Hamptons Doc Fest 2020 Congratulations on 13 Years of Championing Documentary Films!
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Art: Nofa Aji Zatmiko ALL DOCS ALL DAY DOCS ALL ALL OPENING NIGHT FILM: MLK/FBI Hamptons Doc Fest DECEMBER 4–13, 2020 www.hamptonsdocfest.com 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 1 FESTIVAL PROGRAM 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 Festival program continued on next page 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: 3 HOW TO BUY A VIRTUAL TICKET/PASS TICKETS ARE $12 PER FILM, AND PASSES FOR ALL VIRTUAL FILMS ARE $125 EXPLORE theHOW Hamptons TO ORDERDoc Fest website for the film you would like to see. BUY TICKET — Click BUY TICKET for that film. You will receive an email confirmation to the email address registered with the account. THIS IS NOT YOUR VIRTUAL TICKET. You will receive a separate email with a personal link to view the film approximately 1 hour before the virtual film is available to view. BUY PASS — Pass holders will also receive a 2nd email with a Link inviting them to join the HAMPTONS DOC FEST online viewing portal. All films which the passholder has access to will be available in this portal. PRE-PURCHASE—Films are available for pre-purchase and will be available to unlock from Dec 5 @ 10:00 am ET until Dec 13 @ 11:59 pm ET. The only film available on Dec. 4 is MLK/FBI, our Opening Night Film. If you’re buying tickets during the festival, simply click the STREAM NOW button that appears on the confirmation page after purchase. Passholders and ticket holders can always return to the Virtual Film schedule posted at www.goelevent.com/HDF/e/Virtual to use passes and/or tickets already purchased. 4 THANKS TO OUR FESTIVAL SPONSORS PREMIERE SPONSORS MEDIA SPONSORS FOUNDATION SUPPORT WITH GRATITUDE TO OUR 2020 SUPPORTERS. GOLD TO $25,000 FRIENDS TO $250 Tee & Chas Addams Foundation Richard Alleman Lana Jokel Mirra Bank New York Community Trust Nada Barry Eric and Fiona RudinHAMPTONS DOCGeri FEST Bauer SUPPORTERS Arthur Beckenstein & John O’Rourke BRONZE TO $5,000 Cynthia Bertozzi Atlantic Golf Foundation Emoke Boldvay Ann Chwatsky John Breen Stacy Goodman Brian Gemino Melissa Hammel Patricia Kenner Judith Kasen-Windsor Wendy Keys Cookie Kinkead Deborah Kooperstein Lisa Kiss Robin L. Long Susan Kravitz Andrew Sabin Family Foundation Leslie Lowery Patricia Lutkins PATRONS TO $1000 Nancy Marr Norman D & Judith H. Ann & Bob Marshall Cohen Foundation Carol Mellor Patricia Cristol & Linda Rice Hope Millholland Dede Gotthelf Anthony Newman S. MacLaury Hecht Charlotte Podolsky Albert Messina Ann Sanford Jill & Charles Schwartz William Packard & Charles Ihlenfeld Martha Siegler Allan & Susan Patricof Christine Witker Leslie Siben Lucinda Worthington William & Susan Siegel William Zwart Thank you to the many hands and minds that helped in 2020 Diana Aceti Hampton Arts Network Robert Nelson Carl Bennincasa Jane Held Melody Newberry Andrew Botsford Annette Hinkle Andrew Sabin Bonnie Brady Fred Hoffman Sam Sabin Diana Cherryholmes James Hook Ernie Schimizzi Mike Courtade Ursula Kalish Greg Schimizzi Emily Dowd Adrienne Kitaeff Marla Schwenk Brian Doyle Karen Konicek Michele Severence Corinne Erni Hope Kramer Chris Siefert Leg. Bridget Fleming Romany Kramoris Bill Siegel Eric Glandbard Michael Lawrence Josh Siegel Gillian Gordon Lynn Leary Jocelyn Smydo April Gornik Susan Margolin Hon. Fred Thiele CB Grubb Steve McKenna Irene Tully Rafer Guzman Kevin Miserocchi Giulia D’Agnolo Vallan Named for and in honor of D A Pennebaker, this prestigious award carries with it the pioneering spirit of our beloved Penny. His talent and bold efforts went beyond the limits PENNEBAKER of the fixed camera to give us CAREER verité observational cinema. ACHIEVEMENT This breakthrough allowed AWARD filmmakers a new freedom and an intimate perspective. We are grateful to Chris Hegedus, film partner and soul mate, and to the entire Pennebaker family for allowing us to share this unforgettable documentarian. Filmmaker Lana Jokel, whose documentary career began when she interned at the Pennebaker studios 50 years ago, is proud to sponsor this special award. PENNEBAKER CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD 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. 8 An exciting new monograph available now: www.rizzoliusa.com BARNES COY ARCHITECTS Bridgehampton 1936 Montauk Highway, NY Manhattan 124 E 40th Street, NY BarnesCoyVertical.BookCov.Rev.10.25.20.indd 1 10/25/20 6:34 PM VIRTUAL FILM SCHEDULE 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 Virtual Screenings available in the USA Watch from Saturday, Dec. 5 – Sunday, Dec. 13 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.