By Annette HinkleIn 1996, East End author Heather Dune Macadam penned “Rena’s Promise,” a harrowing book that told the true story of Rena Kornreich, a young woman who was sent to Auschwitz from Slovakia on the first Jewish transport in 1942, yet liv
Oscar-nominated director Matthew Heineman and late filmmaker Nancy Buirski will be honored at the Hamptons Doc Fest in New York next month. Heineman, whose latest film, American Symphony, premiered to acclaim at the Telluride Film Festival, will receive the prestigious Pennebaker Career Achievement Award, named for the legendary filmmaker and pioneer of “direct cinema” D.A. …