Film & TVNewsYour dream job just became available at Studio GhibliBRB, learning JapaneseShareLink copied ✔️April 25, 2019Film & TVNewsTextSeren Morris Fancy being spirited away to Japan to work in the dream factory that is Studio Ghibli? In a rare, too-good-to-be-true opportunity, the well-loved animation company is hiring digital painters to help bring the anime fantasy to life, as reported by It’s Nice That. If you’re a Japanese-speaking 20-year-old (or older), can be living in Japan by the end of May, and have experience in 2D animation software, you’re in with a chance. Apply by May 31 and you could be working directly with Hayao Miyazaki at Tokyo’s Ghibli HQ by the end of the year. The successful candidate will start working on October 1 with a year and a half minimum contract, and would be taking home a monthly salary of at least 250,000 Japanese yen, which is more than £1,700. Ticking off everything on your ideal job checklist (working with Miyazski!), the role is seemingly the ultimate career move for any animator. If, like me, you have basically none of the applicable skills, you can still live the dream at the upcoming Studio Ghibli theme park – 2022 isn’t that far away, right? Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MOREThe Voice of Hind Rajab, a Palestinian drama moving audiences to tearsMeet the 2025 winners of the BFI & Chanel Filmmaker AwardsOobah Butler’s guide to getting rich quickRed Scare revisited: 5 radical films that Hollywood tried to banPlainclothes is a tough but tender psychosexual thrillerCillian Murphy and Little Simz on their ‘provoking’ new film, Steve‘It’s like a drug, the adrenaline’: Julia Fox’s 6 favourite horror filmsHow Benny Safdie rewrote the rules of the sports biopic Harris Dickinson’s Urchin is a magnetic study of life on the marginsPaul Thomas Anderson on writing, The PCC and One Battle After AnotherWayward, a Twin Peaks-y new thriller about the ‘troubled teen’ industryHappyend: A Japanese teen sci-fi set in a dystopian, AI-driven future