For all who have ever grown up, lived or visited there, the Sag Harbor Cinema was much more than just a simple movie theater. It was an icon; located at the heart of Main Street, it was a simple, yet significant, representation of everything we hold dear about the quintessential American village. For 80 years it stood the test of time, through wars and the Great Depression, until one fateful day on December 16th, 2016, when a great fire left a gaping hole where the symbolic center of the village once stood.

A Phoenix Rises chronicles in detail the untold story of everything that took place before, during and after that fire, including the incredible never-before-heard series of events leading up to the day it burned, terrifying first-person accounts from firefighters who came within moments of being killed while fighting it, and amazing tales of the huge hurdles that had to be overcome to rebuild the cinema into the modern, state-of-the-art facility it is today; the heart and icon of the Sag Harbor community.