About This Role
This role is for a Film Director to conceptualize, shoot, direct, and deliver high-impact cinematic film productions. These productions range from short conceptual films to full-length institutional movies, corporate features, and documentary series. The director will elevate SGT University's brand footprint, academic heritage, and large-scale media assets under the administrative alignment and strategic vision of the Dean of Emerging Media Communication & Film Studies.
Responsibilities
- Lead the creative and technical execution of large-format full movies, institutional biopics, and expansive corporate features capturing the ecosystem of the university
- Direct high-velocity short films, campaign videos, and emotional narrative reels targeted at digital audiences, recruitment drives, and brand-equity elevation
- Take direct active control of camera blocking, lighting design parameters, visual framing setups, and actor/faculty performances during the live shooting phase
- Translate massive infrastructure projects, medical milestones, and research footprints into structured visual storyboards and dramatic themes
- Research, write, and polish detailed dialogues, shooting scripts, and voiceover screenplays, ensuring strict alignment with SGT University’s core mission parameters
- Synthesize strategic inputs from the Dean, faculty departments, and external media networks to map out tailored seasonal movie production slates
- Develop robust call sheets, casting rosters, location recce timelines, and daily shoot matrices to ensure optimized crew mobilization
- Specify, inspect, and approve advanced equipment setups including high-end cinema cameras (Red/Arri/Sony FX series), anamorphic glass kits, tracking rigs, and high-altitude drone arrays
- Manage the physical production unit on-set, directly steering camera operators, gaffers, sound mixers, and art design assistants
- Oversee narrative assembly, definitive timeline cuts, and soundscape architecture to ensure powerful delivery across short and full-length formats
- Drive cinematic color-grading profiles (LUT creation, scene-to-scene matching) and seamlessly blend high-end visual effects and animations into the narrative
- Enforce stringent final-cut technical quality check metrics (resolution limits, multi-channel sound layouts) prior to corporate or public distribution
- Direct and catalog creative cinematic progress loops, research showreels, and dynamic faculty profiles tracking the institutional growth driven by the university
- Submit data-backed production updates, editing status frameworks, and project cost charts directly to the Dean - Emerging Media Communication & Film Studies
Requirements
- Candidate preferred from filmmaking short movies full length movies
