a night of knowing nothing

In this episode, we recap films from the Camden International Film Festival which just wrapped up over the past weekend. 

I sat with a dear friend of the podcast,  Bronte Stahl, a filmmaker and producer from Westerly RI who is a frequent attendee at CIFF and also part of the festival's screening committee. 

Bronte and I studied documentary in film school many moons ago at the  European master's program, DocNomads.  Since then has participated in a few fellowships and residencies including Points North Institute, Flaherty Seminar, UnionDocs, and Open City Assembly Lab. 

His short films have been screened at international film festivals including Rotterdam and DocLisboa. And his current projects are supported by Sundance and DocSociety, among others.

We discuss several films from the Camden International Film Festival including

• NORTH BY CURRENT by Angelo Madsen Minax 
• EXPEDITION CONTENT by Ernst Karel and Veronika Kusumaryati 
• TERRA FEMME by Courtney Stephens 
• FAYA DAYI by Jessica Beshir
• Spirits and Rocks, an Azorean Myth by Aylin Gokmen
• A NIGHT OF KNOWING NOTHING by Payal Kapadia 
• ASCENSION by Jessica Kingdon 

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Featuring a conversation with Payal Kapadia about her remarkably brave and powerful film A NIGHT OF KNOWING NOTHING which took home awards at Cannes, TIFF, and CIFF. Here, she discusses with us her artistic approach, sources of inspiration, and the freedom she finds in documentary filmmaking.

Moderated by Aylin Gökmen

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The Fall Film Festival season has begun! And to kick things off, we invited Milton Guillén, a programmer from the Camden International Film Festival, to take us through the 17th edition of the festival lineup, featuring over 70 documentary films (features and shorts). 

In this episode, Milton provides a peek into how the program came together and adds texture to some of the films in the different sections. 

This year, the festival will take place both physically (September 16 - 19th) as well as virtually. An online edition of the program will be available to stream for North American audiences from September 16 - 26th. 

It's a truly excellent curation of films and for folks who are unable to attend in person, please do consider streaming via their online platform as it is a wonderful way to support a festival that has long had a tremendous impact on advancing the documentary film genre.

FILMS DISCUSSED INCLUDE:

• SPIRITS AND ROCKS AN AZOREAN MYTH by Aylin Gökmen
• MOTORCYCLIST'S HAPPINESS WON'T FIT INTO HIS SUIT by Gabriel Herrera
• DATURA'S AUBADE by Jean-Jacques Martinod and Bretta C. Walker 
• A NIGHT OF KNOWING NOTHING by Payal Kapadia
• FAYA DAYI by Jessica Beshir
• OSTROV - LOST ISLAND by Svetlana Rodina and Laurent Stoop 
• PROCESSION by Robert Green
• MAGALUF GHOST TOWN by Miguel Ángel Blanca
• NORTH BY CURRENT by Angelo Madsen Minax
• LAST DAYS AT SEA by Venice Atienza
• ROOTS by Tea Lukač
• TERRA FEMME by Courtney Stephens
• and others! 

We covered a lot of ground!
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ABOUT MILTON GUILLÉN
Milton Guillén is an award-winning Nicaraguan filmmaker and programmer whose work centers on the cinematic intersections of de-colonial ethnographic research and affect. Milton’s films have screened globally at CPH: DOX, Hot Docs, DOK Leipzig, Rooftop Films, and more. In 2017, his debut feature, The Maribor Uprisings, co-directed with Maple Razsa, received the Society for Visual Anthropology’s Best Feature Award. Milton recently received support from the Tribeca Film Institute and ITVS for his project, On the Move. He also was named a North Star fellow at the Points North Institute, a MediaMaker Fellow at Bay Area Video Coalition, a Kartemquin Diverse Voices in Documentary, and is the recipient of several international artists’ residencies and grants.

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