HamptonsFilm has announced the honorees for the 32nd annual Hamptons International Film Festival, set to open Oct. 4.
Demi Moore will receive the Career Achievement in Acting Award; Liev Schreiber, the festival’s Dick Cavett Artistic Champion Award; Malcolm Washington, the Breakthrough Director Award, and Meg LeFauve and Dave Holstein, the Achievement in Screenwriting Award that celebrates their work on Disney’s “Inside Out 2.”
The festival’s Centerpiece presentation will be the East Coast premiere of “The Piano Lesson,” which is directed and co-written by Mr. Washington, and adapted from August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play. The story centers on the Charles household, where a prized heirloom piano has pitted two siblings against each other.
Produced by Denzel Washington and Todd Black, the film stars Samuel L. Jackson, John David Washington, Ray Fisher, Michael Potts, Erykah Badu, Danielle Deadwyler, and Corey Hawkins. Malcolm and John David Washington and Ms. Deadwyler will take part in a post-screening discussion.
Ms. Moore, whose four-decade career includes such notable films as “St. Elmo’s Fire,” “Ghost,” “A Few Good Men,” “Indecent Proposal,” and “Margin Call,” will sit for “A Conversation With . . .” on Oct. 13, when she will accept her award. She recently appeared in Hulu’s “Feud: Capote vs. the Swans,” and her latest film, “The Substance,” a horror film, is set for release on Sept. 20. Variety called “The Substance” “the work of a filmmaker with a vision,” and Ms. Moore’s performance “nothing short of fearless.”
The Dick Cavett Artistic Champion Award was created in 2017 by Alec Baldwin to honor artists who not only excel in their own field but also support the arts and artists in other fields. Mr. Schreiber is known for his roles across film and television, including “Spotlight,” “The Manchurian Candidate,” “Ray Donovan,” and “Across the River and Into the Trees.” He will be Alec Baldwin’s guest for “A Conversation With . . .” on Oct. 5, when he will receive the award.
Ms. LeFauve and Mr. Holstein will receive their screenwriting award on the morning of Oct. 13, when they will discuss the commercial and critical success of “Inside Out 2.”
The festival also announced the full feature lineup for the Compassion, Justice, and Animal Rights program. Having its American premiere will be “American Cats: The Good, the Bad, the Cuddly,” a documentary by Todd Bieber that explores the controversial practice of cat declawing in the United States.
“Checkpoint Zoo,” a film by Joshua Zeman, documents the efforts of volunteers and zookeepers to save the animals trapped at Ecopark Feldman, a zoo near Kharkiv, Ukraine, as bombs fell and gunfire echoed around them.
“Every Little Thing,” a film by Sally Aitken having its New York premiere, is the story of Terry Masear, a woman in Hollywood who experiences personal growth as she cares for injured hummingbirds.
The festival will run from Oct. 4 through Oct. 14. Passes and packages will go on sale beginning Wednesday at hamptonsfilm.org.
