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Bridget Moynahan among the notable participants of this year’s North Fork TV Festival
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Bridget Moynahan among the notable participants of this year’s North Fork TV Festival

“Blue Bloods” star Bridget Moynahan will be among the celebrity attendees at this year’s 9th North Fork TV Festival, which takes place Tuesday and Wednesday in Greenport, along with Kelsey Grammer, Marcia Gay Harden, Richard Schiff and John Turturro.

Additionally, “Blue Bloods” showrunner Kevin Wade of Locust Valley will participate in a panel discussion about the creative and organizational process of their work.

“Bridget has always been very supportive of the North Fork TV Festival,” says festival founder Noah Doyle, 43, who grew up in Commack and is a financial advisor who lives between Manhattan and Greenport with his wife Lauren, a lawyer, and their two children. “She was our first arts ambassador. And of course ‘Blue Bloods’ is an iconic drama series,” he says, noting that “such police dramas have been the backbone of scripted television for many years, and this is a festival for episodic television.”

Moynahan is starring and co-producing this year’s independent TV pilot “Swipe NYC,” along with fellow cast members Lisa Edelstein (“Dr. House”) and Schiff (“The West Wing”). The show, created by Sue Zarco Kramer, said festival artist Mike Stern in a statement, is “a coming-in-age comedy with the hilarious backdrop of online dating in Brooklyn.”

The film is one of four winners in this year’s independent pilot competition and will be screened alongside Al Julian and Vince Eisenson’s drama “The Sessions,” starring R. Keith Harris, about a therapy group for convicted murderers, Juliana Piscinas’ comedy “The Ladies,” about a high school girls’ basketball team, and sketch comedy “Typical Dan Peterson Stuff,” starring and created by Scott Kruse, Josh Long and Kurt Quinn.

Emmy Award winner Schiff is this year’s Ambassador for the Arts honoree. Oscar and Tony Award winner and four-time Emmy nominee Marcia Gay Harden (“So Help Me Todd,” “The Morning Show”) will receive this year’s Canopy Award – a viticultural term honoring the local wine industry – given to New York television professionals who “embody the creative ambitions of diverse storytelling through their consistency, integrity and inclusive nature.”

Previous winners include actors Carrie Preston, J. Smith-Cameron, Jeremy Sisto, Grammer, Aida Turturro and Chris Noth.

Held primarily at the American Beech Hotel and the Sound View Greenport Hotel, the festival will also feature post-screening Q&A sessions, numerous panel discussions, Turturro’s presentation of “A Journey Through the Evolution of Television” and an interview with him moderated by Erik Warner and Elisa DiStefano of Newsday TV, breakfast and dinner, and a red carpet closing reception.

“I don’t think we’ve ever had a program with as many award-winning and nominated actors as are attending this year’s festival,” enthuses Doyle, “many of them are coming back multiple times. Kelsey is coming back for the third time. Bridget Moynahan is coming back for the second time,” he says – and adds with a large pinch of local pride: “The program that the creative team has put together this year can compete with those of the biggest festivals in this country!”

Tickets are available at Northfork.tv.

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