The Maine Film Association’s mission is to advance the art, craft, and business of filmmaking in Maine. Our vision is to make Maine a great place to live and work as a media-maker.

The Maine Film Association brings together media professionals, students, and production companies working to create better business, educational, and networking opportunities for people working in the film and media industries in Maine.

As our organization grows, our goals are to:

  • Promote and advocate for the Maine film industry, the talented individuals working in it, and mediamaking as a career.

  • Foster connections across the mediamaking community and broader business community in Maine.

  • Provide professional development and skill-building opportunities for Maine mediamakers.

  • Expand MFA membership and establish strong fiscal support for current and future initiatives.

  • Increase organizational capacity for sustainable success.

Join the Maine film and media-making community!

Your membership supports efforts to better connect media professionals in our state, provide engaging and interesting professional development and networking opportunities, and promote the media industry of Maine.

Your membership entitles you to free or reduced admission to MFA events and workshops, special offers from vendors and our business members, and opportunities to showcase your work through MFA channels.

Business packages and student discounts are available.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

After fifteen years of working in Los Angeles, Geoffrey moved Leighton Images, a high-definition digital production facility, to an 1810 farmhouse in Durham. He has produced numerous short documentaries for Apple Computers, and was the cinematographer, editor, and producer of a feature film based on the painter Marsden Hartley’s epic poem “Cleophas and his Own.” He co-produced and edited There Ought to Be a Law, winner of the Maine International Film Festival Activist award. Leighton Images produces documentaries for such clients as the City of Boston, L.L.Bean, Education Connection, Hilton Hotels, and Veterans Administration. Geoffrey also teaches Special Effects and Animation at University of Southern Maine, and has shared his wealth of knowledge and experience by teaching at at MECA and SMCC.

Geoffrey Leighton, Co-President


Louise Rosen serves as an editorial and business consultant, producer, and sales agent. Her projects include Oscar, Emmy, and Sundance award-winning films. Louise began her career in film and television at WGBH-TV as Director of International Sales and Co-productions. She later launched her own distribution company and sales agency. She has raised financing for and distributed landmark projects such as Eyes on the Prize, as well as the Oscar winner Anne Frank Remembered, and Oscar nominee Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern. Louise is a credited producer on films such as The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition, and the feature documentaries Killing for Love, Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison, Prodigal Sons, and Holy Water-Gate. Louise tutors annually at Germany’s Documentary Campus Master School and has been a speaker and moderator at conferences and film festivals including Sheffield DocFest, DOC NYC, & HotDocs. In other roles, Louise was the Founding Director of the Points North Documentary Forum at the Camden International Film Festival; from March 2022 to March 2023 served as Senior Consultant, Programs & Strategy and then Interim Managing Director for the International Documentary Association (IDA) and was Program Director for the 2023 Progress History Summit.

Louise Rosen, Co-President


Emma has spent her whole career in the film industry. She attended Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications to study television and film production. On top of studying the ins and outs of the “industry”, she learned to rock climb, lived in Santiago, Chile for a year and spent a semester in Los Angeles working on productions such as Dallas Buyers Club and Don Jon. After graduating in 2014, she moved out to Los Angeles and spent 2 years working for a variety of reality television studios and freelancing as a production assistant. But she missed the seasons and could never get used to the way Angelenos were happy all of the time. In Maine, Emma has been a successful freelance commercial producer for in-state production companies and out-of-state clients, and now serves as the Director of Production for P3. However, her first love will always be narrative filmmaking and she is ready to drop everything when the right project comes to town, such as with Blow The Man Down, Little Women and Allagash (now titled Blood & Money). On most weekends she is in White Mountains sport climbing or making short films with the fantastically creative Portland film community. Her directorial debut, Fix It In Post!, premiered at Damnationland in 2018 and she currently has another short in post-production.

Emma Gregg


Maine native Kyle Walton has spent much of his life and career trying to help propel Maine’s fledgling film & new media scene forward. Starting from education in film and post-production in the early 2000s, Kyle branched out into a then-nascent digital world of content curation and asset management. With a diverse career that spans from beginner work as a subcontractor for ESPN.com and Turner Sports—to vendor contracts for mom ’n’ pop companies; Kyle draws from a diverse multimedia background that has increasingly become an asset to Maine’s creative community. As of fall 2021, Kyle is the operations manager of the Colonial Theatre, a three-screen movie theater in Belfast.

Kyle Walton, Treasurer


Ian Carlsen is a Line Producer, Production Manager, Production Coordinator, Copywriter, and Voiceover Artist with more than a decade of experience in media production. Ian started his journey as an actor, but have since transitioned over to film and commercial production. (Every now and then he can be convinced to come out of acting “retirement” for the right gig.) Ian has lived in the great state of Maine for 30+ years, and is a husband and father. In his limited downtime he enjoys traveling, looking at birds, making music, and playing tabletop RPGs.

Ian Carlsen


Kyle Lamont is an accomplished producer and founder of Good To Go Studios, a multimedia production company based in Ellsworth, Maine that specializes in short films, commercials and podcasts. As a media professional who often freelances out-of-state for commercial shoots (clients include Samsung, Subaru, Mitsubishi and Southwest Airlines) she always stays true to her ethos: Maine is more than an emotional backdrop for a movie, Maine is a viable hub for filmmakers. From the rocky coast to the red carpet at BFI in London, her award-winning short films were developed, produced and brought to the big screen from Downeast Maine. Kyle is excited to be part of our growing community of Maine Media Makers – reach out to collaborate!

Kyle Lamont