Points North Institute Names Elise McCave Executive Director, Promotes Sean Flynn As 20th Camden International Film Festival Gets Underway
deadline.comThe 20thCamden International Film Festival in Maine – one of most highly-anticipated annual gatherings for the documentary community – has kicked off with some major news.
Elise McCave, head of film at Kickstarter, was announced Thursday night as the new executive director of the Points North Institute, the nonprofit that puts on the festival and many other artist programs.
McCave’s appointment caps a search process that began after PNI executive director Ben Fowlie, who founded the Camden International Film Festival, announced his resignation in January.
The institute has been run on an interim basis by Rick Rector, a PNI board member, while the institute conducted its search. “I am here standing on the cusp of a really exciting new adventure,” McCave said as the festival officially got underway. “I’m so thrilled to join the team at Points North Institute and to lead this organization into its third decade.” McCave told the audience at the festival’s Journey’s End venue, “In these really critical moments in the industry and in our world at large, the Points North Institute plays a unique and essential role identifying, investing in, nurturing and then exhibiting work with a real diversity of perspectives in an environment which invites dialogue — not always easy dialogue, but dialogue.
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