2020 Festival

In 2020, we reimagined the festival as a one-night drive-in event featuring a performance by Paolo Bartolani, pianist, Founder and Artistic Director of Rites of Spring Music Festival, alongside Ashley Galvani Bell followed by a sneak peak of Superuser Do, produced from the winning science + technology competition script. We also selected and screened two incredible pilots, followed by Zoom panels moderated by News 12 reporter Elisa DiStefano, and honored Canopy Award winner Jeremy Sisto.

Official Festival Selections

Superuser Do (Sloan Competition Winner)
Writer: Zuff Idries
Director/Producer: Elias Plagianos
Supported by a diverse community of peers, a Black software engineer struggles to overcome structural inequality and other obstacles to success in the world of computer science.

Slayed by Divya
Director/Writer: Van Maximilian Carlson/Ni Belete

A mobile hairstylist struggling to launch a hair brand lands a star client who delivers a surprise.

Freeze
Director/Writer: Maya Albanese
When Joy’s fairytale romance crashes and burns on the eve of her 35th birthday, the tick tock of her biological clock pushes her into a series of romantic misadventures and provokes wild hallucinations.

Inferno
Director/Writer: Wendy Roderweiss
After a big mistake leaves an altruistic law school grad desperate for a job, he interviews at a firm of morally depraved divorce lawyers. Ultimately he must decide if he’s willing to sacrifice every principle he lives by in order to save his future.

Abadai
By: Sivan Malca, Vladimir Dzyakevich, and Orit Nahari Tzipkin

Shlomi is a taxi driver who thinks he can solve his problems and return to his family with money he doesn't have. Sadly, the opposite is true.

Date: October 17 2020

Venue: Borghese Vineyard, Cutchogue

Award Winner & Panelists

Jeremy Sisto / Actor (Six Feet Under)
The Canopy Award

Elisa DiStefano / Reporter (News 12)