New Yorker Films has acquired the theatrical, home video/DVD, broadcast and cable TV rights to Jessica Sanders' Tribeca Film Festival movie "After Innocence", a new documentary that looks at the lives of DNA exonerees. indieWIRE reported today that the company will release the movie in New York City this fall. The film premiered earlier this year at Sundance.

[Tribeca daily dispatch by Eugene Hernandez.]

At last year's Tribeca Film Festival, which marked the debut of the Tribeca All Access program for filmmakers of color, I moderated a discussion entitled "Diversifying America Cinema" and wrote an article that surveyed industry leaders on the lack of ethnic diversity within the independent film industry. Sadly, in the year since the panel and survey, not much seems to have changed for filmmakers of color seeking representation within the business. Yet, TAA filmmakers are forging ahead with new movies and two 2004 Tribeca All Access participants are back this year.

ContentFilm International has announced a deal for the international rights to Duncan Tucker's "Transamerica." The film, which will have its North American premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival tonight, debuted back in February at the Berlinale, where it won the Siegessaule Reader's Prize for best queer film. It stars Felicity Huffman, Kevin Zegers, Fionnula Flanagan, Graham Greene and Elizabeth Peña. Sue Bodine and Andrew Hurwitz of Epstein, Levinsohn, Bodine, Hurwitz and Weinstein are handling North American rights to the film.