Hamptons International Film Festival

Hamptons International Film Festival

Location	The Hamptons, New York, USA
Founded	1993^[1]
Festival date	October
Language	International
Website	http://www.hamptonsfilmfest.org

The Hamptons International Film Festival (HIFF) is an international film festival founded in 1993, the festival has since taken place every year in East Hampton, New York. It is usually an annual five-day event in mid-October and is held in theatre venues located in the Long Island area of New York, United States. Approximately 18,000 visitors attend each festival and close to a hundred films are featured each year, including an annual representation of at least twenty countries and an awards package worth over $200,000. HIFF was founded as a celebration of independent film in a variety of forms, and to provide a forum for independent filmmakers with differing global perspectives.^[2] The festival places a particular emphasis upon new filmmakers with a diversity of ideas, as a means to not only provide public exposure for festival content and its creators, but to also inspire and enlighten audiences. The festival has presented films that have subsequently been considered highly successful productions; the 2008 event featured eventual winners of the Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, and Independent Spirit Award "Best Picture" accolades, and the 2011 season consisted of 24 Academy Award nominations.^[3]

The festival is also involved with other events during the remainder of the year, including screenings in other parts of New York State and an annual Screenwriters Lab.^[3]

Special presentations

HIFF primarily showcases short films, documentaries and narrative films and is a qualifying festival for the Academy Awards.^[3] The festival also offers special presentations, including:

"Breakthrough Performers" program, showcasing new, emerging acting talent (Emily Blunt and Blake Lively have been previous selections).
"A Conversation With…", presenting a "Q&A" session with a film luminary (past interview subjects include Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Vanessa Redgrave, Frances McDormand, Sidney Lumet, Julian Schnabel, Isabella Rossellini, Gena Rowlands, and Robert Altman).
"Conflict & Resolution" program, featuring films that explore contemporary global issues of a social and political nature.^[3]

Annual awards

Golden Starfish Prizes

Narrative Feature Film Award: $145,000 in-kind goods and services
Documentary Feature Film Award: $3,000 cash
Short Film Award: $500 cash and qualification for consideration at the Academy Awards in the Live Action or Animation

Audience Awards

Best Narrative Feature
Best Documentary Feature
Best Short Film^[3]

Notable films

"12 Years a Slave" (d. Steve McQueen)
"127 Hours" (d. Danny Boyle)
"3 Backyards" (d. Eric Mendelsohn)
"The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector" (d. Vikram Jayanti)
"Agora" (d. Alejandro Amenábar)
"Ajami" (d. Scandar Copti & Yaron Shan)
"Avenue Montaigne" (d. Daniele Thompson)
"Antonia’s Line" (d. Marleen Gorris)
"Argo" (d. Ben Affleck)
"August: Osage County" (d. John Wells)
"The Artist" (d. Michel Hazanavicius)
"Barney’s Version" (d. Richard J. Lewis)
"Bee Season" (d. Scott McGehee & David Siegel)
"Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead" (d. Sidney Lumet)
"Bernard and Doris" (d. Bob Balaban)
"Birdman" (d. Alejandro González Iñárritu)
"Birth" (d. Jonathan Glazer)
"Black Swan" (d. Darren Aronofsky)
"Blue is the Warmest Color" (d. Abdellatif Kechiche)
"Blue Ruin" (d. Jeremy Saulnier)
"Blue Valentine" (d. Derek Cianfrance)
"The Bully Project" (d. Lee Hirsch)
"Casino Jack" (d. George Hickenlooper)
"Charlie Victor Romeo" (d. Robert Berger, Patrick Daniels, Karlyn Michelson)
"City of Life and Death" (d. Lu Chuan)
"Clouds of Sils Maria" (d. Olivier Assayas)
"Code Black" (d. Ryan McGarry)
"The Company Men" (d. John Wells)
"The Cooler" (d. Wayne Kramer)
"Croupier" (d. Mike Hodges)
"Coriolanus" (d. Ralph Fiennes)
"The Debt" (d. John Madden)
"The Descendants" (d. Alexander Payne)
"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (d. Julian Schnabel)
"El Crimen del Padre Amaro" (d. Carlos Carrera)
"Elf" (d. Jon Favreau)
"Fair Game" (d. Doug Liman)
"The Fog of War" (d. Errol Morris)
"The Fountain" (d. Darren Aronofsky)
"Foxcatcher" (d. Bennett Miller)
"The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest "Luftslottet Som Sprangdes" (d. Daniel Alfredson)
"Girl With A Pearl Earring" (d. Peter Webber)
"Gods and Monsters" (d. Bill Condon)
"The Good Soldier" (d. Lexy Lovell and Michael Uys)
"The Greatest" (d. Shana Feste)
"The Hawk is Dying" (d. Julian Goldberger)
"Heavenly Creatures" (d. Peter Jackson)
"Her" (d. Spike Jonze)
"The Homesman" (d. Tommy Lee Jones)
"Hotel Rwanda" (d. Terry George)
"The Human Stain" (d. Robert Benton)
"The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" (d. Terry Gilliam)
"The Invisible Woman" (d. Ralph Fiennes)
"Jeff, Who Lives at Home" (d. Mark Duplass and Jay Duplass)
"Jiro Dreams of Sushi" (d. David Gelb)
"Jesus’ Son" (d. Alison Maclean)
"Judy Berlin" (d. Eric Mendelsohn)
"The Kid With a Bike" (d. Luc Dardenne and Jean-Pierre Dardenne)
"Kill Your Darlings" (d. John Krokidas)
"The King’s Speech" (d. Tom Hooper)
"Kinsey" (d. Bill Condon)
"Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" (d. Shane Black)
"Labor Day" (d. Jason Reitman)
"Laggies" (d. Lynn Shelton)
"The Last Five Years" (d. Richard LaGravenese)
"Learning to Drive" (d. Isabel Coixet)
"Lemon Tree" (d. Eran Riklis)
"The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg" (d. Aviva Kempner)
"Like Crazy" (d. Drake Doremus)
"Living Out Loud" (d. Richard LaGravenese)
"Made in Dagenham" (d. Nigel Cole)
"Martha Marcy May Marlene" (d. Sean Durkin)
"Melancholia" (d. Lars von Trier)
"The Messenger" (d. Oren Moverman)
"The Misfortunates" (d. Felix Van Groeningen)
"Mondovino" (d. Jonathan Nossiter)
"Monsieur Ibrahim" (d. Francois Dupeyron)
"My Architect" (d. Nathaniel Kahn)
"My Week with Marilyn" (d. Simon Curtis)
"Nebraska" (d. Alexander Payne)
"Nightcrawler" (d. Tony Gilroy)
"No Man’s Land" (d. Danis Tanovic)
"Nowhere in Africa" (d. Caroline Link)
"Open Water" (d. Chris Kentis)
"Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory" (d. Bruce Sinofsky and Joe Berlinger)
"The Past" (d. Asghar Farhadi)
"Philomena" (d. Stephen Frears)
"The Piano" (d. Jane Campion)
"Pina 3D" (d. Wim Wenders)
"Pollock" (d. Ed Harris)
"Rabbit a la Berlin" (d. Bartek Konopka)
"Rabbit-Proof Fence" (d. Phillip Noyce)
"The Rum Diary" (d. Bruce Robinson)
"The Savages" (d. Tamara Jenkins)
"The Selfish Giant" (d. Clio Barnard)
"Searching for Sugarman" (d. Malik Bendjelloul)
"Shame" (d. Steve McQueen)
"The Shore" (d. Terry George)
"Silver Linings Playbook" (d. David O. Russell)
"Slumdog Millionaire" (d. Danny Boyle)
"Solitary Man" (d. Brian Koppelman & David Levien)
"Song One" (d. Kate Barker-Froyland)
"The Song of Sparrows" (d. Majid Majidi)
"Songcatcher" (d. Maggie Greenwald)
"The Square" (d. Jehane Noujaim)
"Starting Out in the Evening" (d. Andrew Wagner)
"State and Main" (d. David Mamet)
"St. Vincent" (d. Theodore Melfi)
"Still Alice" (d. Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland)
"Synecdoche, New York" (d. Charlie Kaufman)
"Tango" (d. Carlos Saura)
"Taxi to the Dark Side" (d. Alex Gibney)
"Teeth" (d. Mitchell Lichtenstein)
"Tim’s Vermeer" (d. Teller)
"Time Out of Mind" (d. Oren Moverman)
"The Triplets of Belleville" (d. Sylvain Chomet)
"The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom" (d. Lucy Walker)
"Turn the River" (d. Chris Eigeman)
"Two Days, One Night" (d. Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne)
"Two Lovers" (d. James Gray)
"Undefeated" (d. Daniel Lindsay, T.J. Martin)
"Up in the Air" (d. Jason Reitman)
"Valentino: The Last Emperor" (d. Matt Tyrnauer)
"The Walker" (d. Paul Schrader)
"War Witch" (d. Kim Nguyen)
"We Need to Talk About Kevin" (d. Lynne Ramsay)
"Wild" (d. Jean-Marc Vallée)
"Without" (d. Mark Jackson)
"The Weather Man" (d. Gore Verbinski)
"Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock?" (d. Harry Moses)
"Why We Fight" (d. Eugene Jarecki)
"The Wrestler" (d. Darren Aronofsky)
"The Young Victoria" (d. Jean-Marc Vallée)

Notable attendees

Board of Directors

Executive Director

Anne Chaisson

Chairman

Stuart Match Suna

Vice Chairs

Randy Mastro

Secretary

Kim Brizzolara

Treasurer

Joseph Zicherman

Honorary Chair Emeritus

Bob Balaban
Shaun Woodward

Chair Emerita

Toni Ross

Board

Alec Baldwin
Ann Barish
Nan Bush
Jonathan Canno
Lori Chemla
Daniel Crown
Linda Biscardi Fuller
Judith Giuliani
Ronald Guttman
Dottie Herman
Pat Swinney Kaufman
Abbe Klores
Randi Levine
Judy Licht
Michael Lynne
Bruce Mosler
Gabriel Nussbaum
Lois Robbins
Henry Schleiff
Darren Star
Claude Wasserstein
Joseph Wemple
Denise Wohl

Advisory Board Chair

Jeff Sharp

Advisory Board

Richard Abramowitz
Thelma Adams
Peter Brown
Gerry Byrne
Beverly Camhe
Alina Cho
Harlene Freezer
Sarah Greenberg Roberts
Meryl Katz
Leslie Klotz
Karol Martesko-Fenster
Rajendra Roy
Jonathan Shoemaker
Rand Stoll
Mark UrmanChair Jeff Sharp
Richard Abramowitz
Thelma Adams
Peter Brown
Gerry Byrne
Beverly Camhe
Alina Cho
Harlene Freezer
Sarah Greenberg Roberts
Meryl Katz
Leslie Klotz
Karol Martesko-Fenster
Rajendra Roy
Jonathan Shoemaker
Rand Stoll
Mark Urman
Denise Wohl

Screenwriters' Lab

The Hamptons Screenwriters’ Lab is an intimate gathering that takes place each Spring in East Hampton. The Lab seeks to develop new screenwriting talent by introducing established writers to emerging screenwriters, the latter having been chosen by the organizers of the film festival and key industry contacts. The mentors advise in a "one-on-one" laboratory setting, whilst scheduled daily events allow participants to engage with board members, sponsors, the local creative community and other festival supporters. The Lab facilitates the improvement of participating screenwriters' work, as the selected writers consult with industry professionals to attain insight into the mechanisms of the film industry.

Recent mentors include: Michael Cunningham (The Hours, Evening); James Vanderbilt (Zodiac); J. Robin Baitz (People I Know, The Substance of Fire); Whit Stillman (Metropolitan, The Last Days of Disco); Ira Sachs (Forty Shades of Blue, This Married Life); Jeff Sharp (Producer, You Can Count on Me, Evening); Maria Maggenti (The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls in Love); Sabrina Dhawan (Monsoon Wedding, Cosmopolitan); Gregory Widen (Highlander, Backdraft); Mark Christopher (54); Maggie Greenwald (Songcatcher, Ballad of Little Jo); Belinda Haas (Angels & Insects, The Blood Oranges); Lawrence Lasker (Sneakers, WarGames); Michael Weller (Ragtime, Hair, Spoils of War); Chap Taylor (Changing Lanes, National Treasure); and Dylan Kidd (Roger Dodger, P.S.).

The Lab actively seeks a broad selection of screenplays that cumulatively address a diversity of subject matter. The Lab also encourages the submission of fresh, innovative screenplays that explore science, technology, mathematics, invention and engineering as part of its partnership with The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s initiative to further the public understanding of science.

References

↑ "Hamptons International Film Festival — Awards for 1993". IMDb. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
↑ Evelyn J. Mocbeichel (2007). "Hamptons International Film Festival is Coming!". The Montauk Sun. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
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External links

FIAPF-accredited film festivals

Feature (Competitive)	Berlin Cannes Cairo Goa Karlovy Vary Locarno Mar del Plata Moscow Montreal San Sebastián Shanghai Tallinn (PÖFF) Tokyo Venice Warsaw

Feature (Competitive Specialised)	Antalya Brussels Busan Cartagena Cluj Napoca (TIFF) Courmayeur Gijón Istanbul Jeonju Kerala (Trivandrum) Kyiv Namur Sarajevo Sitges Stockholm Sydney Turin Valencia (Jove) Kolkata

Feature (Non-competitive)	Toronto Vienna

Documentary and Short	Bilbao Krakow Oberhausen St. Petersburg Tampere

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