Global Warming Heats Up Tribeca
I'm only a few days away from leaving for Tribeca. I finally got the 2007 Tribeca Film Guide printed out and I've been studying it so I can get my schedule in order. The Tribeca Film guide is a lot like the Telluride Schedule, brief. The Sundance Film Guide is much more detailed so I like it quite a bit more ... and I'm probably a tad biased since it's the guide I'm most familiar with.
Tribeca also has some wonderful extras available online. In the digital age, festivals would have to be quite lame not to put anything up. You'll find the Tribeca Extras to include some fairly long interviews with filmmakers.
Earlier today, I watched AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH on cable. The environmental movement is finally gaining momentum (I remember being so concerned about it in the late 70's but having most people just think of it as "silly hippy kids" making a big deal about nothing). Former Vice President Al Gore will be on hand to open Tribeca. The opening will feature seven short films about global warming.
The SOS Short Film Program has commissioned 60 award-winning filmmakers from wide-ranging genres and mediums, including feature films, documentaries, music videos, commercials and animation to create provocative shorts of no more than 10 minutes in length. The films range in tone from factual and dramatic to fictional and comedic. The Tribeca Film Festival will select seven of these films to premiere at the festival, which will be announced at the opening press conference for the
Tribeca Film Festival on April 22, 2007.
SOS has engaged many of the industry’s most prominent filmmakers including:
• Jonathan Glazer, Director, Birth, Sexy Beast;
• Kevin MacDonald, Director, Last King of Scotland;
• Abel Ferrera, Director, King of New York;
• Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, Directors, Oscar-nominated Jesus Camp;
• Aardman Animation, Producers, Wallace and Gromit;
• Amy Berg, Director, Oscar-nominated Deliver Us From Evil; and
• Ari Sandel, Director, Oscar-winning, West Bank Story.
"Message Movies" can be such a drag. Earnest but boring. With these directors participating, the SOS films might be good AND good to watch.
