Hamptons Doc Fest will present an expanded, live, eight-day festival for its 14th year, with 30 screenings available at two venues in Sag Harbor, December 3 to 10.
It starts at the Sag Harbor Cinema, the weekend of December 3 to 5, with eight films including the Opening Night Film, the presentation of the Human Rights Award, the Pennebaker Career Achievement Award, the Art & Inspiration Award, and in collaboration with Sag Harbor Cinema, the Producer Impact Award and posthumous Tribute to Diane Weyermann.
The festivities then flow to the Bay Street Theater, December 6 to 10, with 22 films including the Environmental Award, the Young Voices Program for students, two Shorts Programs, and ending with the free Saunders Community Day on Friday, December 10.
Hamptons Doc Fest also offers a virtual component of 11 films the following week, December 11 to 18.
“Returning to the big screens at two iconic venues in Sag Harbor is what we hoped for in 2021. And it’s happening,” said Jacqui Lofaro, founder and executive director of Hamptons Doc Fest. “We are thrilled to share an exciting and diverse program of films with our documentary fans.”
The opening night film on Friday, December 3, will be director Stig Bjorkman’s “Joyce Carol Oates: A Body in the Service of Mind.” There will be a Q&A with Bjorkman following the film.
The Pennebaker Career Achievement Award will be given to Dawn Porter on Saturday, December 4.
The film “Citizen Ashe.” directed by Rex Miller and Sam Pollard, will be the recipient of the Doc Fest’s Human Rights Award at the screening on Saturday, December 4.
The documentary “Bernstein’s Wall” will receive the Doc Fest’s Tee & Charles Addams Foundation’s Art & Inspiration Award at the screening on Sunday, December 5.
Also on Sunday, December 5, Hamptons Doc Fest and the Sag Harbor Cinema are joining together to recognize the life and work of producer Diane Weyermann, who passed away in October. She was to receive the festival’s first Producer Impact Award.
This year’s recipient of The Andrew Sabin Family Foundation Environmental Award, presented by Andrew Sabin, is “After Antarctica,” directed by Tasha Van Zandt.
Offered as part of the Saunders Free Community Day on Friday, December 10, at Bay Street Theater, “Torn,” directed by Max Lowe for National Geographic, is the closing night film.