His first feature-length film A Rock and a Hard Place (2015) received an Honourable Mention for the Colin Low Award for Canadian Documentary at the 2015 DOXA Documentary Film Festival. Caines is a graduate of OCAD University’s Integrated Media program, and Concordia University’s MFA Studio Arts: Film Production program. He is also an alumnus of the TIFF 2012 Talent Lab and RIDM’s 2015 DCM Talent Lab. Raised in Northwestern Ontario, Caines currently lives and works in Toronto, Canada.