Martha Stewart documentary to open this year's Hamptons International Film Festival
A documentary about Martha Stewart and a locally grown Christmas comedy are among the titles that will screen at this year’s Hamptons International Film Festival.
The 32nd annual edition of the festival runs Oct. 4 through 14 at venues throughout the East End, organizers announced Tuesday.
Longtime Hamptonite Stewart is the subject of the opening-night film, “Martha.” The movie is directed by Great Neck native R.J. Cutler, whose previous bio-docs have included “Belushi” and “Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry.” The Netflix-produced film includes “candid interviews” with the lifestyle-brand icon, according to the festival, and traces the arc of Stewart’s multi-decade career. Both Stewart and Cutler are scheduled to attend the festival.
“Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point” comes from two Smithtown natives, writer-director Tyler Taormina (“Ham on Rye”) and co-writer Eric Berger. It’s centered on a familiar Christmas-movie conceit — an intergenerational family gathering for the holidays — but The Hollywood Reporter has described it as “a tone poem” and “a hidden gem.” Starring Michael Cera, Francesca Scorsese (daughter of filmmaker Martin Scorsese) and Sawyer Spielberg (son of director Steven Spielberg), the movie was shot in Smithtown last year and held its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. The Hamptons screening marks its North American premiere.
Other titles announced by festival organizers: “A Man with a Sole: The Impact of Kenneth Cole,” a documentary about the famed shoemaker; “Bad Shabbos,” a comedy in which the parents of an interfaith couple are scheduled to meet for the first time; and “Daytime Revolution,” a documentary that revisits a week in 1972 when John Lennon and Yoko Ono co-hosted “The Mike Douglas Show” in Philadelphia. The festival's full lineup has yet to be announced.
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