This past Saturday, director Rory Kennedy screened her latest film for the SummerDocs audience at Guild Hall of East Hampton. Last Days in Vietnam, which will debut in theaters this September before airing on American Experience on PBS, is a riveting documentary about the harrowing evacuation of Saigon in 1975. Following the screening, SummerDocs host Alec Baldwin moderated a conversation with Kennedy, film subject Colonel […]
Slideshow: SummerDocs Screening of ‘Last Days of Vietnam,’ Dinner Honoring Bob Balaban
August 19, 2014 by
HIFF 2014 Passes & Packages Now Available
August 15, 2014 by
We hope you will join us at HIFF 2014: October 9-13. Passes and packages allow you the best access to films, panels, parties, and more. They also allow for early selection. Browse through our selections for the 2014 Hamptons International Film Festival. Please note that the Hamptons International Film Festival does not offer refunds on […]
August 22-24: Summer Family Film Festival in Southampton!
August 7, 2014 by
Join us in Southampton August 22-24 for the inaugural Summer Family Film Festival, developed in partnership with the Southampton Arts Center! The Festival will open with classic silent film shorts starring Charlie Chaplin as “The Tramp,” and will close with a special screening of the box office hit How To Train Your Dragon 2 in […]
VIDEO: ‘Keep On Keepin’ On’ Q&A with Al Hicks, Alec Baldwin & David Nugent
July 30, 2014 by
This past Friday, the 2014 HIFF SummerDocs season continued with Keep On Keepin’ On, a moving portrait of the unlikely friendship between two jazz musicians: 90-year-old Clark Terry, who has played trumpet with the masters (Duke Ellington, Count Basie), and Justin Kauflin, a 23-year-old blind piano player with dreams as big as his talent. Directed by first-time Australian […]
Q&A: Director Michael Walker on ‘The Maid’s Room’
July 29, 2014 by
Note: This interview ran as part of our coverage of the 2013 Hamptons International Film Festival. The film, which won the Views From Long Island competition at HIFF 2013, will open in theaters and debut on VOD on August 8, 2014. In The Maid’s Room, Drina, a young immigrant from Colombia, is hired by the Crawford […]
