SHORTS & BREAKFAST BITES: PROGRAM 1

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SHORTS & BREAKFAST BITES: PROGRAM 1

SAT, 12/2, 10:00am, 74 min program BAY STREET THEATER

Join us for a delicious breakfast to begin your day
then take in a great program of documentary short films.

THE ABCs OF BOOK BANNING

27min

Directors: Trish Adlesic, Naz Habtezghi
Producers: Sheila Nevins, Trish Adlesic, Naz Habtezghi

In recent years, more than 2,500 books have been removed from school districts around the U.S., labeled as banned, restricted, or challenged, and made unavailable to millions of students. This film is a love letter to reading and education that begs us to consider what gets lost as books continue to be banned across the country.

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THE BRIDGE

12min

Director: Carl Sturgess
Producer: Casey Bannon

Bob Rubin and his wife Stéphane Samuel founded The Bridge Golf Foundation, a year-round sports youth-development program based in Harlem. The students get college prep tutoring and golf lessons and in the summer live and work at Rubin’s club in Bridgehampton, Long Island.

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THE BARBER OF LITTLE ROCK

35min

Directors: JohnHoffman, ChristineTurner
Producer: Christina Avalos

John Hoffman in attendance for Q/A

This film explores America’s widening racial wealth gap through the story of Arlo Washington, a barber in Little Rock, Arkansas, whose visionary approach to a just economy is found in the mission of People Trust, the nonprofit community bank he founded.

SHORTS & BREAKFAST BITES: PROGRAM 2

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SHORTS & BREAKFAST BITES: PROGRAM 2

SUN, 12/3, 10:00am, 104 min program BAY STREET THEATER

Join us for a delicious breakfast to begin your day
then take in a great program of documentary short films.

THE ORCHESTRA CHUCK BUILT

22min

Director: Christopher Stoudt
Producers: Ryan Suffern, Maryann Garger, Bob Logan, Brainz Prasad

Less than 2% of the professional orchestra workforce in the U.S. is black. Chuck Dickerson, a former lawyer-turned-conductor, is on a mission to change that. The film is a loving portrait of a tireless mentor and a testament to the transformative power of music.

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ROCKS 4 SALE!

16min

Director: David Dibble
Producer: David Dibble

Director David Dibble in attendance for Q/A

A slice-of-life look at how kids in the former mining town of Silverton, Colorado stay busy in the summer by “mining” and selling rocks to tourists. These “rock stars” learn history, social skills, and become little entrepreneurs while delighting tourists from around the world.

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LAST SONG FROM KABUL

30min

Director: Kevin Macdonald
Producers: Katie Buchanan, Sophie Daniel

The devastating reality of Afghanistan after the Taliban occupation: Music has been banned and musicians are forced into hiding. Can a group of daring young musicians find their voices again?

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DAUGHTER OF MINE

36min

Director: Vanessa Martino
Producer: Javier Parra

Director Vanessa Martino in attendance for Q/A

A mother works decades to keep her daughter’s killer in prison after she was murdered delivering Girl Scout cookies in 1973. Nancy Buirski was the Executive Producer.

THE CAMERA OF DOCTOR MORRIS

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THE CAMERA OF DOCTOR MORRIS

TUES, 12/5, 1:00pm, 73 min BAY STREET THEATER

Directors Itamar Alcalay and Meital Zvieli via Zoom for Q&A

Directors: Itamar Alcalay, Meital Zvieli
Producers: Itamar Alcalay, Meital Zvieli
Editors: Itamar Alcalay, Meital Zvieli
Cinematographer: Dr. Reginald Morris

For decades, Dr. Morris filmed his family. Their lives were captured on 8mm - years of births and deaths, joys and tragedies, dramas and quiet days spent in the sun - a strange British bubble all unfolding in the heat of the Israeli desert. Long after his death, the footage is rediscovered, along with the shattering story of his two young daughters. Through the archives combined with recounting from Morris family members themselves, their unusual and absorbing story unfolds.

Itamar Alcalay is a director, editor, writer, and producer. He directed two docu-series including Dancing With Tears in My Eyes and Off Season. He also directed three documentary films: Stefan Braun, Four Years of Night, and the short film Pomegranate Flower.

Meital Zvieli has over 20 years of experience as a freelance editor, screenwriter, director, and television format developer for all Israeli broadcast channels. Most notably, Meital was the Head of Research for the animated documentary Waltz With Bashir, a Golden Globe and Cesar winner for Best Foreign Film and Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film. She also directed Adrenaline, a docu-series examining Israelis' struggle with technology's takeover of everyday life.

THE DISAPPEARANCE OF SHERE HITE

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THE DISAPPEARANCE OF SHERE HITE

MON, 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 book The Hite Report liberated the female orgasm by revealing the most private experiences of thousands of anonymous survey respondents. Her findings rocked the American establishment and presaged current conversations about gender and sexuality. So why did Shere Hite disappear from public view in the decades before her death in 2020?

Nicole Newnham is an American documentary film producer, writer, and director known for the Oscar- nominated movie Crip Camp which she co-directed and produced with James LeBrecht, and the multiple- Emmy-nominated film The Rape of Europa.

THE ETERNAL MEMORY

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THE ETERNAL MEMORY

MON, 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, dedicated himself in the 1970s and 1980s to bringing the iniquities of the Pinochet regime to public attention and later to conserving that national memory for future generations. So it is somewhat ironic that now Góngora struggles with his own memory as he contends with the ravages of Alzheimer’s. What gives the film heart is the love story between Góngora and his devoted wife and caretaker, former Chilean culture minister Paulina Urrutia.

Maite Alberdi is a Chilean filmmaker. Her film The Mole Agent was an Academy Award nominee in 2021 for Best Documentary, among other honors. The Eternal Memory was selected in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival where it won the Grand Jury Prize.

THE GULLSPÅNG MIRACLE

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THE GULLSPÅNG MIRACLE

FRI, 12/1, 12:00, 108 min BAY STREET THEATER

Director Maria Fredriksson via 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 ride, she and her sister Kari decide to buy a home in the small Swedish town of Gullspång. But when the siblings encounter the property’s seller, Olaug, they become convinced that she is their older sibling, Lita, who allegedly committed suicide some 30 years earlier.

It is at this point that documentary filmmaker Maria Fredriksson, at the behest of the sisters, begins to investigate this strange history. Gradually, she pieces together a domestic jigsaw puzzle, resulting in a true-crime family drama that journeys down a series of surprising paths.

Fredriksson is one of the founders of the all-female production company Ballad Film. She has made several short documentaries that have screened at international film festivals. The Gullspång Miracle is her first feature documentary.

THE LOVING STORY

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THE LOVING STORY

SUN, 12/3, 2:00pm, 77 min, follows the Legacy Award presentation, SAG HARBOR CINEMA

Director: Nancy Buirski
Producers: Nancy Buirski, Elisabeth Haviland James
Editor: Elisabeth Haviland James
Cinematographers: Rex Miller, Steve Milligan

The Loving Story is an unusual telling of a civil rights story. Though often overlooked among the pantheon of civil rights struggles, Mildred and Richard Lovings’ quest to live together as husband and wife in the state of Virginia was a pivotal one. A white man and a part-black, part-Rappahannock woman were in love and did not understand why their marriage was a criminal offense in the eyes of the state. Their effort to not live in shame or in exile is universal, metaphorically reminding us of oppressed and exiled people everywhere. The Lovings are paired with two young and ambitious lawyers who are driven to pave the way for Civil Rights and social justice through an historic Supreme Court ruling, changing the country's story forever and making anti-miscegenation laws illegal.

The film won numerous awards including in 2013 the George Foster Peabody Award and an Emmy Award for Outstanding Historical Programming. The Chicago Sun-Times said of the film, “Documenting many pivotal moments in the case, it adds a dash of something rarely seen in the grand narrative of the American Civil Rights struggle: romance.”

Nancy Buirski wrote, directed and produced many award winning films, among them A Crime on the Bayou and The Rape of Recy Taylor which completed the cycle on racial justice films she began with The Loving Story; By Sidney Lumet and Afternoon of a Faun, both for American Masters; and her last feature documentary, Desperate Souls, Dark City and The Legend of Midnight Cowboy.

YOUNG VOICES PROGRAM STUDENTS, FACULTY & FAMILY ONLY

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YOUNG VOICES PROGRAM

FOR STUDENTS, FACULTY & FAMILY ONLY

WED, 12/6, 10:00am BAY STREET THEATER

The Hamptons Doc Fest highlights a special program dedicated exclusively to our community youth in middle and high schools. The short film Rocks 4 Sale! will be screened. The program bonus: Roger Sherman, award-winning filmmaker will conduct a hands-on workshop on how to make a movie with a smartphone.

Our YOUNG VOICES program has hosted hundreds of students who filled the theater to watch curated films and to better understand the language of film within a context of art, history and society. The YOUNG VOICES program at the festival expands on this theatrical viewing experience with a hands-on orientation workshop in filmmaking, with a focus on the professional development of young filmmakers.

Young Voices is sponsored, in part, by NYU Langone and National Grid.