Clifford Caines

Cliff Caines is an independent filmmaker from Northern Ontario, Canada - now based in Toronto. His films have screened internationally at festivals including the Toronto International Film Festival, CPH:DOX, DOK.fest Munich, and RIDM - the Montreal International Documentary Festival. His first feature A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE received an Honourable Mention for the Colin Low Award for Canadian Documentary at the 2015 DOXA Documentary Film Festival. His second feature WORKHORSE won the 2021 Canadian Screen Award for Best Cinematography in a Feature Length Documentary.

Caines holds a MFA in Studio Arts: Film Production (2005) from Concordia University, and an AOCAD in Integrated Media (2002) from the Ontario College of Art & Design (now OCAD University) where he has worked as an instructor in the Integrated Media program since 2006. He is also an alumnus of the 2012 TIFF Talent Lab, the 2015 RIDM DCM Talent Lab, and the DOC Institute 2020 Breakthrough Program.