‘Once Upon a Time in Ukraine’ Documentary Screening in the Hamptons

On the weekend earlier than the Democratic Nationwide Conference — within the midst of a high-temperature season of presidential fundraisers — Hamptons heavyweights with severe political bona fides gathered at a collection of occasions on the tony East Finish, together with people from the leisure world.

On Saturday, Aug. 17, there have been two large charitable capabilities on one night. The nonprofit Haiti Air Ambulance — which gives helicopter ambulance providers to folks in Haiti — held a fundraiser on the Bridgehampton dwelling of actual property honcho Ken Fishel attended by the likes of adman Jerry Della Femina and writer, producer (My Unorthodox Life) and designer Julia Haart. In the meantime, the Southampton Arts Heart held its SummerFest gala, the place Tony Award-winner Adrienne Warren and Broadway star Jessica Vosk carried out for company together with Candace Bushnell, skincare guru Peter Thomas Roth and actual property mogul David Levinson.

On Sunday, Aug. 18, Hamptons energy gamers gathered for a screening at Southampton Arts Heart of a movie produced by Earle Mack, former U.S. Ambassador to Finland, former chairman and CEO of the New York State Council on the Arts, and the producer and co-director of the documentary The Kids of Theatre Avenue.

Former New York Governor George Pataki, journalist Lally Weymouth, former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, Wendy Stark, NY Jets co-owner and former U.S. Ambassador to the U.Okay Woody Johnson, former UN Ambassador and Nationwide Safety Advisor John Bolton (with six bodyguards), artwork collector and producer Jane Holzer, author Bob Colacello, and billionaire hedge fund supervisor John Paulson have been amongst those that gathered to look at a half hour model of the 90-minute documentary, As soon as Upon a Time in Ukraine, directed by Betsy West. After the screening, a Q&A was held with David Rubenstein, chairman of the board of the Council on Overseas Relations, and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Judith Miller.

After, company trekked throughout the road via the rain to collect at Le Charlot for dinner, the place folks mentioned essentially the most transferring elements of the movie, which confirmed the battle in Ukraine via the eyes of the nation’s youngsters, and likewise talked up their very own initiatives. Pataki’s daughter, Allison Pataki, a New York Occasions-bestselling writer (Sisi, The Traitor’s Spouse, Discovering Margaret Fuller), is engaged on a script about an unsung African American who helped win the Revolutionary Struggle. Ivana Lowell mentioned the brand new present about her household, Home of Guinness, that she is going to govt produce for Netflix, and writer Howard Blum talked about Village Roadshow making an eight-episode collection from of The Night time Comes Falling, his guide in regards to the College of Idaho scholar murders and revealed that Ron Howard might be making a function out of his Gold Rush tome The Ground of Heaven. Mentioned one visitor of the turnout, “It doesn’t matter if it’s Jaws on the seashore, or a severe documentary. On a Sunday night time within the Hamptons, they arrive to see their buddies, share a cinematic expertise and provides their non-public chef an evening off.”