Hamptons Take 2 Documentary Film & Panel on Lyme Disease

Ever been bitten by a deer tick? Do you want to know more about Lyme disease? Then this documentary film and panel discussion are for you.

The Hamptons Take 2 Documentary Film Festival, now in its fourth year, is hosting a pre-festival screening of UNDER OUR SKIN, the 86-minute critically acclaimed and Academy Award short-listed documentary on Lyme disease on Friday, September 16, 7 p.m. at LTV Studio 3 Cinema, 75 Industrial Road in Wainscott.

Produced and directed by Andy Abrahams Wilson, the documentary, a 20-time winner at international film festivals, investigates one of the most controversial and fastest growing epidemics of our time and reveals the fault lines in medical research and healthcare for this disease.

A panel discussion following the film will feature Dr. Joseph Burrascano, the renowned Lyme disease specialist, and Stacey Sobel, executive director of Turn the Corner Foundation, dedicated to education and research for Lyme disease.

Tickets at $15 will be available at the door.

“We feel hosting this screening is important to educate and inform the East End community, which is at the epicenter of an alarming increase in tick-borne diseases,” said Bridgehampton filmmaker Jacqui Lofaro, founder and executive director of the Hamptons Take 2 Documentary Film Festival.

Following up on the pre-festival screening of UNDER OUR SKIN, the Hamptons Take 2 Documentary Film Festival is scheduled this year for the weekend of November 18-20.

Opening night at Guild Hall in East Hampton on Friday, November 18, will honor the work of pioneering filmmaker Richard Leacock (1921-2011), who worked with other cinema verite greats D.A. Pennebaker and Albert Maysles. The film fest continues on Saturday, November 19, with all day and evening screenings at Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theatre, and the identical schedule repeated for western audiences at the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center on Sunday, November 20.           

            Further information is available from executive director Jacqui Lofaro at info@ht2ff.com.