Ticket Taker

You're the person at the theater door or the party door that takes the tickets and makes sure they are the correct one and that no one gets in with out one. You also assistant if it looks like a sell out by checking on the number of seats left. Once the film starts you're welcome to join the audience and watch the film for FREE. You need to be at the theater for your shift 30 minutes before it starts.