Hamptons Doc Fest has announced that three documentary features and one documentary short screened at December's festival, and one shown last year, have been named to the Oscars Shortlist of 15 films in the feature and and short film categories by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
The features are "Cover-Up," directed by Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus, which explores the career of Seymour Hersh, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter; "Cutting Through Rocks," a film by Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni about the first elected councilwoman in a conservative Iranian village; "Holding Liat," Brandon Kramer's film about the kidnapping from a kibbutz in Israel of Liat Atzili, and "Mistress Dispeller," a film directed by Elizabeth Lo about a Chinese industry that helps couples stay together in the face of infidelity.
The short film, directed by Joshua Seftel, is "All the Empty Rooms," in which some of the empty bedrooms of hundreds of students killed in school shootings are memorialized.
