East Hampton - The Hamptons International Film Festival (HIFF) and Guild Hall will continue the SummerDoc series on Thursday, September 1, with a screening of "Bombay Beach" at Guild Hall at 7:30 p.m.

Alec Baldwin will host a Q & A with the director Alma Har'el immediately following th the screening.

About "Bombay Beach

The rusting relic of a failed 1950s development boom, the Salton Sea is a barren Californian landscape often seen as a symbol of the failure of the American Dream. A sea in the middle of the Colorado desert. First-time director Har'el visits this poetically fruitful terrain in her distinctive documentary "Bombay Beach," and finds there a motley cast including a bipolar seven-year-old, a lovelorn high school football star, and an octogenarian poet-prophet. Together they make up a triptych of American manhood in its decisive moments, populating the Salton Sea's land of thwarted opportunity.

True to her roots as a photographer, video artist, and music video director, Har'el crafts here an adamantly atypical and artistically innovative film - a dreamlike poem that sets the personal stories of these distinctive yet familiar characters to a stylized amalgam of observational documentary and choreographed dance, with music by Beirut and Bob Dylan, all cast against the atmospheric scenery of the titular ghost town. The result is a moving and surreal documentary experience - an evocative, symbolic portrait of rural America and its inhabitants. Winner of the Tribeca Film Festival doc competition.

About HIFF

The HIFF was founded to celebrate Independent film - long, short, fiction and documentary - and to introduce a unique, varied spectrum of international films and filmmakers to the public. The Festival is committed to exhibiting films that express fresh voices and differing global perspectives, with the hope that these programs will enlighten audiences, provide invaluable exposure for filmmakers and present inspired entertainment for all.

The 19th Annual Hamptons International Film Festival will take place this year from October 13 through October 17.