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The Hamptons Take 2 Film Festival is planning two Spring Doc Days to present two documentaries to East End audiences.“The Pulitzer at 100” by Academy Award-winning and Emmy Award-winning director/producer Kirk Simon and co-producer Ron Simon, who is curator at The Paley Centre for Media in Manhattan, will be screened on Sunday, April 23, at 2 p.m. at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor.
The 90-minute film pays homage to the 100th anniversary of the Pulitzer Prizes, established by journalist and newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer and first awarded by Columbia University in 1917. It explores the lives of some of the prize’s most accomplished recipients, such as Carl Bernstein, Robert Caro, Junot Diaz, Wynton Marsalis and Toni Morrison, and brings their work to life with readings by Helen Mirren, Liev Schreiber, John Lithgow and others.
After the screening, Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer Dava Sobel will lead a conversation with the director and producer. Tickets at $15 are on sale online at ht2ff.com, or at the door.
The second Spring Soc Day is Sunday, April 30, at 2 p.m. at Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, when “Citizen Jane: Battle for the City” by director Matt Tyrnauer will be shown in conjunction with their new Parrish event series “Inter-Sections: The Architect in Conversation.”
The film spotlights Jane Jacobs, a writer and urban activist, as she battled to save historic New York City neighborhoods during the 1960s, when urban planner Robert Moses was poised to wipe them off the map.
A conversation will be held afterward with Roberta Brandes Gratz, the author of “The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs,” and nationally-recognized author, architect, and urban planner Peter M. Wolf, who is active on several East Hampton community boards.
Tickets are $20, or $5 for Parrish members. Visitparrishart.org to order.
on Apr 18, 2017