CIFF presents The Fixer on August 18, 7pm at the Camden Opera House

Leaving behind his life as a fixer for Western journalists reporting on the war in Afghanistan, Osman (Dominic Rains) lands in a small bohemian town in Northern California, living on the couch of his friend’s mother (Academy Award-winner Melissa Leo) and working as a crime reporter for the local newspaper. Restless and eager to find purpose in the context of his new life, he befriends a couple of locals—the eccentric and unstable Lindsay (Academy Award-nominated James Franco) and the elusive Sandra (Rachel Brosnahan)—recruiting them to help him penetrate the town’s peculiar subculture. When Lindsay mysteriously goes missing, Osman gets drawn into the backwoods of the town in order to find him. As things begin to take a dangerous turn, Osman is forced to confront the untenable reality of his situation. Winner of Best Actor at Tribeca Film Festival 2016.

Director Ian Olds and Producer Caroline von Kuhn (Points North Institute Managing Director) in attendance for Q&A!

Ian Olds (Director/co-writer) received an MFA from Columbia. His directing credits include Occupation:Dreamland (Academy Award short-listed, Independent Spirit winner), Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi (Tribeca winner, Emmy nominated) and the experimental narrative Francophrenia. Olds was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, Princess Grace Award, Rockefeller Foundation’s Media Arts Fellowship, and attended Sundance Institute’s Screenwriters Lab. Olds received his MFA from Columbia University’s Film Division and was named one of 25 New Faces of Independent Film by Filmmaker Magazine. He was also the editor of the split-screen feature adaptation of William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying directed by James Franco (Cannes Film Festival).