About the event
On Friday, September 18, A+E Factual Studios (AEFS) wants to meet VME professionals with experience in unscripted programs. Executives and team members will meet virtually with VME professionals as part of the studio's ongoing effort to expand its network of qualified talent. The two-hour event will feature an executive panel followed by small, role-based breakout conversations with AEFS leaders who oversee and work in key areas of unscripted programming.
About the studio
A+E Factual Studios (AEFS) is an Emmy®-winning production powerhouse creating compelling content across genres for A+E Global Media networks and leading external platforms. Our work includes World War II with Tom Hanks and The UnBelievable with Dan Aykroyd for THE HISTORY Channel, Cold Case Files® and Crime in Progress for A&E, Dance Moms: A New Era for Hulu, as well as 9/11: United We Stand — 25 Years Later for ABC and Groundbreakers with Billie Jean King for PBS.
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This event is an introduction, not a job interview. AEFS is meeting people they can contact for interviews as work becomes available.
Pick your role
Associate Producer
REQUIRED
- You must have worked as an Associate Producer in unscripted, documentary, or factual television.
PREFERRED
- Two years or more on unscripted shows.
- Outreach to on-camera experts, and pre-interviewing them.
- Field days: tracking the schedule, hot sheet notes, writing interview questions.
- Sourcing stock footage and stills once a show is in post.
- An eye for the moment in footage that legal will want to look at.
- Being the person who absorbs a last-minute change without dropping the other three things.
- You know when a story does not stand up and say so early.
ABOUT THE ROLE
- Research and verify the factual spine of an episode.
- Pull selects, log footage, and build the material an editor needs.
- Support story in the edit, and help shape sequences.
- Chase contributors, releases, and the details that hold a story up.
Company
A+E Factual Studios
Location
Fully Remote
Type
Freelance and staff, project based
Pay
Varies by role, project and experience.
You can apply for more than one role.
Production Manager
REQUIRED
- You must have credited or uncredited/never aired professional work as a Production Manager in unscripted, documentary, or factual television.
- You have managed physical production on unscripted projects.
- Schedule and budget management experience.
PREFERRED
- Three to four years or more on unscripted shows.
- Invoices, purchase orders, and expense reports, tracked and reconciled.
- Booking shoot crews and locations, and the releases that come with them.
- Call sheets and keeping a shoot day running to schedule.
- Knowledge and experience with Airtable, Movie Magic Budgeting, Excel, and Google Suite.
ABOUT THE ROLE
- Manage and coordinate production activity across unscripted series and development projects.
- Coordinate people, equipment, locations, logistics, and other resources required to keep physical production on schedule.
- Prepare estimates and track budgets.
Company
A+E Factual Studios
Location
Fully Remote
Type
Freelance and staff, project based
Pay
Varies by role, project and experience.
You can apply for more than one role.
Post Production Coordinator
REQUIRED
- You must have credited or uncredited/never aired professional work as a Post Production Coordinator in unscripted, documentary, or factual television.
- Media management and post workflows are second nature.
PREFERRED
- You have coordinated post on unscripted or documentary series.
- Eighteen months or more coordinating on unscripted shows.
- Experience with Avid Media Composer.
- The paperwork a show carries: bibles, music cue sheets, appearance and location releases, archival logs.
- Bleep and blur lists, prepared ahead of final review.
- Network and streamer delivery specs, and what it takes to hit them on schedule.
ABOUT THE ROLE
- Coordinates post-production schedules, workflows, media, assets, resources, and communication among editors, producers, vendors, and other partners.
- Scheduling freelance crews and processing timesheets.
- Managing media ingest, asset orders, and asset trafficking.
- Scheduling voice-over sessions and audio mixes.
- Maintaining Airtable workflows and production trackers.
- Coordinating archives, graphics, credits, edit resources, and final deliverables.
- Supporting multiple editing projects simultaneously.
Company
A+E Factual Studios
Location
Fully Remote
Type
Freelance and staff, project based
Pay
Varies by role, project and experience.
You can apply for more than one role.
Post Producer
REQUIRED
- You must have credited or uncredited/never aired professional work as a Post Producer in unscripted, documentary, or factual television.
- Experience working with editors to shape story, structure episodes, and write or revise scripts.
- Experience managing creative notes and guiding cuts through picture lock.
PREFERRED
- Understand story sense in true crime, history, biography, or lifestyle.
- Three to four years or more on unscripted shows.
- Building to an outline the network has already approved.
- Marrying archive, interview, and B-roll into one story.
- Working with the AP and the archival producer so what lands in the cut is cleared and factual.
ABOUT THE ROLE
- Works with editors to shape the story and structure each episode.
- Writes or revises scripts, narration, and other editorial material.
- Addresses creative notes and guides each cut through picture lock.
- Prepare cuts for review and keep story continuity across a series.
Company
A+E Factual Studios
Location
Fully Remote
Type
Freelance and staff, project based
Pay
Varies by role, project and experience.
You can apply for more than one role.