2024 Screenwriters Lab Mentors + Participants

For the 24th year, the annual HIFF Screenwriters Lab (April 5-7, 2024), will pair rising screenwriters with established screenwriters, directors, and creative-producers for a weekend of one-on-one mentoring sessions. An intimate gathering taking place each spring in East Hampton, the Lab fosters emerging talent with these film industry veterans advising the participating fellows on their […]

2022 Screenwriters Lab: Submissions

Update 1/15/2022: Submissions are now closed for the 2022 Screenwriters Lab. Celebrating its 22nd anniversary in 2022, the HamptonsFilm Screenwriters Lab champions the artistic visions of up-and-coming filmmakers from around the world. Save the dates for the 2022 Screenwriters Lab: April 8-10. An intimate gathering taking place each spring on Long Island’s East End, the […]

Q&A: INTRODUCING, SELMA BLAIR

Actress Selma Blair and director Rachel Fleit participated in an incredibly moving Q&A following the East Coast Premiere of INTRODUCING, SELMA BLAIR at HIFF29. >> The film is now streaming on discovery+. Watch now, and then check out this intimate conversation. Startlingly honest and candid, INTRODUCING, SELMA BLAIR offers the viewer an unprecedented glimpse into […]

SummerDocs: ‘Lily Topples the World’ Slideshow

As the Hamptons scrambled in advance of the coming storm on Saturday, August 21, our SummerDocs series rolled on with LILY TOPPLES THE WORLD, a coming-of-age story cloaked within a unique portrait of an artist. The film’s subject, domino artist and YouTube sensation Lily Hevesh, joined us, as did award-winning director Jeremy Workman. Discovery+ will […]

SummerDocs: ‘THE LOST LEONARDO’ Slideshow

This past Saturday, July 24, SummerDocs continued its winning streak with the art-world thriller THE LOST LEONARDO, the inside story behind the Salvator Mundi, the most expensive painting ever sold at $450 million, claimed to be a long-lost masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci. Sony Pictures Classics will release the film in theaters on August 13. […]