Hamptons International Film Festival
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Hamptons International Film Festival was founded to provide a forum for independent filmmakers from around the world to express their vision. The Festival is traditionally held for five days in mid-October in theatre venues from Montauk to Southampton and attracts roughly 15,000 visitors annually. At least twenty countries are represented in the slate of roughly 100 films that are showcased each year, with an awards package worth over $200,000. The festival continues to play a part in the awards season, with the 2008 edition featuring eventual Best Picture winners of the Academy Award, Golden Globe and Independent Spirit Award.
In addition to short films (for which we are an Academy-qualifying festival), documentaries and narratives, the Festival offers special presentations such as; a Breakthrough Performers program, which showcases up-and-coming acting talent (past participants include Emily Blunt and Blake Lively); “A Conversation With…”, an intimate Q&A session with a film luminary (past participants include Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Vanessa Redgrave, Frances McDormand, Sidney Lumet, Julian Schnabel, Isabella Rossellini, Gena Rowlands, and Robert Altman); and Films of Conflict & Resolution, which utilizes the power of cinema to increase understanding of the human realities of war and conflict. The festival maintains a presence year round with other events as well such as screenings out east and in the city, and its annual Screenwriters Lab. The Lab, which recently wrapped its 10th edition, develops emerging screenwriting talent by pairing established writers with up-and-coming screenwriters (chosen by the festival in collaboration with key industry contacts).
The Hamptons International Film Festival has received a great deal of prestigious recognition, with the 2008 edition featuring the East Coast premiere of the eventual Academy Award winner for Best Picture (Slumdog Millionaire). The festival’s awards success in 2008 also included highlights such as the 8 total Academy Awards for Slumdog Millionaire (including Best Picture, Editing, Writing, Cinematography, Direction and the Golden Globe for Best Picture), The Wrestler (Golden Globe for Best Actor, Independent Spirit Award for Best Picture), The Black Balloon (US premiere, Australian Film Institute Award for Best Picture, Screenplay, Direction, Editing), Synecdoche, NY (US premiere), Two Lovers and three short films that were nominated for Academy Awards. In 2007, Taxi to the Dark Side, which screened in our World Cinema section, went on to win the Academy Award for Best Documentary, while our Sloan Award-winner The Diving Bell and the Butterfly captured a Best Director nomination and Spotlight Film The Savages garnered a Best Actress nomination for Laura Linney. In 2005, films screened at the Festival went on to receive 13 Oscar nominations, including the Oscar for Best Live Action Short for the film Six Shooter, which had its US premiere at the Festival. Nowhere in Africa, which had its US premiere at the festival, went on to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 2002.
Named as one of indieWIRE's Top 50 Film Festivals
Mean Streets Screening in association with Guild Hall
Talking Tough and Singing Soft with Bruce Weber, Hosted by Alec Baldwin
SummerDoc Series: The Art of the Steal
Ed Pressman
Barry Sonnenfeld
Whit Stillman
Kathleen Turner
Bruce Weber
Gary Winick
Ann Barish
Linda Biscardi-Fuller
Nan Bush
Gerry Byrne
Jonathan Canno
Lori Cheml
Patricia Duff
Bob Giraldi
Caroline Hirsch
Abbe Klores
Michael Lesser
Judy Licht
Michael Lynne
Randy Mastro
Jarrod Moses
Joshua Sapan
Henry Schleiff
Alan Siegel
Darren Star
Mitchell Steir
Claude Wasserstein
Jeremy Wiesen
Robert Wiesenthal
Denise Wohl
Peter Brown
Nancy Buirski
Beverly Camhe
Anne Chaisson
Charlie Corwin
Julie Fontaine
Sarah Greenberg
Andrew Hurwitz
Denise Kasell
Leslie Klotz
Karol Martesko-Fenster
Luke Parker Bowles
Rajendra Roy
Jeffrey Sharp
Rand Stoll
Mark Urman
Gordon VeneKlasen
Shaun Woodward
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 (40 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 and Insects, Blood Oranges); Lawrence Lasker (Sneakers, War Games); Michael Weller (Ragtime, Hair, Spoils of War); Chap Taylor (Changing Lanes, National Treasure); and Dylan Kidd (Roger Dodger, P.S.) are among the writers who have served as mentors at our Screenwriters’ Lab.
We seek a broad selection of screenplays addressing a wide subject matter. Additionally, in collaboration with The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s initiative in furthering the public understanding of science, we encourage you to submit screenplays that explore science, technology, mathematics, invention, and engineering in fresh and innovative ways.
Zicherman Award for Best Screenplay - The Misfortunates [Felix Van Groeningen]
Kodak Award for Best Cinematography - The Misfortunates [Felix Van Groeningen]
Outstanding Achievement by an Actor - Paprika Steen [Applause]
Best Documentary Feature - Long Distance Love [Elin Jonsson & Magnus Gertten]
Best Film of Conflict & Resolution - Rabbit a la Berlin [Bartek Konopka]
Conflict & Resolution Development Award - The Harvest [Robin Romano]
Best Short Film - Dust Kid [Yumi Jung]
Audience Awards
Kanbar Indie Award - My Adventures in Ladies' Undergarments [Antonio Campos]
Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize - Agora [Alejandro Amenabar]
RoC(c) Gold Standard in Filmmaking for a Feature Female Director - Cheryl Hines [Serious Moonlight]
Outstanding Achievement in Acting - Sharon Stone
The Wouter Barendrecht Pioneering Vision Award - Big River Man [John Maringouin]
Student Awards
Antonia’s Line [Marleen Gorris]
Bee Season [Scott McGehee & David Siegel]
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead [Sidney Lumet]
Bernard and Doris [Bob Balaban]
Birth [Jonathan Glaser]
Body of War [Phil Donahue & Ellen Spiro]
The Cooler [Wayne Kramer]
Croupier [Mike Hodges]
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly [Julian Schnabel]
El Crimen del Padre Amaro [Carlos Carrera]
Elf [Jon Favreau]
Enigma [Michael Apted]
The Fog of War [Errol Morris]
The Fountain [Darren Aronofsky]
Girl With A Pearl Earring [Peter Webber]
Gods and Monsters [Bill Condon]
The Hawk is Dying [Julian Goldberger]
Heavenly Creatures [Peter Jackson]
Hotel Rwanda [Terry George]
The Human Stain [Robert Benton]
Japanese Story [Sue Brooks]
Jesus’ Son [Alison Maclean]
Judy Berlin [Eric Mendelsohn]
Kinsey [Bill Condon]
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang [Shane Black]
The Last Good Time [Bob Balaban]
Lemon Tree [Eran Riklis]
The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg [Aviva Kempner]
Life as a House [Irwin Winkler]
Living Out Loud [Richard LaGravenese]
Madness and Genius [Ryan Eslinger]
Mondovino [Jonathan Nossiter]
Monsieur Ibrahim [Francois Dupeyron]
My Architect [Nathaniel Kahn]
No Man’s Land [Danis Tanovic]
Nowhere in Africa [Caroline Link]
Off the Map [Campbell Scott]
Ondskan (Evil) [Mikael Hafstrom]
Open Water [Chris Kentis]
Osama [Siddiq Barmak]
The Piano [Jane Campion]
Pollock [Ed Harris]
Rabbit-Proof Fence [Phillip Noyce]
The Savages [Tamara Jenkins]
The Situation [Philip Haas]
Slumdog Millionaire [Danny Boyle]
Songcatcher [Maggie Greenwald]
Starting out in the Evening [Andrew Wagner]
State and Main [David Mamet]
Synecdoche, New York [Charlie Kaufman]
Tango [Carlos Saura]
Taxi to the Dark Side [Alex Gibney]
Teeth [Mitchell Lichtenstein]
The Tic Code [Gary Winick]
The Naked Brothers Band [Polly Draper]
The Triplets of Belleville [Sylvain Chomet]
Tumbleweeds [Gavin O’Connor]
Turn the River [Chris Eigeman]
Two Lovers [James Gray]
Valentino: The Last Emperor [Matt Tyrnauer]
The Walker [Paul Schrader]
The Weather Man [Gore Verbinski]
Who The $#%& is Jackson Pollock? [Harry Moses]
Why We Fight [Eugene Jarecki]
The Wrestler [Darren Aronofsky]
Darren Aronofsky
Ellen Burstyn
Damon Dash
Heather Graham
Ted Hope
Bridget Moynahan
Anna Deavere Smith
James Lipton
Kathleen Turner
Charlize Theron
Joaquin Phoenix
Kevin Bacon
Kyra Sedgwick
Alan Cumming
Liza Minnelli
Kevin Bacon
Kyra Sedgwick
Campbell Scott
Famke Janssen
Illeana Douglas
Faye Wray
Betty Comden
Garland Jeffreys
Jamie Johnson
Keri Russell
Lynda La Plante
Samuel Goldwyn Jr.
Patricia Neal
Anthony LaPaglia
Isabelle Nanty
Bill Plympton
George McGovern
Elisabeth Moss
David Rooney
Sally Kellerman
Joan Allen
Tom Noonan
Tim Daly
Mark Urman
Maria Bello
Jon Favreau
Danny Aiello
Kelly Ripa
Harry Connick, Jr.
Billy Joel
Isabella Rosellini
Connie Nielsen
Rosie Perez
Rachel Roy
Mercedes Ruehl
Molly Shannon
Todd Solondz
John Waters
Bruce Weber
Jason Alexander
Wes Craven
Quincy Jones
Mark Ruffalo
Julie Andrews
Guillermo del Toro
Harvey Keitel
Jeri Ryan
Michael Apted
Faye Dunaway
Virginia Madsen
Liev Schreiber
Alec Baldwin
Edie Falco
Gretchen Mol
Dieter Kosslick
Martin Scorsese
Billy Baldwin
Lee Grant
Julianne Moore
Ally Sheedy
Ned Beatty
Marcia Gay Harden
Samantha Morton
Christine Vachon
Jennifer Tilly
Steven Soderbergh
Marisa Berenson
Ed Harris
Bill Murray
Steven Spielberg
Steve Buscemi
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Haley Joel Osment
Gena Rowlands
Gary Winick
William Hurt
Aidan Quinn
Miranda Richardson
In addition to short films (for which we are an Academy-qualifying festival), documentaries and narratives, the Festival offers special presentations such as; a Breakthrough Performers program, which showcases up-and-coming acting talent (past participants include Emily Blunt and Blake Lively); “A Conversation With…”, an intimate Q&A session with a film luminary (past participants include Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Vanessa Redgrave, Frances McDormand, Sidney Lumet, Julian Schnabel, Isabella Rossellini, Gena Rowlands, and Robert Altman); and Films of Conflict & Resolution, which utilizes the power of cinema to increase understanding of the human realities of war and conflict. The festival maintains a presence year round with other events as well such as screenings out east and in the city, and its annual Screenwriters Lab. The Lab, which recently wrapped its 10th edition, develops emerging screenwriting talent by pairing established writers with up-and-coming screenwriters (chosen by the festival in collaboration with key industry contacts).
The Hamptons International Film Festival has received a great deal of prestigious recognition, with the 2008 edition featuring the East Coast premiere of the eventual Academy Award winner for Best Picture (Slumdog Millionaire). The festival’s awards success in 2008 also included highlights such as the 8 total Academy Awards for Slumdog Millionaire (including Best Picture, Editing, Writing, Cinematography, Direction and the Golden Globe for Best Picture), The Wrestler (Golden Globe for Best Actor, Independent Spirit Award for Best Picture), The Black Balloon (US premiere, Australian Film Institute Award for Best Picture, Screenplay, Direction, Editing), Synecdoche, NY (US premiere), Two Lovers and three short films that were nominated for Academy Awards. In 2007, Taxi to the Dark Side, which screened in our World Cinema section, went on to win the Academy Award for Best Documentary, while our Sloan Award-winner The Diving Bell and the Butterfly captured a Best Director nomination and Spotlight Film The Savages garnered a Best Actress nomination for Laura Linney. In 2005, films screened at the Festival went on to receive 13 Oscar nominations, including the Oscar for Best Live Action Short for the film Six Shooter, which had its US premiere at the Festival. Nowhere in Africa, which had its US premiere at the festival, went on to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 2002.
JULY
- JULY 5
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- SummerDocs series begins at Guild Hall
- 8 PM: “The Art of the Steal” with Host, Alec Baldwin and director Don Argott.
- JULY 12-16
- Student Filmmaking Workshop at Guild Hall
- JULY 24
- Kids Film Day: Films for young children at Guild Hall in East Hampton
AUGUST
- AUGUST 7
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- SummerDocs at Guild Hall
- 8 PM: “The Most Dangerous Man In America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers” with host, Alec Baldwin and guests
SEPTEMBER
- SEPTEMBER 4
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- SummerDocs at Guild Hall
- 8 PM: “Last Play at Shea”, with host Alec Baldwin and guests
OCTOBER
- OCTOBER 7-11
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- Hamptons International Film Festival: East Hampton, Southampton, Sag Harbor, Montauk
- Over 100 films, premieres, red carpets, parties, panels and fun!
Press & Recognition
2010 Festival NewsNamed as one of indieWIRE's Top 50 Film Festivals
Mean Streets Screening in association with Guild Hall
- "Guild Hall sets screening of Mean Streets on Saturday" -- East Hampton Press & Southampton Press
Talking Tough and Singing Soft with Bruce Weber, Hosted by Alec Baldwin
- "From High Line to Edible Schoolyard" -- Wall Street Journal
- "HIFF and Museum Of Modern Art Present 'Talking Tough and Singing Softly'" -- TheHamptons.com
SummerDoc Series: The Art of the Steal
- "July 5th- THE ART OF STEAL- HIFF and Alec Baldwin host doc screening at Guid Hall" -- HipHamptons.com
- "Baldwin Hosts THE ART OF STEAL" -- Dans Papers
- "Alec Baldwin returns as host of Hamptons International Film Festival summer documentary series" -- East Hampton Press & The Southampton Press
- "HIFF Announces Kick-Off of Second SummerDoc Series At Guild Hall" -- Hamptons.com
- "HIFF SummerDoc Series Kicks Off With The Art Of The Steal" -- The Independent
Honorary Board
Kenneth LonerganEd Pressman
Barry Sonnenfeld
Whit Stillman
Kathleen Turner
Bruce Weber
Gary Winick
Board
Alec BaldwinAnn Barish
Linda Biscardi-Fuller
Nan Bush
Gerry Byrne
Jonathan Canno
Lori Cheml
Patricia Duff
Bob Giraldi
Caroline Hirsch
Abbe Klores
Michael Lesser
Judy Licht
Michael Lynne
Randy Mastro
Jarrod Moses
Joshua Sapan
Henry Schleiff
Alan Siegel
Darren Star
Mitchell Steir
Claude Wasserstein
Jeremy Wiesen
Robert Wiesenthal
Denise Wohl
Advisory Board
Richard AbramowitzPeter Brown
Nancy Buirski
Beverly Camhe
Anne Chaisson
Charlie Corwin
Julie Fontaine
Sarah Greenberg
Andrew Hurwitz
Denise Kasell
Leslie Klotz
Karol Martesko-Fenster
Luke Parker Bowles
Rajendra Roy
Jeffrey Sharp
Rand Stoll
Mark Urman
Gordon VeneKlasen
Shaun Woodward
Golden Starfish Prizes
- Narrative Feature Film Award: $170,000+ in-kind goods & services
- Documentary Feature Film Award: $10,000 cash/in-kind
- Short Film Award: $5,000 cash
Sponsored Awards
- The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Feature Film PrizeAlfred P. Sloan Foundation Feature Film PrizeThe Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Feature Film Prize award of $25,000.00 USD has been granted annually at the Hamptons International Film Festival since 2000 by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation....
in Science and Technology: $25,000 cash - The Brizzolara Family Inspirational Film Award for Films of Conflict & Resolution: $5,000 cash
- The Zicherman Family Foundation Award for Screenwriting: $5,000 cash
- The Kodak Award for Cinematography: $6,000 in-kind goods & services
- Artemis Records Original Movie Score Award: $5,000 in-kind goods & services
- Best Undergraduate and Graduate Student Films sponsored by Ray-Ban: Eight prizes of $1,000 cash each
Audience Awards
- Best Narrative Feature Film
- Best Documentary Feature Film
- Best Short Film
- Family Feature Film
Screenwriters' Lab
The Hamptons Writers’ Lab is an intimate gathering that takes place each Spring in East Hampton (most recently April 16 - 18, 2010). The Lab develops emerging screenwriting talent by pairing established writers with up-and-coming screenwriters (chosen by the Hamptons in collaboration with key industry contacts). The mentors advise in a one-on-one laboratory setting while additional daily events bring the participants together with board members, sponsors, the local artistic community, and other friends of the festival. The lab allows accepted screenwriters the chance to improve their script and meet with industry professionals to help find ways to get their scripts made.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 (40 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 and Insects, Blood Oranges); Lawrence Lasker (Sneakers, War Games); Michael Weller (Ragtime, Hair, Spoils of War); Chap Taylor (Changing Lanes, National Treasure); and Dylan Kidd (Roger Dodger, P.S.) are among the writers who have served as mentors at our Screenwriters’ Lab.
We seek a broad selection of screenplays addressing a wide subject matter. Additionally, in collaboration with The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s initiative in furthering the public understanding of science, we encourage you to submit screenplays that explore science, technology, mathematics, invention, and engineering in fresh and innovative ways.
Films
- 8
- Abbie Cancelled
- The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector
- Ajami
- Akash
- All My Dreams on VHS
- Applause
- Beloved
- The Berlin Wall
- Big River Man
- Birth
- Blackwater
- Captain Coulier
- Carlito's Way
- Christopher Dispossessed
- City of Life and Death
- Committed
- Con Artist
- Concerto
- Corso: The Last Beat
- The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos
- Crossing Midnight
- Daniel and Abraham
- Dare
- Deliver Us From Evil
- Desert Flower
- Dirty Oil
- Dust Kid
- Edie & Thea: A Very Long Engagement
- Eli's Boy
- Everything is Ordinary
- Five Hours from Paris
- The Fizzy Incident
- Forbidden Fruit
- The Good Spider
- The Greatest
- The Happy Duckling
- Here and There
- The History of Aviation
- How to Fold a Flag
- How to Live Forever
- The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
- In My Hands: A Story of Marfan Syndrome
- Instead of Abracadabra
- Jaffa
- John Rabe
- The Ladies Get Their Say
- The Last Dragon Kingdom
- The Last Supper
- Learning From Light: The Vision of I.M. Pei
- Liberty City is Like Paris to Me
- Little Soldier
- Live Music
- Long Distance Love
- Looking at Animals
- The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond
- Lost Paradise
- Love and Rage
- Makeup
- Mammoth
- Max Manus
- The Men Who Stare at Goats
- The Messenger
- Millennium: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- The Misfortunates
- Missing
- Mugabe and the White African
- My Neighbor, My Killer
- My Words, My Lies, My Love
- Naming Pluto
- Netherland Dwarf
- No Special Incidents
- No Way Out
- Omelette
- Out Here in the Fields: The Field on Beach Lane
- Paper Man
- The Perfect Game
- Photograph of Jesus
- Rabbit a la Berlin
- Racing Dreams
- A Rational Solution
- Roar
- Runaway
- Schmatta: Rags to Riches to Rags
- Serious Moonlight
- Seven Minutes in Heaven
- Shadow Billionaire
- Sinkhole
- Sister Wife
- Slaves
- Smiles: A Story of Roy Scheider
- Solitary Man
- Something Left to Sea
- Sparks
- Speed Grieving
- Stolen Lives
- Surrogate
- Tanner Hall
- Tears of April
- Ten: Thirtyone
- Tenure
- This is Her
- tran si tions
- Uncertainty
- Up in the Air
- Van Diemen's Land
- Victoria Day
- Videocracy
- Wagah
- Waking Sleeping Beauty
- War Against the Weak
- Wild Art: Olly & Suzi
- The Young Victoria
Panels
- Cinematography Master Class with Barry Sonnenfeld
- Green Production for the Frugal Producer
- Independent Filmmakers Today: New Approaches To Reaching An Audience
- New York Film Critics Circle Panel Discussion
- Student Awards Showcase & Making Your First Short
- Two from the Sloan Screenwriters Lab: Charm School Primates and The Transformation
Conversations With...
- Alan Alda
- Marty Bregman and Alec Baldwin
- Sharon Stone
- Steve Buscemi
2009 Award Winners
Best Narrative Feature - The Misfortunates [Felix Van Groeningen]Zicherman Award for Best Screenplay - The Misfortunates [Felix Van Groeningen]
Kodak Award for Best Cinematography - The Misfortunates [Felix Van Groeningen]
Outstanding Achievement by an Actor - Paprika Steen [Applause]
Best Documentary Feature - Long Distance Love [Elin Jonsson & Magnus Gertten]
- Special Jury Award - Mugabe and the White African [Andrew Thompson & Lucy Bailey]
Best Film of Conflict & Resolution - Rabbit a la Berlin [Bartek Konopka]
- Special Jury Award - How to Fold a Flag [Michael Tucker & Petra Epperlein]
Conflict & Resolution Development Award - The Harvest [Robin Romano]
Best Short Film - Dust Kid [Yumi Jung]
Audience Awards
- Best Narrative - The Young Victoria [Jean-Marc Vallee]
- Best Documentary - Waking Sleeping Beauty [Don Hahn]
- Best Short - This is Her [Katie Wolf]
Kanbar Indie Award - My Adventures in Ladies' Undergarments [Antonio Campos]
Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize - Agora [Alejandro Amenabar]
RoC(c) Gold Standard in Filmmaking for a Feature Female Director - Cheryl Hines [Serious Moonlight]
Outstanding Achievement in Acting - Sharon Stone
The Wouter Barendrecht Pioneering Vision Award - Big River Man [John Maringouin]
Student Awards
- Akash [Ash Balla]
- Blackwater [Konstantinos Frangopoulos]
- Christopher Dispossessed [Matthew Watts]
- Sinkhole [Eric Scherbarth]
- tran si tions [Mark Lee]
Notable films
Avenue Montaigne [Daniele Thompson]Antonia’s Line [Marleen Gorris]
Bee Season [Scott McGehee & David Siegel]
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead [Sidney Lumet]
Bernard and Doris [Bob Balaban]
Birth [Jonathan Glaser]
Body of War [Phil Donahue & Ellen Spiro]
The Cooler [Wayne Kramer]
Croupier [Mike Hodges]
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly [Julian Schnabel]
El Crimen del Padre Amaro [Carlos Carrera]
Elf [Jon Favreau]
Enigma [Michael Apted]
The Fog of War [Errol Morris]
The Fountain [Darren Aronofsky]
Girl With A Pearl Earring [Peter Webber]
Gods and Monsters [Bill Condon]
The Hawk is Dying [Julian Goldberger]
Heavenly Creatures [Peter Jackson]
Hotel Rwanda [Terry George]
The Human Stain [Robert Benton]
Japanese Story [Sue Brooks]
Jesus’ Son [Alison Maclean]
Judy Berlin [Eric Mendelsohn]
Kinsey [Bill Condon]
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang [Shane Black]
The Last Good Time [Bob Balaban]
Lemon Tree [Eran Riklis]
The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg [Aviva Kempner]
Life as a House [Irwin Winkler]
Living Out Loud [Richard LaGravenese]
Madness and Genius [Ryan Eslinger]
Mondovino [Jonathan Nossiter]
Monsieur Ibrahim [Francois Dupeyron]
My Architect [Nathaniel Kahn]
No Man’s Land [Danis Tanovic]
Nowhere in Africa [Caroline Link]
Off the Map [Campbell Scott]
Ondskan (Evil) [Mikael Hafstrom]
Open Water [Chris Kentis]
Osama [Siddiq Barmak]
The Piano [Jane Campion]
Pollock [Ed Harris]
Rabbit-Proof Fence [Phillip Noyce]
The Savages [Tamara Jenkins]
The Situation [Philip Haas]
Slumdog Millionaire [Danny Boyle]
Songcatcher [Maggie Greenwald]
Starting out in the Evening [Andrew Wagner]
State and Main [David Mamet]
Synecdoche, New York [Charlie Kaufman]
Tango [Carlos Saura]
Taxi to the Dark Side [Alex Gibney]
Teeth [Mitchell Lichtenstein]
The Tic Code [Gary Winick]
The Naked Brothers Band [Polly Draper]
The Triplets of Belleville [Sylvain Chomet]
Tumbleweeds [Gavin O’Connor]
Turn the River [Chris Eigeman]
Two Lovers [James Gray]
Valentino: The Last Emperor [Matt Tyrnauer]
The Walker [Paul Schrader]
The Weather Man [Gore Verbinski]
Who The $#%& is Jackson Pollock? [Harry Moses]
Why We Fight [Eugene Jarecki]
The Wrestler [Darren Aronofsky]
Notable attendees
Robert AltmanDarren Aronofsky
Ellen Burstyn
Damon Dash
Heather Graham
Ted Hope
Bridget Moynahan
Anna Deavere Smith
James Lipton
Kathleen Turner
Charlize Theron
Joaquin Phoenix
Kevin Bacon
Kyra Sedgwick
Alan Cumming
Liza Minnelli
Kevin Bacon
Kyra Sedgwick
Campbell Scott
Famke Janssen
Illeana Douglas
Faye Wray
Betty Comden
Garland Jeffreys
Jamie Johnson
Keri Russell
Lynda La Plante
Samuel Goldwyn Jr.
Patricia Neal
Anthony LaPaglia
Isabelle Nanty
Bill Plympton
George McGovern
Elisabeth Moss
David Rooney
Sally Kellerman
Joan Allen
Tom Noonan
Tim Daly
Mark Urman
Maria Bello
Jon Favreau
Danny Aiello
Kelly Ripa
Harry Connick, Jr.
Billy Joel
Isabella Rosellini
Connie Nielsen
Rosie Perez
Rachel Roy
Mercedes Ruehl
Molly Shannon
Todd Solondz
John Waters
Bruce Weber
Jason Alexander
Wes Craven
Quincy Jones
Mark Ruffalo
Julie Andrews
Guillermo del Toro
Harvey Keitel
Jeri Ryan
Michael Apted
Faye Dunaway
Virginia Madsen
Liev Schreiber
Alec Baldwin
Edie Falco
Gretchen Mol
Dieter Kosslick
Martin Scorsese
Billy Baldwin
Lee Grant
Julianne Moore
Ally Sheedy
Ned Beatty
Marcia Gay Harden
Samantha Morton
Christine Vachon
Jennifer Tilly
Steven Soderbergh
Marisa Berenson
Ed Harris
Bill Murray
Steven Spielberg
Steve Buscemi
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Haley Joel Osment
Gena Rowlands
Gary Winick
William Hurt
Aidan Quinn
Miranda Richardson