The intern will assist in researching potential films for consideration to the 18th Annual New York Jewish Film Festival (January 2009), a collaboration between The Jewish Museum and Film Society of Lincoln Center. After soliciting materials from distributors, the intern will assist in preparing tapes for dubbing and distribution to the selection committee and will check these copies to insure successful dubbing. The intern will assist in the upkeep of Festival databases. The intern will help to gather information and photographs for Festival brochure and press releases. The intern will assist organizing, streamlining and archiving Festival files.

In addition, the intern will inventory acquisitions to the Museum’s National Jewish Archive of Broadcasting (NJAB): video and audio tapes that have been obtained from networks, production companies or distributors. The intern will view or listen to media, write program summaries, and keep an accurate record of other relevant details including air date, running time, etc. This information will be added to the Broadcast Archive's database. The intern will also assist in developing projects for the Museum’s new Goodkind Media Center, a digital library of television and radio programs and exhibition space for video and new media.