Apply to be part of our team! Want to help us put on the Camden International Film Festival and other year-round programs that build community while providing creative support for documentary filmmakers? We're looking for some new members of the core Points North Institute team. If you like working in [...]
Points North Institute to screen Coyote as the final film of the year for the CIFF Selects Series Camden, Maine [November 3, 2017] – The Points North Institute and the Camden Opera House will conclude their monthly CIFF Selects series with a special screening of Coyote, the story [...]
Announcing our 2017 Award Winners and 2018 CIFF Dates! CAMDEN, Maine, September 18, 2017 – The Camden International Film Festival (CIFF) has announced the winners of the 2017 Festival, which took place September 14 to 17 in Camden, Rockport and Rockland, Maine. Under its new banner, the Points North Institute [...]
Camden International Film Festival Announces 2017 Points North Impact Screenings CAMDEN, Maine, Sept. 6, 2017 – The 13th edition of the Camden International Film Festival (CIFF) and the Points North Forum will take place September 14-17, 2017 throughout Camden, Rockport and Rockland, Maine. Highlights include an expanded edition of the [...]
Camden International Film Festival Announces 14 Documentary Filmmakers selected for its 2017 Artist Programs CAMDEN, Maine, September 6, 2017 – the Points North Institute (PNI), parent organization of the Camden International Film Festival (CIFF), today announced the 14 documentary filmmakers and media artists selected for its 2017 Artist Programs. Points North’s [...]
Points North Institute announces 2017 Forum program at Camden International Film Festival Leaders in the documentary film industry convene for a series of masterclasses, panel discussions, networking events, and the celebrated public Points North Pitch. August 28, 2017 [Camden, Maine] – The Points North Institute has unveiled the lineup [...]
Camden International Film Festival Announces 2017 Festival Slate and an expanded Storyforms showcase of nonfiction VR CIFF opens with the World Premiere of Dustin Nakao Haider’s Shot in the Dark, produced by Michael Gottwald and Josh Penn of Court 13 (Beasts of the Southern Wild) Showtime Documentary Films joins as [...]
Points North Institute, MPBN and the Camden Opera House partner on landmark documentary event, THE VIETNAM WAR as part of CIFF Selects Camden, Maine [August 1, 2017] – The Points North Institute and the Camden Opera House will continue their monthly CIFF Selects series with a special sneak [...]
Projects Announced for Camden/TFI Filmmaker Retreat presented by CNN Films Today we announced the third annual filmmaker retreat in partnership with the Points North Institute and CNN Films. The Camden/TFI Retreat presented by CNN Films kicks off June 19 in Camden and Rockport, Maine and will run for six [...]
Points North Institute and the Camden Opera House screen RISK as part of CIFF Selects Camden, Maine [June 1, 2017] – The Points North Institute and the Camden Opera House will continue their monthly CIFF Selects series with RISK, the latest documentary from Academy Award-winning director Laura Poitras (CITIZENFOUR), [...]
CIFF Selects: UNDER THE SUN CIFF Selects returns to the Camden Opera House on Wednesday May 17 at 7pm for a screening of Vitaly Mansky's film Under the Sun, an in depth look at every day life in North Korea from a Director with unprecedented access. "My father says that Korea [...]
CIFF Featured Among MovieMaker Magazines 2017 Film Festivals Worth The Entry Fee CIFF is delighted to be included as one of MovieMaker Magazine 2017 Film Festivals worth the entry fee. Here is the excerpt from the article: CIFF’s reputation for top documentary programming means representatives from major doc distributors and funders [...]
CIFF Selects: THE AGE OF CONSQUENCES Camden, Maine [April 3, 2017] – The Points North Institute and the Camden Opera House will continue their monthly CIFF Selects with the award-winning documentary, THE AGE OF CONSEQUENCES, on Wednesday, April 19th at 7 PM at the Camden Opera House. The film will be [...]
Amherst Cinema Presents Glimpses: Shorts from the Camden International Film Festival CIFF Executive Director Ben Fowlie in person! Skype Q&As with filmmakers Nathan Truesdell (BALLOONFEST) and Jessica Kingdon (COMMODITY CITY). Free to Amherst Cinema Members. Free tickets available only at the box office (not online). Presented as part of the Bellwether [...]
2017 Summer Internships WHO WE ARE The Points North Institute is a media arts organization dedicated to providing a launching pad for the next generation of nonfiction storytellers while strengthening Maine communities through powerful nonfiction media. We got our start in 2005 with the founding of the Camden International Film Festival [...]
Statement on Proposed Funding Cuts to NEA, NEH and CPB Over the past few years, we have been privileged to receive four grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and several more from the NEA-supported Maine Arts Commission. These funds have been a critical part of the growth of the Camden [...]
CIFF Selects: SHERPA "Powerfully polemic...jaw-gapingly spectacular" – Hollywood Reporter A fight on Everest? It seemed incredible. But in 2013 news channels around the world reported an ugly brawl at 21,000ft as European climbers fled a mob of angry Sherpas. In 1953, New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay had reached [...]
Tips for Pitching Your Film Successfully - PDN Online Interview with Program Director Sean Flynn For documentary filmmakers, pitching forums provide one way to present their film projects to a group of distributors and film festival programmers. The format is pressured: Filmmakers have just seven minutes to pitch their projects, and [...]
Points North Institute Awarded Grants from Maine Office of Tourism and National Endowment for the Arts Maine Office of Tourism The Maine Office of Tourism has awarded the Points North Institute/Camden International Film Festival with a 2017 Special Event Grant of $50,000 as part of eight tourism marketing grants awarded in the most [...]
CIFF Selects: I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO **Please note this screening has been changed to February 22 at 7pm due to inclement weather CIFF is excited to announce the February selection for our CIFF Selects year round screening series is I Am Not Your Negro; a film exploring race relations throughout the [...]
CIFF Selects: FIRE AT SEA The 2017 CIFF Selects series will kick-off on January 18th at 7 PM with the Academy Award short-listed feature documentary, FIRE AT SEA, the first documentary film to win the top award at the Berlin International Film Festival. Situated 150 miles south of Sicily, Lampedusa has [...]
Festival founder and programmer Ben Fowlie will be in NYC on a panel organized by Union Docs with fellow documentary programmers from Silverdocs, Sundance and RIDM in Montreal. The panel, "Why festivals? Doc film fest programmers discuss" will take place on Sunday, January 16th at the Union Docs head quarters in Brooklyn. The organization presents [...]
Passes to the 2010 Camden International Film Festival and Points North Forum are now on sale! Purchase before August 25th and save big through our Early Bird Discount! Individual tickets and day passes to Points North will be available day of at the appropriate venues. Passes are the best way to experience the festival in [...]
Are you a filmmaker working in New England? Got a documentary in develop? Looking for feedback? CIFF has got an outlet for you. This year the Points North Forum, a 2 day networking event running concurrently with CIFF, will introduce the inaugural Points North Pitch. 6 projects from New England will have the opportunity to [...]
Last week SILVERDOCS announced an impressive slate of documentary films for their 2010 festival. Camden IFF's Ben Fowlie has been asked to be on the shorts jury along with Aron Gaudet from THE WAY WE GET BY and Elena Fortes from the amazing doc fest and traveling showcase, AMBULANTE. We are very honored to be [...]
Following the heels of the 2010 CINEMA EYE HONORS, Toronto IFF and Stranger Than Fiction's Thom Powers put together a list of 20 industry leaders worth keeping an eye on. Listed among the talented and hard-working leaders of the non-fiction frontier is Camden International Film Festival's Founder and Director, Ben Fowlie. Put simply by Power's, [...]
A sincere apology for the radio silence this past month. We've been extremely busy this New Year (Happy belated 2010!), holding events in association with the 2010 Cinema Eye Honors in NYC, as well as gearing up for what some are already saying is going to be a very dynamic year for docs! Although CIFF [...]
If you're a visitor of this blog you probably already know how much we love everyone involved with Wicked Delicate. Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis are two of the hardest working folks in the biz, and chances are you've seen King Corn or The Greening of Southie by now. But there's another reason why we [...]
Last week P.O.V. Executive Director, Simon Kilmurry announced the 2009 lineup for the renowned PBS documentary series. The diverse and award winning slew of films will surely satisfy the hunger of all nonfiction fans. Among the award-winning films and festival favorites we had to mention the addition of two of CIFF 08 favorites, Eric Daniel [...]
Eric Daniel Metzgar, documentary filmmaker and CIFF alum (Chances of the World Changing, Life.Support.Music) is on a new adventure snowshoeing across 150 miles in Labrador with the Innu Nation. I had a chance to speak with him a few nights before he set out on the venture at True/False a week ago after a screening [...]
Having lived and breathed non-traditional advertising for the past 3 years I've been finding that old habits die hard - my attention instantly gravitating toward the Media & Advertising section of the NYT - but useful threads can carry over into new areas of interest. Marketing is marketing after-all, and lots can be [...]
Great article in the New Yorker a couple weeks ago, "The Cobra: Inside a movie marketer's playbook" by Tad Friend, giving an glimpse into the mindset of mainstream film marketing, typical allocation budgets and the history of the craft. An interesting read and leaves one with the thought that some of the tools being used [...]
