The Hamptons Doc Fest is showing four films this year to celebrate Mother Earth on April 21 to April 24. These films include “Aquarela,” “Bring Your Own Brigade,” “The Velvet Queen,” and “River.”

Carl will introduce “The Velvet Queen,” a film that follows the wildlife photographer Vincent Munier and the writer Sylvain Tesson on a mission in a mountainous region of Tibet. They hope to catch a glimpse of a rare snow leopard. Their journey, with no guarantee of success, requires extreme patience and a disconnection from what Tesson, who narrates, calls the “puppet show of humanity.” At the end, he likens seeing the animal to the Promethean feat of stealing fire.

The movie operates on two basic levels. One is philosophical, as the camera watches two men who are themselves looking through viewfinders experience the sensations of a place where humans rarely disrupt the natural order. On another level, “The Velvet Queen” is a wondrous nature documentary. While it’s hard to imagine the film will conclude without a snow leopard, there are other animal stars along the way: wild yaks, Tibetan foxes, bears and the Pallas’s cat, whose cuddliness, to paraphrase Tesson, belies the fact that it might leap at your throat if you tried to pet it.

“The Velvet Queen” will be aired on Saturday April 23rd at 2:00 pm in Sag Harbor, New York! Learn more and get your tickets here!