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Jacqui Lofaro, founder and executive director of Hamptons Doc Fest, which just celebrated its 14th year, December 3-10, with 30 screenings at the Sag Harbor Cinema and Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor, has announced that the winner of the Siben & Siben Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature is the film “Citizen Ashe” which played on December 4 to a sold-out house at Sag Harbor Cinema. It was also the recipient of the festival’s Human Rights Award.Directed by Rex Miller and Sam Pollard, who had unprecedented access to 47 boxes of Ashe’s papers and 33 microcassettes, the 94-minute film details the life and career of tennis champion Arthur Ashe, who was the first African-American to win the men’s singles titles at Wimbledon, the U.S. Open and the Australian Open, and the first to win induction into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1985. He worked for civil rights causes In America and South Africa and also became an AIDS activist in the late 1980’s after contr