HIFF ushered in the 10th Anniversary of SummerDocs screenings at Guild Hall of East Hampton with Marina Zenovich‘s ROBIN WILLIAMS: COME INSIDE MY MIND on Friday, June 25, 2018. The screening was preceded by a reception at The Baker House, and followed by an in-depth Q&A with the director, hosted by HIFF Co-Chair Alec Baldwin and […]
2018 HIFF Screenwriters Lab Wraps Up
April 9, 2018 by
The 18th Annual HIFF Screenwriters Lab began last Friday with screenwriters and mentors arriving in Sag Harbor for a weekend of supportive guidance and collaboration. In between one-on-one mentor sessions, the group attended a Master Class in screenwriting from celebrated writer and mentor, James V. Hart, who has worked with Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Zemeckis […]
HIFF Screenwriters Lab: 2018 Selections & Mentors
March 20, 2018 by
HIFF is proud to announce the mentors and screenwriters for the 18th Annual Screenwriters Lab, which takes place April 6-8 in East Hampton and Sag Harbor. The Lab pairs up-and-coming screenwriters with established screenwriters, directors and producers for a series of one-on-one mentoring sessions. The three selected screenplays for 2018 are Esra Saydam’s THE MESOPOTAMIAN, Anu Valia’s […]
HIFF25 Sunday Slideshow
October 9, 2017 by
Sunday at #HIFF25 was an embarrassment of riches, starting with three stellar conversations: Annette Bening, moderated by Bob Balaban; Rob Reiner, moderated by Buzzfeed’s Alison Willmore; and Anatomy of a Scene: GET OUT, moderated by Indiewire’s Eric Kohn. Both Annette and Rob also screened their films with us in the Spotlight section: FILM STARS DON’T […]
Slideshow: ‘WHITNEY. CAN I BE ME’ at SummerDocs
August 18, 2017 by
Last night our popular SummerDocs series expanded to Southampton for the first time, with WHITNEY. CAN I BE ME, an intimate and revealing portrait of iconic superstar Whitney Houston. Before the screening at UA Southampton 4, guests gathered for a pre-screening reception at Union Cantina. Acclaimed artist Eric Fischl was on hand to generously sign the newly-unveiled poster […]
