Cliff Caines

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Cliff Caines is a Canadian documentary filmmaker originally from Red Lake, Ontario. [1] He is most noted for his 2015 film A Rock and a Hard Place , a film about mining life in Red Lake which received an honorable mention for the Colin Low Award at the 2015 DOXA Documentary Film Festival. [2]

Prior to A Rock and a Hard Place, Caines directed the short films Die Mütter, Locus, Stryker Diary and Emilie.

His second feature documentary film, Workhorse , was released in 2019. [3]

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