The Maine Outdoor Film Festival (MOFF) is an international film festival featuring outdoor adventure and environmental documentary films 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 signature event is the annual flagship festival each July in Portland, Maine. Filmmakers, outdoor aficionados, environmentalists and lovers of art and storytelling converge for outdoor adventure and conservation film in Maine’s cultural hub. Each day, the festival features a panoply of programming including indoor daytime screenings, industry panels, and artist networking events. And each night an outdoor theater is erected: a 20’ inflatable screen with a modern audio and projector system.

After the Portland flagship festival, MOFF produces a late-summer/fall tour of northeast venues (called MOFF Selects Tour), connecting community and the outdoors through film.

MOFF also produces off-season film screenings, like our winter film event: SNOW DAY DREAMS, and our International Women’s Day celebration: WOMEN IN THE WILD.

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 move 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. MOFF invites and encourages work from new, emerging, and veteran filmmakers working in short and feature length.
Accessibility is a core value at MOFF and in the 2026 MOFF we endeavor to use captions for all films.

Awards & Prizes

Best Feature (50 minutes or longer)
Best Short Feature
Best Short
Best Maine Film
Best Maine Student Film
Emerging Filmmaker
Conservation Award Short
Conservation Award Feature
Inspiration Award

MOFF reserves the right to add more awards at its own discretion

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 2026 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 2 times in-person at MOFF’s Portland Flagship Festival 2026 (July 22 to July 26, 2026) held at various venues in Portland, Maine
0 to 7 times in-person on the MOFF Selects Tour 2026 (mid-August to December 31, 2026), 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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  • Samuel Díaz Fernández

    Loved Maine Outdoor Film Festival, they were so wonderful and so communicative. A real community feel!

    January 2026
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  • Liz McGregor

    Thank you MOFF for including BETWEEN THE LINES in the 2025 festival! We are deeply honored to have been included in the 2025 selection and were thrilled to attend in person. What a gift you have given to the state of Maine by offering such a wholesome and warm hearted gathering space of ideas and makers inspired by the outdoors! THANK YOU.

    September 2025
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  • Marcio Pimenta

    Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to attend the Maine Outdoor Film Festival in person, but even from a distance, I could feel the care, professionalism, and passion that the team brings to this event.

    Communication with the organizers was always clear, kind, and supportive. I was truly honored to have my film selected among such powerful and inspiring works. The festival’s vision — with its focus on outdoor screenings and stories rooted in nature, adventure, and the human spirit — is both beautiful and essential.

    I truly hope to attend in person in the future, but for now, I wholeheartedly recommend MOFF to other filmmakers. It’s a festival that genuinely values films and their creators.

    August 2025
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  • Joseph Fletcher

    MOFF is an amazing festival run by very passionate people and bringing together lots of talented filmmakers. I highly recommend any outdoor film submit and participate if given the chance!

    August 2025
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  • Alex Côté

    Awesome festival, it was very cool to screen our film A Rainbow Too! Thank you!

    July 2025
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