Camden International Film Festival: Recap with Friend and Filmmaker Bronte Stahl
[October 01, 2021] A recap of standout films from the Camden International Film Festival. We 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 served on the festival's screening committee this year. Bronte is a graduate of the European master's program, DocNomads. 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
OUR MEMORY BELONGS TO US by Rami Farah
ASCENSION by Jessica Kingdon
BRONTE STAHL, FILMMAKER AND PRODUCER
Bronte Stahl is a filmmaker from Westerly, RI, USA. He graduated from the European itinerant MFA program DocNomads and was a fellow at the Points North Institute, Flaherty Seminar, UnionDocs, and Open City Assembly Lab. As a producer, he is compelled to elevate emerging international voices in non-fiction cinema. This work has been supported by the Sundance Documentary Fund, DocSociety US, and LEF Foundation, among others. The films he directs including Terril (2019) and Lungs (2017) have screened at festivals such as Rotterdam, DocLisboa, Pravo Ljudski, Leuven, Uppsala, and won prizes at Minsk and Porto Post/Doc.