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Special Preview of Robin Baker Leacock's A Passion For Giving
09/03/2009 - By The Ross School in East Hampton

Special Preview of Robin Baker Leacock's A Passion For Giving

ROBIN BAKER LEACOCK'S A PASSION FOR GIVING

A FILM ABOUT KINDNESS, GENEROSITY AND HOPE

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 on Thursday evening. The documentary received kudos from guests including Henry Buhl who spoke about SoHo & Tribeca Partnership, LuAnn De Lesseps who presented the film and Ross Bleckner who spoke about ACRIA. To conclude the introductions Missy Hargraves presented Robin Baker Leacock, the film's director & producer and Jeff Oppenheim, the editor of the film.

Guests who showed their support included Donna Karan, Real Housewives of New
York's Jill Zarin, and Kelly Killoren Bensimon, Bobby Zarin, Bob Colacello,
Ann Rapp,Lady Fiona Dartmouth, Melissa Berkelhammer, Lucia Hwong and NYC Prep's Sebastian Oppenheim.

ABOUT A PASSION FOR GIVING

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. Baker Leacock also has candid conversations about life and generosity with those who have been helped by others, inspiring viewers to give of themselves.


A Passion For Giving premieres in November on PBS in the New York area.

Photos: C 2009 Patrick McMullan


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