Highlights from the 16th Hamptons Doc Fest

Leslie Shampaine, co-director of “Call Me Dancer,” screened November 30 at Sag Harbor Cinema, receives the HDF 2023 Art & Inspiration Award from its award sponsor, Kevin Miserocchi, director of The Tee & Charles Addams Foundation. COURTESY HAMPTONS DOC FEST

Matthew Heineman, director of “American Symphony,” shown at the December 2 Hamptons Doc Fest Gala at Bay Street Theater, receives the HDF 2023 Pennebaker Career Achievement Award from filmmaker Lana Jokel, who sponsors the annual award. COURTESY HAMPTONS DOC FEST

Editor Miky Wolf and director James Lapine, three-time winner of the Tony Award, attended the post-film reception at Sag Harbor Cinema on November 30 after the screening of their opening night film “In the Company of Rose” about writer William Styron’s wife. COURTESY HAMPTONS DOC FEST

HDF executive director Jacqui Lofaro and HDF Advisory Board member Susan Margolin, a producer of the film, presented the HDF 2023 Impact Award to Regina K. Scully, founder of the Artemis Rising Foundation, which has supported hundreds of films including “Obsessed with Light,” co-presented with NY Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT) at Sag Harbor Cinema on December 1. COURTESY HAMPTONS DOC FEST

Wendy Keys, former executive producer of programming for the Film Society of Lincoln Center, interviewed multiple Academy Award-winning director James Ivory at Sag Harbor Cinema following a screening of his film “A Cooler Climate” on December 2. COURTESY HAMPTONS DOC FEST

HDF director Jacqui Lofaro presented the HDF 2023 Human Rights Award to Heather Dune Macadam, author of the book and director of the film “999: The Forgotten Women of the Holocaust,” screened at Bay Street Theater on December 5. COURTESY HAMPTONS DOC FEST