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Cliff Caines | Director, Producer

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 from Concordia University, and an AOCAD in Integrated Media from the Ontario College of Art & Design. He is also an alumnus of the 2012 TIFF Talent Lab, the 2015 RIDM DCM Talent Lab, and the DOC Institute 2020 Breakthrough Program. 

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Ryan Randall | Director of Photography

Ryan A. Randall is an active cinematographer and educator based in Ontario. An associate member of the Canadian Society of Cinematographers, he has been shooting commercials, documentaries, short films, and media art projects for nearly 20 years. For his efforts on Workhorse (2020), Ryan won the 2021 Canadian Screen Award for Best Cinematography in a Feature Length Documentary, and was nominated for the 2020 Canadian Society of Cinematographer Awards: Robert Brooks Award for Documentary Long Format Cinematography.