Tribeca Film Festival

NAME OF FESTIVAL: Tribeca Film Festival

SINCE: 2002

WHERE: New York, NY, USA

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL

The Tribeca Film Festival brings together visionaries across industries and diverse audiences to celebrate the power of storytelling. A platform for independent filmmaking, creative expression and immersive entertainment, Tribeca supports emerging and established voices, discovers award-winning filmmakers, curates innovative and interactive experiences, and introduces new technology and ideas through panels, premieres, exhibitions, and live performances.

Founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff in 2001, following the attacks on the World Trade Center, Tribeca has evolved from an annual event to spur the economic and cultural revitalization of lower Manhattan to a gathering place for filmmakers, artists, innovators, and the global creative community. Through programs that embrace storytelling in all of its expansive forms—film, TV, online work, VR/AR, and music—TFF reimagines the cinematic experience and explores how art can unite communities.

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Tribeca Film Festival: Interview with Mila Turajilic, director of Cinema Komunisto

Director - Mila Turajlc — Director – Mila Turajlc

For 32 years, Leka Konstantinovic was the personal film projectionist for Yugoslavian president and noted film enthusiast Josip Broz Tito. Comprised of interviews with Konstantinovic and other important figures in the brief but glowing history of Yugoslavian cinema, as well as archival clips from more than 60 films, Cinema Komunisto is a vibrant, fascinating celebration of a film industry—and a nation—that no longer exists. Cinema Komunisto has its North American premiere in the World Documentary Competition section at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival.

Tribeca Film Festival: 10 Questions for Gabriella Bier – director of Love During Wartime

Love During Wartime has its North American premiere in the World Documentary Competition of the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival.

In the film, Jasmin and Assi are newlyweds, but building a life together seems impossible: She’s an Israeli, he’s a Palestinian. When their homelands turn their backs on them, they choose to live in exile. This tender tale of a love infiltrated by politics follows a real-life Romeo and Juliet on their odyssey from the Middle East through an inhospitable Europe. As their hopes rise and then fade with each bureaucratic hurdle, will their love survive?

Director Dori Berinstein Talks About Carol Channing: Larger Than Life

Director Dori Berinstein with Carol Channing

Carol Channing: Larger Than Life is playing at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival, and we had the opportunity to interview the director Dori Berinstein.

One-on-One with “Rid of Me” Director James Westby and star Katie O’Grady

James Westby returns to the Tribeca Film Festival, this time as writer-director-editor of “Rid of Me,” in fact, he shot the entire film himself. Vimooz.com’s Francesca McCaffery spoke one-on-one with the delightful director-star team of James Westby and Katie O’Grady, at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival with their truly wonderful indie comedy “Rid of Me.”

Tribeca Film Festival: Interview with director Alex Rotaru of Inspirational documentary ‘Shakespeare High’

The documentary film ‘Shakespeare High’ premieres at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival. The movie follows a diverse group of SoCal teens as they prepare for and compete in the 90th Drama Teachers Association of Southern California Shakespeare Festival.

Director Alex Rotaru’s portrait of promising and dedicated students and their teachers features interviews with DTASC alumni including Richard Dreyfuss, Val Kilmer, Mare Winningham, and executive producer Kevin Spacey. A galvanizing film that reminds us of the positive impact of performance education on impressionable youth, Shakespeare High offers a powerful message in support of the arts at a time when budget cuts facing many schools put the future of these curricula in peril.

Tribeca Film Festival: Interview with director Scott Rettberg and producer Megan Sleeper of ‘New York Says Thank You’

What is the film ‘New York Says Thank You’ all about?” New York Says Thank You is an epic story following the journey of New Yorkers whose lives were touched by September 11 as they travel the country helping communities rebuild after disasters. Along the way, they face their emotions and ultimately triumph over tragedy through an idea that evolved from a five-year-old New York City boy.

Interview with director Scott Rettberg and producer Megan Sleeper.

Tribeca Film Festival: Interview with the 3 Directors of ‘The Swell Season’

Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglvoa Backstage

We recently met up with the 3 directors of ‘The Swell Season’ – Nick August-Perna, Chris Dapkins, Carlo Mirabella-Davis.

The world fell in love with Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova when their songwriting collaboration in the film Once culminated in a jubilant Oscar® win. But behind the scenes, where Glen and Mar’s on-screen romance became reality, a grueling two-year world tour threatens to fracture their fated bond. Gorgeously filmed in black and white, this music-filled documentary is an intimate look at the exhilaration and turmoil created by both love and fame.

Interview with Directors: Nick August-Perna, Chris Dapkins, Carlo Mirabella-Davis

Tribeca Film Festival: Interview with Whitney Dow, Director of ‘When the Drum is Beating’

Maestro Ulrick Pierre-Louis transcribes lost arrangements of the band's songs — Maestro Ulrick Pierre-Louis transcribes lost arrangements of the band’s songs

Coming on the heels of the announcement that popular singer-turned-politician Michel Martelly will be Haiti’s next president, the documentary ‘When the Drum is Beating’ could not be more timely. The documentary premieres at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival.

The 20-member band Septentrional has been making music for 62 years as Haiti’s most celebrated big band. This inspirational documentary charts the history of Haiti from its triumphant independence from French colonialism to 2010’s devastating earthquake—all set to the vibrant music of Haitian-Caribbean jazz fusion band Septentrional and punctuated with its members’ personal memories. Featuring a wealth of live rehearsal and performance footage, When the Drum Is Beating is a poignant and high-energy story of resilience.

Tribeca Film Festival: Interview with Maggie Betts, Director of Documentary Film ‘The Carrier’

The documentary film ‘The Carrier’ premiered last night at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival. In the film, young mother Mutinta is a Zambian subsistence farmer in a polygamous marriage who has just learned she is HIV positive. Newly pregnant, Mutinta does everything she can to protect her unborn baby while navigating complicated family dynamics and village politics. Newcomer Maggie Betts sculpts a sensitive observational portrait of one woman’s struggle leading up to her newborn’s birth.

IFC Midnight picks up Saint on Eve of its Premiere at 2011 Tribeca Film Festival

On the eve of its North American premiere in the Cinemania section at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival, IFC Midnight acquired the U.S. distribution rights from sales and production outfit XYZ Films for director Dick Maas’ evil Santa film SAINT. Maas wrote the screenplay for the picture and produced with Tom de Mol. Starring Huub Stapel, Egbert-Jan Weeber, Caro Lenssen, Bert Luppes and Escha Tanihatu, the Dutch film will premiere tonight at 9:00pm at the AMC Loews Village 7.

Tribeca Film Festival – Interview with Director of ‘The Loving Story’ Documentary

The first film on the Tribeca Film Festival schedule today is the documentary ‘The Loving Story.’ Nancy Buirski’s moving, evocative documentary recounts the unknown love story of Mildred and Richard Loving, the couple behind the 1967 Supreme Court ruling overturning anti-miscegenation laws in the United States. Drawing from a wealth of stunning archival footage, The Loving Story recreates a seminal moment in history in uncommon style, anchoring a timely message of marriage equality in a personal, human love story.

Elton John Kicks off Tribeca Film Festival with Free Live Concert | Video

And it’s on. The 2011 Tribeca Film Festival kicked off last night with the free outdoor screening of Cameron Crowe’s new documentary “The Union,” about the musical collaboration between Elton John and singer/songwriter Leon Russell.

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