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is a year we will long Wiseman and his newest film, City Hall. 2020 rememberWELCOME or want LETTER to He stands as one of the documentary forget. Deprived of a movie theater’s giants that every aspiring filmmaker magic we struggled to take the virtual learns from, that Wiseman way of plunge. Ultimately, we decided on yes observing life unfold. Our Award films we can to bring you our 13th festival capture the essence of Art & Music, in these overwhelming times. We Human Rights, and the Environment. programmed 35 great documentary Our Opening night film reveals a hidden films to watch in the warmth and chapter in Martin Luther King’s world. comfort of your home over 10 days. No New this year, you’ll hear and see UP worries about weather, parking, ticket CLOSE video clips presented by the lines, where to catch a snack between Directors of each film. My thanks to an films. You can schedule your own day extraordinary team, and to our Artistic the way you like it. Consider it not Director, Karen Arikian. Lastly, you will only a festival experience but a virtual find all the information and help you’ll festival experiment. need to watch films on your television, When Covid hit, Hamptons Doc Fest tablet or computer. So click on and went into overdrive. We were forced step into the big virtual world wherever to cancel our Docs Equinox Spring you are. weekend series. In its place we Jacqui Lofaro launched a new online run of weekly Founder & Executive Director films, one each Wednesday, from our festival archives as well as new releases. We presented 34 films over 8 months. It was just what our doc fans wanted and needed.
To wrap this year, we present our 2020 Pennebaker Career Achievement Award to honor the great Frederick
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Welcome Letter How to Order Thanks to Our Festival Sponsors Hamptons Doc Fest Supporters Pennebaker Career Achievement Award Our Pennebaker Award Gallery VIRTUAL FILM SCHEDULE A Crime on the Bayou Acasa My Home Barney’s Wall: Portrait of a Game Changer Beethoven In Beijing Behind the Strings Bloodless: The Path to Democracy Recipient of the 2020 PENNEBAKER CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD, Frederick Wiseman City Hall Recipient of the Andrew Sabin Family Foundation ENVIRONMENTAL AWARD Fish & Men DOC FEST SHORTS PROGRAM A Long Walk to the Moon, 14 min A Syrian Woman, 1 min All the Possibilities, 16 min Making the Case, 10 min Nine, 8 min ninety-two and a quarter, 11 min The Little Tea Shop, 16 min
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2 In Case of Emergency Kubrick By Kubrick Love & Stuff Meat the Future OPENING NIGHT FILM MLK/FBI Opeka Overland So Late So Soon Some Kind of Heaven Surviving The Silence: The Untold Story of Two Women in Love Who Helped Change Military Policy The Dissident The Mole Agent The Reason I Jump The Road Up Recipient of the Robin L. Long HUMAN RIGHTS AWARD Through the Night Recipient Of The Tee & Charles Addams Foundation ART & INSPIRATION AWARD United We Sing Unstoppable: Sean Scully and the Art of Everything Uprooted: The Journey of Jazz Dance When Liberty Burns Zappa Thanks to Our Advisory Board Thanks to the 2020 Hamptons Doc Fest Team Photo: ©2018 Nick Willing Nick ©2018 Photo:
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7 Our Pennebaker Award Gallery of Career Achievement Honorees
OUR PENNEBAKER AWARD GALLERY
2019–Robert Kenner
2018–Sheila Nevins 2017–Liz Garbus
2016–Alex Gibney 2015–Stanley Nelson Jr. 2014–Barbara Kopple
2013–Chris Hegedus & DA Pennebaker 2012–Susan Lacy 2011–Richard Leacock
he Pennebaker Career Achievement Award is given Tto documentary filmmakers who have made important and lasting contributions to the world of nonfiction film and on whose shoulders we stand.
Since 2011 this award has gone to some of the giants in the field. We are proud to have honored them at our film festival and go forward with our 2020 awardee, filmmaker Frederick Wiseman.
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A Crime on the Bayou USA, 2020, 72 min
DIRECTOR: Nancy Buirski PRODUCERS: Nancy Buirski, Claire L. Chandler, Susan Margolin EDITOR: Anthony Ripoli CINEMATOGRAPHER: Rex Miller Gary Duncan, a young Black teenager in 1998 and directed it for 10 years. bravely challenges Leander Perez, She made her first documentary in the cigar puffing D.A. in Plaquemines 2011, The Loving Story, which won an Parish, the most powerful white Emmy. She went on to produce the supremacist in 1960s Louisiana. feature version of the documentary, With the help of Richard Sobol, Loving, which was nominated for an a young Jewish attorney, systemic Academy Award in 2017. She also racism meets its match in courtroom made Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil battles that go all the way to the U.S. Le Clercq, By Sidney Lumet, and Supreme Court. The Rape of Recy Taylor, which was awarded the Human Rights prize at Nancy Buirski founded the Full the Venice International Film Festival. Frame Documentary Film Festival
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10 Acasa My Home USA, 2020, 86 min Photo credit: Ana Ciocolatescu
DIRECTOR: Radu Ciorniciuc PRODUCERS: Radu Ciorniciuc, Alina David, Erkko Lyytinen, Monica Lazurean-Gorgan EDITOR: Andrei Gorgan CINEMATOGRAPHERS: Radu Ciorniciuc, Mircea Topoleanu Acasa My Home tells the story of a year’s Sundance Film Festival. It is the family that lived for 20 years in the director’s feature debut. wilderness of Vacaresti Delta, until the place gained the status of a protected Radu Ciorniciuc is a producer and area - Vacaresti Natural Park - the first director who co-founded the first urban, natural park in Romania. For independent media organization in four years, director Radu Ciorniciuc Romania in 2012, Casa Jurnalistului, followed the Enache family through a community of reporters specializing their great adventure: from a life in in in-depth, long-form and multimedia complete harmony with nature to a life reporting. His research interests have full of challenges in the great urban focused on human rights, animal jungle of the capital. The film won welfare and environmental issues seven film festival awards in 2020, across the globe. His previous film including for Cinematography at this is the short Sick Chicken: What You Need to Know made in 2014.
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11 Barney’s Wall: Portrait of a Game Changer USA, 2019, 78 min
DIRECTORS: Sandy Gotham Meehan, Williams Cole PRODUCERS: Sandy Gotham Meehan, Williams Cole EDITORS: Kasia Plazinska, Williams Cole CINEMATOGRAPHER: David Leitner Fiery cultural/political activist, The film probes the lasting political filmmaker, and bad-ass Grove Press and cultural impact of Barney Rosset publisher Barney Rosset battled 1950’s by focusing on Barney’s final act of literary censorship, sexual taboos, creative expression, a sculptural wall and the era’s racial bigotry. Barney mural he painted obsessively as a had, in effect, inspired the Sixties visual memoir of his life, through the counterculture rebellion, defying memories of Barney’s friends, family, censors, and publishing and promoting and the artists who considered Barney the most radical writers of the day— a formative influence on their work. among them Beckett, Burroughs, the Beats, Malcolm X, Che Guevara— Sandy Gotham Meehan works along with the cream of Europe’s with independent filmmakers on avant-garde, blowing the minds of narrative refinement and project mainstream middle America and development through her New York fundamentally changing the culture. City film production company FoxHog Productions.
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12 Beethoven In Beijing USA, 2019, 87 min
DIRECTORS: Jennifer Lin, Sharon Mullally PRODUCERS: Sam Katz, Jennifer Lin EDITOR: Rachel Sophia Stewart CINEMATOGRAPHER: Paul Van Haute Beethoven in Beijing is more than historic 1973 tour as the starting point just an eye- (and ear-) opening look for her narrative, and ends it in the into a forgotten chapter in history present, showing through musicians when President Richard Nixon like composer Tan Dun and pianist recruited the Philadelphia Orchestra Lang Lang how China is energizing to visit communist China in hopes of the world of music. reopening the closed-off nation to the West. The film uses classical music Jennifer Lin is an author and former and the legacy of this iconic American journalist with The Philadelphia orchestra to reframe the narrative on Inquirer, including postings as a U.S.-China relations. Director Jennifer correspondent in Beijing, New York, Lin is a former China correspondent and Washington, D.C. Sharon Mullally for The Philadelphia Inquirer; the idea is an Emmy Award-winning producer, for this film grew out of an assignment director, and editor whose work has for the newspaper. Lin uses the appeared in more than 20 feature- length documentaries.
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13 Behind the Strings USA, 2020, 59 min
DIRECTOR: Hal Rifken PRODUCER: Michael Peroff EDITOR: Tracy Cring CINEMATOGRAPHER: Hal Rifken When Mao’s Cultural Revolution ended, China’s door cracked open. Four young, classically trained musicians seized the opportunity to flee to the West. Their string quartet performed for 36 years in the film producer/director for over 30 U.S. and around the world. Behind years. Prior to making Behind the the Strings tells how they got there, Strings, Rifken had no experience with the price they paid to stay on top, and classical music. But after spending why China is now inviting them back five years shooting this ambitious to perform the chamber music that string quartet project, he says he now was previously banned. “knows a bit” about chamber music and why Mao’s Cultural Revolution Hal Rifken has worked as a banned it. cinematographer and documentary
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14 Bloodless: The Path to Democracy USA, 2020, 89 min
DIRECTORS: Bared Maronian PRODUCERS: Silva Basmajian, Bared Maronian, Seda Grigoryan EDITOR: Bared Maronian CINEMATOGRAPHER: Bardig Kouyoumdjian One beautiful spring morning, while week, and one day. Not a single bullet resting in his hotel room in Yerevan, was fired. Deemed short of a miracle, Armenia, Bared Maronian heard a Bloodless is a riveting political thriller, commotion coming from outside. capturing the story as events unfolded He opened the window and saw in the spring of 2018 in Armenia. thousands of young men and women chanting while marching. He Bared Maronian is a four time Regional immediately grabbed his camera, Emmy Award winning Lebanese-born ran down to the street, and followed American Armenian documentary the march. He was documenting the filmmaker. Maronian has a bachelor’s blueprint of a non-violent, peaceful degree in Political Science from the revolution that brought down a thirty- Haigazian University and is a graduate year-old established oligarchic regime. of the Broadcast Career Institute of The revolution lasted one month, one Palm Beach, Florida.
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15 HAMPTONS DOC FEST Honors Frederick Wiseman WITH THE 2020 PENNEBAKER CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Recipient of the 2020 Pennebaker Career Achievement Award, Frederick Wiseman
City Hall USA, 2020, 272 min DIRECTOR: Frederick Wiseman City government touches almost every PRODUCER: Frederick Wiseman aspect of our lives. When it works EDITOR: Frederick Wiseman well, life is good. When it doesn’t, trouble ensues. But most of us take ity Hall is Frederick Wiseman’s for granted necessary civil services, rd C 43 film. At 90 years old, such as police, fire, sanitation, Wiseman has a rich portfolio of some veterans affairs, elder support, parks, of the greatest nonfiction films ever professional licensing, record keeping made, films that are intimate, deeply of birth, marriage, and death, as well researched portraits of people and as hundreds of other activities that places that shed light on American life. support residents. City Hall shows In addition to examining social and the efforts by Boston’s government to ethical questions, he also confronts provide these services to its citizens. the big metaphysical questions faced The film also illustrates the variety of in life, such as illness and mortality. ways the city administration enters His films can also be a reflection on into civil discourse with the citizens democracy. Wiseman said about this of Boston. The film’s deep dive into latest film, “I made City Hall to illustrate its subject shows a city government why government is necessary for successfully offering a wide variety of people to successfully live together.” services to a diverse population.
16 The subjects of Wiseman’s films of the American Academy of Arts have spanned a wide range of and Sciences, the recipient of a topics, including a state hospital for Guggenheim Fellowship, and an the criminally insane, a high school, Honorary Member of the American welfare center, juvenile court, boxing Academy of Arts and Letters. He has gym, ballet companies in New York won numerous awards, including and Paris, Central Park, a racetrack, four Emmys. He is also the recipient and a Parisian cabaret theater. New of the Career Achievement Award York Times film critic Manohla Dargis from the Los Angeles Film Society wrote: “Taken together, this is work (2013), the George Polk Career Award that presents a sweeping, continuing (2006), and the American Society portrait of modern America, its of Cinematographers Distinguished institutions, social relations, Achievement Award (2006), among administrative and bureaucratic many others. controls and of course—right at the center of this filmmaker’s unyielding Before the film, Wiseman award frame—its people.” acceptance followed by Josh Siegel, Curator, Department of Film, MoMA Wiseman received his BA from presents a short career overview of Williams College in 1951 and his Frederick Wiseman LLB from Yale Law School in 1954. He is a MacArthur Fellow, a Fellow Sponsored by Lana Jokel
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17 Recipient of the Andrew Sabin Family Foundation ENVIRONMENTAL AWARD Fish & Men USA, 2019, 85 min
DIRECTORS: Darby Duffin, Adam Jones PRODUCERS: Darby Duffin, Adam Jones, Heidi Zimmerman EDITOR: Heidi Zimmerman CINEMATOGRAPHERS: Derek McKane, Jonathan Millman Do you relish every morsel of your Darby Duffin’s company On a Mission exquisitely prepared, succulent seafood Media produces original short and dinner? Of course you do. But did you long-form digital content. He is know that 91% of our fish is imported currently working on multiple projects, and the U.S. is flooded with six billion including producing a feature narrative tons of imported seafood. Consumers and directing his second feature across America eat blissfully, unaware documentary. Adam Jones’s first job of where their seafood is from or out of college was as a production knowing the dire consequences that assistant on a TV commercial a demand for five species of fish campaign directed by Albert Maysles. sourced from distant oceans brings to He later began directing commercials. our shores. Fish & Men exposes the Fish & Men is his first feature. high cost of cheap fish in the modern Award by Sam Sabin. seafood economy and the forces threatening local fishing communities Q/A with Directors Darby Duffin and Adam Jones, moderated by Bonnie and public health by revealing how our Brady, Director of the Long Island choices as consumers drive the global Commercial Fishing Association. seafood trade.
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18 DOC FEST SHORTS PROGRAM 7 SHORTS IN PROGRAM A Long Walk to the Moon, 14 min DIRECTOR: Connie Tais Former Grumman engineers narrate the challenges and successes of being part of the historic construction of the Lunar Module for the Apollo program.
A Syrian Woman, 1 min DIRECTORS: Khawla Al Hammouri, Louis Sayad DeCaprio PRODUCERS: Liz Charky, Nagham Osman EDITORS: Hany Hawasly, Aymann Ismail, Jesse Malings CINEMATOGRAPHERS: Shamel Beno, Louis Sayad DeCaprio Six Syrian refugee women, living in and trauma, to their resilience and Jordan, recount their stories of survival hope to rebuild a better future for – from displacement, child-marriage, their children.
All the Possibilities, 16 min DIRECTORS/PRODUCERS: Marsha Gordon, Louis Cherry EDITOR: Kevin Wells CINEMATOGRAPHERS: Louis Cherry, Kevin Wells, Bruce DeBoer A documentary about one of the most important American paintings that nobody has ever heard of: Artist Vernon Pratt’s 1,450 square foot systematic abstraction painting, “All the Possibilities of Filling in Sixteenths (65,536)”, which was completed in 1982 but only recently exhibited posthumously.
Making the Case, 10 min her first feature,The Bungalows of Rockaway, illustrates 100 years of the DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: Jennifer Callahan comedies and dramas of New York EDITOR: Hélène Attali City’s largest beach community and CINEMATOGRAPHER: Gordon Chou foregrounds urbanism, architectural history, and race/ethnicity. Legal arguments were Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s daily currency, for which she is renowned, but what about her everyday life? In this short film she examines her handbags, revealing a corner of the mind that argued and won way-paving, historic cases. Jennifer Callahan is a filmmaker chronicling stories which go against the grain;
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Nine, 8 min DIRECTOR: Jane Musky PRODUCERS: Jane Musky, Robert Morrison EDITOR: Robert Morrison CINEMATOGRAPHER: Joshua Echevarria
Nine is the story of a brave group of Boston University in the mid-1970’s. powerful young women who came They went on to become national together to petition for the inclusion champions. of Woman’s Crew as a varsity sport at
ninety-two and a quarter, 11 min
DIRECTOR, PRODUCER, EDITOR, CINEMATOGRAPHER: Helen Herbert Sarah Hackett is a feisty nonagenarian who moves through the world with spirit, determination, and a strong desire to help others, despite devastating personal loss. This film celebrates growing old while still looking toward the future.
The Little Tea Shop, 16 min DIRECTORS: Matteo Servente, Molly J. Wexler PRODUCERS: Joseph Carr, Asima Farooq, Molly J. Wexler EDITOR: Laura Jean Hocking CINEMATOGRAPHER: Ryan Earl Parker
The Little Tea Shop restaurant, founded by two women in 1918, encourages relationships that in turn create connections and opportunities. The atmosphere there created a perfect place for Suhair Lauck, a Palestinian immigrant, to take over the shop in 1982.
Virtual Screenings available in the USA Watch from Saturday, Dec. 5 – Sunday, Dec. 13 End of Doc Fest Shorts Program 20 In Case of Emergency USA, 80 min, 2020
DIRECTOR: Carolyn Jones PRODUCER: Lisa Frank EDITORS: Laura Israel, Chelsea Smith CINEMATOGRAPHER: Jaka Vinsek In Case of Emergency paints a emergency nurses across the U.S, startling picture of our ERs stretched shedding light on their efforts to help to the breaking point and exposes break a sometimes-vicious cycle for the extent of our nation’s broken patients under their care. safety net. All of our country’s biggest public health challenges— Carolyn Jones is an award-winning from COVID-19 to the opioid crisis to photographer and filmmaker who gun violence to lack of insurance— specializes in telling stories that shed collide in emergency departments. light on issues of global concern. From Nearly half of all medical care in the people “living positively” with AIDS U.S. is delivered in ERs, and nurses to women artists supporting entire are on the frontlines, addressing communities and nurses on the front our physical and emotional needs lines of our healthcare system, Jones before sending us back out into the has devoted her career to celebrating world. In Case of Emergency follows invisible populations and breaking down barriers.
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21 Kubrick By Kubrick USA, 2020, 73 min Photo credit: © All Star Picture Library Alamy Photo credit: © All Star
DIRECTOR: Gregory Monro Malcolm McDowell, to name just a few. PRODUCERS: Martin Laurent, Kubrick was known as a demanding Jeremy Zelnik perfectionist, which could bring him EDITOR: Philippe Baillon into conflict with his casts, but he often broke new ground in cinematography, CINEMATOGRAPHER: Radek Ladczuk creating innovative special effects that In the pantheon of all-time greatest earned him acclaim. filmmakers stands Stanley Kubrick. During the course of his long career Many of Kubrick’s films were he directed 13 feature films and three nominated for Academy Awards or documentaries. Kubrick by Kubrick Golden Globes, but his only personal offers a rare journey into the life win of an Academy Award was for his and films of the legendary Kubrick, work as director of special effects on featuring a treasure trove of unearthed 2001: A Space Odyssey, which he also interview recordings from the master wrote, produced and directed. Steven himself who did not like to talk about Spielberg referred to 2001 as his his films. The film is built around a generation’s “big bang”. The Shining series of tape-recorded interviews starring Jack Nicholson is widely that Michel Ciment, the French film regarded as one of the greatest horror critic and editor of Positif, conducted films ever made. Kubrick was also the with Kubrick over a period of 20 years. Director, Writer and Producer of A Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, The film also features some of our Barry Lyndon and Full Metal Jacket. most famous actors talking about His last film, Eyes Wide Shut, was their experiences with Kubrick: Jack completed shortly before his death in Nicholson, Marisa Berenson, Peter 1999 at the age of 70. Sellers, Tom Cruise, Shelley Duvall and
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22 Love & Stuff USA, 2020, 80 min
DIRECTOR: Judith Helfand PRODUCERS: Judith Helfand, Hilla Medalia, Julie Parker Benello EDITORS: David Cohen, Marina Katz CINEMATOGRAPHER: Daniel B. Gold Seven months after helping her injustice and make them personal, terminally ill mother during the end highly-charged and entertaining. of her life in home-hospice, filmmaker Among her many films are the Judith Helfand becomes a "new Sundance award-winning and two old" single mother at 50. Overnight, times Emmy nominated film Blue she's pushed to deal with her stuff: Vinyl and its Peabody Award-winning 63 boxes of her parent's heirlooms prequel A Healthy Baby Girl, as well overwhelming her office-turned- as her global warming documentary future-baby's room, the weight her Everything’s Cool. In 2009 she co- mother had begged her to lose, and founded Working Films, one of the the reality of being a half century nation’s first non-profit dedicated to older than her daughter. engagement, and in 2005, Chicken & Egg Pictures, a non-profit film fund Judith Helfand is best known for dedicated to supporting women her ability to take the dark worlds documentary directors with strategic of chemical exposure, heedless grants and creative mentorship. corporate behavior and environmental
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23 Meat the Future Canada, 2020, 88 min
DIRECTOR: Liz Marshall PRODUCER: Liz Marshall EDITORS: Carolyn Christie, Roland Schlimme CINEMATOGRAPHER: John Price Is it real meat or Frankenmeat? Some cost $18,000 per pound in 2016 to call it “cultivated meat”, a food science the world's first "clean" chicken fillet that grows real meat from animal cells in 2017 for a significantly lower cost, in a controlled environment, free from the film follows Valeti over three years disease and infection. Some see this as the cost of production continues as a revolution in food production, a to plummet, and consumers eye the sustainable way to feed the world in birth of this industry. the future without the need to breed, raise and slaughter animals. At the Liz Marshall is an award-winning forefront of this urgent new frontier Canadian filmmaker. Her feature- is cardiologist Dr. Uma Valeti, the length films, such asThe Ghosts in co-founder and CEO of Memphis Our Machine, explore social justice Meats, one of the leading start-ups and environmental themes through in the field. From a meatball which strong characters.
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24 OPENING NIGHT FILM MLK/FBI USA, 2020, 104 min
DIRECTOR: Sam Pollard Pollard is an accomplished feature PRODUCER: Benjamin Hedin film and television video editor and EDITOR: Laura Tomaselli documentary producer/director whose work spans almost 30 years. CINEMATOGRAPHER: Robert Chappell His first assignment as a documentary One of the darkest chapters in the producer came in 1989 for Henry history of the FBI is how Director Hampton's Blackside production J. Edgar Hoover used every dirty Eyes on The Prize II: America at the trick in his arsenal to discredit and Racial Crossroads. He received an disempower Martin Luther King, Emmy for one of his episodes in this Jr. Based on newly discovered series. Between 1990 and 2000, and declassified files, MLK/FBI Pollard edited a number of Spike Lee's explores the government’s stained films: Mo' Better Blues, Jungle Fever, history of targeting MLK and other Girl 6, Clockers and Bamboozled. Black activists. This is the first film Pollard and Lee also co-produced to uncover the extent of the FBI’s some documentary productions surveillance and harassment of Dr. for the small and big screens: One, King during the height of the Civil Four Little Girls, a feature-length Rights movement. Among the voices documentary about the 1963 heard in this powerful film are Andrew Birmingham church bombings, was Young, James Comey and Clarence nominated for an Academy Award. Jones. According to former FBI Pollard has been nominated for nine Director James Comey, a fabricated Emmys and won three, the most letter sent to Dr. King and his wife, recent one in 2010 for Best Editing written to sound like a disgruntled for Nonfiction Programming on the King supporter imploring King to kill HBO documentary By the People: The himself, represents “the darkest part Election of Barack Obama. He was of the FBI’s history.” Director Sam the recipient of Hamptons Doc Fest Pollard contrasts Hoover and Dr. Filmmakers’ Choice Award in 2018 for King, going back and forth exploring Sammy Davis Jr.: I Gotta Be Me. the actions and motivations of both in the process of telling this tragic story. Q/A moderated by Clayton Davis of Variety with Director Sam Pollard
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25 Opeka USA, 2019, 90 min
DIRECTOR: Cam Cowan PRODUCERS: Cam Cowan, Tiffany Peckosh-Soffrin EDITORS: Tiffany Peckosh-Soffrin, Cam Cowan CINEMATOGRAPHER: Cam Cowan Pedro Opeka declined a once-in-a- conventional law and politics cannot, lifetime opportunity to play professional Cam stopped practicing law to study soccer in his native Buenos Aires. He filmmaking and later created Sohei chose instead to become a missionary Productions to make documentaries and live in one of the poorest countries focused on social justice issues. in the world. The son of a bricklayer, His first feature film about survival, he convinced destitute families living Madagasikara, won over 20 awards in Madagascar’s largest landfill that he at film festivals in 2018-19. Opeka, could teach them how to build their his second feature film, is about own houses and, in the process, build hope. Opeka received the Golden their dignity. His mission is to prepare Palm Award at the Beverly Hills Film the children he saves to one day save Festival 2020. their own country. Cam has a JD from the University of Believing that powerful movies Virginia School of Law and an MBA can move the justice dial in ways from Columbia Business School.
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26 Overland USA, 2020, 105 min
DIRECTORS: Revere La Noue, Elisabeth Haviland James
PRODUCERS: Elisabeth Haviland James, Revere La Noue
EDITORS: Elisabeth Haviland James, Revere La Noue
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Benjamin Pritchard Husband and wife team Revere and with thoughtfully planned falcon La Noue and Elisabeth Haviland flight routes they revealed stunning, James set off to make Overland as dynamic compositions of open, a response to an ever-modernizing borderless realms that had never world that leaves little room for the been seen before. Amazingly, the wild. While spending hundreds falcons of Overland never seemed to of hours in the field with three mind the drone—maybe they thought falconers—American Lauren it was too slow to be a threat or not McGough, Emirati racer Khalifa bin tasty enough to eat. Mejren and Italy’s Giovanni Granati— they discovered a shared humanity Elisabeth Haviland James is a across cultures, borders and religions. Peabody and Emmy winning filmmaker The filmmakers were determined to whose work has screened theatrically, film in pristine locations avoiding the on television and in museums. Revere imagery of our overly industrialized La Noue is an artist and filmmaker landscape. Through the use of a drone working on a wide array of projects all over the world.
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27 So Late So Soon USA, 2020, 70 min
DIRECTOR: Daniel Hymanson PRODUCERS: Kellen Quinn, Josh Penn, Trace Henderson, Noah Stahl EDITOR: Isidore Bethel CINEMATOGRAPHER: Daniel Hymanson Chicago-based artists Jackie and Don Daniel Hymanson, a former child art Seiden have lived an idiosyncratic life student of Jackie’s, embedded himself following their muse. Surrounded by with the Seidens on and off for close carefully found and placed objects to five years to make So Late So Soon. in each room of their home, the His previous films areSlothman , The aging pair, married for half a century, Weekend and Inequality for All. struggle to maintain the eccentric life they have known for decades.
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28 Some Kind of Heaven USA, 2020, 81 min Co-presented with Sag Harbor Cinema
DIRECTOR: Lance Oppenheim PRODUCERS: Darren Aronofsky, Simon Horsman, Kathleen Lingo, Lance Oppenheim, Melissa Oppenheim, Jeffrey Soros, Pacho Velez EDITORS: Daniel Garber, Lance Oppenheim CINEMATOGRAPHER: David Bolen At The Villages in Central Florida, often the lives of people who create called the “Disneyland for Retirees,” homes in unconventional places we meet four residents living on the and circumstances. He was a 2019 margins, striving to find happiness. Sundance Ignite fellow, was one of While most residents have bought Filmmaker magazine's 2019 “25 new into the community's packaged faces of independent film,” and is positivity, married couple Anne and the youngest contributor to the New Reggie, widow Barbara, and 82-year- York Times: Op-Docs TV series. old bachelor Dennis all struggle to Oppenheim graduated from Harvard find their footing in this fantasy oasis University’s visual and environmental as they seek to survive and possibly studies program in 2019. Some Kind of thrive in their golden years. Heaven is his first feature film.
Lance Oppenheim is a filmmaker Q/A moderated by Giulia D’Agnolo from South Florida. His films explore Vallan with Director Lance Oppenheim
Virtual Screenings available in the USA Watch from Saturday, Dec. 5 – Sunday, Dec. 13 29 Surviving The Silence: The Untold Story of Two Women in Love Who Helped Change Military Policy USA, 2020, 73 min
DIRECTOR: Cindy L. Abel PRODUCERS: Cindy L. Abel, Marc Smolowitz EDITOR: Michael Bruno CINEMATOGRAPHERS: Michael Bruno, Jesse Stephen Freeman Years before the U.S. Military Code is a coming out story like no other, of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”, Colonel deeply moving, troubling, revealing Patsy Thompson presided over the of unknown, policy-changing history review board that dismissed Colonel and, powerfully inspirational. Margarethe Cammermeyer—a highly- decorated nurse and war hero who Director and Producer Cindy L. Abel was on track to becoming a general— formed Atlantis Moon Productions in for being a lesbian. Presiding over this 2007 to develop film-related projects case forced Patsy to confront her own that launch conversations and impact moral dilemma and her own secret: popular culture. Her first full-length she too was a lesbian. documentary, the award-winning Breaking Through, was conceived in Surviving the Silence tells the story of response to the high number of teens two women in love who played a part who were taunted because of being in changing military policy, shining gay or perceived to be and committing light on the unknown history of how suicide. Having struggled with coming a closeted colonel forced to expel an out, Abel knew the importance of Army hero for being lesbian did so in having positive role models and wanted a way resulting in re-instatement via to highlight openly LGBT leaders living federal court. Surviving the Silence authentic and fulfilled lives.
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30 The Dissident USA, 2020, 119 min
DIRECTOR: Bryan Fogel PRODUCERS: Bryan Fogel, Mark Monroe EDITORS: Scott D. Hanson, James Leche, Wyatt Rogowski, Avner Shiloah CINEMATOGRAPHER: Jake Swantko Washington Post journalist Jamal Bryan Fogel is a director, producer, Khashoggi was critical of his beloved author and playwright, best known Saudi Arabia and of Crown Prince for the 2017 documentary Icarus, Mohammed bin Salman’s policies. about illegal doping in sports, which On October 2, 2018, Khashoggi won an Academy Award for Best entered the Saudi Arabian consulate Documentary Feature in 2018. He also in Istanbul and never came out. His developed and co-wrote Jewtopia: fiancee and dissidents around the The Chosen Guide for the Chosen world are left to piece together clues People, an off-Broadway comedy to his brutal murder—and in their that was one of the longest-running dogged quest for truth, they expose productions in off-Broadway history. a global cover-up perpetrated by the Jewtopia was made into a feature film very country he loved. in 2013 and won the audience choice award of the 2012 Malibu International Film Festival.
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31 The Mole Agent Chile, 2020, 84 min
Director: Maite Alberdi Producer: Marcela Santibanez Editor: Carolina Siraqyan The Mole Agent is a stylish struggles to balance his assignment combination of an observational with his increasing involvement in the documentary and a spy movie, with lives of other residents. sleek camerawork and wonderfully watchable characters. It’s a unique Maite Alberdi takes interest in the meditation on compassion and intimate portrayal of the characters in loneliness that will infiltrate your heart her films, often working with them over and never let go. When a family grows multiple years and curating a lasting concerned for their mother’s well- relationship. Her intimate portraits being in a retirement home, private of small worlds have made her an investigator Romulo hires 83-year-old important voice in Latin American Sergio to become a new resident and documentary filmmaking. She has a mole inside the home. The plan goes directed The Lifeguard, Tea Time, The awry with all kinds of comical, and at Grown-Ups and I’m Not From Here. times heart-breaking results as Sergio In 2013 she was selected as a Global Shaper by the World Economic Forum.
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32 The Reason I Jump USA, 2020, 82 min
DIRECTOR: Jerry Rothwell PRODUCERS: Jeremy Dear, Stevie Lee, Al Morrow EDITOR: David Charap CINEMATOGRAPHER: Ruben Woodin Dechamps Based on the book by 13-year-old Jerry Rothwell’s work includes the Naoki Higashida, this immersive film award-winning feature documentaries poetically explores the experiences How to Change the World, Sour of non-speaking autistic people Grapes, Town of Runners, The School around the world. The film is not in the Cloud, Donor Unknown, Heavy a direct adaptation of the book; Load, and Deep Water. His films have rather it applies the insights from the won numerous accolades, including book to the lives of five other young two Grierson Awards, a Sundance people diagnosed with autism. This Film Festival Special Jury Award and a emotionally engaging film snared a BAFTA nomination. coveted audience award at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival
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33 The Road Up USA, 2020, 93 min
DIRECTORS: Greg Jacobs, Greg Jacobs and Jon Siskel are the Jon Siskel co-founders of Chicago-based Siskel/ PRODUCERS: Rachel Pikelny, Jacobs Productions. Most recently, Amy Ostrander Greg and Jon co-directed (with Danny EDITOR: John Farbrother Alpert) No Small Matter that explores CINEMATOGRAPHER: Stephan Mazurek the power and potential impact of early childhood education. Jacobs follows four Chicagoans The Road Up and Siskel also produced and directed on the daunting journey from rock Louder Than a Bomb, which follows bottom to stable employment. Their four Chicago-area high school poetry lifeline? Mr. Jesse, a charismatic teams as they prepare to compete in mentor whose own troubled past the world’s largest youth slam. The compels him to help his “students” two now see The Road Up as the third find hope in the face of homelessness, installment of a kind of “accidental addiction, incarceration, and trauma. trilogy,” an ongoing story about Taken together, their stories form poverty, inequality and isolation they a powerful portrait of the struggles didn’t even realize they were telling. millions of Americans face every day in a precarious and unforgiving economy.
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34 Recipient of the Robin L. Long HUMAN RIGHTS AWARD Through the Night USA, 2020, 72 min
DIRECTOR: Loira Limbal PRODUCERS: Jameka Autry, Loira Limbal EDITOR: Malika Zouhali-Worrall CINEMATOGRAPHERS: Nausheen Dadabhoy, Mariam Dwedar, Naiti Gamez To make ends meet, Americans are revelatory for communities of color. working longer hours across multiple She is the Senior Vice President of jobs. This modern reality of non-stop Programs at Firelight Media. Limbal work has resulted in an unexpected received a B.A. in History from phenomenon: the flourishing of Brown University and is a graduate 24-hour daycare centers. Through of the Third World Newsreel's Film the Night is a verité documentary and Video Production Training that explores the personal cost of our Program. She is a Sundance modern economy through the stories Institute Time Warner fellow and a of two working mothers and a child former Ford Foundation Justfilms/ care provider, whose lives intersect at Rockwood fellow. a 24-hour daycare center. Award by Robin L. Long Loira Limbal is an Afro-Dominican Q/A moderated by Susan Margolin filmmaker and DJ interested in the with Director Loira Limbal creation of art that is nuanced and
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DIRECTOR: Dan Petracca School were apprehensive and did not PRODUCERS: Aaron Sperber, know what to make of these visitors. Ross Pedersen Then the two groups started singing EDITOR: Eric Frith together and everything changed.
For the YellowJackets, an adventurous Dan Petracca earned his bachelor's a cappella group from The University degree in film from Full Sail University of Rochester, finding new ways to in 2009. He has since traveled the push the boundaries is a priority. That globe creating content for musicians, is why, after hearing about a choir businesses, and filmmakers alike. In of AIDS orphans in rural Kenya, the 2010, Dan walked across the United group decided to fly halfway around States, taking part in the documentary the world to an unfamiliar continent to Walk the Dream. sing with them. Like many Americans traveling to Africa for the first time, Award by Kevin Miserocchi, The Tee they came with preconceived notions & Charles Addams Foundation about what it would be like and what Q/A moderated by Michael Lawrence, they could do to make a difference. Director of Bridgehampton Chamber And like most Kenyans seeing an Music Society with Director Dan American for the first time, many of Petracca and Executive Producers the children of Mbaka Oromo Primary Aaron Sperber and Ross Pedersen
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36 Unstoppable: Sean Scully and the Art of Everything UK, 2019, 84 min Photos: ©2018 Nick Willing Nick ©2018 Photos:
DIRECTOR: Nick Willing man, shrewd businessman and PRODUCER: Michele Camarda visionary contemporary artist.
EDITOR: Nick Willing Nick Willing is best known for his CINEMATOGRAPHER: Juvenal De Figueiroa popular fantasy television shows, but Rising from a desperately poor he’s also made theatrically released childhood to international acclaim movies, thrillers, social realist dramas and financial success, Sean Scully and documentaries. He spent a year creates art as grand as his personality. interviewing and filming his mother, The cheeky, self-taught Irishman is the painter Paula Rego, to better confident, funny and jaw-droppingly understand her and her work and blunt, owing his success to his innate discovered that she had kept major talent and his street-kid smarts. In secrets from him (Paula Rego: Secrets Nick Willing’s profile, art dealers, & Stories released in 2017). That critics and the artist himself tell the powerful experience developed his rags-to-riches story of the fearless interest in documentary films.
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37 Uprooted: The Journey of Jazz Dance USA, 2019, 94 min
DIRECTOR: Khadifa Wong because ultimately, what all people PRODUCER: Lisa Donmall-Reeve have in common is rhythm and a basic human need to “get down”. EDITOR: Joan Gill Amorim CINEMATOGRAPHER: Matt Simpkins Khadifa Wong trained at the iconic Jazz dance is an art form rooted in London Studio Centre in all aspects slavery, but because of its roots, of dance. After 10 years as a dancer it hasn’t always afforded respect she moved to New York to further from the astistic community. Where study acting. On her return to London, is the funding? Where are the world frustrated by the lack of opportunities touring companies? Why do white for actresses of colour, Khadifa wrote, choreographers get famous for produced and acted in a web series codifying the styles of jazz dancers based on her New York experiences. while the dancers themselves remain It was then that Khadifa realised her unknown? The story of jazz dance true passion lay behind the camera is a complex one, going to the very and she formed her production heart of humanity. It is a story of company to help increase diversity on triumph over adversity, oppression both sides of the camera. Uprooted is and privilege as well as a celebration, her first feature-length film.
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38 When Liberty Burns USA, 2020, 111 min
DIRECTOR: Dudley Alexis and in the prosecution of the law PRODUCERS: Femi Folami-Browne, enforcement officers who were Dudley Alexis subsequently acquitted. Two black EDITOR: Dudley Alexis women, both closely associated with the offending police force, will have CINEMATOGRAPHER: Dudley Alexis a surprising new take on the 40-year When Liberty Burns examines the old incident. life and the death of Arthur Lee McDuffie, a black insurance executive Dudley Alexis is an independent who died at the hands of Miami’s law filmmaker and visual artist whose enforcement officers in 1980 - long passion is bringing to the world before today’s Black Lives Matter took little-known facts about his native root. The family man is poignantly home of Haiti, while also dispelling remembered by McDuffie’s childhood misconceptions by shedding light on friends and family members. The the richness of Haitian culture, and the film uses first-person accounts from African Diaspora experience at large. those who were directly involved in He uses his art as a tool for social the discovery of the criminal behavior awareness and change.
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39 Zappa USA, 2020, 127 min
DIRECTOR: Alex Winter crowdfunded through one of the most PRODUCERS: Jade Allen, successful Kickstarter campaigns, Devorah DeVries, involving more than 8,000 backers John Frizzell, who invested more than $1,200,000 in Alex Winter, 30 days to help preserve and digitize Ahmet Zappa, Glen Zipper Zappa’s private archives, including thousands of hours of unreleased EDITOR: Mike J. Nichols material in the Zappa vault. CINEMATOGRAPHER: Anghel Decca Billed as an intimate and expansive Alex Winter has had an eclectic look into the innovative life of the iconic career—he started as a child actor, and iconoclastic musician and artist then turned to directing commercials Frank Zappa, the film was made with and music videos, and later received unfettered access to the Zappa family acclaim for writing and directing trust and all archival footage. It explores Freaked (Entertainment Weekly the private life behind the musical called it one of the “Top Ten greatest career that never shied away from the comedies of the Nineties”) and Fever, a psychological thriller. His documentary political turbulence of its time. Zappa features appearances by the musician’s work includes The Panama Papers widow Gail Zappa and several of his (about the biggest global corruption scandal), and (about the musical collaborators. Zappa was fully Deep Web online black market Silk Road).
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