Documentary: Racism In A Small Town

On Sunday the Hamptons International Film Festival will host a free screening of "Not in Our Town," a 1995 documentary about how the people of Billings, Mont., fought against racist hate groups that came to their town.

Produced by California Working Group, a nonprofit organization, the film shows the importance of community action in fighting racism.

After the screening, a panel discussion will be held. Panelists will include Audrey Gaines, a member of the East Hampton Town Anti-Bias Task Force and director of youth services for the town , Irene Shapiro, an East Hampton psychotherapist who recently wrote a Star "Guestwords" on anti-Semitism, Rabbi Seth Frisch of the Jewish Center of the Hamptons, and Jayleen Lawler and Chris Wikane, East Hampton High School students. Other community and religious leaders, unconfirmed as of press time, are expected to take part as well.

The screening is funded in part by East Hampton Town and Suffolk County National Bank. It will be held at Guild Hall at 1 p.m.

The festival plans to hold screenings of this and other films on a monthly basis in various East End towns. "Not in Our Town" is tentatively scheduled for a screening in Southampton sometime in mid-January.