The 2024 Hamptons Movie Competition will open with the East Coast premiere of R.J. Cutler’s Martha Stewart documentary, Martha, The Hollywood Reporter has discovered.
Martha, from the Oscar-nominated and Emmy- and Peabody-winning Cutler is being characterised because the definitive documentary on Stewart and contains quite a few candid interviews with the businesswoman and way of life persona. The movie is anticipated to be launched by Netflix later this 12 months.
“It feels solely becoming that we open this 12 months’s occasion with R.J. Cutler’s portrait of Martha Stewart,” stated HamptonsFilm govt director Anne Chaisson. “We’re delighted to welcome Martha — a very trailblazing cultural determine and an East Finish resident of greater than three a long time — again to the Hamptons neighborhood with open arms and provides her area to graciously share her inspiring story with us all.”
The pageant can even host the world premiere of the Kenneth Cole documentary A Man With Sole, by Dori Berinstein, in addition to display screen the Erik Nelson documentary Daytime Revolution, concerning the week that John Lennon and Yoko Ono co-hosted The Mike Douglas Present, and Daniel Robbins’ Unhealthy Shabbos, with an ensemble solid together with Methodology Man, Kyra Sedgwick and David Paymer, which is a part of the Highlight part.
“We’re extremely grateful to the groups behind Daytime Revolution and A Man With Sole: The Affect of Kenneth Cole for entrusting our pageant to launch their initiatives for the primary time,” stated HamptonsFilm inventive director David Nugent. “Each of those movies are uniquely compelling within the methods they reintroduce audiences to acquainted topics, whereas showcasing new sides to those characters and including to their already vibrant legacies.”
Moreover, the pageant will function the North American premiere of Tyler Taormina’s Christmas Eve in Miller’s Level, starring Matilda Fleming, Michael Cera and Francesca Scorsese, which is a part of the Views from Lengthy Island program; the New York premiere of Michael Premo’s Homegrown, about Individuals at conflict with one another and the motion pushing democracy to the brink, a part of the Movies of Battle & Decision program; and a screening of Anirban Dutta and Anupama Srinivasan’s Nocturnes, an immersive movie about nocturnal creatures, a part of the Air, Land and Sea program.
The thirty second Hamptons Worldwide Movie Competition is ready to run from Oct. 4-14.