Camden International Film Festival passes now on sale with early bird discount until July 1 May 25, 2017 [Camden, Maine] – The Points North Institute also announced today that passes to the 2017 Camden International Film Festival and Points North Forum are now on sale through the organization’s website: https://pointsnorthinstitute.org/ciff/box-office/. [...]

2016 Camden International Film Festival and Points North Winners The Camden International Film Festival (CIFF) has announced the winners of the 2016 Festival, which took place September 15 to 18 in Camden, Rockport and Rockland, Maine. Under its new banner, the Points North Institute, the organization has expanded artist programs such [...]

CIFF Selects: VANISHING SAIL on May 19 at the Camden Opera House! The Camden International Film Festival and the Camden Opera House will screen VANISHING SAIL, followed by a skype Q&A with the director on May 19 at 7 PM as the next title in the popular CIFF Selects monthly series. [...]

Camden International Film Festival and the Camden Opera House bring HOW TO LET GO OF THE WORLD AND LOVE ALL THE THINGS CLIMATE CAN’T CHANGE from Josh Fox (Oscar-nominated director of GASLAND) to the COH on Thursday, April 14 at 7 pm as the next installment of the popular series CIFF Selects. HOW TO LET GO OF THE [...]

Camden International Film Festival and the Camden Opera House are bringing back the popular monthly series CIFF Selects to Camden one Thursday each month (except for one Wednesday in July) through August - March 17, April 14, May 19, June 16, Wednesday July 20 and August 18. To kick off the series, which will launch [...]

  The 12th Camden International Film Festival and Points North Documentary Forum will be held in Camden, Rockport and Rockland from September 15 to 18, 2016. This past September, CIFF and Points North hosted over 100 filmmakers, film industry representatives and journalists, with filmmakers in attendance at nearly every screening and more development opportunities for [...]

The Festival closed Sunday evening with the U.S. premiere of THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING straight from its world premiere at Toronto. Prior to the screening, CIFF hosted its annual Awards Ceremony, presenting four awards for documentary features and one for a documentary short, in addition to its Points North Pitch Award and three grants awarded through a [...]

The Camden International Film Festival (CIFF) has announced the slate of feature and short films for its 11th edition, which will take place September 17-20, 2015 throughout Camden, Rockport and Rockland, Maine. CIFF will present over 60 features and short films from across the globe, the country and the state, with filmmakers attending nearly every [...]

We're excited to announced a new partnership between Camden International Film Festival (CIFF) and the Conservation Media Group (CMG) to award at least one $5,000-$10,000 grant for a project that uses video to create measurable action in ocean conservation or sustainable energy. This grant is open to applicants worldwide, including both individual filmmakers and organizations looking for [...]

Would you like to be at the heart of the Camden International Film Festival this year? Are you a well-organized, gracious person who likes working with the public? We need a dynamic, engaging, responsible Festival Hub Manager who will be ready to welcome all attendees to CIFF. The Hub Manager will work for several hours [...]

  The 2015 Sundance Winner CARTEL LAND will screen at the Camden Opera House at 7 p.m. Wednesday, July 15, as part of the Camden International Film Festival’s monthly CIFF Selects documentary series. CARTEL LAND is a riveting, on-the-ground look at the journeys of two modern-day vigilante groups and their shared enemy: the murderous Mexican [...]

We are thrilled to finally be able to unveil the launch of a filmmaker retreat in partnership with Tribeca Film Institute (TFI) and CNN Films. The five-day Camden/TFI Retreat, presented by CNN Films, will kick off today in Camden and Rockport, Maine and will provide mentorship and guidance to five U.S. filmmaking teams focused on creative, [...]

DONATE to come to our 2015 Preview Party on Wednesday, July 8 at Brewster Point Barn and RSVP today! This year, in addition to a sneak preview of the 2015 films, we have filmmakers and a behind-the-scenes look at what CIFF's got up its sleeve for this year! We believe that CIFF and Points North [...]

  CIFF's 2015 Aging in Maine screening tour is bringing award-winning documentary films and discussions to more than twenty different communities between April and July. The tour is part of a two-year program sponsored by Camden National Bank, bringing together nonprofit leaders, healthcare professionals and community leaders from across the state to explore aging-related issues. [...]

CIFF Selects returns to Camden! We're partnering with the Camden Opera House and SundanceNow Doc Club to bring back CIFF Selects, a monthly documentary series to Camden one Wednesday each month, March through August. On April 22 at 7 PM, Camden joins 70 cities around the world in screening PLANETARY on Earth Day, released by long-time CIFF supporter Vimeo! Straight to Camden [...]

CIFF Selects returns to Camden! We're partnering with the Camden Opera House and SundanceNow Doc Club to bring back CIFF Selects, a monthly documentary series to Camden one Wednesday each month, March through August. The series kicks off on Wed, March 25 at 7 PM with CIFF 2014 favorite WILD HOME! Jack and Robert Schurman's WILD HOME (Dirigo Doc! Made in Maine!) [...]

The Camden International Film Festival announced the award winning films from its tenth edition, which marked the end of a four-day weekend that included the screening of over 70 films from dozens of countries, as well as the 6th Points North Documentary Forum. The festival hosted over 150 filmmakers and industry leaders, with filmmakers in attendance for [...]

The Camden International Film Festival (CIFF) has announced its slate of feature and short films in their 10th festival taking place September 25– 28, 2014 throughout Camden, Rockport and Rockland, Maine.  CIFF will present over 60 features and short films from all across the globe and from our very own Maine, with filmmakers in attendance [...]

The Points North Fellowship enhances and expands upon the well-established Points North Pitch, a unique opportunity to pitch documentary works-in-progress to an international delegation of funders, commissioning editors and producers before a live audience. Submissions are open until July 18, 2014. Filmmakers, send us your works-in-progress! For more information, visit www.camdenfilmfest.org/pointsnorth

  Camden International Film Festival launches the Aging in Maine Screening Tour, a new statewide program that brings screenings of award-winning documentary films and discussions to more than ten different communities between March and July 2014. The tour is the second part of CIFF’s inaugural Engagement Summit: Aging in Maine, a unique program that connects [...]

The Camden International Film Festival is now accepting submissions for the 2014 festival! If you've got a film, we wanna see it! Submit now, submit here: http://www.camdenfilmfest.org/submit

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The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Acting Chairman Joan Shigekawa announced last week that the Camden International Film Festival (CIFF) will receive an NEA Art Works grant in the amount of $10,000. CIFF is one of 895 organizations to be recognized nationwide, and one of only 11 grants awarded in the state of Maine. [...]

2014 will be a special year for the Camden International Film Festival. January marks the start of an exciting year-long celebration of our 10th festival, and a commemoration of a decade's worth of bringing the very best documentary films and filmmakers to Maine. We hope you will join us in this celebration, and will consider [...]

10x10 Interview with David Redmon Director, Mardi Gras: Made in China  1. Can you talk a bit about why you two decided to focus your life and careers on making documentary films? An overwhelming number of sociologists use documentaries to teach in their courses, yet 99% of sociology teachers do not encourage video ethnography as a legitimate research [...]

The Camden International Film Festival and The Strand Theatre celebrate the upcoming 10th edition of CIFF with 10 for 10, a monthly screening series co-presented by and held at The Strand Theatre in Rockland, Maine. Each month CIFF will bring back a highly acclaimed documentary from past festivals, or share a new film fresh from [...]

Moviemaker Magazine announced the list of the coolest film festivals in the world and the Camden International Film Festival was one of five doc festivals listed! Other fests include our friends, True / False, DocNYC and Sheffield Doc/Fest. Moviemaker stated that "with an estimated population of 4,847, CIFF is one of the best small-town festivals [...]

In order for us to refine what we do, we need your help! If you attended CIFF this year, please take one minute to fill out this very simple audience survey. As always, we greatly appreciate your support. Click here for the 2013 CIFF Audience Survey.

The Camden International Film Festival announced the award winning films from its ninth edition, which marked the end of a four-day weekend that included the screening of over 70 films from dozens of countries, as well as the 5th Points North Documentary Forum. The festival hosted over 100 filmmakers and industry leaders, with filmmakers in attendance for almost [...]

The Camden International Film Festival (CIFF) has unveiled the lineup for its Points North Documentary Forum. Now in its fifth year, the Forum has quickly become the largest gathering in New England of filmmakers, key decision makers and thought leaders in the documentary field.  The three-day conference program runs concurrently with the festival from September [...]

Camden International Film Festival Announces 2013 Feature & Short Films including special Academy Programs and Internet Privacy Panel The Camden International Film Festival (CIFF) has announced its slate of feature films taking place September 26– 29, 2013 throughout Camden, Rockport and Rockland, Maine. CIFF will present over 65 features and short films from all across [...]

The Genius of Marian trailer from Banker White on Vimeo. The Camden International Film Festival  is proud to announce its first annual Engagement Summit, a unique program developed in partnership with Working Films that will connect documentary filmmakers with Maine-based nonprofit leaders to develop community-based social action campaigns tied to documentary film screenings. The inaugural [...]

The Camden International Film Festival offers two passes for attendees who want to experience it all. The Festival Pass grants admission to all festival screenings and all events associated with CIFF’s Points North Documentary Forum.  The VIP Pass grants the same admission as the Festival Pass plus all special events and invitation-only parties. Passes are [...]

In collaboration with The New York Times, we are excited to announce the first Op-Docs pitch event in North America. Documentary filmmakers from the United States are invited to submit their ideas for short documentaries that fit the editorial and creative scope of the New York Times Op-Docs series. Op-Docs is the Times’ forum for [...]

Join us for an exclusive sneak peek of this years lineup!  Our Summer Fundraiser Party will be held on July 10th at the Rockport Opera House. Your support will help bring some of the year's best films and filmmakers to Midcoast Maine. We hope to see you there! For more information or to RSVP, click here.  If you can't attend [...]