Hamptons Director Lana Jokel Receiving 2013 HT2FF Filmmaker’s Choice Award

The final day of the sixth annual Hamptons Take 2 Documentary Film Festival (HT2FF) is Sunday, December 8. The Festival will screen seven films at Bay Street Theatre, starting with “Shut Up & Look” by director Maryte Kavaliauskas at 10 a.m.

“Zipper: Coney Island’s Last Wild Ride” by director Amy Nicholson will follow at 12 p.m. The “Best Shorts Program,” which includes “My Life in the Canyon of Heroes” by director Mark Nickolas, “Words I Love” by director Thanachart Siripatrachai, and “God is the Bigger Elvis” by Rebecca Cammisa, begins at 2 p.m. “Two: The Story of Roman & Nyro” directed by two-time Sundance-winning executive producer and producer, Heather Winters is at 4 p.m.

HT2FF’s final film is “Larry Rivers Public and Private” directed by Lana Jokel of Bridgehampton. Jokel is this year’s honoree for the HT2FF Filmmaker’s Choice Award. The director met Larry Rivers in the mid-1970’s while she was editing a documentary on Andy Warhol. The documentary blends candid interviews with beautiful imagery that explores Rivers’ art as well as his influences.

The sixth annual Hamptons Take 2 Documentary Film Festival debuts with a free special event in observance of World Aids Day on Thursday, December 5, from 5 to 8 p.m. You can expect “all docs, all day” from Friday, December 6 through Sunday, December 8.

Tickets can be purchased at the Bay Street Theatre box office (1 Bay Street, Sag Harbor), by phone at 631-725-9500, or online at www.baystreet.org. They can also be purchased from HT2FF at www.ht2ff.com.