Hamptons Int’l Film Festival 2018 Brings Out The Stars


Co-author & Co-photographer: Taylor Clarke Bennett

The Hamptons International Film Festival brought out many of Hollywood’s elites to the joy of the East End’s serious film goers. The Columbus Day Festival proved once again to be a hit!

The Hamptons International Film Festival 2018 kicked off their 26th year with The Kindergarten Teacher attended by co-Chairs Randy Mastro & Alec Baldwin, Chair Emeritus;  Toni Ross & Stuart Match Suna, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Parker Sevak (who plays her student) husband/actor Peter Sarsgaard and award winning director Sara Colangelo along with Hilaria Baldwin & David Nugent.

The stellar documentary Maria By Callas directed by Tom Volt featured at the Hamptons International Film Festival 2018 tells an intimate tale of the incomparable opera singer while filling the air w/ her magnificent vocals.

Alec Baldwin moderated A Conversation With film star of The Kindergarten Teacher, Maggie Gyllenhaal during the Hamptons International Film Festival 2018 at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor.


AlecBaldwin hosts A Conversation with Emilio Estevez talks up their new film The Public during the Hamptons International Film Festival 2018 at Bay Street Theater In Sag Harbor.

Alec & Hilaria Baldwin w/ family at The Chairmans Reception during the HIFF 2018 at Stuart Match Suna’s East Hampton Home.

Filmmaker Rory Kennedy and HIFF Chairman Emeritus Stuart Match Suna at The Chairman’s Reception during the Hamptons International Film Festival 2018 at his East Hampton home.

Damien Chazelle, Academy Award-wining director, producer, and screenwriter best known for his films Whiplash, La La Land, and First Man participated in A Conversation With during the Hamptons International Film Festival 2019.

Academy Award Nominee Rosamund Pike and Jamie Dornan on the Red Carpet for their new movie, A Private War about war journalist Marie Colvin, during HIFF2018.

Suffolk County Film Commission hosts a reception and Virtual Reality presentation during HIFF 2018.

New York Women In Film hosts a brunch during the Hamptons International Film Festival 2018.