THE THINKING GAME

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THE THINKING GAME

TUES, 12/10, 3:00pm, 83 min
BAY STREET THEATER

Director: Greg Kohs
Producer: Gary Krieg
Editor: Steve Sander
Cinematographer: Greg Kohs

A fascinating journey into the heart of DeepMind, one of the world's leading AI labs, where visionary scientist Demis Hassabis and his team are on a relentless quest to solve the enigma of artificial general intelligence (AGI). Filmed over five years, the film captures the moment when Hassabis and his team make history with AlphaFold, a groundbreaking program that solved a 50-year grand challenge in biology.

Greg Kohs is a ten-time Emmy Award-winning filmmaker who has applied his unique "captured not contrived" storytelling style to all his branded content, commercial, and feature film work. His documentaries include Song Sung Blue, The Great Alone, AlphaGo and COIN.

UNION

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IMPACT AWARD TO FORD FOUNDATION’S JUSTFILMS

UNION

FRI, 12/6, 7:30pm, 104 min
SAG HARBOR CINEMA

Directors Brett Story and Steve Maing in attendance for Q&A with Sheila Nevins
Cocktail reception follows the film screening

Directors: Brett Story, Stephen Maing
Producers: Brett Story, Stephen Maing, Samantha Curley, Mars Verrone, Martin DiCicco
Editors: Blair McClendon, Malika Zouhali-Worrall, Stephen Maing
Cinematographers: Martin DiCicco, Stephen Maing

The film chronicles the extraordinary efforts of an unlikely group of warehouse workers as they launch a grassroots union campaign at an Amazon fulfillment center in Staten Island, New York. Led by the charismatic but underestimated Chris Small, the diverse band of workers start the Amazon Labor Union, and with a budget of $120,000 raised on GoFundMe, embark on a journey against one of the most powerful companies in the world.

Stephen Maing is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker. His film Crime + Punishment won a Special Jury Award at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, an Emmy Award for Outstanding Social Issue Documentary and was shortlisted for an Academy Award for Best Documentary. Brett Story is an award-winning filmmaker and writer. Her film, The Hottest August, was called one of the best documentary films of 2019 by Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair.

WHALE NATION

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Sponsored by Sharon Held

WHALE NATION

SAT, 12/7, 3:00pm, 85 min
SAG HARBOR CINEMA

Director Jean-Albert Lièvre in attendance for Q&A with Carl Safina

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Director: Jean-Albert Lièvre
Producers: Julien Seul, Marc Dujardin
Editor: Cécile Husson
Cinematographer: Nedjma Berder

They’re Earth’s biggest creatures, yet still we know very little about them. Jean-Albert Lièvre’s visually arresting documentary – with a soundtrack to match – is based on the revolutionary book by Heathcote Williams and was filmed with a small crew over the course of several years, exploring the rich and complex societies of whales and what we must do to protect them. The film, which is narrated by Richard E. Grant, tells the story of a beached humpback whale from both the perspective of a young girl and the whale itself.

Jean-Albert Lièvre is a French documentary filmmaker, photographer, and author. His first film, The History of a Yucatan Cisal Rope, made in 1992 became a household name for wildlife and environmental documentaries in France. Through his subsequent films based on observing nature, Lièvre has become an “accidental environmentalist.”

WHAT’S NEXT?

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WHAT’S NEXT?

WED, 12/11, 2:00pm, 77 min
BAY STREET THEATER

Director Taylor Taglianetti in attendance for Q&A with Andrew Botsford

Director: Taylor Taglianetti
Producers: Taylor Taglianetti, Austin Tucker, Stephanie Troise Walter
Editor: Gaylen Ross
Cinematographer: Caleb Crossen

At 100-years-old, Dr. Howard Tucker has been recognized by the Guinness World Records as the world's oldest practicing doctor. Following a more than seven-decade career, capped off by a stint teaching neurology to medical residents at Cleveland's St. Vincent Charity Medical Center, Dr. Tucker begins to slow down and grapple with aging for the first time. Told through the eyes of his grandson, the film follows their journey through a changing medical landscape as their relationship deepens and dynamics shift.

Taylor Taglianetti is the Founder and President of the National Organization of Italian Americans in Film & Television. She is also a producer, director, and celebrity interviewer. Her most recent film was the short documentary, Heirloom, which stars Isabella Rossellini. Her best friend Austin is the grandson of Dr. Tucker.

YOUNG VOICES EDUCATION PROGRAM: FOR STUDENTS, FACULTY & FAMILY

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Sponsored by the Yaffa Foundation

YOUNG VOICES EDUCATION PROGRAM: FOR STUDENTS, FACULTY & FAMILY

Co-presented with LTV public access TV

MON, 12/9, 10:00am to 1:00pm
LTV STUDIOS, East Hampton

The Hamptons Doc Fest highlights a special program dedicated exclusively to our community youth in middle and high schools. Take Two Film Academy, a premier filmmaking and media literacy organization, will conduct a lively workshop on the elements of filmmaking after the screening of the short film With the Tide (dir. Chelsea Jolly). Students will have the opportunity to direct, edit, operate cameras and perform on-stage. Following the workshop, students will have a guided tour through the LTV studios.

As an added YV bonus, students are invited to submit a short documentary film about a local Hometown Hero to HDF’s first student contest. The winning three films come with a cash stipend and the top film will be screened at the Sunday Shorts & Breakfast Bites program.

The Young Voices program at the festival and filmmaking contest expands on the theatrical viewing experience with a focus on the professional development of young filmmakers.

ZURAWSKI V TEXAS

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HUMAN RIGHTS AWARD
Sponsored by Leslie & Andrew Siben

ZURAWSKI V TEXAS

TUES, 12/10, 5:30pm, 99 min
BAY STREET THEATER

Director Abbie Perrault via Zoom for Q&A with Andrew Botsford

Directors: Maisie Crow, Abbie Perrault
Producers: Amy Flanagan, Siobhan Sinnerton, Blye Pagon Faust, Cori Shepherd, Maisie Crow, Abbie Perrault
Editor: Austin Reedy
Cinematographer: Maisie Crow

Women denied abortions under Texas’ ambiguous and unforgiving abortion bans band together with a fearless attorney to sue Texas. While battling in court against the state and its immovable Attorney General, the extent of their traumatic experiences is revealed as they wrestle to regain their reproductive futures and set a precedent for millions of other women and families.

When Directors Maisie Crow and Abbie Perrault saw it was likely that Roe v. Wade would be overturned, they started to explore how they could cover the repercussions of that decision. They met attorney Molly Duane through the Center for Reproductive Rights and determined that the case being filed for Amanda Zurawski and four other women would enable them to show the trauma along with some degree of hope. Previously the two filmmakers worked together on the 2021 documentary At the Ready.