Cliff Caines is a Canadian filmmaker. Raised in Northern Ontario, he is currently based in Toronto. His credits include the short films Die Mutter (2002) and Locus (2005), and the short documentary Emilie (2013). His first feature-length documentary A Rock And A Hard Place (2015) received a Honourable Mention for the Colin Low Award for Canadian Documentary at the 2015 DOXA Documentary Film Festival.