Film buffs headed toward the East End for the 11th Annual Hamptons International Film Festival. The nonstop week was chockablock with films, lavish parties, star sightings, and awards. Director of Programming Rajendra Roy and the screening committee watched hundreds of submissions before selecting an ingenious variety of fine films ranging from narrative to documentary, and from local to international.

Among the festival’s hottest tickets was HBO’s Born Rich — a documentary by Johnson & Johnson heir Jamie Johnson — which zooms in to scrutinize the rakish lives of New York’s famous rich kids, who carry such weighty names as Trump, Bloomberg, Vanderbilt, Whitney, and Weil.

Audiences were also buzzing about Court TV’s one-hour documentary, Marvin Anderson’s Nightmare: Stories of the Innocence Project. It tells the heart-wrenching true tale of Anderson’s unjust conviction for robbery, sodomy, abduction, and two counts of rape. He served 15 years of a 210-year sentence in a Virginia prison before assistance from the Innocence Project (a venture co-founded by Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld) and the testing of DNA evidence, led to an official exoneration, and his freedom, in 2001.

The Sheet asked him, “Can you ever get over the anger and bitterness you must feel over such an injustice? How did you bear it?”

He thought for a moment before answering, “If I held onto the anger, I couldn’t function in my life today with family or business. As far as how I coped in prison, I was like a light switch. When my family was visiting, I was on. I’d hug them and kiss them; but as soon as I got back to the cell, I turned off.”

Some movies that received awards included Screen Door Jesus for "Best Narrative", The Morrison Project for the “Spike TV Best Documentary,” and Madness and Genius for the “Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Film Prize in Science and Technology”—bearing an outstanding cash prize of $25K! Joan Allen got the “Golden Starfish Award for Career Achievement in Acting.” (She also starred in the Festival’s Off the Map.)

What would a film festival be without a slew of fabulous parties? Hamptons International Film Festival Board Chairman Stuart Match Suna and wife Vicki brought invited guests into their East Hampton home, while New Line Cinema Co-chairman and Co-CEO Michael Lynne threw an exclusive dinner party at Nick & Toni’s for such mingling heavy hitters as Denise Kasell (executive director of the Festival), Kathleen Turner, Court TV CEO Henry Schleiff, Joan Allen, Bob Balaban, and New Line Cinema’s Co-CEO Bob Shaye.