HamptonsFilm is celebrating the end of the summer with a slate of new announcements, including additional film titles it will screen in the Hamptons International Film Festival and its poster artist for this year.
The festival's poster artist is Susan Meiselas, a documentary photographer based in New York City and known for covering human rights issues in Latin America. A 1992 MacArthur Fellow, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2015 and has been the president of the Magnum Foundation since 2007.
Ms. Meiselas's series "Prince Street Girls" will be exhibited at Clinton Academy from Oct. 5 to Oct. 15 in partnership with the East Hampton Historical Society. The image chosen for the poster is part of the series. Also on view will be a retrospective of the festival's first five years consisting of photos, articles, merchandise, and posters from that time.
Other films to be screened in October are Jennifer Esposito's "Fresh Kills," a look at 1980s mobster life from the perspective of the women in the family; Andrew Haigh's "All of Us Strangers," a romance starring Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal with a nostalgic twist; Jonathan Glazer's "The Zone of Interest," a haunting Holocaust film based on Martin Amis's novel, and the East Coast premiere of George C. Wolfe's "Rustin," a drama based on the life of Bayard Rustin, a gay civil rights activist who helped organize the March on Washington in 1963. It was produced by Higher Ground Productions, a film company started by Barack and Michelle Obama.
Premiering in the United States will be a feature documentary, "Rowdy Girl," directed by Jason Goldman. David Allen's "Wilding," another feature documentary, is based on Isabella Tree's book of the same title. A documentary short, "Happy," directed by Laura Rindlisbacher, will screen in the festival's Compassion, Justice, and Animal Rights program.
Previously announced films include, on opening night, "Nyad" by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, Alex Gibney's "In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon," and "May December," directed by Todd Haynes, who will be presented with the festival's Achievement in Directing award and also sit down for A Conversation With . . . interview during the festival.
