Plus One, written and directed by Jeff Chan and Andrew Rhymer, and Gay Chorus Deep South, directed by David Charles Rodrigues, won the Audience Awards at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival.
Tribeca Film Festival
NAME OF FESTIVAL: Tribeca Film Festival
SINCE: 2002
WHERE: Manhattan, New York, USA
WEBSITE: www.tribecafilm.com
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL: Founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff in 2001 following the attacks on the World Trade Center, to spur the economic and cultural revitalization of the lower Manhattan district through an annual celebration of film, music and culture, the Festival brings the industry and community together around storytelling. The Tribeca Film Festival has screened more than 1,300 films from more than 80 countries since its first edition in 2002. Since inception, it has attracted an international audience of more than 3.7 million attendees and has generated an estimated $725 million in economic activity for New York City.
HISTORY OF MEMORY, HP’s Tribeca Award-Winning Short Film Series, Available in Summer
Fresh off the heels of winning a Tribeca X award for best episodic short series, HP Inc. will release its film series The History of Memory through documentary channel Docurama.
BURNING CANE, HOUSE OF HUMMINGBIRD and SCHEME BIRDS Win Top Awards at Tribeca Film Festival 2019
Burning Cane, directed and written by teen filmmaker Phillip Youmans won the top honor at the 18th Tribeca Film Festival.
Watch Video Clip from Emily Cohn’s CRSHD World Premiering at Tribeca Film Festival
Emily Cohn is moving on up from short films and will World Premiere her feature film debut CRSHD at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival on Tuesday, April 30th.
Watch Video Clip from MARTHA: A PICTURE STORY, Documentary on Iconic Street Art Photographer Martha Cooper
Martha: A Picture Story, is filmmaker Selina Miles’ vibrant portrait of photographer Martha Cooper, who in 1970s New York, who decades later, realizes she’s become an unusual icon of the street art world.
Watch Clip from PICTURE CHARACTER, Documentary About Emoji, at 2019 Tribeca Film Festival
Just before its World Premiere on Saturday April 27 at the Tribeca Film, Picture Character, a documentary about emoji released the first look – a fascinating video clip from the film.
NFL Cheerleaders Fight for Minimum Wage in A WOMAN’S WORK: THE NFL’S CHEERLEADER PROBLEM
Director Yu Gu follows several former cheerleaders as they fight for minimum wage in her new documentary A Woman’s Work: The NFL’s Cheerleader Problem.
Actress Alia Shawkat to Narrate Virtual Reality Experience THE KEY, World Premiering at Tribeca Film Festival
Alia Shawkat best known for her roles on Arrested Development and Search Party, will narrate The Key, a mysterious virtual reality journey world premiering at Tribeca Film Festival.
Stop-Motion VR GYMNASIA to World Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival
GYMNASIA is a groundbreaking cinematic VR experience thatflawlessly blends 3D 360-degree video, stop motion, miniatures and computer-generated graphics (CGI), and pushes the art of puppet animation into uncharted territory.
HALSTON, Documentary on Legendary Fashion Designer, Releases Trailer + Poster
Halston a new documentary on the life and times of legendary fashion designer Roy Halston Frowick released the trailer and poster ahead of its New York premiere at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival.
WATCH: Joe Begos’ Horror Flick BLISS Releases Trailer
Joe Begos’ latest horror flick BLISS, which will have its world premiere at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival on Saturday, April 27, released the first look trailer.
$1 Million Dollar Sci-Fi Short THE SHIPMENT to Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival
The Shipment, a $1 million dollar father/daughter science fiction short, by VFX artist and 3D animator Bobby Bala will premiere at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival
2019 Tribeca Film Festival Announces Jury – Angela Bassett, Rebecca Miller, Debra Messing and More
Angela Bassett, Rebecca Miller, Orlando von Einsiedel, Steve Zaillian, are among the jury members of the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival who will select the winners in the film competitions.
MAKING WAVES: THE ART OF CINEMATIC SOUND to World Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound, a new documentary film that reveals the hidden power of sound in cinema, will World Premiere at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival
Sheryl Crow To Perform at World Premiere of LINDA RONSTADT: THE SOUND OF MY VOICE at Tribeca Film Festival
Sheryl Crow will perform at the World Premiere of the documentary Linda Ronstadt: The Sound Of My Voice at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival on Friday April 26.
Watch First Trailer for OUR TIME MACHINE, Documentary on Chinese Artist Maleonn
Yang Sun and S. Leo Chiang’s evocative documentary OUR TIME MACHINE released the first trailer ahead of its World Premiere at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival.
Chelsea Manning Documentary XY CHELSEA Releases First-Look Trailer
SHOWTIME released a first-look trailer for XY CHELSEA, directed by Tim Travers Hawkins, which will have its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Peter Webber’s Reggae Documentary INNA DE YARD: THE SOUL OF JAMAICA to World Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival
More than 30 years after their golden age, some of the legendary voices of Reggae including Ken Boothe, Winston McAnuff, Kiddus I, and Cedric Myton are back on a World Tour, chronicled in the documentary Inna De Yard.
ARTIFISHAL, Patagonia Documentary on Fight to Save Fish and Rivers to World Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival
Executive produced by Patagonia founder, Yvon Chouinard, Artifishal explores wild salmon’s slide toward extinction, threats posed by fish hatcheries and fish farms, and our continued loss of faith in nature.
2019 Tribeca Film Festival Debuts Tribeca Celebrates Pride Day Event and World Premiere of Documentary WIG
This year, the Tribeca Film Festival will debut the inaugural Tribeca Celebrates Pride, a day-long event concluding with the World Premiere of Wig, directed by Chris Moukarbel.
17 BLOCKS, Documentary on Twenty Years in the Life of a DC Family, to World Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival
The documentary 17 Blocks, an intimate chronicle of a DC-based family’s struggles with addiction and gun violence, directed by Davy Rothbart will premiere at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival.
Mudding Enthusiasts Documentary RED, WHITE & WASTED to World Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival
Red, White & Wasted is a new documentary from directors Andrei Bowden-Schwartz and Sam B. Jones that follows a family of mudding enthusiasts as the last mudhole in Orlando, Florida, that will World Premiere at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival.
ST. LOUIS SUPERMAN, Documentary on Bruce Franks Jr. Ferguson Activist-Turned-Politician, to Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival
St. Louis Superman is a new documentary short chronicling Bruce Franks Jr., a Ferguson activist and battle rapper who was elected to the overwhelmingly white and Republican Missouri House of Representatives.
Watch Powerful Trailer for GAY CHORUS DEEP SOUTH Documentary World Premiering at Tribeca Film Festival
The first trailer is here for the new documentary Gay Chorus Deep South chronicling The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus’ life-changing Lavender Pen Tour through five southern states in the fall of 2017.