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Juried AwardsThe Hamptons International Film Festival offers awards in the following categories: Most Popular Film, Best Documentary Feature and Best Short Film. In addition, the Festival awards the Golden Starfish Award for the best American Independent Film, selected by a jury of film critics and film industry professionals. Student films selected for the Student Film Showcase receive grants in the amount of $2,500. The total value of the Awards given equals approx. $165,000.
A Conversation With...One of the most popular features of the Festival, A Conversation with... selects a surprise guest from the ranks of Hollywood's biggest stars. Past conversations have featured Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Isabella Rosellini, and Richard Drefuss.
TributeThis year's honoree for 1999 Hamptons International Film Festival Tribute to Independent Vision is the incomparable French actress, director, and writer Jeanne Moreau. Ms. Moreau founded and heads the Equinoxe Association, an international writers conference that pairs young screen-writers with mentors from the industry. Several films that grew out of the Equinoxe experience will be screened at the Festival as well as a selection of Ms. Moreau's films, including JULES AND JIM and her latest, ZAIDE (World Premiere). Among those expected to honor Ms. Moreau at the Gala are Whit Stillman, Michele Laroque, Annette Insdod, and the Museum of Modern Art's Josh Siegel.
Case Study SymposiumAt the symposium, the distributors and filmmakers will discuss their advertising and marketing strategy for the release of a film. TUMBLEWEEDS will be the featured Case Study Symposium on Saturday afternoon. TUM-BLEWEEDS is an emotionally charged drama directed by Gavin O'Connor that follows the unpredictable journey of an unusual mother-daughter pair. The film stars the Tony Award winner Janet McTeer in an extraordinary per-formance as the unconventional mother. Moderated by the senior Newsday film critic John Anderson, the panelists include Gavin O'Connor (Director), Greg O'Connor (Producer), Brian Caldwell and Marian Koltai-Levine (co-senior vice presidents of marketing for Fine Une Films), and Fine Line's pres-ident, Mark Ordesky.
Juried SelectionsA focal point of the Festival is the American Independent Showcase, a collection of American films by emerging filmmakers, all of them in com-petition for the Golden Starfish Award, the Festival's top prize. Among the films in competition are Kieran Turner's 24-NIGHTS, John-Luke Montias's BOBBY G CAN'T SWIM, Paul Todisco's FREAK TALKS ABOUT SEX, Chris Livingstone's HIT AND RUNWAY, Hopwood Depree's THE LAST BIG ATTRAC-TION, Greg Lachow's MONEY BUYS HAPPINESS, Ciao Ribeiro's SOMETIME IN AUGUST, Rino Liberatore and Ron Lazzeretti's THE OPERA LOVER, Brien Burroughs's SUCKERFISH, and Eric Mendelsohn's JUDY BERLIN. Judges for the Golden Starfish Awards include the actor/writer Spalding Gray, the director/producer Ted Demme, the producer Lydia Dean Pilcher, Stratosphere's Richard Abramowitz, and the senior vice-president of development for Hallmark Entertainment, Lynn Holst.
Lifetime AwardLifetime Television for Women is a Hamptons International Film Festival presenting sponsor. Each year Lifetime gives an award of $1 0,000 to the filmmaker whose film best addresses issues related to women. This year Lifetime will present the premiere of STORIES OF A CENTURY, a documen-tary by Albert Maysles and Susan Froemke. The film, hosted by the Emmy Award-winning actress Camryn Manheim, takes an inside look at remark-able women between the ages of 94 and 1 06 who have witnessed incredible social, economic, and technological changes in their extraordinary lives.
The Student ShowcaseThe Student Showcase will screen films by five undergraduate and five graduate students. These films are selected from over 300 entries and each winner is awarded $2,500.. Since 1993, the Festival has awarded $1 85,000 to 70 student filmmakers. Judges for the student awards include Jeremy Bernard, the CEO and co-founder of reelshort.com, the pro-ducer Beverly Cahme, the Anthology Film Archives curator-at-large Fabiano Conosa, the financing and distribution executive Micah Green, the produc-er Gill Holland, the production head Lee Lewis, the independent filmmaker Joy Newhouse, the acquisition director Sofia Sondervan, and Lisa Walborsky, the co-founder of the Shorts Independent Film Festival. Another Festival student award is the RKO Pictures Award for Best Told Story -this year's winner is Justin Dorazio's BEAUTIFUL WORLD.
PanelsThrough a series of panels, attendees will gain a real insider's look at the challenges and realities of working in the independent film community. The Hamptons International Film Festival Panel Discussions will cover a broad range of topics. The Writers Panel, sponsored in part by the WGA East, will discuss Jeanne Moreau's Equinoxe Association formed to support independent European and American screenwriters, directors, and produc-ers. This discussion will feature screenwriters who have participated in the Equinoxe workshops as mentors and emerging writers. Moderated by Noelle Deschamps, panelists include Larry Gross (48 HOURS, TRUE CRIME), Tom Rayfiel (HAREM, NIGHT MUSIC), and Zack Sklor (JFK). The Critic's Panel features a group of top film critics who will examine their roles and impact on the films they see and evaluate. Moderated by Kathleen Carroll, panelists include Entertainment Weekly's Owen Gleiberman, the San Francisco Examiner's Wesley Morris, the girlson.com web site founder Lise Carrigg, and Gerald Peary. The Production Design Panel will discuss what a production designer's vision brings to the look and feel of a film. Guests include the award-winning designers Stuart Wurtzel, Patrizia von Brandenstein, Mark Friedberg, and ]on Roelfs.The Hamptons International Film Festival3 Newtown MewsEast Hampton, New York 11937 tel. 516.324.4600 fax 516.324.5116 official web site: www.hamptonsfest.org email: hiff@hamptonsfest.org |
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