The Views From Long Island program focuses on local filmmakers, the area’s unique landscapes, and the important social and political issues facing Long Island communities.
Supported by the Suffolk County Film Commission, one Suffolk County Next Exposure Grant of $3,000 is awarded to a feature film in the section. This program supports the completion of high quality, original director-driven, low budget independent films from both emerging and established filmmakers who have completed 50% of principal photography within Suffolk County, New York.
The HIFF 2024 Views From Long Island Signature program will include three features with local connections, including two world premiere titles: the World Premieres of Evan Ari Kelman’s BARRON’S COVE, in which a grieving father with a history of violence kidnaps the child responsible for his son’s tragic death, igniting a frenzied manhunt fueled by a powerful politician— the father of the kidnapped boy; and Sam Pezzullo and Christopher Bouckoms’ THE PREMIERE, a largely improvised comedy following Sam, a painfully narcissistic and delusional theater producer who attempts to make a musical version of his favorite movie, SCREAM, at a local Sag Harbor theater; and CHRISTMAS EVE IN MILLER’S POINT, by director Tyler Taormina, in which a family gathers for what could be the last holiday in their ancestral home.
2000
Fresh Cut Grass, dir. Matthew Coppola
On the Rocks, dir. Heather Buchanan
On the Bench, dir. Jeff Dell
Losing Vincent, dirs. Camille Errante, Carole Richards
2001
Ram Dass Fierce Grace, dir. Mickey Lemle
From the Ashes: The Life and Times of Tick Hall, dir. Scott Morris
The Book of Small, dir. Garrett Chingery
Tide, dir. Sarah Tuft
The Shellphone, dir. Jonathan Lennard
Matt Rassler, dirs. John Bloom, Brett Fain
Showbiz Is My Life, dirs. Hillary Harris, Ayr Robinson
2002
You Stupid Man, dir. Brian Burns
Infested, dir. Josh Olson
Last Dance, dir. Mirra Bank
Between Resistance and Community: The Long Island Do-It-Yourself Punk Scene, dirs. Joe Carroll, Ben Holtzman
Lost, dir. James Anderer
The Real Hamptons, dir. Jeff Dell
Accabonac Harbor, dir. Alec Hirschfeld
Data’s Congestion: Kenneth Koch’s Theatre of the Avant-Garde, dir. Marisela La Grave
2003
Orwell Rolls in His Grave, dir. Robert Pappas
Scene Stealers, dir. Craig Mowry
Speedo, dir. Jesse Moss
Local Angel – Theological Political Fragments, dir. Udi Aloni
Is the Crown at War With Us?, dir. Alanis Obomsawin
Nick and Toni’s Anniversary Party, dir. Jeff Dell
Native American Neighbors, dirs. Elizabeth Thunder Bird Haile
2004
Matta: The Eye of a Surrealist, dir. Jane Crawford
Point and Shoot, dir. Shawn Regruto
Escape, dir. Darko Lungulov
Edge of America, dir. Chris Eyre
One of Many, dirs. Jo Beranger, Doris Buttignol
2005
Brooklyn Lobster, dir. Kevin Jordan
Treasure, dir. Gabriel Nussbaum
Irene Williams: Queen of Lincoln Road, dir. Eric Smith
Beyond the Ladies Room Door, dir. Elise Bennett
Horseplay, dir. Alex Rachel
The Loud Ladies of South Fork, dir. Joan Brooker
Small Circle of Friends, dir. Jeff Dell
2006
If I Didn’t Care, dirs. Benjamin Cummings, Orson Cummings
Shut Up and Sing, dir. Bruce Leddy
Dada’s Son: Jimmy and Max Ernst, dir. David Irving
Honey Trap, dir. Bob Giraldi
Last Chance, dir. Lee Greenberg
Soil and Sand, dir. Alex van Boer
The Day My Towers Fell, dirs. Douglas Huebner, Billy Sharp
2013
Big Shot, dir. Kevin Connolly
The Maid’s Room, dir. Michael Walker
Kiss the Water, dir. Eric Steel
Across Grace Alley, dir. Ralph Macchio
Diner En Blanc: The World’s Largest Secret Dinner Party, dir. Jennifer Ash
Miss Todd, dir. Kristina Yee
Lost Thoughts, dir. Jeff Scher
Fool’s Day, dir. Cody Blue Snider
2014
Gabriel, dir. Lou Howe
Diplomacy, dir. Volker Schlöndorff
Iris, dir. Albert Maysles
Still Alice, dirs. Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland
Weenie, dir. Dan Roe
2015
When I Live My Life Over Again, dir. Robert Edwards
Class Divide, dir. Marc Levin
Harry & Snowman, dir. Ron Davis
How to Dance in Ohio, dir. Alexandra Shiva
Picturing Barbara Kruger, dir. Pippa Bianco
It’s Me, Hilary: The Man Who Drew Eloise, dir. Matt Wolf
2016
The Killing Season, dirs. Joshua Zeman, Rachel Mills
God Knows Where I Am, dirs. Todd Wilder, Jedd Wilder
Legs: A Big Issue in a Small Town, dirs. Beatrice Alda, Jennifer Brooke
Black Swell, dir. Jake Honig
The Prophet of Plas-Teek , dir. Joshua Cohen
2017
Killer Bees, dirs. Benjamin Cummings, Orson Cummings
Strong Island, dir. Yance Ford
Wanderland, dir. Josh Klausner
2018
Black Mother, dir. Khalik Allah
2019
3 Days 2 Nights, dir. John Breen
Conscience Point, dir. Treva Wurmfeld
Waterproof, dir. Ross Kauffman
WWII, dir. Daisy Pitches
Hacked, dirs. Cooper Aiken, Beatrix Beirne, Caleb Garutti, Devon O’Halloran
2020
Harry Chapin: When in Doubt, Do Something, dir. Rick Korn
2021
The Art of Making It, dir. Kelcey Edwards
The Glass, dir. Tom Van Scoyoc
Good Grief, dir. Nastasya Popov
Radical Love, dir. William A. Kirkley
The Soul of a Farmer, dir. Roger Sherman
2022
The Power of Community: How One Town Stood Against Domestic Violence, dir. Markie Hancock
The Quiet Epidemic, dirs. Lindsay Keys, Winslow Crane-Murdoch
The End, dir. Emily Sundberg
The Pass, dir. Pepi Ginsberg
Rocco Up, dir. John Madere
The Rolling East, dir. Ben Potter
2023
Mary Heilmann: Waves, Roads, & Hallucinations, dir. Matt Creed
These Days, dir. Junior Gonzalez
Fresh Kills, dir. Jennifer Esposito
Forgotten Founders: David Hempstead, Senior, dirs. Sam Hamilton, Julian Alvarez
Merv, dir. Sam Roebling
The Pedestrian, dirs. Nora DeLigter, Claire Read
2024
Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point, dir. Tyler Taormina
The Premiere, dirs. Sam Pezzullo, Christopher Bouckoms
Barron’s Cove, dir. Evan Ari Kelman
