Cliff Caines

Last updated October 21, 2025

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]

References

↑ Ian Ross, "Filmmaker goes home to document Red Lake mining life". Northern Ontario Business , June 30, 2015.
↑ Manori Ravindran, "'Je suis le peuple,' 'Far Fur Country' win DOXA prizes". RealScreen , May 11, 2015.
↑ Leslie Felperin, "Workhorse review – beautiful but plodding paean to beasts of burden". The Guardian , April 6, 2021.

External links

Cliff Caines at IMDb

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[1] Ian Ross, "Filmmaker goes home to document Red Lake mining life". Northern Ontario Business , June 30, 2015.

[2] Manori Ravindran, "'Je suis le peuple,' 'Far Fur Country' win DOXA prizes". RealScreen , May 11, 2015.

[3] Leslie Felperin, "Workhorse review – beautiful but plodding paean to beasts of burden". The Guardian , April 6, 2021.

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