Tribeca

To Live and Die for Globalization

Ioannis Pappos | Posted 05.03.2012

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Ioannis Pappos

Directors give up on plot or accept clichés in order to stay closer to their social missions. It seems that protests are more potent through fiction, and documentaries are more effective through storytelling. Tribeca 2012 is a docudrama festival.

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Observations From the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival: Fan-Funded Feature Films Established Their Presence

Steven C. Beer | Posted 05.02.2012

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Steven C. Beer

As the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival closed with several successful fan-funded films, we can only expect to see an increase of crowdfunded films at next year's festival.

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Tribeca 2012 Diary: Future Weather Director Jenny Deller

Dan Persons | Posted 04.30.2012

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Dan Persons

A young girl is forced to confront inconvenient truths both global and personal in the drama Future Weather.

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Tribeca 2012 Diary: Nancy, Please Director Andrew Semans

Dan Persons | Posted 04.29.2012

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Dan Persons

In his feature film debut, Nancy, Please, director Andrew Semans has created a slyly disturbing tragicomedy that explores how a life strategy built around wallowing in one's own victimhood can lead to a rapid, and quite mortifying, undoing.

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Tribeca 2012 Diary: Any Day Now Director Travis Fine

Dan Persons | Posted 04.27.2012

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Dan Persons

Director Travis Fine (The Space Between) is making his return to Tribeca with this moving drama. We sat down in the bunker-like entryway to the press lounge to talk about the film.

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Tribeca 2012 Diary: Una Noche Director Lucy Mulloy

Dan Persons | Posted 04.25.2012

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Dan Persons

The drama of three young Cubans taking the not-inconsequential step of escaping their country to the (possibly) welcoming arms of the United States is traced in startling detail in Una Noche.

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Tribeca 2012 Diary: Replicas' Jeremy Power Regimbal & Josh Close

Dan Persons | Posted 04.24.2012

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Dan Persons

Director Jeremy Power Regimbal makes his feature film debut with this tense tale of class envy pushed to extremes.

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Tribeca Cancels Red Carpet For Controversial Film

| Posted 04.19.2012

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By Serena Solomon, DNAinfo Reporter/Producer MANHATTAN -- The Tribeca Film Festival has pulled the rug out from under "First Winter," cancelling th...

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Women Set To Dominate Tribeca Film Festival

AP | JAKE COYLE | Posted 04.17.2012

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NEW YORK -- If there's a keynote performance at the 11th annual Tribeca Film Festival, it may well be Abbie Cornish's riveting portrayal of a Texas si...

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Tribeca Film Festival Tickets Now On Sale (For Some)

Posted 04.10.2012

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Tickets for the Tribeca Film Festival are now on sale for people who love independent films such as "The Avengers" (jk, Bobby). But really, tickets ar...

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PHOTOS: 'Damsels In Distress' Premiere: Greta Gerwig, Chloe Sevigny, Adam Brody

Posted 04.03.2012

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The lovely ladies that are the "Damsels in Distress," Whit Stillman's new movie admonishing young women to stay away from handsome men, partied in Tr...

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Community Complains About WTC Site Security Plan

AP | By CRISTIAN SALAZAR | Posted 03.15.2012

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NEW YORK -- An extensive police plan to safeguard the rebuilt World Trade Center site against vehicle-borne bombs with new checkpoints and barriers co...

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PHOTOS: Thumbtack 'Paintings' Of Black Icons Shown In Tribeca

Posted 04.29.2012

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TRIBECA -- Andre Woolery paints in thumbtacks. Using thousands and thousands of the brightly colored pushpins, Woolery, a self-taught artist who li...

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Millionaire Spends $20 Million At Gift Fair Before Mental Hospital

Posted 02.16.2012

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A frenzied Manhattan mogul went on a bizarre shopping spree at the New York International Gift Fair, The New York Post reports, ordering $20 million w...

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Edward Burns as an Irish Mensch in Tribeca

Erica Abeel | Posted 03.15.2012

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Erica Abeel

Edward Burns, the Tribeca-based filmmaker, is fast becoming a New York treasure. With Newlyweds, Burns zeros in on a kind of Gotham Everyman, exploring how a promising marriage can be sabotaged by the demands of family.

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Stars Of 'Once' Fall In Love, Break Up In New Documentary

The Huffington Post | Lucas Kavner | Posted 11.28.2011

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Fans of Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, stars and star-crossed lovers of the hit indie musical film "Once," might know that the Academy-Award winn...

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DSK's $50,000/Month Townhouse Up For Rent Again

AP | VERENA DOBNIK | Posted 11.16.2011

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By VERENA DOBNIK - Associated Press NEW YORK — The $50,000-a-month Manhattan townhouse that Dominique Strauss-Kahn and his wife rented while he ...

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The Faithful Shopper: Back to School for the City Cool

Faith Hope Consolo | Posted 10.15.2011

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Faith Hope Consolo

Tots adore Crocs' rainbow, plastic footwear, and the company has expanded the empire with tons of new styles, sneakers, and backpacks galore.

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The Faithful Shopper: Great Gadgets

Faith Hope Consolo | Posted 08.16.2011

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Faith Hope Consolo

Remember when a day at the beach meant getting away from it all, including the phone? I don't either. While I'm all for disconnecting, that definitely doesn't mean leaving any of my beloved electronics behind.

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Learning to Dance

Patrizia Chen | Posted 08.07.2011

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Patrizia Chen

When I turned 50, I decided that I was going to give myself the gift of dancing. Of course, having grown up in Italy and seen every last cowboy movie,...

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Can Architects Fix The Suburbs?

David Glick | Posted 08.01.2011

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David Glick

On a rainy Saturday in April, black clad city dwellers descended onto the quiet streets of Levittown, NY. Completely out of their element, and disori...

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De Niro Interview Drama

AP | By JAKE COYLE | Posted 06.23.2011

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NEW YORK -- At the Tribeca Festival, Brian Williams attempted a challenge: interviewing Robert De Niro. Williams sat down with the actor Saturday as ...

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PHOTOS: Tribeca Film Festival Parties

Posted 06.22.2011

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The TriBeCa Film Festival is under way, and that means one thing -- parties. Downtown was full of them last night, as filmmakers and their scribes...

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Hollywood's Spotlight Moves To New York

HuffingtonPost.com | Jordan Zakarin | Posted 06.18.2011

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A spotlight shines through where a dark cloud once hung, bringing light once again through the power of cinema. Some of the world's best main stream, ...

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Tribeca Hot Sauce

Colin Barnicle | Posted 06.07.2011

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Colin Barnicle

Mohamed's halal cart gives workers in Tribeca something good for something less, which is a rarity today.

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