FESTIVAL TEAM
FOUNDER & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Jacqui Lofaro
16 years ago Jacqui was challenged to begin her own film festival and the Hamptons Take 2 Documentary Film Festival (renamed the Hamptons Doc Fest in 2018) was born.
Jacqui is also principal producer/director of Justice Productions founded in 2000. Her award-winning documentary films focus on social and criminal justice issues. The Empty Chair: Death Penalty Yes or No, received the 2006 prestigious Thurgood Marshall Broadcast Journalism Award. A companion documentary “70 x 7: the Forgiveness Equation” was invited for screening at the National Coalition Against the Death Penalty conference. In 2009, a feature documentary “The Last Fix: An Addict’s Passage from Hell to Hope” on drug addiction, a problem of epic proportion, premiered at the National Association of Drug Court Professionals.
Prior to her career as a documentary filmmaker, Jacqui had an extensive commercial/corporate career where she produced the International Film & Television Festival’s gold medal award film Space Odyssey for J.P. Stevens and From Bathysphere to Modern Research Submersibles for New York Zoological Society which screened at Lincoln Center. She lives and works from her offices in Bridgehampton, L.I., NY.
YEar round staff
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Karen Arikian
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
Jackie Leopold
MARKETING/ADVERTISING
Claudia Pilato
Jamie Coy Wallace
PUBLIC RELATIONS
Arlene Hinkemeyer
Obscured Pictures
RJ Millard
DIGITAL CONTENT
Andrea Baez Brand
Anita Kusick, design
Ellen Pearlman, copy
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