Apply to be part of our team!

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 [...]

2018-06-21T16:08:01-04:00

Announcing our 2017 Award Winners and 2018 CIFF Dates!

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 [...]

2017-09-18T15:24:19-04:00

Camden International Film Festival Announces 14 Documentary Filmmakers selected for its 2017 Artist Programs

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 [...]

2017-09-06T20:10:03-04:00

The Violence of Civilization Without Secrets

Adam Khalil and Zack Khalil (Ojibway) are filmmakers and artists from Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan and currently based in Brooklyn, New York. Their work subverts traditional forms of ethnography through humor, transgression, and innovative documentary practice. Their films and installations have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, Walker Arts Center, e-flux, UnionDocs, and [...]

2017-08-28T20:09:34-04:00

CIFF passes on sale with Earlybird Discounts until July 1

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/. [...]

2017-05-31T16:59:28-04:00

Call for Entries – Storyforms: Remixing Reality

Camden International Film Festival accepting submissions for Storyforms, an exhibition of VR and immersive nonfiction storytelling May 25, 2017 [Camden, Maine] – The Camden International Film Festival (CIFF) is now accepting submissions of immersive nonfiction media for its exhibition, Storyforms: Remixing Reality. Launched in 2016 as part of the organization’s expansion [...]

2017-05-25T17:49:00-04:00

CIFF Selects: UNDER THE SUN, May 17 at 7pm

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 [...]

2017-05-25T18:21:46-04:00

Points North Institute at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival

Points North Institute at the Tribeca Film Festival Ben, Angelica, Sean and Samara were on the ground in New York City for the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival, where four Points North alumni premiered their feature documentaries after workshopping. The festival weekend kicked off with a Nonfiction Happy Hour, organized with our [...]

2017-05-23T13:39:32-04:00

CIFF Featured Among MovieMaker Magazines 2017 Film Festivals Worth The Entry Fee

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 [...]

2017-05-23T13:39:32-04:00

CIFF Selects: THE AGE OF CONSEQUENCES

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 [...]

2017-05-23T13:39:32-04:00

Amherst Cinema Presents Glimpses: Shorts from the Camden International Film Festival

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 [...]

2017-05-23T13:39:32-04:00

2017 Summer Internships Available – Apply by May 22

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 [...]

2017-05-23T13:39:32-04:00

Statement on Proposed Funding Cuts to NEA, NEH and CPB

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 [...]

2017-05-23T13:39:32-04:00

CIFF Selects: SHERPA

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 [...]

2017-05-23T13:39:32-04:00

CIFF Selects: I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO

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 [...]

2017-05-23T13:39:32-04:00

CIFF Selects: FIRE AT SEA

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 [...]

2017-05-23T13:39:35-04:00

2016 Camden International Film Festival and Points North Winners

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 [...]

2017-05-23T13:39:35-04:00

Announcing Selections for the 2016 Shortform Editing Residency and Storyforms Exhibition of VR and Immersive Media

Points North Institute announces selections for Shortform Editing Residency and Storyforms, a new showcase of VR and interactive media at CIFF The Points North Institute has unveiled the lineup for Storyforms, its inaugural showcase of interactive and immersive nonfiction media that takes viewers beyond traditional screens. The program includes six virtual [...]

2017-05-23T13:39:35-04:00

Camden International Film Festival Announces 2016 Festival Slate

Camden International Film Festival Announces 2016 Festival Slate CIFF opens with Morgan Spurlock’s RATS Showtime Documentary Films joins as 2016 Title Sponsor CAMDEN, Maine, August 23, 2016 – The Camden International Film Festival (CIFF) has announced the slate of feature and short films for its 12th edition, which will take [...]

2017-05-23T13:39:35-04:00

CIFF Selects: THE FIXER

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 [...]

2017-05-23T13:39:36-04:00

Announcing Shortform Residency for Shorts or Episodic Series

Points North Institute Announces Shortform Editing Residency For Filmmakers and Journalists Working on Documentary Shorts or Episodic Series The Points North Institute opened submissions for the inaugural Shortform Editing Residency, a new program supporting filmmakers and journalists working on documentary shorts or episodic series. The week-long residency will take place September 11-18, bringing four selected filmmakers to Maine [...]

2017-05-23T13:39:36-04:00

CIFF launches the Points North Institute at Summer Preview Party

Camden International Film Festival expands into the Points North Institute [Camden, Maine] July 6, 2016:  The Camden International Film Festival (CIFF) expands their year-round support of documentary filmmakers and media artists through the establishment of the Points North Institute, a launching pad for the next generation of nonfiction storytellers. Building on [...]

2017-05-23T13:39:36-04:00

CIFF and Points North Set 2016 Dates: September 15 to 18

  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 [...]

2017-05-23T13:39:36-04:00

CIFF and Points North 2015 Winners

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 [...]

2017-05-23T13:39:36-04:00

Camden International Film Festival 2015 Slate

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 [...]

2017-05-23T13:39:36-04:00

DEADLINE EXTENDED to 8/28: CMG Action Grant pitch meetings @ CIFF | $5-10k for environmental video or short doc

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 [...]

2017-05-23T13:39:36-04:00

CIFF Selects: See AMY at Camden Opera House August 19

  From BAFTA award­-winning director Asif Kapadia (SENNA), AMY will screen at the Camden Opera House at 7 p.m. Wednesday, August 19th, as the last of the Camden International Film Festival’s monthly CIFF Selects documentary series. AMY tells the incredible story of six-time Grammy­ winner Amy Winehouse, in her own words. Featuring extensive unseen archive footage [...]

2017-05-23T13:39:36-04:00

Immediate Job Opening: Festival Hub Manager

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 [...]

2017-05-23T13:39:36-04:00

CIFF unveils the inaugural Camden/TFI Retreat presented by CNN Films!

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, [...]

2017-05-23T13:39:36-04:00

Aging in Maine Statewide Screening Tour!

  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. [...]

2017-05-23T13:39:36-04:00

CIFF Selects: PLANETARY on Earth Day at the Camden Opera House!

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 [...]

2017-05-23T13:39:36-04:00

CIFF Selects at Camden Opera House! CIFF's 2014 Audience Award Winner WILD HOME returns!

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!) [...]

2017-05-23T13:39:36-04:00

2014 Camden International Film Festival and Points North Winners!

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 [...]

2017-05-23T13:39:37-04:00

2014 Camden International Film Festival Films Announced!

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 [...]

2017-05-23T13:39:37-04:00

Call for Submissions for the first AJ+ Pitch at the Camden International Film Festival

The Camden International Film Festival (CIFF) announces their partnership with AJ+, the new digital platform from Al Jazeera Media Network that commissions original, innovative and engaging short documentaries from journalists and filmmakers around the world.  AJ+ in association with the Camden International Film Festival will select five independent filmmakers who will be given the chance to pitch their [...]

2017-05-23T13:39:37-04:00

CIFF Announces Points North Fellowship

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

2017-05-23T13:39:37-04:00

CIFF Aging in Maine Screening Tour

  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 [...]

2017-05-23T13:39:37-04:00

CIFF's Sean Flynn reflects on the Sundance New Frontier Program

CIFF's Ben Fowlie, Caroline von Kuhn and Sean Flynn headed to Park City last month for the Sundance Film Festival. You can check out Sean Flynn's coverage for indieWIRE of Sundance's New Frontiers program below as he asks us: Are Interactive Films Transforming Modern Storytelling? [Editor's note: This article ran in indieWIRE on January 28, [...]

2017-05-23T13:39:37-04:00

Submissions Now Open!

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

2014-01-29T12:49:49-05:00

Donate to CIFF

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 [...]

2017-05-23T13:39:37-04:00

10×10 Interview – Mardi Gras: Made in China

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 [...]

2017-05-23T13:39:37-04:00

CIFF Announces 10×10 Screening Series

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 [...]

2017-05-23T13:39:37-04:00

CIFF is "Cool!"

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 [...]

2013-11-11T16:36:50-05:00

CIFF Audience Survey

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.

2013-10-14T09:57:44-04:00

CIFF 2013 Awards Announced

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 [...]

2017-05-23T13:39:37-04:00

CIFF announces program for fifth Points North Documentary Forum

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 [...]

2017-05-23T13:39:37-04:00

Camden International Film Festival 2013 Program Announced!

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 [...]

2017-05-23T13:39:37-04:00

Announcing the Aging in Maine Engagement Summit

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 [...]

2017-05-23T13:39:37-04:00

Passes for CIFF 2013 are now ON SALE! Buy them before Friday, August 16th for Early Bird Prices!

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 [...]

2017-05-23T13:39:37-04:00

Announcing the New York Times Op-Docs Pitch at CIFF

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 [...]

2017-05-23T13:39:37-04:00

Join us at our Summer Fundraiser Party!

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 [...]

2017-05-23T13:39:37-04:00

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