The 2014 Hamptons International Film Festival has set the airwaves abuzz, with news stations and entertainment programs across the region featuring the films, people and events of HIFF 2014. We’re rounding them up here, and will continue to update this page as more news stories pour in. Watch and learn! New York Live: Movie Magic at […]
Q&A: Director Dan Shadur on ‘Before the Revolution’
September 28, 2013 by
For a certain group of Israelis in the 1960s and ‘70s, Tehran, Iran was a utopia. Enjoying close relations with the Shah’s regime, their paradise was built on construction contracts, weapons sales, and oil. Then the Iranian Revolution arrived. In what begins as a nostalgic quest to understand his family’s glory days, Dan Shadur’s tale […]
Q&A: Director Eric Steele on ‘Bob Birdnow’s Remarkable Tale of Human Survival and the Transcendence of Self’
September 26, 2013 by
Bob Birdnow is a curious candidate for a motivational speaker. Balding, crippled, and past middle-aged. He does have something no one else has though: a remarkable tale of human survival and the transcendence of self. When asked by his old friend to speak at a conference, he avoids the subject, opting for a more traditional […]
