Hamptons Doc Fest 2021 Schedule:
Sag Harbor Cinema
Friday, December 3
7 p.m. Opening Night Film, “Joyce Carol Oates: A Body in the Service of Mind” (94 min.) directed by Stig Bjorkman. Post-film, Q&A with Bjorkman hosted by Miriam Parker, Associate Publisher of ECCO, an imprint of Harper Collins.
Saturday, December 4
Noon. “The Automat” (79 min.) directed by Lisa Hurwitz. Post-film, Q&A with Hurwitz led by Roger Sherman.
2:30 p.m. “Movie Man” (82 min.) directed by Stina Gardell. Roger Sherman will lead the Q&A afterwards with Gardell and the film’s protagonist, Stig Bjorkman.
5 p.m. “Citizen Ashe” (94 min.) directed by Rex Miller and Sam Pollard. A virtual Q&A with the directors follows led by Nancy Buirski, founder/director of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival.
9 p.m. Pennebaker Career Achievement Award to Dawn Porter and a 9:30 p.m. screening of “Bree Wayy: Promise, Witness, Remembrance” (32 min.) and “Cirque du Soleil” (8 min. excerpt).
Sunday, December 5
2 p.m. “The Most Beautiful Boy in the World” (93 min.) directed by Kristina Lindstrom and Kristian Petri and produced by Stina Gardell, who will all participate in the post-film Q&A with Roger Sherman.
5 p.m. “Bernstein’s Wall” (100 min.) Art & Inspiration Award presented to director/writer Douglas Tirola and producer Susan Bedusa. The film will be followed by a Q&A with the directors hosted by Roger Sherman.
7:30 p.m. “Citizenfour” (114 min.) Producer Impact Award/Diane Weyermann Tribute. Andrea Weyermann will accept the award for her late sister. After the film, which is directed by Laura Poitras, Sag Harbor Cinema artistic director Giulia D’Agnolo Vallan will engage in a conversation with Poitras.
Bay Street Theater – screenings followed by Q&A with host Andrew Botsford, arts writer and theatrical director.
Monday, December 6
5 p.m. “To Which We Belong” (89 min.) directed by Pamela Tanner Boll and Lindsay Richardson. Q&A follows.
7:30 p.m. “A Reckoning in Boston” (83 min.) directed by James Rutenbeck.
Tuesday, December 7
Noon. “Farming Long Island” (62 min.) directed by Dom Aprile.
2:30 p.m. “Trapped” (81 min.) directed by Dawn Porter, recipient of the Pennebaker Career Achievement Award.
5:00 p.m. “Try Harder” (85 min.) directed by Debbie Lum.
7:30 p.m. “After Antarctica” (105 min.) The Andrew Sabin Family Foundation Environmental Award presented to director Tasha Van Zandt.
Wednesday, December 8
Noon. “GSW Gun Shot Wound” (63 min.) directed by Jody Schiliro.”
2:30 p.m. “Missing in Brooks County” (80 min.) directed by Lisa Molomot and Jeff Bemiss.
5 p.m. “Into the Night: Portraits of Life & Death, Part 2” (117 min.) directed by Helen Whitney.
7:30 p.m. “The Adventures of Saul Bellow” (85 min.) directed by Asaf Galay.
Thursday, December 9
10 a.m. Young Voices Program: a special program for middle and high school students, faculty and family, that includes short films and a lively workshop on filmmaking with Megan Kiefer, founder of Take Two Film Academy.
2 p.m. Shorts Program 1, a trio of shorts: “Anthony Crawford: The Man the South Forgot” (27 min.), directed by Caroline Devoe; “At What Cost” (22 min.), directed by Lauren Rothman; “Lynching Postcards: Tokens of a Great Day” (16 min.), directed by Christine Turner.
4 p.m. “Truth Tellers” (62 min.) directed by Richard Kane and co-produced with his wife Melody Lewis-Kane,
6 p.m. Shorts Program 2, a trio of shorts: “One All the Way” (24 min.), directed by David Baram; “The Soul of a Farmer” (35 min.) directed by Roger Sherman; “Shoot from the Heart” (26 min.) directed by Joan Churchill and Alan Barker.
8 p.m. “No Ordinary Life” (76 min.) directed by Heather O’Neill.
Friday, December 10
Saunders Free Community Day. All screenings free to the public. Reservations required at Bay Street Theater box office, 631-725-9500.
Noon. “Tigre Gente” (93 min.) directed by Elizabeth Unger.
2:30 p.m. “Television Event” (91 min.) directed by Jeff Daniels.
5 p.m. “Raise the Bar” (70 min.) directed by Gudjon Ragnarsson.
8 p.m. Closing Night Film, “Torn,”directed by Max Lowe for National Geographic.
Staff Writer on Nov 19, 2021