This past week, the 18th Annual Hamptons Doc Fest screened 33 films over eight days. A local favorite, the festival featured gripping documentary films alongside workshops for budding filmmakers.
D.A. Pennebaker’s wife and film partner Chris Hegedus presents the Hamptons Doc Fest Pennebaker Career Achievement Award to filmmaker and Sag Harbor resident Alan Berliner at the Gala on December 6 at Bay Street Theater. Photo Credit: Jim Lennon.
Alan Berliner gives his acceptance speech for the Pennebaker Career Achievement Award on December 6 at Bay Street Theater, after which his latest film BENITA was shown. Photo Credit: Jim Lennon.
Kevin Miserocchi of the sponsoring Tee & Charles Addams Foundation presents the HDF Art & Inspiration Award to director Cindy Meehl for Jimmy & the Demons on December 4, about artist Jimmy Grashow. Photo Credit: Jim Lennon.
Roger Sherman of Florentine Films interviews HDF Art & Inspiration Award winner Cindy Meehl about the film Jimmy & the Demons about artist Jimmy Grashow, who just passed away this fall. His widow, “Guzzy” Grashow, is on the right. Photo Credit: Jim Lennon.
Christopher Kelley of the local law firm, which sponsored the new Nancy Nagle Kelley Environmental Award in her memory, and her close friend Claudia Pilato, right, present the award on December 5 to marine biologist Dr. Edie Widder, the subject of the film “A Life Illuminated,” in the absence of director Tasha Van Zandt. Photo Credit: Jim Lennon.
Susan Lacy of Sag Harbor, creator of the American Masters series, presents the HDF Impact Award to American Documentary (Am Doc) executive director Erika Dilday for her multi-Emmy, Peabody and Oscar Award-winning documentary series POV, which fosters dialogue and civic engagement. Photo Credit: Jim Lennon.
Hamptons Doc Fest executive director Jacqui Lofaro presents the new HDF Veritas Award on December 7 to Mark Obenhaus of Springs, co-director of Cover Up, about Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh. Absent was co-director Laura Poitras. The film was co-presented with NY Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT). Photo Credit: Jim Lennon.
Andrew Botsford interviews Robin Sagon and Mike Drews, directors of Everywhere Man: The Lives and Times of Peter Asher, on December 8, about the pop star, producer, and manager of some of the greatest musical artists of the era. Photo Credit: Jim Lennon.
Hamptons Doc Fest executive director Jacqui Lofaro, on December 9, greets Rebel with a Clause director Brandt Johnson and subject Ellen Jovin, who traveled to all 50 states with her “Grammar Table” to make the film. Photo Credits to Jim Lennon.
Ellen Jovin, the subject of Rebel with a Clause shown on December 9 and directed by her husband Brandt Johnson, set up her “Grammar Table” answering grammar questions in the Bay Street Theater lobby before the start of the film. Photo Credit: Arlene Hinkemeyer
