EIGHTH TRIBECA SET TO OPEN APRIL 22
April 14th 2009 14:18
The 2009 festival has accepted entries from 33 different countries with over 48 World Premieres set for screening within the two week event. And the nervous anticipation is not only reserved for the organisers. With 81 directors screening their work at this year’s festival, just under 50 percent will be making their feature film debuts. This kind of exposure is an enormous boost for these promising new cinematic creators with some of the world’s leading producers and distributors keeping a keen eye on what is on show. Careers can be made in less than 2 hours of screentime. Also included in the festival will be the DISCOVERY section screening 14 ‘new and emerging voices in film.’
Yet as with other festivals, there continues to be an imbalance between the number of female and male directors with films screening at this years festival. The discrepancy between male and female filmmakers continues to define the industry with only 23 females accepted into the feature films section. While it is not an argument of equality for all and films should not be included just to try to balance out the equation, it seems a little curious that out of 2254 submissions, such a small number of female filmmakers progressed to the final stage, outlining the void that still exists within the industry between the sexes.
Jane Rosenthal courtesy IMDB
The 2009 Tribeca Film Festival line-up for its two discussion programs - the Tribeca Talks Series and "Behind the Screens: Films and Conversations about Truth, Clarity and Responsibility," includes "Tribeca Talks Panels," "Tribeca Talks: After the Movie," "Tribeca Talks Special Events," "Tribeca Talks: Industry" and "Tribeca Talks: Pen to Paper
"The Tribeca Talks panel series has always been one of the Festival's most compelling programs, examining issues and trends in society and the entertainment industry with some of the biggest names in film, art and media," said Nancy Schafer, Executive Director of the Tribeca Film Festival.
"Tribeca Talks Special Events" will present the world premiere of Poliwood, a film that explores the collision and collusion between politics and Hollywood and Passing Strange, Spike Lee's filmed record of the 2008 Tony Award®-winning Broadway rock musical.
"Behind the Screens" will showcase select films and further explore their themes with additional conversations with film participants.
Other highlights of the Tribeca Talks Series include:
The Big Time to the Big Screen: 30 Years of Sports Filmmaking, The inherent link between sports and filmmaking
The Future of Independents, about how an independent film gets made in today's rapidly shrinking global economy.
The Festival films ten sections are as follows
World Narrative Competition, World Documentary Competition, Discovery, Encounters, Midnight, Spotlight, Showcase, Restored/Rediscovered, Galas and Special Events. Starting tomorrow with Narrative and Documentary a description direct from TRIBECA of films screening in each different category will be published.
And for fun!?……….
TRIBECA 09 Stats
2254 features submissions
2463 shorts submissions
86 Feature Films
46 Short Films
12 World Narrative Films
12 Documentary Films
14 Discovery selections
33 Countries represented
48 World Premieres
5 International Premieres
14 North American Premieres
3 U.S. Premieres
11 New York City Premieres
8 Films as part of the ESPN Sports Film Festival
10 Festival film sections.
19 Film and Panel Discussions
81 Features Directors
37 Debut feature directors.
23 Female feature Directors
AND
Multitudes of things to do at the free events presented by the festival
Tickets for the Festival will be $15.00 for evening and weekend screenings and $8.00 for daytime weekday and late night screenings
www.tribecafilm.com/festival .
For North American audiences you can access the film guide online from your mobile device on www.tffmobile.com . Film information can also be accessed on your mobile device by texting* a film's information code to TRBCA (87222). Information codes can be found in the box next to each film and special event listing. (*standard text messaging rates apply).
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