Matthew Heineman, Nancy Buirski To Be Honored By Hamptons Doc Fest – Deadline

Oscar-nominated director Matthew Heineman and late filmmaker Nancy Buirski might be honored on the Hamptons Doc Fest in New York subsequent month.

Heineman, whose newest movie, American Symphony, premiered to acclaim on the Telluride Film Festival, will obtain the distinguished Pennebaker Career Achievement Award, named for the legendary filmmaker and pioneer of “direct cinema” D.A. Pennebaker. Heineman is anticipated to be readily available to obtain the respect, which has beforehand gone to Richard Leacock, Susan Lacy, Barbara Kopple, Stanley Nelson Jr., Alex Gibney, Liz Garbus, Sheila Nevins, Frederick Wiseman, Dawn Porter, Sam Pollard, and to Pennebaker and and his spouse and filmmaking companion Chris Hegedus.

Hamptons Doc Fest will display American Symphony, which has been acquired by the Obamas’ manufacturing firm Higher Ground by means of the previous first couple’s take care of Netflix. The documentary about Grammy-winning musician Jon Batiste and his spouse, the musician Suleika Jaouad, and her battle with most cancers, earned six Critics’ Choice Documentary Award nominations earlier this week.

Hamptons Doc Fest will function a particular tribute to beloved and revered filmmaker Nancy Buirski, who died unexpectedly in August. Buirski, whose newest documentary Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy is in awards competition this yr, will posthumously obtain Doc Fest’s first Legacy Award. Buirski’s sister, Judith Cohen, will settle for the award, and the presentation might be adopted by screening of Buirski’s first function documentary, The Loving Story. That movie, concerning the couple on the coronary heart of a U.S. Supreme Court case that ended anti-miscegenation legal guidelines, was later tailored into the fiction movie Loving, starring Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton.

The pageant, in partnership with NYWIFT, can even honor the work of Artemis Rising Foundation by presenting its Impact Award to the inspiration’s founder and CEO Regina Ok. Scully, accompanied by a screening of Obsessed with Light, directed by Sabine Krayenbühl and Zeva Oelbaum, a documentary about Loïe Fuller, a pioneer of recent dance in America within the late 1900s. 

Hamptons Doc Fest additionally introduced its lineup for the 16^th version of the pageant, which unspools from Nov. 30-Dec. 6 within the Eastern Long Island city of Sag Harbor. In the Company of Rose, a movie about poet Rose Styron, the widow of author William Styron, will kick off the pageant. Frank Marshall’s documentary Rather, about information man Dan Rather, closes the pageant. The slate of 30 movies continues Doc Fest’s custom of “highlighting the best of non-fiction programming” together with its annual program for native faculties, Young Voices… “dedicated to local community youth in middle and high schools, which will include a film and a hands-on workshop led by award winning filmmaker, Roger Sherman.”

Jacqui Lofaro, govt director of Hamptons Doc Fest, stated in an announcement, “During this time of disconnection, film and festivals like ours can play a powerful role in re-stitching our communities. Our 2023 documentary program promises you the power and experience of quality storytelling. Good stories surprise us. They make us think and feel. They stick in our minds and help us remember ideas and concepts. This is what the Hamptons Doc Fest is all about and even more so in its 16th year.”

The lineup for the 2023 Hamptons Doc Fest:

American Symphony Pennebaker Career Achievement Award to Matthew Heineman

Saturday, 12/2, 6:30pm, 100 min @ Bay Street Theater

Matthew Heineman might be in attendance for the award ceremony

DIRECTOR: Matthew Heineman

PRODUCERS: Lauren Domino, Joedan Okun

EDITORS: Sammy Dane, Matthew Heineman, JIm Hession, Fernando Villegas

CINEMATOGRAPHERS: Tony Hardmon, Matthew Heineman, Clair Popkin, Thorsten Thielow

American Symphony follows Jon Batiste as he prepares his unique musical composition for its premiere at Carnegie Hall whereas on the identical time, supporting his spouse, author Suleika Jaouad, whose uncommon type of leukemia has returned after 10 years in remission. In September 2023, the movie was acquired by Netflix and the Obamas’ manufacturing firm Higher Ground. Variety’s 

Screening of the movie follows the Gala reception and Award ceremony. 

In the Company of Rose Opening Night Film

Thursday, 11/30, 8:00pm, 85 min @ Sag Harbor Cinema

Director James Lapine in attendance for Q&A, Rose Styron by Zoom

DIRECTOR: James Lapine

PRODUCERS: James Lapine, Jack Shear, Grace Sin, Miky Wolf 

EDITOR: Miky Wolf

CINEMATOGRAPHER: James Lapine

On Martha’s Vineyard, Tony-winning playwright and director James Lapine meets Rose Styron, the widow of the nice American novelist William Styron. Over six years of periodic conferences, 95-year outdated Rose shares the fascinating story of her complicated life as a poet, journalist, human rights activist, and life companion to William. 

Cocktail reception to observe. The movie is sponsored by EPIC.

Rather Closing Night Film

Wednesday, 12/6, 7:00pm, 95 min @ Bay Street Theater

Martin Rather, Dan Rather’s grandson and participant within the movie, by way of Zoom for Q&A

DIRECTOR: Frank Marshall

PRODUCERS: Frank Marshall, Jenifer Westphal, Joe Plummer, Jeff Hasler, Ethan Goldman, Aly Parker

EDITORS: Curtis McConnell, Joe Fenstermaker

CINEMATOGRAPHER: Michael Koshkin

Dan Rather’s 60+ yr profession coincides with among the seminal moments in American journalism. From his days embedded within the Vietnam War, to his on-the-ground protection of JFK’s assassination, to his presence on the foot of the Berlin Wall because it fell, Dan Rather has reported on an astonishing variety of iconic moments in historical past. Now, as a 92-year-old reflecting on seven many years of service and seeking to the way forward for democracy, we meet a person free of the auspices of any overarching community or deadline and with a dedication to the reality. 

The movie is sponsored by Douglas Denoff/Sutton Square Entertainment.

Call Me Dancer Recipient of the 2023 Art & Inspiration Award

Thursday, 11/30, 5:30pm, 84 min @ Sag Harbor Cinema

Director Leslie Shampaine in attendance for a Q&A   

DIRECTORS: Pip Gilmour, Leslie Shampaine

PRODUCERS: Cynthia Kane, Leslie Shampaine

EDITOR: Jennifer Beman

CINEMATOGRAPHERS: Neil Barrett, Abhijit Datta

Manish, a younger and gifted avenue dancer from Mumbai, struggles in opposition to his mother and father’ insistence that he observe a standard path that can allow their solely son to assist them. When he secretly attends an inner-city dance college and by chance walks right into a ballet class, he meets Yehuda, a curmudgeonly 70-year-old Israeli trainer, and a starvation develops inside him. Ambitious and passionate, Manish is decided to make it as knowledgeable dancer, however the odds are stacked in opposition to him.

The Gullspång Miracle 

Friday, 12/1, 12:00pm, 108 min @ Bay Street Theater

Director Maria Fredriksson by way of Zoom for Q&A

DIRECTOR: Maria Fredriksson

PRODUCER: Ina Holmqvist

EDITORS: Orvar Anklew, Mark Bukdahl 

CINEMATOGRAPHER: Pia Lehto

When May is injured in a freak accident on a rollercoaster experience, she and her sister Kari resolve to purchase a house within the small Swedish city of Gullspång. But when the siblings encounter the property’s vendor, Olaug, they turn out to be satisfied that she is their older sibling, Lita, who allegedly dedicated suicide some 30 years earlier. It is at this level that documentary filmmaker Maria Fredriksson, on the behest of the sisters, begins to research this unusual historical past, leading to a true-crime household drama that journeys down a sequence of peculiar paths. 

The Rainbow Warrior 

Friday, 12/1, 2:30pm, 94 min @ Bay Street Theater

Director Edward McGurn in attendance for Q&A 

DIRECTOR: Edward McGurn

PRODUCERS: Edward McGurn, Sophie Daniel, Chris Dallas-Feeney, Katie Buchanan, Eva Gunz 

EDITOR: Chris Dallas-Feeney

CINEMATOGRAPHERS: Andrew McGeorge, Neil Harvey, Ian Kerr, Matthew Pothier 

On July tenth, 1985 two French secret brokers bombed Greenpeace’s flagship The Rainbow Warrior whereas it was at port in Auckland, New Zealand. The operation, code-named “Satanic,” has been known as one of many best intelligence failures in historical past. The Rainbow Warrior put Greenpeace on the map, precipitated worldwide outrage and ended nuclear testing within the Pacific.

Orca – Black & White Gold

Friday, 12/1, 5:00pm, 92 min @ Sag Harbor Cinema

Director Sarah Nörenberg in attendance for Q&A

DIRECTOR: Sarah Nörenberg

PRODUCERS: Walter Köhler, Sarah Nörenberg, Michael Frenschkowski

EDITORS: Max Kliewer, Verena Schönauer

CINEMATOGRAPHER: Sergei Amirdzhanov

This is a riveting docu-thriller exposing the unlawful commerce in endangered wild orcas fueled by American enterprise practices. Ten years after the award-winning Blackfish opened our eyes to the merciless and inhumane remedy of whales in captivity, this movie gives unprecedented entry to activists, trainers, journalists and the catchers themselves and divulges the stunning fact behind the worldwide orca commerce.

Obsessed with Light Recipient of the 2023 Impact Award, Regina Ok. Scully, Artemis Rising Foundation

Co-Presented with NYWIFT (New York Women in Film & Television)

Friday, 12/1, 7:30pm, 90 min @ Sag Harbor Cinema

Directors Sabine Krayenbühl and Zeva Oelbaum in attendance for Q&A

DIRECTORS: Sabine Krayenbühl, Zeva Oelbaum

PRODUCERS: Sabine Krayenbühl, Zeva Oelbaum

EDITOR: Sabine Krayenbühl

CINEMATOGRAPHERS: Bob Richman, Claudia Raschke

The Artemis Rising Foundation is devoted to supporting media initiatives that rework tradition and problem the established order. Led by Founder and CEO, Regina Ok. Scully, the inspiration champions highly effective tales about among the most difficult social justice problems with our time — together with gender-bias, therapeutic, trauma, psychological well being, dependancy and ladies’s empowerment. 

Obsessed with Light pulls again the curtain on Loïe Fuller, a wildly unique dancer and inventor who pioneered the inventive use of electrical lighting for the stage. The documentary, produced with main assist by Regina Ok Scully and Artemis Rising Foundation, delves into the astonishing affect Fuller’s work has on up to date tradition together with artists like Red Hot Chili Peppers, Taylor Swift, and Shakira. Anyone who has been to a rock live performance has seen a contemporary model of the lighting designs that Fuller patented over a century in the past.

Cocktail reception to observe.

A Cooler Climate

Saturday, 12/2, 1:00pm, 75 min @ Sag Harbor Cinema

Director James Ivory in attendance for Q&A

DIRECTORS: James Ivory, Giles Gardner

PRODUCER: Bertrand Faivre

EDITOR: Giles Gardner

CINEMATOGRAPHER: Giles Gardner

In 1960, Oscar-winning filmmaker James Ivory made a visit to Afghanistan to shoot scenes for a documentary. The movie was by no means accomplished and the footage stayed in a field unseen for 60 years. In 2022, aged 94, he determined to revisit this distinctive materials as a method to look again at his youthful self and to unravel how this unlikely journey removed from his hometown in Oregon helped type the celebrated filmmaker he was to turn out to be.

James Ivory is an American movie director, producer, and screenwriter. For a few years, he labored extensively with Indian-born movie producer Ismail Merchant, his home in addition to skilled companion, and with screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. All three had been principals in Merchant Ivory Productions, whose movies have received seven Academy Awards. Ivory himself has been nominated for 4 Oscars, successful one in 2018 for Best Adapted Screenplay for Call Me By Your Name on the age of 89, making him the oldest recipient of an Oscar.

Invisible Beauty

Saturday, 12/2, 3:00pm, 115 min @ Sag Harbor Cinema

Director Bethann Hardison and Producer Lisa Cortés in attendance for Q&A

DIRECTORS: Bethann Hardison, Frédéric Tcheng 

PRODUCER: Lisa Cortés

EDITORS: Chris McNabb, Frédéric Tcheng

CINEMATOGRAPHERS: Mia Cioffi Henry, Frédéric Tcheng

Fashion revolutionary and mannequin turned agent and activist Bethann Hardison knew that Black is Beautiful properly earlier than the style business acknowledged the reality. From strolling runway reveals alongside Iman to discovering supermodels like Tyson Beckford and mentoring icons like Naomi Campbell, Hardison has been on the epicenter of main representational shifts in style.  

The movie is sponsored by Sarah Cuyler.

The Loving Story Posthumous Legacy Award to Nancy Buirski

Sunday, 12/3, 2:00pm, 77 min @ Bay Street Theater

Susan Margolin and Chris Hegedus in attendance to current the award to Judith Cohen

Hamptons Doc Fest is proud to honor Nancy Buirski with our first Legacy Award, accepted by her sister, Judith Cohen. In Nancy’s honor, the pageant will display the Emmy and Peabody award-winning documentary The Loving Story, her first function as author, director and producer, in addition to the quick movie Daughter of Mine, the place she acted as Executive Producer and mentor to the filmmaker. 

DIRECTOR: Nancy Buirski

PRODUCERS: Nancy Buirski, Elisabeth Haviland James

EDITOR; Elisabeth Haviland James

CINEMATOGRAPHERS: Rex Miller, Steve Milligan

The Loving Story is an uncommon telling of a civil rights story. Though typically neglected among the many pantheon of civil rights struggles, Mildred and Richard Lovings’ quest to stay collectively as husband and spouse within the state of Virginia was a pivotal one. A white man and a part-black, part-Rappahannock girl had been in love and didn’t perceive why their marriage was a prison offense within the eyes of the state. Their effort to make this proper – to not stay in disgrace or in exile – is common, metaphorically reminding us of oppressed and exiled folks in all places. The Lovings are paired with two younger and bold attorneys who’re pushed to pave the best way for Civil Rights and social justice by means of an historic Supreme Court ruling, altering the nation’s story ceaselessly and making anti-miscegenation legal guidelines unlawful. 

Anselm (in 3D)   

Co-presented with Sag Harbor Cinema

Sunday, 12/3, 4:00pm, 93 min @ Bay Street Theater

DIRECTOR: Wim Wenders

PRODUCER: Karsten Brünig

EDITOR: Maxine Goedicke

CINEMATOGRAPHER: Franz Lustig

This immersive 3D documentary chronicles the artwork of German modern painter and sculptor Anselm Kiefer. The movie illuminates his work, life journey, inventive course of, and the artist’s fascination with fable and historical past. Director Wenders known as the movie “a labor of love.”

Wim Wenders is a serious determine in New German Cinema. Among many honors, he has obtained three nominations for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for Buena Vista Social Club, Pina, and The Salt of the Earth. He is the previous President of the European Film Academy, and can also be a member of the advisory board of World Cinema Foundation, based by Martin Scorsese, that goals to seek out and reconstruct world cinema movies which were uncared for.

Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes

Sunday, 12/3, 7:00pm, 96 min Sag Harbor Cinema

Director Sam Shahid in attendance for Q&A

DIRECTOR: Sam Shahid

PRODUCERS: Sam Shahid, Matthew Kraus, Nando de Carvalho, John MacConnell, 

EDITOR: Conor McBride

CINEMATOGRAPHER: Matthew Kraus

Hidden Master incorporates a beautiful assortment of pictures from the Nineteen Thirties-50s, uncovering the less-known lifetime of movie star photographer George Platt Lynes: his gifted eye for the male type, his long-term friendships with Gertrude Stein and Alfred Kinsey, and his lasting affect as one of many first brazenly homosexual American artists.

26.2 to Life

Monday, 12/4, 12:00pm, 90 min @ Bay Street Theater

Director Christine Yoo in attendance for Q&A   

DIRECTOR: Christine Yoo

PRODUCERS: Christine Yoo, Carolyn Mao, Sara Sluke, Hella Winstron, Zahava Hirsch

EDITOR: Marcos Moro

CINEMATOGRAPHER: Cliff Traiman

Set at San Quentin, California’s oldest jail, 26.2 TO LIFE explores the disaster of over incarceration by means of the tales of three males residing out life sentences. As they work to raised themselves and be productive regardless of surviving behind bars, the lads practice for essentially the most distinctive marathon on this planet – 105 laps round an uneven grime and concrete path that loops the jail’s crowded Lower Yard.  

The Eternal Memory

Monday, 12/4, 3:00pm, 85 min @ Bay Street Theater 

DIRECTOR: Maite Alberdi

PRODUCERS: Maite Alberdi, Rocio Jadue, Juan de Dios Larrain, Pablo Larrain

EDITOR: Carolina Siraqyan

CINEMATOGRAPHER: Pablo Valdés

Augusto Góngora, a veteran Chilean political journalist, devoted himself within the Nineteen Seventies and Nineteen Eighties to bringing the iniquities of the Pinochet regime to public consideration and later to conserving that nationwide reminiscence for future generations. So it’s considerably ironic that now Góngora struggles along with his personal reminiscence as he contends with the ravages of Alzheimer’s. What provides the movie coronary heart is the love story between Góngora and his devoted spouse and caretaker, former Chilean tradition minister Paulina Urrutia.

The Disappearance of Shere Hite

Monday, 12/4, 5:30pm, 116 min @ Bay Street Theater 

DIRECTOR: Nicole Newnham

PRODUCERS: R.J. Cutler, Kimberley Ferdinando, Nicole Newnham, Molly O’Brien, Trevor Smith, Elise Pearlstein

EDITOR: Eileen Meyer

CINEMATOGRAPHER: Rose Bush

Shere Hite’s 1976 bestselling ebook, The Hite Report, liberated the feminine orgasm by revealing essentially the most personal experiences of hundreds of nameless survey respondents. Her findings rocked the American institution and presaged present conversations about gender and sexuality. So why did Shere Hite disappear from public view within the many years earlier than her demise in 2020?

La Singla

Monday, 12/4, 8:00pm, 95 min @ Bay Street Theater

Director Paloma Zapata in attendance for Q&A     

DIRECTOR: Paloma Zapata

PRODUCERS: Paloma Zapata, Nadja Smith, Paola Sainz de Baranda

EDITOR: Paloma Zapata

CINEMATOGRAPHERS: Iñaki Gorraiz, Dani Mauri

Antonia Singla was as soon as thought-about the very best flamenco dancer on this planet. Born deaf within the slums of Barcelona and unable to talk till she was a young person, dance turned the language by means of which she expressed herself. La Singla’s placing actions—and intense gaze—had been seared with ardour and revolutionized the artwork type. Then, all of the sudden, on the peak of her fame, she vanished with no hint.

The Camera of Doctor Morris

Tuesday, 12/5, 1:00pm, 73 min @ Bay Street Theater

DIRECTORS: Itamar Alcalay, Meital Zvieli

PRODUCERS: Itamar Alcalay, Meital Zvieli

EDITORS: Itamar Alcalay, Meital Zvieli

CINEMATOGRAPHER: Dr. Reginald Morris

For many years, Dr. Morris filmed his household. Their lives had been captured on 8mm – years of births and deaths, joys and tragedies, dramas and quiet days spent within the solar – an odd British bubble all unfolding within the warmth of the Israeli desert. Long after his demise, the footage is rediscovered, together with the shattering story of his two younger daughters.  

Mourning in Lod 

Tuesday, 12/5, 3:00pm, 73 min @ Bay Street Theater   

Director Hilla Medalia in attendance for the Q&A by way of Zoom

DIRECTOR: Hilla Medalia

PRODUCER: Hilla Medalia

EDITORS: Erez Laufer, Doron Djerassi

CINEMATOGRAPHERS: Avner Shahaf, Hanna Abu Saada

In this movie, the Israeli-Palestinian battle is retold by means of three folks whose fates turn out to be inextricably linked in a vicious cycle of violence. Lod is a “mixed” metropolis inhabited by Arabs and Jews who stay aspect by aspect in a strained coexistence. The outpouring of affection, anger, and forgiveness that unfolds when the 2 cultures collide following a tragedy gives a glimpse of morning gentle to offset a collective state of seemingly limitless mourning.

Dusty & Stones

Tuesday, 12/5, 5:30pm, 83 min @ Bay Street Theater

Director Jesse Rudoy in attendance on the Q&A by way of Zoom

DIRECTOR: Jesse Rudoy

PRODUCERS: Melissa Adeyemo, Jesse Rudoy

EDITORS: Jesse Rudoy, Loulwa Khoury

CINEMATOGRAPHER: Michael Koshkin

Dusty & Stones is a continent-crossing hero’s journey story informed by means of nation music. The movie intimately chronicles the exceptional experience of cousins Gazi “Dusty” Simelane and Linda “Stones” Msibi, a decided duo of struggling nation singers from the tiny African Kingdom of Eswatini (often called Swaziland) who lengthy for his or her large break. They embark on their pilgrimage with the intention to compete in a Texas battle of the bands.

999: The Forgotten Girls of the Holocaust Recipient of the 2023 Human Rights Award

Tuesday, 12/5, 8:00pm, 99 min @ Bay Street Theater

Director Heather Dune Macadam in attendance for Q&A

DIRECTOR: Heather Dune Macadam

PRODUCERS: Heather Dune Macadam, Jane Schonberger, Beatriz M Calleja, Jay Heit, Stephen Hopkins

EDITOR: Beatriz M Calleja

CINEMATOGRAPHER: Stephen Hopkins

The first official Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz had been all younger girls, however for 80 years their story was neglected by historians. In the spring of 1942, the Nazis ordered the Slovak authorities to ship a slave labor pressure and obtained 999 teenage, Jewish ladies. Their authorities paid the Nazis 500RM, the equal of $4,000 per woman at present. Their railway ticket was a one-way journey to Auschwitz. The bonds between these girls had been unbreakable. It saved them alive. This untold story is vital each to Holocaust historical past and to girls’s historical past.

Award-winning writer of the worldwide best-seller, 999: The Extraordinary Young Women of The First Official Transport To Auschwitz, Heather Dune Macadam is the foremost U.S. scholar on the primary Jewish Transport to Auschwitz. Her critically acclaimed ebook has been translated into nineteen languages and was a Pen Award Finalist for Biography. This documentary is predicated on that ebook, and the results of eleven years of analysis and interviews, which she filmed.

The movie is sponsored by Leslie & Andrew Siben.

Shari & Lamb Chop 

Wednesday, 12/6, 2:00pm, 92 min @ Bay Street Theater

Director Lisa D’Apolito in attendance for Q/A by Zoom

DIRECTOR: Lisa D’Apolito

PRODUCERS: Lisa D’Apolito, Nicholas Ferrall, Cassidy Hartmann, Morris Ruskin, Douglas Warner

EDITOR: Andrea Lewis

CINEMATOGRAPHERS: Anne Etheridge

As a younger feminine ventriloquist with large aspirations, Shari Lewis was trying to find a voice who may say issues {that a} younger girl within the Fifties couldn’t, and located it in a sock puppet named Lamb Chop. The duo debuted on the CBS youngsters’s tv sequence CAPTAIN KANGAROO in 1956 and went on to achieve cultural icon standing within the U.S. by the top of the twentieth century. The documentary examines Shari Lewis’ stunning private journey, in addition to her skilled one, which included successful 13 Emmys and a Peabody and authoring 60 youngsters’s books. 

Deep Rising

Recipient of the 2023 Environmental Award 

Wednesday, 12/6, 4:30pm, 93 min @ Bay Street Theater

DIRECTOR: Matthieu Rytz

PRODUCER: Matthieu Rytz

EDITOR: Elisa Bonora

A gripping story of geopolitical, scientific, and company intrigue that exposes the machinations of the International Seabed Authority, a secretive group empowered to greenlight large extraction of metals from the deep sea ground which can be deemed important to the electrical battery revolution. The movie examines humanity’s harmful sample of extracting supplies from this final pristine setting for revenue.

Young Voices Program – for college kids, school & household solely

Wednesday, 12/6, 10:00am @ Bay Street Theater

Our Young Voices program has hosted tons of of scholars who stuffed the theater to observe curated movies and to raised perceive the language of movie inside a context of artwork, historical past and society. The Young Voices program on the pageant expands on this theatrical viewing expertise with a hands-on orientation workshop in filmmaking, with a give attention to the skilled growth of younger filmmakers. 

SHORTS & BREAKFAST BITES – Program 1

Saturday, 12/2, 10:00am, 74 min @ Bay Street Theater 

The ABCs of Book Banning, 27 min

DIRECTORS: Trish Adlesic, Naz Habtezghi, Sheila Nevins

PRODUCERS: Sheila Nevins, Trish Adlesic, Naz Habtezghi

In latest years, greater than 2,500 books have been faraway from college districts across the U.S., labeled as banned, restricted, or challenged, and made unavailable to thousands and thousands of scholars. This movie is a love letter to studying and training that begs us to think about what will get misplaced as books proceed to be banned throughout the nation.

The Bridge, 12 min

Director Carl Sturgess in attendance for Q&A

DIRECTOR: Carl Sturgess

PRODUCER: Casey Bannon

Bob Rubin and his spouse Stéphane Samuel based The Bridge Golf Foundation, a year-round sports activities youth-development program based mostly in Harlem. The college students get school prep tutoring and golf classes and in the summertime stay and work at Rubin’s membership in Bridgehampton, Long Island.

The Barber of Little Rock, 35 min

Co-Director John Hoffman in attendance for Q&A

DIRECTORS: John Hoffman, Christine Turner

PRODUCER: Christina Avalos

This movie explores America’s widening racial wealth hole by means of the story of Arlo Washington, a barber in Little Rock, Arkansas, whose visionary strategy to a simply economic system is discovered within the mission of People Trust, the nonprofit neighborhood financial institution he based.

SHORTS & BREAKFAST BITES – Program 2

Sunday, 12/3, 10:00am, 104 min @ Bay Street Theater   

The Orchestra Chuck Built, 22 min

DIRECTOR: Christopher Stoudt

PRODUCERS: Ryan Suffern, Maryann Garger, Bob Logan, Brainz Prasad

Less than 2% of the skilled orchestra workforce within the U.S. is black. Chuck Dickerson, a former lawyer-turned-conductor, is on a mission to alter that. The movie is a loving portrait of a tireless mentor and a testomony to the transformative energy of music.

Rocks 4 Sale!, 16 min

Director David Dibble in attendance for Q&A

DIRECTOR: David Dibble

PRODUCER: David Dibble

A slice-of-life take a look at how children within the former mining city of Silverton, Colorado keep busy in the summertime by “mining” and promoting rocks to vacationers. These “rock stars” study historical past, social expertise, and turn out to be little entrepreneurs whereas delighting vacationers from world wide.

Last Song from Kabul, 30 min

DIRECTOR: Kevin Macdonald

PRODUCERS: Katie Buchanan, Sophie Daniel

The devastating actuality of Afghanistan after the Taliban occupation: Music has been banned and musicians are compelled into hiding. Can a bunch of daring younger musicians discover their voices once more?

Daughter of Mine, 36 min 

DIRECTOR: Vanessa Martino

PRODUCER: Javier Parra

A mom works many years to maintain her daughter’s killer in jail after she was murdered delivering Girl Scout cookies in 1973. Nancy Buirski was the Executive Producer.