The 2015 Camden International Film Festival (CIFF) 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 screening.
Highlights of this year’s program include Locarno titles Machine Gun or Typewriter, The Ground We Won and Locarno winner Olmo and the Seagull (pictured above), fresh from TIFF: climate change doc This Changes Everything; and Points North alums Containment and Drawing the Tiger. In addition to the titles below, CIFF will screen a sidebar program of historic ethnographic films with support from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a program celebrating the home movie archives of Charles Norman Shay in collaboration with Northeast Historic Film, and the Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking Shorts List, whose titles will be announced at the festival next month.
The Camden International Film Festival will announce their Points North Documentary Forum lineup of films, speakers and panels on Thursday, August 27.
2015 CAMDEN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FEATURES
ABOVE AND BELOW
Nicolas Steiner | Switzerland, Germany | 2015
ALL THINGS ABLAZE
Oleksandr Technyski, Aleksey Solodunov, Dmitry Stoykov | Ukraine | 2014
ALMOST THERE
Aaron Wickenden, Dan Rybicky | United States | 2014
BEST OF ENEMIES
Morgan Neville, Robert Gordon | United States | 2014
BREAKING A MONSTER
Luke Meyer | United States | 2015
Filmmaker in attendance!
CONTAINMENT
Peter Galison, Robb Moss | United States | 2015
Filmmakers in attendance! Points North Alum!
DEMOCRATS
Camila Nielsson| Denmark | 2014
DRAWING THE TIGER
Amy Benson, Ramyata Limbu, Scott Squire | United States | 2015
Filmmakers in attendance! Points North Alum!
ELEPHANT’S DREAM
Kristof Bilsen | Belgium | 2014
Filmmaker in attendance!
FRAME BY FRAME
Alexandria Bombach, Mo Scarpelli | United States | 2015
Filmmakers in attendance!
FROM THIS DAY FORWARD
Sharon Shattuck | United States | 2015
Filmmaker in attendance!
GOING CLEAR: SCIENTOLOGY AND THE PRISON OF BELIEF
Alex Gibney | United States | 2015
Filmmaker in attendance!
THE GROUND WE WON
Christopher Pryor | New Zealand | 2015
HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD
Jerry Rothwell | United Kingdom, Canada | 2015
I AM THE PEOPLE (JE SUIS LE PEUPLE)
Anna Roussillon | France | 2014
IN TRANSIT
Albert Maysles, Lynn True, Nelson Walker, Ben Wu, David Usui | United States | 2015
Filmmakers in attendance!
KINGS OF NOWHERE
Betzabé García | Mexico | 2015
Filmmaker in attendance!
MACHINE GUN OR TYPEWRITER
Travis Wilkerson | United States | 2015
MERU
Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi | United States | 2015
OF THE NORTH
Dominic Gagnon | Canada | 2015
Filmmaker in attendance!
OLMO AND THE SEAGULL
Petra Costa, Lea Glob | Denmark, Brazil, Portugal, France | 2015
Producer in attendance!
PEACE OFFICER
Scott Christopherson, Brad Barber | United States | 2015
Filmmaker in attendance!
THE RUSSIAN WOODPECKER
Chad Gracia | Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States | 2015
SAILING A SINK SEA
Olivia Wyatt | United States | 2015
Filmmakmer in attendance!
TELL SPRING NOT TO COME THIS YEAR
Saeed Taji Farouky, Michael McEvoy | United Kingdom | 2015
(T)ERROR
Lyric R. Cabral, David Felix Sutcliffe | United States | 2015
Filmmaker in attendance!
THANK YOU FOR PLAYING
David Osit, Malika Zouhali-Worrall | United States | 2015
Filmmakers in attendance!
THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING
Avi Lewis | Canada, United States | 2015
THOSE WHO FEEL THE FIRE BURNING
Morgan Knibbe | Netherlands | 2014
TOTO AND HIS SISTERS
Alexander Nanau | Romania, Hungary, Germany | 2014
T-REX
Drea Cooper, Zackary Canepari | United States | 2015
Filmmaker in attendance!
UNCERTAIN
Anna Sandilands, Ewan McNicol | United States | 2015
Filmmakers in attendance!
UNTITLED Work-in-Progress Screening
Ian Cheney | United States | 2015
Filmmaker in attendance!
WESTERN
Bill Ross, Turner Ross | United States | 2015
Filmmaker in attendance!
2015 CAMDEN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL SHORT FILMS
70-SOME YEARS
Riley Hooper | United States | 2015
AMERICAN RENAISSANCE
Jarred Alterman, Ryan Scafuro | United States | 2015
BODY TEAM 12
David Darg | United States | 2015
CLAUDE LANZMANN: SPECTRES OF THE SHOAH
Adam Benzine | United Kingdom | 2015
CHOP MY MONEY
Theo Anthony | United States | 2014
DENALI
Ben Knight | United States | 2015
DIVER
Christoph Gelfand, Caroline Losneck | United States | 2015
Dirigo Short! Made in Maine!
ERIC, WINTER TO SPRING
Danya Abt | United States | 2014
THE FACE OF UKRAINE: CASTING OSKANA BAIUL
Kitty Green | Australia | 2015
FARM
Christoph Gelfand | United States | 2015
Dirigo Short! Made in Maine!
HERETIX: UP AND RUNNING
Francis Decky | United States | 2015
Dirigo Short! Made in Maine!
HOTEL 22
Elizabeth Lo | United States | 2014
THE LAND
Erin Davis | United States | 2015
THE LAST BARN DANCE
Ted Richardson, Jason Arthurs | United States | 2015
LAST PYRAMID
Dave Schachter | United States | 2015
Dirigo Short! Made in Maine!
LETTER TO SUBI
Genevieve Carmel | United States | 2015
LUCHADORA
River Finlay | United States, Mexico | 2014
THE MANY SAD FATES OF MR. TOLEDANO
Joshua Seftel | United States | 2015
MY GAL, ROSEMARIE
Jason Tippet | United States | 2015
NEW MISSION
Christopher Giamo | United States | 2014
OBJECT
Paulina Skibinska | Poland | 2015
OF THE UNKNOWN
Eva Weber | United Kingdom | 2014
PINK BOY
Eric Rockey | United States | 2015
THE REAGAN SHORTS
Pacho Velez | United States | 2015
Points North Alum!
SEEDING FEAR
Craig Jackson | Canada | 2015
SPEARHUNTER
Luke Poling, Adam Roffman | United States | 2014
TERRITORY
Eleanor Mortimer | United Kingdom | 2015
THINGS
Ben Rivers | United Kingdom | 2015Breaking A Monster
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2015 Camden International Film Festival Reveals Slate of Feature and Short Films
The 2015 Camden International Film Festival (CIFF) 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 screening.
Highlights of this year’s program include Locarno titles Machine Gun or Typewriter, The Ground We Won and Locarno winner Olmo and the Seagull (pictured above), fresh from TIFF: climate change doc This Changes Everything; and Points North alums Containment and Drawing the Tiger. In addition to the titles below, CIFF will screen a sidebar program of historic ethnographic films with support from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a program celebrating the home movie archives of Charles Norman Shay in collaboration with Northeast Historic Film, and the Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking Shorts List, whose titles will be announced at the festival next month.
The Camden International Film Festival will announce their Points North Documentary Forum lineup of films, speakers and panels on Thursday, August 27.
2015 CAMDEN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FEATURES
ABOVE AND BELOW
Nicolas Steiner | Switzerland, Germany | 2015
ALL THINGS ABLAZE
Oleksandr Technyski, Aleksey Solodunov, Dmitry Stoykov | Ukraine | 2014
ALMOST THERE
Aaron Wickenden, Dan Rybicky | United States | 2014
BEST OF ENEMIES
Morgan Neville, Robert Gordon | United States | 2014
BREAKING A MONSTER
Luke Meyer | United States | 2015
Filmmaker in attendance!
CONTAINMENT
Peter Galison, Robb Moss | United States | 2015
Filmmakers in attendance! Points North Alum!
DEMOCRATS
Camila Nielsson| Denmark | 2014
DRAWING THE TIGER
Amy Benson, Ramyata Limbu, Scott Squire | United States | 2015
Filmmakers in attendance! Points North Alum!
ELEPHANT’S DREAM
Kristof Bilsen | Belgium | 2014
Filmmaker in attendance!
FRAME BY FRAME
Alexandria Bombach, Mo Scarpelli | United States | 2015
Filmmakers in attendance!
FROM THIS DAY FORWARD
Sharon Shattuck | United States | 2015
Filmmaker in attendance!
GOING CLEAR: SCIENTOLOGY AND THE PRISON OF BELIEF
Alex Gibney | United States | 2015
Filmmaker in attendance!
THE GROUND WE WON
Christopher Pryor | New Zealand | 2015
HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD
Jerry Rothwell | United Kingdom, Canada | 2015
I AM THE PEOPLE (JE SUIS LE PEUPLE)
Anna Roussillon | France | 2014
IN TRANSIT
Albert Maysles, Lynn True, Nelson Walker, Ben Wu, David Usui | United States | 2015
Filmmakers in attendance!
KINGS OF NOWHERE
Betzabé García | Mexico | 2015
Filmmaker in attendance!
MACHINE GUN OR TYPEWRITER
Travis Wilkerson | United States | 2015
MERU
Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi | United States | 2015
OF THE NORTH
Dominic Gagnon | Canada | 2015
Filmmaker in attendance!
OLMO AND THE SEAGULL
Petra Costa, Lea Glob | Denmark, Brazil, Portugal, France | 2015
Producer in attendance!
PEACE OFFICER
Scott Christopherson, Brad Barber | United States | 2015
Filmmaker in attendance!
THE RUSSIAN WOODPECKER
Chad Gracia | Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States | 2015
SAILING A SINK SEA
Olivia Wyatt | United States | 2015
Filmmakmer in attendance!
TELL SPRING NOT TO COME THIS YEAR
Saeed Taji Farouky, Michael McEvoy | United Kingdom | 2015
(T)ERROR
Lyric R. Cabral, David Felix Sutcliffe | United States | 2015
Filmmaker in attendance!
THANK YOU FOR PLAYING
David Osit, Malika Zouhali-Worrall | United States | 2015
Filmmakers in attendance!
THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING
Avi Lewis | Canada, United States | 2015
THOSE WHO FEEL THE FIRE BURNING
Morgan Knibbe | Netherlands | 2014
TOTO AND HIS SISTERS
Alexander Nanau | Romania, Hungary, Germany | 2014
T-REX
Drea Cooper, Zackary Canepari | United States | 2015
Filmmaker in attendance!
UNCERTAIN
Anna Sandilands, Ewan McNicol | United States | 2015
Filmmakers in attendance!
UNTITLED Work-in-Progress Screening
Ian Cheney | United States | 2015
Filmmaker in attendance!
WESTERN
Bill Ross, Turner Ross | United States | 2015
Filmmaker in attendance!
2015 CAMDEN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL SHORT FILMS
70-SOME YEARS
Riley Hooper | United States | 2015
AMERICAN RENAISSANCE
Jarred Alterman, Ryan Scafuro | United States | 2015
BODY TEAM 12
David Darg | United States | 2015
CLAUDE LANZMANN: SPECTRES OF THE SHOAH
Adam Benzine | United Kingdom | 2015
CHOP MY MONEY
Theo Anthony | United States | 2014
DENALI
Ben Knight | United States | 2015
DIVER
Christoph Gelfand, Caroline Losneck | United States | 2015
Dirigo Short! Made in Maine!
ERIC, WINTER TO SPRING
Danya Abt | United States | 2014
THE FACE OF UKRAINE: CASTING OSKANA BAIUL
Kitty Green | Australia | 2015
FARM
Christoph Gelfand | United States | 2015
Dirigo Short! Made in Maine!
HERETIX: UP AND RUNNING
Francis Decky | United States | 2015
Dirigo Short! Made in Maine!
HOTEL 22
Elizabeth Lo | United States | 2014
THE LAND
Erin Davis | United States | 2015
THE LAST BARN DANCE
Ted Richardson, Jason Arthurs | United States | 2015
LAST PYRAMID
Dave Schachter | United States | 2015
Dirigo Short! Made in Maine!
LETTER TO SUBI
Genevieve Carmel | United States | 2015
LUCHADORA
River Finlay | United States, Mexico | 2014
THE MANY SAD FATES OF MR. TOLEDANO
Joshua Seftel | United States | 2015
MY GAL, ROSEMARIE
Jason Tippet | United States | 2015
NEW MISSION
Christopher Giamo | United States | 2014
OBJECT
Paulina Skibinska | Poland | 2015
OF THE UNKNOWN
Eva Weber | United Kingdom | 2014
PINK BOY
Eric Rockey | United States | 2015
THE REAGAN SHORTS
Pacho Velez | United States | 2015
Points North Alum!
SEEDING FEAR
Craig Jackson | Canada | 2015
SPEARHUNTER
Luke Poling, Adam Roffman | United States | 2014
TERRITORY
Eleanor Mortimer | United Kingdom | 2015
THINGS
Ben Rivers | United Kingdom | 2015
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7 Music Films on Sound Vision Program for 7th Milwaukee Film Festival incl. Ethan Hawke’s “Seymour: An Introduction”
The 7th Milwaukee Film Festival, announced the lineup for its music film program, Sound Vision. Now in its fourth year, Sound Vision features eight wide-ranging, music-driven films.
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Maryland Film Festival Unveils First 10 Films on 2015 Lineup
Maryland Film Festival revealed the first 10 films on the lineup for the upcoming 17th annual festival, which will take place May 6 to 10, 2015, in downtown Baltimore.
The first ten feature films announced for MFF 2015 include Stanley Nelson’s Black Panthers documentary, The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution; Kris Swanberg’s Unexpected; Olivia Wyatt’s look at Moken culture, Sailing a Sinking Sea; and Eugene Kotlyarenko’s rom-com, A Wonderful Cloud. Also announced for MFF 2015 is the world premiere of Stephen Cone’s coming-of-age drama Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party.
THE BLACK PANTHERS: VANGUARD OF THE REVOLUTION (Stanley Nelson) Master documentarian Stanley Nelson has demonstrated an unparalleled ability to bring history to life with films such as Freedom Summer; The Murder of Emmett Till; andJonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple. Here he turns his lens on the revolutionary Black Panther Party and the various cultural forces that worked to support or destroy the group, creating an essential portrait of a singular radical moment in the American experience.
BREAKING A MONSTER (Luke Meyer) Viral-video sensation Unlocking the Truth, a teenage metal buzz-band from Brooklyn, navigate the bizarre current state of the record industry in this fascinating, fist-pumping, and often hilarious documentary. Fresh from its premiere at SXSW, this exceptional rock doc follows the band as they sign a major-label record deal and are suddenly caught up in an adult-driven world of contracts, tours, interviews, and branding. From Luke Meyer, co-director of MFF 2006 hit Darkon.
FUNNY BUNNY (Alison Bagnall) The writer/director of The Dish & the Spoon returns with this offbeat, infectious mix of comedy and drama. Kentucker Audley stars as an obesity-awareness canvasser who strikes up a friendship with a wealthy, emancipated 19-year-old named Titty (Olly Alexander) and the animal-rights-activist object of Titty’s desire, Ginger (Joslyn Jensen). Co-starring Josephine Decker, Louis Cancelmi, and Anna Margaret Hollyman.
HENRY GAMBLE’S BIRTHDAY PARTY (Stephen Cone) A pool party celebrating the seventeenth birthday of Henry Gamble (Cole Doman), the son of a megachurch preacher (Pat Healy), sets the stage for this expertly observed ensemble drama. As sunny skies fade into moonlight, director Stephen Cone (The Wise Kids, Black Box) offers a subtle and insightful portrait of a community full of pressures and secrets —exploring identity, sexuality, and organized religion in the process. World premiere.
SAILING A SINKING SEA (Olivia Wyatt) This experimental documentary, which premiered at SXSW, looks at the traditional lifestyle of the Moken people, a seafaring community of Burma and Thailand. Olivia Wyatt’s gorgeous and immersive film transports viewers deep into the turquoise sea and onto thirteen different islands, giving us intimate access to a culture where shamans, mermaids, and sea gods collide with present-day practices. Executive-produced by Will Oldham.
STINKING HEAVEN (Nathan Silver) This ultra-dark comedy looks at a communal home for sober living in 1990s suburban New Jersey, which spirals into dysfunctional decline when an outsider arrives on the scene. Director Nathan Silver’s film boasts an uncompromising visual aesthetic that goes against the grain of contemporary indie filmmaking—not to mention a fantastic cast that includes Deragh Campbell, Hannah Gross, Keith Poulson, and Eleonore Hendricks.
TAB HUNTER CONFIDENTIAL (Jeffrey Schwarz) Top-notch documentary biographer Jeffrey Schwarz has captivated MFF audiences with definitive looks at iconic personalities William Castle, Vito Russo, and Divine. Now he delivers the warm and intimate story of 1950s Hollywood heartthrob Tab Hunter, who simultaneously balanced a stratospheric career on the silver screen with a secret life as a gay man. From his rise to stardom to his reinvention as a cult-film star with John Waters—and a number of fascinating surprises—it’s all here.
UNEXPECTED (Kris Swanberg) High-school science teacher Samantha (Cobie Smulders), already dealing with stress and uncertainty as her low-income school prepares to close, finds out she’s pregnant. When she discovers her favorite student Jasmine (Gail Bean) is also with child, the two form a tight and unconventional bond. From Kris Swanberg (whose earlier features Empire Builder and It was great, but I was ready to come home. both screened within MFF) comes this refreshing character study that mines honest emotions and the quiet battlefields of love and friendship for real beauty and insight.
WELCOME TO LEITH (pictured above) (Michael Beach Nichols, Christopher K. Walker) This edge-of-your-seat documentary follows the arrival of notorious white supremacist Craig Cobb to a small town in North Dakota, where he promptly buys up land for like-minded collaborators and disrupts town council meetings, leading to fears that he plans a neo-Nazi takeover. As his behavior escalates further into the outrageous and threatens to get violent, a once-placid community must decide how to react.
A WONDERFUL CLOUD (Eugene Kotlyarenko) When his ex-girlfriend visits him in Los Angeles to resolve some lingering business entanglements, Eugene seeks to revisit old feelings, and introduces her to an LA populated by a wild cast of artists, scenesters, and eccentrics. Variety called this gleefully anarchic romantic comedy “a raucous, wholly improvised 21st-century Annie Hall.” Starring director Kotlyarenko (whose 0s & 1s had its world premiere at MFF 2010) and Kate Lyn Sheil (Sun Don’t Shine, House of Cards).