Internship Program Guidelines

1. Academy Internship Grants funds are available to accredited academic institutions and non-profit organizations that intend to place students, either undergraduate or graduate, in internships that take place in professional environments outside of the school or organization.
   
   
2. All Academy grant monies are to be used directly by the interns, as stipends and/or as funding for travel, temporary housing and per diem expenses during the internship period.
   
   
3. The grant monies cannot be used for the administration of the program.
   
   
4. At the program’s discretion, grant monies can be used for one or more internships in a given year. However, it is preferable that the grant monies be used for as many internships as are practically possible.
   
   
5. Academy grant monies may be combined with existing internship funding to support a greater number of Academy interns during a given year.
   
   
6. Academy internships should focus on some aspect of theatrical motion picture production. Internships focused on television or the Internet should not be considered.
   
   
7. Academy internships should be available to students in all film production and production-related disciplines and are not to be limited to a single discipline. Interns could be placed on a production to observe an editor, costume designer, director or other professional. Interns could also be placed in an office, reading scripts for an agent or a development executive, observing a publicist or a marketing executive. Whatever the placement, the university program must deem it to be of benefit to the intern.
   
   
8. Grants will be distributed by mid-April each year. Internships should take place during the following 12 months. If the grant monies are not expended during that time period, they should be returned to the Academy.
   
   
9. The Institutional Grants committee should be notified as interns are identified and placed. Upon completion of the internship(s), both the institution and the intern(s) should send an evaluation of the experience to the committee. If the professional filmmaking “mentor” files an evaluation with the university program, a copy of that report should be sent to the committee as well.
   
   
10. If interns are placed on a feature film and serve in a capacity in which screen credit is granted, that credit should read “Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Intern.”
    
    
11. The Institutional Grants Committee shares prevailing concerns in the education community that it is important for programs to recognize the difficulties facing minorities and women attempting to enter the film industry.