Michael J. Camoin
- Producer
- Director
- Writer
Mike Camoin is best known for his documentary Sallie Mae Not: Exposing America's Student Loan Scam which won the Whistleblowers Summit & Film Festival's Audience Choice Award in 2021. His documentaries Inside the Blue Line and The Battles of Saratoga have aired in the northeast on PBS-TV. His short film Relax shot on S16mm premiered in Russia in 2011 and led Camoin to establishing the Capital Cinema Cultural Exchange, Inc. which hosts the international Northeast Filmmakers Lab now entering its 10th edition. In 1995, Camoin led the independent film movement in northeastern New York, spurring talks to fuel the state's first Film Tax rebate program.
Camoin has served on feature films that have screened at Cannes, Toronto and Sundance serving as UPM for director Miles Joris-Peyrafitte's As You Are, location manager for Jeremiah Zagar's WE THE ANIMALS, location scout for HBO Films Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight and Derek Cianfrance's The Place Beyond The Pines starring Bradley Cooper, Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendez. On a cinematic mission of his own, Camoin's screenplay Off The Menu attracted $1M in product integration. He is eager to bring three decades of experience to Project Unfurl: The Heart of Bona's Basketball now in post. Unfurl is the story of the smallest DI college hoops program ever to reach the Final Four.
Camoin is the creator of An Artist's Right, centered around French Fauves painter Charles Camoin, who discovers his right to be original after participating in the 1913 Armory Show in New York. His great uncle Al Camoin served as SNL's lead camera operator. Holding a Masters in Social Work from the State University of New York at Albany and a Bachelor of Arts from St. Bonaventure University, Camoin has studied directing with Judith Weston, producing and distribution at intensive workshops throughout Europe.
A leader in independent film in upstate New York, Camoin is a founding member and former President of Upstate Independents, Inc. (1995-2000), a salon network of the Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers (AIVF) based in Albany, NY. He's appeared on NPR's Public Radio discussing all things independent motion pictures. Camoin resides with his wife and their two children in upstate, New York.
Camoin has served on feature films that have screened at Cannes, Toronto and Sundance serving as UPM for director Miles Joris-Peyrafitte's As You Are, location manager for Jeremiah Zagar's WE THE ANIMALS, location scout for HBO Films Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight and Derek Cianfrance's The Place Beyond The Pines starring Bradley Cooper, Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendez. On a cinematic mission of his own, Camoin's screenplay Off The Menu attracted $1M in product integration. He is eager to bring three decades of experience to Project Unfurl: The Heart of Bona's Basketball now in post. Unfurl is the story of the smallest DI college hoops program ever to reach the Final Four.
Camoin is the creator of An Artist's Right, centered around French Fauves painter Charles Camoin, who discovers his right to be original after participating in the 1913 Armory Show in New York. His great uncle Al Camoin served as SNL's lead camera operator. Holding a Masters in Social Work from the State University of New York at Albany and a Bachelor of Arts from St. Bonaventure University, Camoin has studied directing with Judith Weston, producing and distribution at intensive workshops throughout Europe.
A leader in independent film in upstate New York, Camoin is a founding member and former President of Upstate Independents, Inc. (1995-2000), a salon network of the Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers (AIVF) based in Albany, NY. He's appeared on NPR's Public Radio discussing all things independent motion pictures. Camoin resides with his wife and their two children in upstate, New York.
