FESTIVAL TEAM
FOUNDER & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Jacqui Lofaro
18 years ago Jacqui was challenged to begin her own film festival and the Hamptons Take 2 Documentary Film Festival (renamed the Hamptons Doc Fest in 2018) was born.
Jacqui is also principal producer/director of Justice Productions founded in 2000. Her award-winning documentary films focus on social and criminal justice issues. The Empty Chair: Death Penalty Yes or No, received the 2006 prestigious Thurgood Marshall Broadcast Journalism Award. A companion documentary 70 x 7: the Forgiveness Equation was invited for screening at the National Coalition Against the Death Penalty conference. In 2009, a feature documentary The Last Fix: An Addict’s Passage from Hell to Hope on drug addiction, a problem of epic proportion, premiered at the National Association of Drug Court Professionals.
Prior to her career as a documentary filmmaker, Jacqui had an extensive commercial/corporate career where she produced the International Film & Television Festival’s gold medal award film Space Odyssey for J.P. Stevens and From Bathysphere to Modern Research Submersibles for New York Zoological Society which screened at Lincoln Center. She lives and works from her offices in Bridgehampton, L.I., NY.
YEar round staff
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Karen Arikian
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
Jackie Leopold
MARKETING/ADVERTISING
Claudia Pilato
Jamie Coy Wallace
PUBLIC RELATIONS
Arlene Hinkemeyer
Obscured Pictures
RJ Millard
SOCIAL MEDIA
Madison Church
Anita Kusick, design
Ellen Pearlman, copy
WEBSITE
Made by Sea
VIDEO/MEDIA
The Color Bar
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2025 HAMPTONS DOC FEST TEAM
Festival Staff
Festival Manager
Elise Finnerty
Programmer
Ian Birnie
Education Director
Anita Boyer
Hospitality
Jamie Coy Wallace
Program
Anita Kusick, Design
Ellen Pearlman, Copy
Social Media
Madison Church
Technical Directors
Ken Blessing
Neil Creedon
Matt Hindra
Ticketing
Livia Campos de Menezes
Photography
Jim Lennon
Video/Media
The Color Bar
WVVH TV
Stage Manager
Max Hecksher
Balloting
Vicki Umans
Q/A Hosts
Andrew Botsford
Roger Sherman
Screening committee
Jackie Leopold, Coordinator
FEATURES:
Susan Babkes
Ellen Bloom
Richard Ives
Deborah Kooperstein
Patti Leber
Hillary Leff
Kris Liem
Michael Morrison
Marilyn Nissenson
Leslie Siben
Rachel Verno
Steven Wechsler
SHORTS:
Ann Chwatsky
Melissa Hammel
Jan Kumar
Lynn Leary
Carolyn Oldenbusch
Jamie Coy Wallace
Volunteer Corps
Liz Yennie, Coordinator
Arline Blake
Roz Block
Bridget Brosseau
Caroline Cutaia
Mary Ann Eddy
Marlene Esposito
Christine Ganitsch
Nora Hajko
Mary Ann Kolhoff
Zoe Lindstrom-Ives
Dawn Margolis
Kathleen McLaughlin
Kathleen McNamara
Doreen Mole-West
Susan Nash
Camille Petrillo
Maud Seaver
Chris Tice
Jean Van Erk
Jeff Yennie
Dianne Youngblood