The Third Hamptons International Film Festival

Seminars

FILM PRESERVATION SEMINAR

VIEWING THE PAST THROUGH A CELLULOID REAR-VIEW MIRROR

Playdate: Friday, October 20, Guild Hall, 11:30 am

In honor of the 100th anniversary of cinema, and building on the Festival's commitment to promote film preservation and restoration, we are augmenting our Film Preservation Celebration at this year's event with a panel discussion focusing on the work currently being done - and perhaps more importantly, the work that lies ahead - in ongoing efforts to preserve and restore our cinematic heritage.
As we rush headlong into the second century of cinema, it is more crucial than ever that the films which have provided the bedrock of this great populist artform, and inspiration for countless filmgoers and filmmakers through the past 100 years, be restored and preserved for posterity.
Only in this way can we ensure that generations to come will have access to the wonders of our filmic past, and a vital, vivid sense of the way in which societies around the world viewed themselves through the medium of the movies.

MODERATOR
Mary Lea Bandy
Chief Curator of the Department of Film at The Museum of Modern Art. She also produced the Premier Re-release of GONE WITH THE WIND at Radio City Music Hall.

Bob Balaban
Director: of PARENTS; THE LAST GOOD TIME
Actor: MIDNIGHT COWBOY; CLOSE ENCOUNTERS; ALTERED STATES; 2010; PRINCE OF THE CITY; ABSENCE OF MALICE

Cari Beauchamp
Author of HOLLYWOOD ON THE RIVIERA - THE INSIDE STORY OF THE CANNES FILM FESTIVAL and FRANCES MARION AND THE WOMEN OF EARLY HOLLYWOOD

Kate McEnroe
Executive Vice President and General Manager of American Movie Classics/Romance Classics.

John Schlesinger
Director: of BILLY LIAR; DARLING; FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD; MIDNIGHT COWBOY; SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY; DAY OF THE LOCUST; MARATHON MAN; COLD COMFORT FARMS etc.

S E M I N A R S

REINVENTING THE CINEMA
Thursday, October 19, Bay Street Theater

An intensive series of panel discussions focusing on the rapid changes taking place in the film industry and the ways in which these changes will affect the future of filmmaking and film distribution. Panels will include (as of press deadline, Oct.2):

* Producing and Financing for the Future
9:30 a.m.
International co-production, ancillary sales, international grosses that outstrip domestic box office, new technologies that offer access to larger markets as well as reduced production costs, burgeoning new international markets, innovative new marketing and promotional tie-ins; the world of film financing and production is undergoing a quiet revolution which offers a vast new range of possibilities for the astute produce.

Moderator
John Sloss
PANELISTS: Beverly Camhe, Ted Hartley, Lawrence Meistrich, Dick Fisher, Chris Sievernich, Christine Vachon

* New Directions for the Second Century of Filmmaking
11:30 a.m.
In this rapidly changing environment, how do directors ensure that their vision is attainable and their film can get made? Is the era of the "auteur' at an end in this time of mega budgets, endless sequels and 2000 screen, multiplex bookings.

What strategies do both established and newly emerging directors have to ensure artistic control of the films they want to make under these new conditions?/ those and other issues affecting the role of the director in the filmmaking process from the basis for this stimulating discussion of filmmaking beyond the year 2000.

Moderator: Tom Garvin
PANELISTS: Tamra Davis, Bryan Singer, Steven Soderbergh

* Distribution and Marketing: Coming Soon
2:00 p.m.
While the definition of an 'independent' distribution company is currently undergoing reassessment in the film industry and press circles, there's no question amongst independent filmmakers that low-budget feature films have more of a shot at success if they're handled by one of the premiere "boutique. or "specialized" distribution companies.

Join a panel of experts from some of the foremost specialized distribution companies as they discuss the many changes going on in the world of film distribution and marketing.

Moderator: Tom Garvin
PANELISTS: Jeff Lipsky, Mark Litvak, Helen Loveridge, David Dinerstein, Marcy Bloom

* New Technologies: Moviemaking and the Virtual Futures
4:00 p.m.
No contemporary art form has as much to gain from rapid technological advances as the art of filmmaking. From scripting and story boarding through to final edit end credits, technology is providing the means to create movies faster and cheaper, while simultaneously allowing filmmakers the ability Join representatives from the cutting-edge companies at the to realize their most far fetched creative visions in ways once deemed impossible. forefront of new film-related technologies for a stimulating examination of the future of filmmaking.

Moderator: Tom Garvin
PANELISTS: Ed Manning, R. Greenberg Assoc.; Robert Muller, Pure Grain Digital Production; David Morin, Softimage; John Sloss, Sloss Law Office

S E M I N A R S

* CRITICS PANEL: THE STATE OF AMERICAN FILM CRITICISM IN 1995
(Please note: All seminar guests are confirmed at press time. More panelists may be confirmed after Oct.2)

Playdate: Saturday, October 21, Bay Street Theater, 11:30 am

Taking a bit of the hyperventilation out of the advertising excesses and marketing campaigns of today's movie scene, it's time to remove the exclamation points and take a sharp-eyed look at the state of American movies and the film critics who play such an important role as commentators, essayists, and judges.
In a wide-ranging panel discussion, several of the country's top film critics will examine their roles as people who are paid to see and evaluate films. They'll air their views on their power and influence, on the involvement of critics in the film industry. and on what makes a professional film critic. As the airwaves have made some critics celebrities, as advertising campaigns fill with blurbs, and as audiences continue to rely on critical opinion, this is an ideal format in which to examine how critics see themselves, and to participate in the debate over what film criticism out to be.

SEMINAR GUEST PANELISTS

MODERATOR:
Dr. Annette Insdorf Author of FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT; INDELIBLE SHADOWS: FILM AND THE HOLOCAUST. Contributing writer to THE NEW YORK TIMES; PREMIERE MAGAZINE; FILM COMMENT; THE WASHINGTON POST.

Jay Carr
THE BOSTON GLOBE

Owen Gleiberman
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

Terrence Rafferty
THE NEW YORKER

Stephen Schiff
THE NEW YORKER; NPR's FRESH AIR

* FACE TO FACE WITH NEW REALITIES: DOCUMENTARIES AND THE NEA
(Please note: All seminar guests are confirmed at press time. More panelists may be confirmed after Oct.2)
Playdate: Sunday, October 22, Bay Street Theatre, 11:30 am

While fiction-based feature films look forward to a bright future with new opportunities cropping up as fast as you can say "new technologies", the documentary filmmaking field has always relied upon a fragile combination of personal initiative, public support and foundation or endowment funding to create its landmarks.

Focusing on the formidable role played by the National Endowment for the Arts in the Documentary art-form, this panel discussion will revolve around the effects that the loss of NEA and NEH funding will have on documentary filmmakers and the seemingly endless obstacles faced by these filmmakers in getting their vision to the screen.
Included on the panel are a number of award-winning directors who won grants for their work from the NEA.

SEMINAR GUEST PANELISTS

MODERATOR
John Reilly
Co-Founder and Co-Director: of the Global Village Documentary Film Festival. Director: of WAITING FOR BECKETT; THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS

Barbara Koppel
Director: of HARLAN COUNTY, USA; AMERICAN DREAM

St. Claire Borne
Director: of AMERICA: BLACK AND WHITE; IN MOTION: AMIRI BARAKA

Mlchael Moore
Director: of ROGER AND ME; CANADIAN BACON; TV NATION

Nick Broomfield
Director: of AILEEN WUORNOS: THE SELLING OF A SERIAL KILLER; TRACKING DOWN MAGGIE

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