'All Docs All Year' for Hamptons Take Two

The Hamptons Take 2 Documentary Film Festival has anted up in what has become a friendly year-round competition among cinema presenters on the East End. With its newly adopted mantra, “All docs all year,” HT2FF joins the Sag Harbor Cinema Arts Center, the Hamptons International Film Festival, the Southampton Arts Center, Guild Hall, the Parrish Art Museum, and area libraries, all showcases for films likely to bypass the area’s multiplexes.

The first of the festival’s upcoming FilmArts + Forum programs will feature “Portraits of a Lady,” a 2008 documentary that chronicles a single day in which 25 artists came together to simultaneously paint portraits of the former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. Directed by Neil Leifer and produced by Mr. Leifer and Walter Bernard, the film will be shown tomorrow at 7 p.m. at the Shelter Island Public Library. A question-and-answer session with Mr. Bernard will follow the screening.

The series will continue next Thursday evening at 7 at the John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor with “All Me: The Life and Times of Winfred Rembert,” Vivian Ducat’s film about an African-American artist who grew up in the Jim Crow South and spent time on a Georgia chain gang. Ms. Ducat will be present for a discussion afterward.