INTRODUCING CIFF LOVE LETTERS: Valentines day has come early! We’ve thought a lot this year about how we can build connections between audience members and filmmakers within a virtual space. One of the hardest things about this year for filmmakers, is that they have not been able to forge spontaneous connections with audiences and hear from them directly. If you’ve seen a film you have loved, click <a href="https://airtable.com/shrYRzigloM195wPc" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">HERE</a> to write a love letter to a filmmaker!

Every weekday, dozens of inmates are released on parole from Huntsville State Penitentiary, the largest prison release center in Texas. With a bus ticket voucher and $100 release check, most of them take in their first moments out with phone calls, cigarettes, and quiet reflection at the Greyhound station up the block. In this pivotal moment, between incarceration and freedom, a myriad of complicated emotions arise before the bus arrives to take them home.

Huntsville Station

Every weekday, inmates are released from Huntsville Penitentiary, taking in their first moments out with phone calls, cigarettes, and reflection at the nearby Greyhound station.

A Shape of Things to Come&nbsp;will screen virtually from October 2-12, 2020. Isolated environmentalist and homesteader Sundog lives off the grid surrounded by the vast Sonoran desert in this borderlands western. Far from civilization, he maintains a balance with the natural world around him: gardening, composting, and hunting for wild animals go hand-in-hand with smoking a toad’s psychedelic venom. Around his marooned shack, airplanes, helicopters, and border agents patrol the barren landscape, encroaching on his personal space. When new surveillance towers appear near his home, eco-terrorist hallucinations spawn to make space for this hybrid film’s creative choices. A SHAPE OF THINGS TO COMEs minimalist approach highlights the acoustic elements of the desert, as well as the all-encompassing dangers around it. Debut filmmakers Lisa Marie-Malloy, accompanied by veteran JP Sniadecki, anticipate the physical and psychological paradoxes of socially distancing, while revealing the possibilities of individualistic radical politics.&nbsp;(MG)

A Shape of Things to Come

A SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME is a borderlands Western that follows Sundog, an herbalist-hunter-homesteader who lives off the land in the Sonoran Desert. As Border Patrol encroaches on his relative freedom, he becomes increasingly unnerved and ventures beyond the bounds of his survivalism. With the first cinematic depiction of smoking a Sonoran toad’s psychedelic venom, and with an unsettling act of eco-terrorism, the figure of Sundog raises provocative questions about humanity's relation to the environment - and to itself - amidst the specter of global collapse.

Q+A A Shape of Things to Come: A Conversation with JP Sniadecki and Lisa Malloy, Moderated by Nicolás Pereda

A Shape of Things to Come (plays with Huntsville Station) + Q&A with JP Sniadecki and Lisa Malloy

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The 19th edition of the Camden International Film Festival will be held throughout venues in Maine from September 14-17 and online from September 18-25, 2023.

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