Even if you’re thousands of miles away from the shores of Long Island, you can experience the excitement of being at the film festival and discovering great new films as they are presented to audiences for the first time. Just long onto SnagFilms, and the Hamptons Film Festival is just a click away! Here’s the line-up:

• STARTING 10/16: HAZE, introduced by Robin Wright Penn, focuses on the death of a young fraternity pledge, Gordie Bailey, due to alcohol poisoning and explores a range of issues regarding youth culture in America and their use of alcohol, such as binge drinking, hazing, the current drinking age and peer pressure. Check out the seven minute trailer
• STARTING 10/21: THE END OF AMERICA, based on Naomi Wolf’s best seller, details the ten steps a country takes away from democracy when it sacrifices individual rights at the behest of the state.  From Academy Award short-listed directors Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern, the film takes a historical look at destructive trends in once-functioning democracies that are being repeated in our country today. Watch trailer

If you DO live in the Greater New York City area, don’t miss your chance to attend the festival in person – where over 100 films will screen! Order tickets now

Hamptons Festival Extras
SnagFilms will also exclusively screen these titles accepted into the Hamptons International Film Festival Online Extension, from October 15 and only through October 19:
• GREAT SPEECHES FROM A DYING WORLD: A compassionate exploration of the hard luck, wrong turns, and broken dreams that reside on our city’s streets, the film uncovers the stories and struggles of 10 homeless people, each of whom recite famous speeches from history that relate to their lives: from Shakespeare to JFK.
• BETWEEN THE FOLDS: The documentary depicts a cast of fine artists and eccentric scientists (from NASA and MIT) who have abandoned careers and scoffed at hard-earned graduate degrees - all to forge lives as modern-day paperfolders. 

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