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Camden International Film Festival Hosts Top Documentary Filmmakers And Emerging Talents As Awards Season Ramps Up

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When September rolls around, it means one thing for many of the top filmmakers in the world – time to hit the road. Venice, Telluride and Toronto come in rapid succession, to the point of overlapping.

But for documentary filmmakers eager to showcase their work, there’s another important stop to make in September: the Camden International Film Festival in mid-coast Maine.“We are strategically aligned to be right after Toronto and a week after Telluride, and we’re documentary only,” emphasizes Ben Fowlie, festival founder and executive director of the Points North Institute, which stages CIFF. “In terms of being able to highlight some of the larger [awards] contenders, so to speak, we can do it in a way that puts them on the main stage… This is just the moment for us to recognize the incredible artistry behind the documentary films that we’re going to be talking about at the end of the year or beginning of next year.”The online iteration of the 18th Camden International Film Festival wraps today, capping a 10-day schedule.

The in-person portion concluded last Sunday night, a four-day rush that featured some of the biggest names in documentary, and films with serious prospects of Oscar recognition.

Academy Award winner Laura Poitras brought All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, her film that just won the Golden Lion at Venice; two-time Oscar nominee Steve James shared his latest, A Compassionate Spy; Margaret Brown came with her upcoming Netflix release Descendant, winner of a Special Jury Award for Creative Vision at Sundance.

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