Hamptons Doc Fest To Honor Michael Moore, ‘Zurawski V Texas’ And ‘Daughters,’ Showcase ‘Merchant Ivory,’ ‘The Bones’ & More
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Hamptons Doc Fest announced the full slate of films today for the upcoming 17th edition of the event in Sag Habor, New York, and revealed a group of honorees that includes documentary titan Michael Moore.
The Oscar-winning director of Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11 will receive the elite festival’s Pennebaker Career Achievement Award, an honor named for late pioneer of direct cinema D.A.
Pennebaker, who was a longtime Sag Harbor resident. In conjunction with the award, Hamptons Doc Fest will screen Moore’s 1989 film Roger & Me, the documentary that launched his career.
Among the previous recipients of the Pennebaker Career Achievement Aware are Sheila Nevins, Richard Leacock, Susan Lacy, Barbara Kopple, Stanley Nelson Jr., Alex Gibney, Liz Garbus, Frederick Wiseman, and Pennebaker himself, as well as filmmaker Chris Hegedus, Pennebaker’s widow.
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