Camden International Film Festival - Overview with Film Programmer Milton Guillén
[September 15, 2021] 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 slate of films included in the 17th edition of the festival, featuring a carefully curated selection of over 70 documentary films (features and shorts).
In this episode, Milton provides generous insight into how the program came together and added texture to some of the films in the different sections.
This year, the event will take place both physically (September 16 - 19th) and virtually, with an online edition of the program available to stream for North American audiences from September 16 - 26th.
FILMS HIGHLIGHTED IN THIS EPISODE 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!
MILTON GUILLÉN, FEATURED FILMMAKER AND PROGRAMMER
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.