Back by popular demand, the second annual LIMEHOF Music Documentary Film Festival returns to the Long Island Music & Entertainment Hall of Fame at 97 Main Street in Stony Brook Village from Friday, Sept. 25 to Sunday, Sept. 27.

“If you love music, there’s really nothing else quite like spending a day surrounded by great music documentaries, filmmakers, and fellow music fans,” said Tom Needham, Executive Director, LIMEHOF Music Documentary Film Festival. “We’ve brought together an extraordinary variety of movies, and our hope is that people will come for one film and find themselves wanting to stay for three or four.”

This year’s festival has expanded significantly in scope over last year’s and will include 43 short and feature-length music documentary films, live performances, and Q&A panel discussions to be held in two theaters. Featured artists in the films include Ann Wilson, Kenny Loggins, Billy Preston, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Peter Gabriel, Biz Markie, Beastie Boys, James Taylor, Foo Fighters, Paquito D’Rivera, John Popper, Billy Joel, James, The Rose, Peter, Paul & Mary, Iggy Pop, Nash the Slash, Eraserheads, Yello, Robert Charlebois, Alceu Valença, Madalitso Band, Sugar, Leiva, Mark Fry, and JVC Force, among others.

In addition to the United States, the festival includes films with ties to 14 other countries, including Canada, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, Austria, Japan, the Philippines, Malawi, Brazil, Iran, Malta, and Australia. Sixteen of the films are premiering on Long Island, with three of them being world premieres.

Opening night will feature Kenny Loggins: Conviction of the Heart by Dori Berinstein, a six-time Tony-winning Broadway producer, Olivier winner and Emmy Award-winning director, producer and writer of film and TV. Dori Berinstein is also expected to attend and participate in a Q&A panel.

The film focuses on the life of multi-platinum, Grammy, Emmy-winning and Oscar- and Tony-nominated songwriter/recording artist Kenny Loggins, who was a shy, gawky, unpopular kid with low self-esteem. Thinking he had to create a persona to do the “rock star thing,” Loggins spent the subsequent 50 years reinventing himself repeatedly. His career has been a journey into being himself.