Filmmaker in Focus

Filmmaker in Focus is a video podcast of the Maine Outdoor Film Festival, where MOFF interns and emerging media makers produce interviews with accepted MOFF filmmakers.
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John Jenkins, Filmmaker of I Need to Get Out, a 2022 Maine Outdoor Film Festival selection, chats with MOFF’s Meg Friel about his path to becoming a filmmaker, creating films...

November, 2023

Amanda Sosnowski, Filmmaker of GHOST PONDS, a 2022 Maine Outdoor Film Festival selection, sits down with MOFF’s Nick Callanan to share her passion for environmental film, the...

August, 2023

Hannah Walsh, Filmmaker of SKIN SWIMMER,, a 2022 Maine Outdoor Film Festival Selection, speaks with MOFF’s Meg Friel about the process of filming in below freezing temperatur...

June, 2023

Filmmaker Lamia Lazrak and Animator Josie Colt of Unsinkable Ships, a 2022 Maine Outdoor Film Festival selection, sit down with MOFF’s Meg Friel to discuss how they began in ...

May, 2023

Jessica Wilde, Filmmaker of Dreams Inherited, a 2022 Maine Outdoor Film Festival selection, speaks with MOFF’s Meg Friel about her sail up the Eastern Seaboard, her journey t...

April, 2023

David Stiles’ film FLOW is a profile of Maine Trail Builders: a crew of trail builders working together to learn all about pitch, drainage, and berms, while helping riders of...

March, 2023

Emily Hazelwood is a scientist and key cast member of the MOFF film Faka’apa’apa. In this episode, we watch the short film and then MOFF’s Maddi Roy speaks with Emily. Or...

January, 2022

Torsten Brinkema’s 2021 MOFF film Tree To Board won best student film at the festival. In this episode of Filmmaker in Focus, we enjoy the film then MOFF’s Maddi Roy ha...

January, 2022

Juliette Sutherland is the filmmaker of The Surfboard Builder. In this episode of Filmmaker in Focus, we enjoy the short film, and then MOFF’s Maddi Roy talks with the filmma...

January, 2022

Filmmakers Zac Hoffman and Casey Dubois speak with MOFF’s Maddi Roy about their film CRUX.  Or listen to the podcast on Spotify:  Filmmaker in Focus is a video podcast ...

October, 2021

In this episode, we watch RECYCLED TO RIDE and MOFF Director Nick Callanan speaks with the film’s co-creator Anna Wilder Burns. Or listen to the podcast on Spotify: Filmmaker...

December, 2020

Ben Keller, filmmaker of FOR BEER’S SAKE (2020 MOFF winner of Best Maine Film), sits down with MOFF Director Nick Callanan for a brief conversation at the No Umbrella Media s...

October, 2020

Patrick Bonsant’s film STACKPOLE BRIDGE: THE STORY IN THE STONE tells the story of a neighborhood group that fought for 10 years to save a historic, 1847 stone arch bridge in...

September, 2018

Ben Keller, the filmmaker behind iMMERSiON sits down with MOFF Director Nick Callanan for a brief conversation at the No Umbrella Media studios in Portland. Or listen to the podcas...

October, 2017

In this episode of Filmmaker in Focus, MOFF Director Nick Callanan sits down with Rick Groleau, the filmmaker behind ‘The Town That Moved a Mountain (Then Forgot it Did)̵...

October, 2017

Rory Strunk, the producer behind, ‘Defoe’s Way’, sits down with MOFF Director Nick Callanan for a brief conversation at the No Umbrella Media studios in Portland....

October, 2017