HIFF Presents To Kill A Mockingbird

To Kill A Mockingbird will screen at Guild Hall in East Hampton on Saturday at 7 PM. The event is presented by the Hamptons International Film Festival and is the eighth year the festival has shown a classic film during the winter season. The film will be presented by HIFF's Co-Chair Alec Baldwin, and the festival's Artistic Director, David Nugent, who will host an extended conversation following the screening. In 1960, unknown airline reservation agent Harper Lee published To Kill A Mockingbird as her first novel. The book went on to win the Pulitzer Prize and become one of the most beloved works of fiction in modern American literature as well as become a staple in American schools. The novel is renowned for its warmth and humor, despite dealing with the serious issues of rape and racial inequality. Two years later, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Horton Foote adapted Lee's novel for the screen and won an Oscar for his work. It was one of the film's three Academy Awards. The film featured a career defining turn by actor Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch, and masterfully captured Lee's deft exploration of race and class relations, gender roles, and a child's loss of innocence. Tickets to the screening are $22 and $20 for Guild Hall members. For tickets and more info visit www.guildhall.org.