Just in time for the fall charity season, Robin Baker Leacock, Liliana Cavendish, Missy Hargraves, Deborah Hughes, Ross Bleckner on behalf of ACRIA and Henry Buhl for SoHo & Tribeca Partnership, hosted a special preview screening of “A Passion for Giving” at The Ross School in East Hampton. The night was a huge success; Countess LuAnn De Lesseps presented the film and Baron Christophe von Hohenberg was the special guest bartender.
Guests who showed their support included Donna Karan, Real Housewives of New York’s Jill Zarin, LuAnn De Lesseps and Kelly Killoren Bensimon; and Ann Rapp.
In this film, Robin Baker Leacock explores the people’s passion for giving through a series of quotes, art, music and interviews with a diverse group of people, some famous, some not. Subjects in the film include Ross Bleckner and Bob Colacello board members of ACRIA with Donna Karan; Gael Greene founder of City Meals on Wheels; Louise Stephaich for Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Haiti; Alexandre De Lesseps, founder of BlueOrchid orphanage in Burma; Run DMC’s Darryl McDaniels, founder of The Felix Organization; Henry Buhl founder of Soho + Tribeca Partnership; Missy Hargraves for Wildlife Rescue, John Sykes on behalf of VH1’s Save the Music; as well as cameo appearances by Russell Simmons, Dan Aykroyd and Richard Branson.
A Passion For Giving premieres in November on PBS in the New York area. |