The Grid Unplugged Drops First Clip Before Hamptons Premiere

The Grid Unplugged will meet its first audience on Saturday.

Deadline published an exclusive clip on 1 October 2026 ahead of the documentary's world premiere — its first public screening anywhere — at the 34th Hamptons International Film Festival. That festival runs from 2 to 12 October, Deadline reported.

The world premiere label matters. Many festivals ask for it. It means no public audience has seen the film before Hamptons.

The subject is power. More precisely, what happens when ageing grids face rising demand.

The film uses California wildfires as its entry point to examine that strain, Deadline reported. From there it looks at the networks that carry electricity to homes and businesses. Energy experts, innovators and policymakers appear on camera to discuss how that infrastructure could be modernised.

Rick Cutter directed the documentary, which was written by Adam Samuel Goldman, Deadline reported. Cutter pulls double duty as director and producer. Meghan Walsh and Cutter are listed as producers, the people who tend to oversee the day-to-day work of getting a film made. Lauren Avinoam, Kirpi Uimonen and Ed Begley Jr. are listed as executive producers, a credit that often involves backing or guiding a project rather than running the shoot.

The Hamptons festival places The Grid Unplugged in its Air, Land & Sea strand, according to its film guide Hamptons Film Festival. The guide lists it as a 2026 Documentary Feature, meaning a feature-length work of non-fiction, involving Israel, the United Kingdom and the United States. The festival's event page describes the film as balancing alarming risks with promising solutions toward a more resilient and sustainable energy future Hamptons Film Festival.

Releasing a short clip before a premiere is normal festival practice. It lets the wider public see a moment. The full audience in the room sees the rest.

No wider release plan was given in the materials verified for this story. For now, Saturday is the date that matters. Saturday's screening is listed as the world premiere. It falls on the opening weekend of the festival's 2 to 12 October run.

For viewers coming fresh to the topic, the set-up is simple. Wildfires are visible. Grids are not, until they fail. This film connects the two.