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Annual Tribeca Film Festival

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New York City’s annual Tribeca Film Festival was founded in 2002 “by Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro and Craig Hatkoff, reportedly in response to the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the consequent loss of vitality in the Tribeca  neighborhood in Lower Manhattan,” today, in its 17th year it features nearly 100 movies spread out over 12 days in the hub of NYC.

It began 10 days ago but there is still a lot going on.  It featured “high-profile premieres and after-parties” in some of the region’s most luxurious spots.  Included in the top celebrities were: power couple Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker, Lily James and Tessa Thompson, Christina Hendricks and Alysia Reiner.  The “Tribeca Talks” lecture series had Spike Lee and Robert De Niro participating.

Good news for the women too; this year witnessed the largest amount of female feature film directors since the inception of the Festival. And local flavor was very apparent as well.

What a great event for New Yorkers and visitors alike.

Cosmopolitan Hotel – Tribeca

Tribeca Film Festival

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film-festivalThe Tribeca Film Festival (that run from April 13 until yesterday), in its 15th year comprised 102 features.  These ranged from foreign language, independent movies to documentaries and more, spanning “all-star Hollywood attractions.”

In addition to the more than 100 features, this year’s Film Festival is showing TV events, virtual reality exhibitions and interactive installations.  Being on the newer side of film festivals, this factor is believed to be a good thing.  Indeed, according to Genna Terranova, director of the festival, this plus enables the festival to work differently, giving it the capacity to “change a little bit more easily, evolve a little bit more easily,” as compared to other older, more stagnated festivals.

Part of this is how the festival closed, which “the bomb – a multimedia, immersive project about nuclear weapons.”  This comprised a 55 minute doc-film on how nuclear weapons have evolved, shown on a giant screen by the Acid band, to a live score.  As Terranova pointed out, this truly was: “documentary-meets-concert-meets-immersive experience.”