“What this film is about is: what has happened to the news, why it’s happened, how it’s happened, and why you should care.” — Dan Rather on TRUTH In case you missed it at #HIFF2015, A Conversation With Dan Rather is now available via Alec Baldwin’s podcast, Here’s The Thing. Download and listen now! At […]
HIFF 2015 Centerpieces: ‘Spotlight’ and ‘Carol’
September 18, 2015 by
As the 23rd Annual Hamptons Film Festival draws near, we’re pleased to announced our two Centerpiece selections. Tom McCarthy‘s Spotlight, starring Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, and more, will screen Saturday, October 10, sponsored by Blundstone. On Sunday, October 11, Festival-goers can catch Carol, from director Todd Haynes and starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney […]
‘Best of Enemies’ Wins SummerDocs Audience Award
September 16, 2015 by
The votes have been tallied, and the results are in! The winner of the 2015 SummerDocs Audience Award, sponsored by Candescent Films, is Best of Enemies, directed by Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon. An encore screening will take place at the 2015 Hamptons International Film Festival. Told with insight, prescience, panache and humor, the award-winning Best of Enemies chronicles the groundbreaking series […]
‘Youth’ to Screen HIFF 2015 Opening Night in Southampton
September 3, 2015 by
HIFF is delighted to announce that Youth, the latest film from Italian writer/director Paolo Sorrentino, will be the Opening Night film in Southampton at the 2015 Festival. Starring Academy Award® winner Michael Caine as Fred and Academy Award nominee Harvey Keitel as Mick, Paolo Sorrentino’s Youth explores the lifelong bond between two friends vacationing in a luxury […]
Slideshow: Final SummerDocs Screening of ‘Peace Officer’
August 31, 2015 by
On Friday, August 28, the Hamptons International Film Festival screened Peace Officer to close out the 2015 SummerDocs series, presented by TNT’s Public Morals. Following the screening of the powerful and timely film, directors Brad Barber and Scott Christopherson joined the subject of the film, William ‘Dub’ Lawrence, along with HIFF Artistic Director David Nugent and SummerDocs host Alec Baldwin, onstage for an in-depth Q&A. Before the screening, HIFF […]
