FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS

Chris Hegedus

Chris Hegedus introduces Matt Heineman

Lana Jokel & Matt Heineman

Pennebaker Award presentation

Chris Hegedus & Matt Heineman

Julie Anderson & Matt Heineman

Q/A after screening of American Symphony

Jacqui Lofaro, Markelle Taylor, Christine Yoo

Screening of Audience Award winning film “26.2 To Life”

Andrew Botsford, Christine Yoo, Markelle Taylor

Q/A after screening 26.2 To Life

Jackie Leopold, Markelle Taylor, Christine Yoo, Nigel Noble

After screening “26.2 To Life”

James Ivory & Wendy Keys

Q/A after film “A Cooler Climate”

Kevin Miserocchi, Leslie Shampaine

Presentation of Arts & Inspiration Award for film “Call Me Dancer”.

Sponsored by Tee & Charles Addams Foundation

Roger Sherman, Leslie Shampaine

Q/A following screening of Call Me Dancer

Jacqui Lofaro, Heather Dune Macadam

Human Rights Award to Director of “999: The Forgotten Girls of the Holocaust”

Hamptons Doc Fest Audience

Jacqui Lofaro, Executive Director of Hamptons Doc Fest

James Lapine, Susan Lacy, Miky Wolf

Q/A by Susan Lacy with Director Lapine and Editor Miky Wolf after screening “In the Company of Rose”

Karen Arikian, Miky Wolf, Jacqui Lofaro, James Lapine

After screening “In the Company of Rose.”

Jacqui Lofaro, Susan Margolin, Regina K. Scully

Impact Award presentation to Regina K. Scully, founder of the Artemis Rising Foundation

Jackie Leopold, Associate Director of Hamptons Doc Fest

Dorothy & Roger Sherman, Jacqui Lofaro, Kevin Miserocchi

Enjoying the festival

Andrew Botsford, Filmmakers Itamar Alcalay, Meital Zvieli

Q/A after screening of “The Camera of Doctor Morris”

Claudia Pilato, Festival Marketing Consultant

Producer Susan Margolin

Introducing Impact Award to Regina K. Scully

Cynthia Lopez, Executive Director of NYWIFT

At Q/A of film “Obsessed with Light.”

Judith Cohen

Accepting Legacy Award in honor of her sister Nancy Buirski

Karen Arikian, HDF Artistic Director, filmmaker David Dibble, Hospitality Director Jamie Coy Wallace

Enjoying the festival

The team of "999: The Forgotten Girls of the Holocaust"

Roger Sherman

Conducting workshop at Young Voices

Roger Sherman

Teaching camera moves at Young Voices program

Rafaela DeMartis of Springs School with HDF House Manager Stefanie Anarumo

Roger Sherman, Rafaela DeMartis interviewing Jacqui Lofaro

Roger Sherman, Nigel Noble, Jacqui Lofaro, Jackie Leopold

Jacqui Lofaro and Ida Samuelson

Andrew Bostord and Director Lisa D'Apolito

Q/A after screning “Shari & Lamb Chop”

HDF Happy Volunteers

Jesse Rudoy

Q/A following screening of film “Dusty & Stones”

Sag Harbor Cinema

Andrew Botsford, Martin Rather

Q/A after screening “Rather”

Claudia Pilato & husband Steve Maietta

Festival audience at Bay Street Theater

Editor Miky Wolf and Director James Lapine

For their film “In the Company of Rose.”

HDF Board member Taimoor Choudhry and Hannah Edleston

Hannah, Jacqui, Taimoor, Claudia, Deborah

Enjoying the festival

Editor Miky Wolf & friends

At the reception following his film “In the Company of Rose.”

Deborah Kooperstein, HDF Board Member

At reception during the festival

Vicki Umans and friends

At reception following screenings

HDF Publicist Arlene Hinkemeyer & friends

At reception following screenings

Lana Jokel and Editor Miky Wolf

At reception following screenings

Maryte Kavaliauskas & Jacqui Lofaro

At the post-screening reception

Andrew Siben, Karen Arikian, Barry & Susan Minsky

Enjoying the post-screening reception

Festival Team: Sam Hamilton, Stefanie Anarumo, Zoe Linstrom-Ives, Max Hecksher

At the post-screening reception

Halsted Welles

The "Call Me Dancer" film team

Heather Dune Macadam and Susan Lacy

Director John Hoffman and producer Avalos

HDF Artistic Director Karen Arikian, Board Member Taimoor Choudhry, filmmaker John Hoffman, HDF Associate Director Jackie Leopold, Advisory Board member Roger Sherman

Festival guests

Co-Directors Zeva Oelbaum and Sabine Krayenbuhl with Jackie Leopold

Leslie Shampaine, Cynthia Kane, Jennifer Berman

Film crew of “Call Me Dancer”

HDF Matt Hindra interviews filmmaker Heather Dune Macadam

HDF Advisory Board member RJ Millard

Festival guests

Heather Dune Macadam and friends

HDF team: Jackie Leopold, Liz Yennie, Stefanie Anarumo

Barbara Moss, Joanne F. Roberts

HDF Jamie Coy Wallace, Producer Susan Margolin, filmmaker Mirra Bank

Filmmakers Zeva Oelbaum, Sabine Krayenbuhl

For their film “Obsessed with Light”

Susan Margolin, Zeva Oelbaum, Sabine Krayenbuhl, Cynthia Kane, Cynthia Lopez

Chris Hegedus and Heather Dune Macadam

Jacqui Lofaro and James Ivory

Wendy Keys and James Ivory

Jacqui Lofaro with Board of Director Brian Gemino and Claudia Pilato

Markelle Taylor, Board members Leslie Siben, Taimoor Choudhry

HDF Advisory Board members Julie Anderson and Chris Hegedus

Dorothy Riley and Kevin Miserocchi

Director Christine Yoo, Markelle Taylor, Jacqui Lofaro, HDF Board member Deborah Kooperstein

Hannah Edleston and friend

Pennebaker Gala Cocktail reception

Pennebaker Awardee Matt Heineman and HDF Advisory Board member, Julie Anderson

Filmmakers David Dibble, Heather Dune Macadam, Producer Jay Heit

HDF Advisory Board Members Don Lenzer and Roger Sherman

Bruce Weber and Director Sam Shahid

After screening “Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes”

HDF Artistic Director Karen Arikian

HDF Executive Director Jacqui Lofaro and Bruce Weber

Giulia D'Agnolo Vallan, Artistic Director, Sag Harbor Cinema

Anselm audience with their 3-D glasses fill the Sag Harbor Cinema

Artist Eric Fischl

In conversation after screening of Anselm

Director Vanessa Martino with Rosemarie D'Alessandro and sons

For screening of “Daughter of Mine”

Director Vanessa Martino

For film “Daughter of Mine”

FESTIVAL NEWS: Our 2023 Highlight films salute outstanding directors and film subjects. We invite you to see them all at our 16th annual festival. This year’s lineup brings audiences rich and diverse docs for 7 days. We welcome filmmakers, documentary film lovers and area students to the historic villages of Sag Harbor, New York for dozens of films, discussions, panels, media labs, awards, cocktail receptions and celebrations. In these intimate, walkable settings, festival-goers enjoy the local area’s many shops, restaurants, inns, museums, and parks in between the screenings of outstanding new documentary films accompanied by discussions with the filmmakers.

2023 AWARD FILMS

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The 2023 Award Recipients

The Pennebaker Award for Career Achievement in Documentary Film. This year it goes to Matthew Heineman who tackles difficult and often hard-to-access subjects while addressing great social truths.

Our prestigious Career Achievement Award, the PENNEBAKER, is named for one of the pioneers and innovators in the field, the late DA Pennebaker. The Award is sponsored by filmmaker Lana Jokel whose career in documentary film began as an intern in the Leacock-Pennebaker studios. Now Penny’s indomitable spirit will be with us as we award the PENNEBAKER to a documentary filmmaker whose exceptional body of work deserves acclaim.

The Art & Inspiration Award sponsored by the Tee & Charles Addams Foundation goes to Leslie Shampaine for the film Call Me Dancer.

The Human Rights Award goes to Heather Dune Macadam for her film 999: The Forgotten Girls of the Holocaust.

The Impact Award, goes to Regina K. Scully, Founder of Artemis Rising Foundation.

The Environmental Award goes to filmmaker Matthieu Rytz for his film Deep Rising.

The Audience Award winner will be announced at the end of our festival. Please remember to vote with your ballots. Thanks to Brown Harris Stevens for Sponsoring the award.

2023 SPONSOR SUPPORTED PROGRAMS

The Tee & Charles Addams Foundation. Special recognition goes to the festival’s ELITE SPONSOR, whose support & belief in the power of the arts has enabled us to bring our audiences a rich program of non-fiction storytelling.

Brown Harris Stevens. BHS has a long history with our festival for supporting the Audience Award. We thank them.

Epic Insurance. Their corporate mission supports our mission of bringing you top quality docs.