"The Rocket," "Bridegroom" Win Audience Awards at 2013 Tribeca Film Festival

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The 12th Tribeca Film Festival (TFF) announced the winners of the two Heineken Audience Awards — one for narrative and one for documentary. The Rocket, directed by Kim Mordaunt, was chosen by the audience to receive the Narrative award; the film also took top honors at the Festival jury awards where it received both The Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature and Best Actor in a Narrative Feature Film for Sitthiphon Disamoe’s performance as Ahlo. Bridegroom, directed by Linda Bloodworth Thomason, was chosen for the Documentary award. Each award comes with a cash prize of $25,000.

"The Rocket", "The Kill Team", "A Short Film About Guns" Among Winners of 2013 Tribeca Film Festival

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The 2013 Tribeca Film Festival announced the winners of its competition categories with The Rocket, directed by Kim Mordaunt of Australia taking the top prize for narrative films - The Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature and The Kill Team, directed by Dan Krauss winning the prize for Best Documentary Feature.

First-Time Writer, Director Meera Menon Wins inaugural Nora Ephron Prize at 2013 Tribeca Film Festival

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First-time writer/director Meera Menon (Farah Goes Bang) was selected out of eight filmmakers to win the inaugural Nora Ephron Prize at the annual Women’s Filmmaker Brunch at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival.  Menon will receive a cash prize of $25,000 for "work and talent that embody the spirit and vision of the legendary filmmaker and writer."  The Festival runs through April 28.

5 Documentaries to Watch at 2013 Tribeca Film Festival

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by Morgan Davies

The Tribeca Film Festival kicks off in downtown Manhattan this week, and while movies with big stars like The English Teacher (with Julianne Moore and Nathan Lane) and Almost Christmas (with Paul Giamatti and Paul Rudd) may get most of the attention from the press, many of the festival’s best films are likely to be less-seen documentaries. Here are five to look out for.

Juries Announced For 2013 Tribeca Film Festival incl. Whoopi Goldberg, Paul Haggis

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Bryce Dallas-Howard, Whoopi Goldberg, Paul Haggis, Taraji P. Henson, Riley Keough, Kenny Lonergan, Eva Longoria, Sheila Nevins, Josh Radnor and Evan Rachel Wood are among the diverse group of 42 industry leaders, including award-winning filmmakers, writers, producers, acclaimed actors, respected journalists and entrepreneurs, who will serve as the jurors of the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival (TFF).

The jury will be divided among the seven competitive Festival categories. The winning films, filmmakers and actors in each category will be announced at the TFF Awards Night ceremony, streamed live on TribecaFilm.com on April 25. The 2013 Festival runs from April 17 –28.

Following is a list of all 2013 Festival and Tribeca Film Institute jurors and their respective categories.

TRAILER: First Look at Documentary Film Featuring Final Interviews with Gore Vidal to World Premier at 2013 Tribeca Film Festival

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Trailer for 2013 Tribeca Film Festival world premiere GORE VIDAL: THE UNITED STATES OF AMNESIA was released.

Directed by Nicholas Wrathall (Abandoned: The Betrayal of America’s Immigrants), the film features the final interviews with the iconic American writer, essayist, and singular intellectual.  Featuring interviews with Gore Vidal, Burr Steers, Christopher Hitchens, Jodie Evans, Tim Robbins, Mikhail Gorbachev, Sting, David Mamet, Bob Scheer, William F. Buckley, Jay Parini, Norman Mailer, Nina Straight and Dick Cavett.

Not in NYC? 2013 Tribeca Film Festival Unveils Lineup for Tribeca Online Festival

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The Tribeca Film Festival (TFF) which runs April 17-28, 2013 in lower Manhattan, New York, announced the lineup and programming for the Tribeca Online Festival.  The Tribeca Online Festival (TOF) will provide free streaming of Festival films.

Seven titles including features Alias Ruby Blade: A Story of Love and Revolution, Lil Bub & Friendz, and Farah Goes Bang (which will be streamed just after their Festival theatrical premieres), and short films RPG OKC, Delicacy, The Exit Room, and A Short Film About Guns will be accessible on tribecaonlinefestival.com . Via TribecaOnlineFestival.com audiences can vote on the best online feature and short, with the winners receiving a total of $16,000 in prize money.  

The Tribeca Online Festival will also stream a number of highly anticipated conversations during the Festival as well as the 2013 TFF awards show on Thursday April 25, 2013.  

Tribeca Film will also release 2013 TFF selections What Richard Did, Greetings from Tim Buckley, Fresh Meat andThe English Teacher nationwide via on demand during the Festival window. The titles will be available in more than 50 million homes in the U.S. and Canada through all major cable video-on-demand providers, as well as iTunes, Amazon Watch Instantly, VUDU, Xbox, Google Play and YouTube.

New this year is the launch of Tribeca Film Festival’s #6SECFILMS Vine Competition, an online juried competition using the six-second, micro-movie making app. Filmmakers can  submit in one of four categories -- #genre, #auteur, #animate and #series – using both the category hashtag and #6SECFILMS . Shortlists in each category will be viewable for the public on April 17 and will compete for cash prizes of $600. Submissions are now open through midnight on April 7. Winners will be announced by the Tribeca Online Festival on April 26.

Details on the VOD and Tribeca Online Festival offerings follow:

30th Anniversary Restoration of Martin Scorsese’s The King of Comedy to Close 2013 Tribeca Film Festival

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The Tribeca Film Festival (TFF), has chosen the 30th Anniversary of Martin Scorsese’s The King of Comedy, restored in association with The Film Foundation, Regency Enterprises and Twentieth Century Fox, to close its 12th edition on Saturday, April 27. 

The King of Comedy – directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Paul D. Zimmerman, produced by Arnon Milchan, and starring Robert De Niro, Jerry Lewis, Diahnne Abbott and Sandra Bernhard –was originally released in 1983. Lauded as “shockingly prescient” by Moviefone, the film is recognized for its groundbreaking foresight into reality-TV culture and lack of distinction between renown and notoriety. It also holds up as the finest dramatic work of Lewis' career, one of Martin Scorsese's most underrated movies and a darkly funny film that features Robert De Niro playing the scary and fascinating character, Rupert Pupkin.

2013 Tribeca Film Festival Tribeca Talks® Series Lineup to Feature Conversations With Clint Eastwood, Whoopi Goldberg, Darren Aronofsky, Ben Stiller, Jay Roach And More

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The 2013 Tribeca Film Festival (TFF) announced its lineup for the 2013 Tribeca Talks® panel series. This year’s programs include the “Tribeca Talks: Directors Series”; “Tribeca Talks: After the Movie;” “Tribeca Talks: After the Movie, Beyond the Screens: The Artist’s Angle,”; “Tribeca Talks: Industry;” and “Tribeca Talks: Pen to Paper, hosted by Barnes & Noble.”

Tribeca Talks will featurqe conversations with some of the most influential and creative minds in the film industry.  Those participating in the “Tribeca Talks: Directors Series” events include Academy Award®-winner Clint Eastwood with Academy Award®-nominee Darren Aronofsky, Academy Award®-nominee Richard Linklater with fellow nominees Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, director Mira Nair with actress Bryce Dallas Howard, and Emmy Award®-winner Jay Roach with actor Ben Stiller.  Among the “Tribeca Talks: After the Movie” event panelists are Academy Award®-winner Whoopi Goldberg, Academy Award®-nominee Ellen Page, legendary author and activist Gloria Steinem and actor Adrian Grenier. The Tribeca Talks panel series is open to the public and will take place throughout TFF, which will run from April 17 to April 28, 2013, at locations around New York City.

Tribeca Film Festival Announces the 2013 Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival Lineup

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The Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival,  which has become the a great showcase for independent films about sports and competition is back for the 2013 Festival.  The festival announced the lineup for the seventh annual Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival, consisting of nine films, including four titles from ESPN Films’ highly anticipated “Nine for IX" series which celebrates the fortieth anniversary of Title IX with nine documentary films about women in sports directed by outstanding female filmmakers. The 2013 Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival will run during the 12th TFF, April 17 – April 28 in New York City. 

The world premiere of Big Shot, directed by Kevin Connolly, will serve as the gala premiere of the program on Friday, April 19. Connolly is returning to Tribeca having debuted his feature film Gardener of Eden in 2007. In Big Shot, Connolly chronicles John Spano’s fraudulent purchase of the New York Islanders.  In 1997, Spano bought the New York Islanders for a staggering $165 million. The scheme behind Spano’s acquisition of the team is revealed as Big Shot takes viewers behind the scenes of the biggest fraud in hockey history.

The other films include documentary films that explore stories of an extreme skiing legend; the world’s top professional skateboarders; an overhyped high school basketball player; the battle in the ring and the courts of the greatest boxing legend; the personal struggles of college sports’ most successful coach ever; the largely unknown history of an Olympic gold medalist and her link with East Germany’s secret police; the unyielding quest of a world-class diver to reach new depths; and the gender politics of post-game locker room interviews.