The third annual Offshore Art and Film Festival will come ashore in Montauk this weekend, starting Friday at 6 p.m. with a reception at the Lucore Art Gallery in that hamlet.
In addition to food and beverages, the reception will feature a screening of “American Pot Story: Oaksterdam” (2023), an award-winning feature-length documentary by Dan Katzir and Ravit Markus. A decade in the making, the film tells the story of how Oaksterdam University in Oakland, Calif., the nation’s first cannabis university, set in motion the wave of marijuana legalization that has swept across the country.
A panel discussion on the subject of how a small group of people can ignite a movement will be moderated by Lizabeth Zindel Wells, founder and editor in chief of Hamptons Social.
The action will shift to the Hero Beach Club on Saturday, with an art walk from 3 to 7 p.m. Four local artists, Lucy Villeneuve, Richard Mothes, Alana Rogers, and Peter Ngo will show their work and talk about themselves and what they’ve chosen to display.
A conversation with the artists, moderated by Jordan Bromley, the festival’s founder and director, and Ryan Sherman, its director of operations and multimedia, will happen from 7 to 7:30.
The film screenings will start at 7:30 with the trailer for “Surfing Saves,” whose director, John Angiulo, will take questions afterward. It will be followed by “As Easy as Closing Your Eyes” by Parker Croft; “Locals Only” by Taryn O’Connor; “The Day Keeper” by Mark Kiefer; “The Calm Under the Water” by Cam Brooks, and “How the Waves Were Won” by Michael Furno.
Also on the program are “Shorebreak” by Thea Belle Flanzer; “Ocean State of Mind” by Danny Hardesty; “What Do You See” by Johnny Hedger; “Sharing Waves” by Josh Berry; “Return to Zero” by Amado Stachenfeld, and “Walkabout: The Songlines of Surfing” by Matty Hannon.
The awards ceremony will begin at 10. Tickets for Saturday’s art walk and screenings are $33.85 and available from the festival’s website.
