Ben Fowlie

Ben Fowlie is the founder and director of the Camden International Film Festival, an annual documentary film festival that takes place each fall along the coast of Maine.

The festival is recognized as one of the Top 25 Film Festivals for Documentaries in the world. Ben is also the founder of the Points North Forum, a conference component which runs concurrently with the festival and includes past participants from HBO, A&E IndieFilms, BBC, PBS.Sundance and the Tribeca Film Institute.  Benjamin has been included in Thom Powers’ list 20 Under 40: Industry Leaders To Watch Out For and Maine Today Media’s 40 Under 40, Maine’s Emerging Leaders. Currently he sits on the nominating committee for the Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking and is a co-founder and programmer for The DocYard, a bi-weekly screening series held at the Brattle Theatre in Boston, MA. He has served as a juror and panelist at several film festivals, including SXSW, Silverdocs and the Sheffield Doc Fest.

Ben was featured in a recent issue of Maine Magazine.