The Maine Outdoor Film Festival (MOFF) is an international film festival featuring outdoor adventure and conservation films - documentary, narrative, and beyond - which relate to topics and experiences surrounding the beauty, vastness, interactivity and volatility of our planet; and how its power influences human experience.

MOFF’s flagship festival is a multi-day event held in Portland, Maine each summer, featuring a variety of outdoor screenings, indoor screenings, panel discussions, and networking opportunities for the outdoor, and filmmaking communities. Group volunteering events, outdoor gear sales, dance parties, youth-focused programming, group paddles/bikes/runs are examples of other activities occurring during the festival.
After the Portland flagship festival, MOFF produces a late-summer tour (called MOFF Selects) of northeast venues, connecting community and the outdoors through film.

WHAT WE VALUE
An unwavering focus on top-notch storytelling and its profound potential to strengthen communities and relationships to the natural world.
The opportunity to celebrate and to think, to inspire and be inspired, to educate and to learn, to dance and to be still.
The festival is proud to elevate Maine-made and Maine-themed films, while also connecting our audience with films from across the world. Last year’s festival featured films from 13 countries, 21 states, including 20 from Maine.
MOFF invites and encourages work from new, emerging, and veteran filmmakers working in short and feature length.

ABOUT PORTLAND
The flagship festival takes place in late July in Portland, Maine's cultural and culinary capital. Two hours from Boston and with major air, train, and ground transportation hubs; Portland is also ideally located as a base camp for the outdoor adventurer: as the central city of Maine’s Casco Bay, the area is home to hundreds of miles of walking, running and biking trails; over a dozen state parks are within a 60-minute drive (beaches, mountain biking, birding, hiking); paddling and rock climbing in The White Mountains are less than two hours away, with Acadia National Park and Baxter State Park just a bit further.
The city is also well-known for its wide array of lodging options and world-class food, beer and art.

Awards & Prizes

Best Feature (50 minutes or longer)
Best Short Feature
Best Short
Best Maine Film - $500 prize
Emerging Filmmaker
Conservation Award

Rules & Terms

Rules & Terms
No Umbrella Media LLC (a Portland, Maine video agency) owns Maine Outdoor Film Festival LLC, so the agreement is between you (the filmmaker) and No Umbrella Media LLC.
1. If your film is accepted to the 2025 Maine Outdoor Film Festival, you agree to give No Umbrella Media/MOFF a nonexclusive license to use, publicly perform, publicly display, copy, distribute, and create derivative works of your submission in connection with the “Maine Outdoor Film Festival”. Here is where your film will/could be shown:
1 to 3 times in-person at MOFF’s Portland Flagship Festival 2025 (July 23 to July 27, 2025) held at various venues in Portland, Maine
0 to 7 times in-person on the MOFF Selects Tour 2025 (mid-August to December 31, 2025), a tour of small venues across Maine.

2. If preference or previous agreements exist and you wish to opt-out or discuss the arrangement of any of these screenings, please do so in writing/email prior to submitting your film.
3. You agree that no screening fees will be paid to the filmmaker. MOFF does reserve the right to pay filmmakers a stipend. We agree that No Umbrella will give all credits that we practicably can, given case-by-case circumstances.
4. You warrant that all copyrighted material–music, pictures, web content, videos, art, graphic design, etc. (this is not an exhaustive list, rather it is exemplary)—is either owned by you, or that you have express written permission to use any copyrighted material found in your submission. No exceptions.
5. You agree, that in the event that the previous bullet point turns out to be not true (you have infringed someone else’s copyrights), to indemnify and hold harmless No Umbrella Media/MOFF for any claims or threat of claim against the same, and that you will pay for (first), or reimburse (last resort), all costs associated with defending any such claims against No Umbrella Media/MOFF for violation of another’s copyright as a result of your submission.
6. You warrant that you have full consent and permission from all people who appear in any identifiable manner in your submission to use their persona in your submission, their knowing and understanding that their image or likeness may be used commercially.
7. You agree to hereby release, indemnify, and hold harmless No Umbrella Media/MOFF from any and all claims, including, without limitation, claims for damages for libel, infringement of rights of publicity, invasion of privacy, portrayal in a false light, or any other claim from any person based on use of your submission.

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  • Mason Flint

    It was an honor to be a part of MOFF's 2024 lineup. Friendly organizers, lots of dope outdoor cinema, and an overall pleasant experience. I'll be back for sure.

    October 2024
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  • William Floor

    MOFF was an epic experience. My short doc, Just Start, premiered in Portland, ME, and it was a wonderful. The city of Portland was breathtaking and the festival had so many amazing films on outdoor subjects. The MOFF team did an excellent job being so courteous, caring, and informative. The nightly amphitheater screenings were icing on the cake too. Would definitely submit a film here again!

    August 2024
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  • Moritz Krause

    I was very fortunate to have my film "End to End Svalbard" screened here. Due to the long travel I could not attend, but the communication and the friendly team made it a great event — even from the distance. Thanks for the Best Feature Film award, I am very honored!

    August 2024
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  • Tom Bell

    This festival has a lot of heart. The people who run it are passionate about filmmaking and are dedicated to supporting filmmakers. They watch every single submitted film in its entirety. There are lots of people attending the screenings. The panel discussions are great. If you are fortunate to get your film screened here, I recommend attending the festival. Portland and Maine are wonderful places to visit in the summer.

    August 2024
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  • James Khanlarian

    MOFF was an absolute pleasure. It's a really fun festival with an emphasis on outdoor/adventure films. The programing is excellent and Nick and Brendan were great.

    August 2024
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