SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. (WCBS 880) — The annual Hamptons International Film Festival (HIFF) will return for its 29th year with all in-person screenings and events after going virtual in 2020.
Alec Baldwin, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Selma Blair and more celebrities will return to the East End for the festival, which runs from Oct. 7-13.
David Nugent, the artistic director for the festival, told WCBS 880 that he and many others are thrilled to be hosting an in-person festival this year and noted they have a full line-up to draw in crowds.
“We got a lot of great people coming with the films this year,” he said. “We got Maggie Gyllenhaal coming with her directorial debut called ‘The Lost Daughter.’ We have a lot of actors; we have a lot of directors coming all across the board.”
Nugent said the film festival means so much to a lot of people, who look forward to the event every year and anticipate getting to meet the artists behind each piece of work.
“What differentiates you know go to a film at a festival versus going to just your multiplex is that in so many cases, we’ll have representatives from the movies there – so the actors, or the directors, or the producers, or the writers, or the subject of the movie in the case of documentaries – and that just makes it more special to really hear from the people that made the film,” he said.
Anyone can purchase tickets to HIFF screenings beginning Sept.
27. Tickets can be purchased at hamptonsfilmfest.org.
Some films highlighted at the festival include Mike Mills’ “C’mon C’mon” starring Joaquin Phoenix, Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch” and Matthew Heineman’s documentary on New York and the COVID-19 pandemic called “The First Wave.”
Nugent anticipates a big turnout for the festival, saying he believes many people have been missing the theatergoing experience.
“Nothing beats the communal experience of being in a room and experiencing a movie for the first time with a group of other people – I mean that's what draws people to the movies so, we're so excited to have that experience back,” he said.
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