POINTS NORTH FELLOWSHIP
The Points North Fellowship is a unique opportunity for six filmmakers (or filmmaking teams) to accelerate the development of their feature-length documentary projects through a combination of funding, focused mentorship, workshops, industry meetings and a public pitch session at the Camden International Film Festival.
The Points North Fellowship includes:
- A cash stipend
- (2) All Access passes to the Camden International Film Festival
- (5) nights of accommodations for two during the festival
- (1) round trip flight to Maine, plus local transportation
- (2) tickets to the Cinema Eye Honors award ceremony and invitations to the
- CIFF-sponsored Nominees Party (January 2018)
- (2) nights of accommodations in NYC
Earlybird Deadline: June 7 @ 11:59pm | Submission Fee: $35
Extended Deadline: July 12 @ 11:59pm | Submission Fee: $50
The Points North Fellowship application follows the guidelines established by the IDA’s Documentary Core Application Project.
The fellowship begins with two full days of intensive pitch training and focused mentorship with industry veterans prior to the start of the festival on September 13-14. These sessions will prepare filmmakers to pitch their projects to an international panel of funders, broadcasters, distributors and producers before a live audience at the Points North Pitch on September 16. Each pitch lasts exactly 7 minutes, followed by 12 minutes of feedback from the panel.
Following the festival, all Points North Fellows will receive a ticket to the Cinema Eye Honors (held in mid-January 2017), an invitation to CIFF’s annual Cinema Eye Nominees Party and two nights of accommodations in New York. Taking place four months after the pitch, these events give Fellows an opportunity to connect with the wider documentary community and follow up on their pitches by setting up targeted one-on-one meetings with industry delegates.
2016 POINTS NORTH FELLOWS
Untitled Safer Schools Project
Untitled Safer Schools Project UNTITLED SAFER SCHOOLS PROJECT explores the landscape of 21st century school security in the United States, illuminating the complex ways in which we as a nation struggle to understand and prevent violence, and endeavor to create safer schools. Charting the paths of architects, entrepreneurs, security consultants, [...]
Midnight Traveler
Midnight Traveler MIDNIGHT TRAVELER follows the struggles of a family of Afghan filmmakers on the run from the Taliban. Told from refugee-Director Hassan Fazili’s unique perspective, their story provides unprecedented access to the refugee experience and its portrayal in Western media. Date: September 14-18 Time: 10:00am - 8:00pm [...]
Jacinta
Jacinta JACINTA is a portrait of a family in Maine that is fractured by a cycle of addiction, incarceration, and crime. Date: September 14-18 Time: 10:00am - 8:00pm Location: Storyforms Barn, 21 Winter St., Rockland
Hwangsa
Hwangsa HWANGSA is a cinematic portrait of enormous dust storms, hazardous air quality, and the stories of the people along the path of the dust as it travels around the globe. Touching down in cities and towns from the Taklamakan Desert of Western China to the shores of California, we [...]
Area 2
Area 2 Over 100 African American men claim to have been tortured by Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge and his “Midnight Crew” of detectives between 1972 and 1991. AREA 2 explores the Chicago police torture saga through the stories of a broad spectrum of people connected to it, many of [...]
Printed Circuit
Not far from Los Angeles, lies the unfinished California City. In this grid of thousands of crumbling streets, former LA gang members try to reinvent themselves, while being constantly haunted by their turbulent past.
The Mountain and the Magic City
The Mountain and the Magic City In the shadow of a northern mountain, a place once known as The Magic City stands on the brink of collapse, abandoned by industry and torn apart by a national park that threatens to unite or divide it. This is the story of what [...]
A Taste of Sky
A Taste Of Sky In the dizzying heights of Bolivia's capital of La Paz a gastronomical revolution is offering the possibility of hope to the country’s impoverished youth. We follow the trials and tribulations of GUSTU, the innovative cooking school and world-class restaurant of South America's poorest country. [...]
Points North gave my documentary, The Sensitives, the kind of introduction to the industry that filmmakers dream of. Not only was it the conduit for relationships with broadcasters, funders, and colleagues that continue to this day but also an otherwise impossible chance for honest feedback and discussion from the who’s-who of documentary institutions.
The Points North program helped us to distill the essence of my film into the powerful and engaging pitch needed to get funders, distributors, and broadcasters to pay attention. Through their workshop and practice sessions, we were able to fashion a key that opened these locks.
The Points North Fellowship launched not just our documentary project, but us as filmmakers, for the long term. My team got to sit down and really talk with major broadcasters and funders, festival programmers as well as drink beer with some of the filmmakers we admire most in the world. I feel like I am now officially part of this bigger documentary community. Camden might be a small town, but CIFF is doing BIG things for film!
