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SHORTS & BREAKFAST BITES: PROGRAM 2
SAT, 12/8, 09:30AM, 95 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.
9:30am Breakfast, 10:00am Films
FILMING UNDER FIRE: JOHN FORD’S OSS FIELD PHOTO BRANCH
22min
Director: Dan Gagliasso
Producer: Charles Pinck
World War II was fought on many fronts – one of them was film. This film tells the story of how six-time Academy Award-winning director John Ford, and many of the leading filmmakers of the time, contributed to America’s victory in the war through their work in the OSS Field Photographic Branch.
FIRST FRAMES
27min
Director: Ilie Mitaru
Producers: Zeynep Bilginsoy, Ilie Mitaru
This short follows photographer and Syrian refugee Serbest Salih and his mobile darkroom to overlooked communities across Turkey, where children contend with access to 26 school, memory, and displacement from devastating earthquakes. The film unfolds almost completely from the child’s perspective.
FROM PEN TO PAPER
29min
Directors: Paul Sutton, Lori Sutton
Producers: Paul Sutton, Lori Sutton
Twenty-four prisoners – mostly lifers – sat across from a dozen students at a maximum security prison yard in Southern California as part of an innovative 14-week, creative writing program. Through their intimate collaboration, both groups find hope and humanity in a place where they had expected neither.
BIRDFEEDER
12min
Director: Daniel Feighery
Producers: Natalia Payne, Evan Mascgani, Daniel Feighery
Director Daniel Feighery in attendance for Q&A
Birdfeeder is not just a documentary about birds; it’s a visual and emotional exploration of the human connection to the urban wild, the challenges faced in the time of hardship, and the profound impact of the natural world on the human soul.
HOMETOWN HEROES
Winning student film premiere
Hamptons Doc Fest is proud to support the next generation of young filmmakers by inviting East End middle and high school students to create an original short documentary that showcases a hometown hero – anyone from nurses, doctors, teachers, artists, athletes or a family member – who has inspired them. HDF is thrilled to premiere the winning film and present the director with an award and monetary scholarship.