Tribeca Film Festival News
The web is all abuzz with the news about the upcoming Tribeca Film Festival. In case you're wondering how Tribeca came to be... In 2002, the Tribeca Film Institute successfully launched the First Annual Tribeca Film Festival. Created by Jane Rosenthal and Robert De Niro, the Tribeca Film Festival was founded to celebrate New York City as a major filmmaking center and to contribute to the long-term recovery of lower Manhattan.
After only 120 days of planning and with the help of more than 1,300 volunteers, the inaugural Festival became a critical and popular success. It was attended by more than 150,000 people, generated more than $ 10.4 million in revenues for local Tribeca merchants, and featured several up-and-coming filmmakers.
Tribeca braces for title wave. Film News: Gotham film fest reels in 90 world preems -- Magnolia Pictures' THE ARCHITECT and Jake Kasdan's THE TV SET are among the world preems slated to bow at the fifth annual Tribeca Film Festival. [Variety.com]
Tribeca Fest Slate: World Docs Look Strong. Normally a kernal of well-curated sanity in the vast monstrosity that is the Tribeca Film Festival, the festival's international narrative and documentary competitions were just announced. Glancing over the selection, the program looks promising with already-proven world cinema entries the best bets. I walked out of Emmanuelle Bercot's teen star obsession drama "Backstage" at Toronto, but I know the film has its fans. Matthias Glasner's THE FREE WILL was ... By Anthony Kaufman. [blogs.indieWIRE.com: Independent Film]
Tribeca. Competition lineup.. My, how it's grown in five short years. The Tribeca Film Festival (April 25 through May 7) has announced that it'll be featuring 37 world premieres from eleven countries in competition. All in all, 169 features and 99 shorts... [GreenCine Daily]
