This is an unpaid internship program for university credit.
Company Description
Oakridge emphasizes thoughtful storytelling, careful project development, and strong editorial standards. Oakridge is a development firm that offers learning opportunities for emerging talent interested in the intersection of publishing and screen adaptation.
Development Operations & Editorial Management Intern
Daniel de Boulay is running three development projects at once:
• Face Value (a makeup thriller),
• How to Cheat (a TV dramedy drawing on the writings of Teresa Conway),
• and Ache (a novel adapting the Twelve Labors of Hercules into the story of a hitman, being engineered toward a future film adaptation)
through a growing network of interns spread across research, treatments, and editorial work. Your role is the connective tissue between all of it.
You're not assigned to one project.
You're assigned to making sure nothing between the three of them falls through the cracks.
Concretely, that means three different jobs depending on who you're talking to that week:
• For interns already moving on research or treatment work, you're the scrum master — checking in on deliverables and time, holding people accountable without hovering.
• For interns who are stalled because they don't have enough context to actually start, you're the one who gets them that context.
• For interns who have an assignment but don't know where to begin, you help them find the starting point — talk to Daniel first if you need to, but you're empowered to do what it takes to get someone moving on their own, without needing him in the room every time.
Day to day, that looks like assisting with adaptation research, reviewing manuscripts and scripts, preparing summaries and pitch materials, keeping timelines and documentation current.
You'll also be working the actual craft underneath all three projects — story, plot, and character development, across both film and literary form.
We're building this program to run async: artifacts over meetings, ownership over check-ins. Your job is making that actually hold up in practice, across three projects at once — without losing the reason any of this exists in the first place, which is to build real community among everyone doing the work, not just to move deliverables.
Read about Asynchronous Organization please.
Qualifications
This is an unpaid internship program for university credit.
• Strong writing and editorial instincts — comfortable summarizing, reviewing, and refining other people's work, not just your own.
• A working interest in film and video production, especially narrative or adaptation-driven projects.
• Genuinely strong research, organization, and time-management skills. This role runs on being the person who remembers what's due and why.
• Clear written and verbal communication, and real comfort holding people accountable across a creative team without being a bureaucrat about it.
• Coursework or experience in film, media studies, English, or communications is a plus — but the bigger asset is being someone who's energized by ambiguity instead of stressed by it.
