HamptonsFilm announced the full slate of programming for the 2024 edition of the Hamptons International Festival (HIFF) presented by Regina K. Scully’s Artemis Rising Foundation, including additional Spotlight selections, and lineups for Narrative and Documentary Competition sections.
The Festival also announced actor Clarence Maclin, star of this year’s SING SING, a film inspired by his own life story, will receive the festival’s Breakthrough Performer Award. The 32nd edition of the festival will feature a lineup of films that are 45% female-directed and represent 50 countries from around the world. The festival will screen 86 features and 61 shorts with 8 World Premieres, 5 North American Premieres, 11 US Premieres, 9 East Coast Premieres, and 20 New York Premieres.
HIFF announced that Clarence Maclin will receive this year’s Breakthrough Performer Award, following a Special Screening of A24’s SING SING on October 13. Directed by Greg Kwedar, the film tells the powerful story of Divine G (Academy Award-nominee Colman Domingo), imprisoned at Sing Sing Maximum Security Prison for a crime he didn’t commit, who finds purpose by acting in a theatre crew with other inmates. When a wary outsider (Clarence Maclin) joins the group, the men decide to stage their first original comedy.
SING SING marks Maclin’s debut feature film, where he portrays a younger version of himself. Maclin was incarcerated at Sing Sing Correctional Facility for 17 years, where he participated in the Rehabilitation Through the Arts prison arts program. Following his release, he has since served as a youth counselor, creative arts specialist, and gang intervention specialist at Lincoln Hall Boys Haven in Somers, NY; as well as a Rehabilitation Through the Arts consultant, representing the organization at speaking engagements, going into facilities, and working with RTA participants.
Check out the film guide at Hamptonsfilmfest.org
