Festivals: Tribeca
Tribeca 2019 Review: SOMETHING ELSE, Something Special From THE BATTERY's Jeremy Gardner And Christian Stella
Hank has a bit of a problem. Truthfully he has more than one. His long time girlfriend Abby got up and left him with just a note pinned to a kitchen cupboard. Now that is pretty bad to start but...
Tribeca 2019 Dispatch: A VR Slate Both Impressive and Immersive
Tribeca has long been a leader when it comes to VR exhibition (well, long is a relative term in VR). The festival has launched such notable pieces as Arden's Wake, Rainbow Crow, and Pearl. As the industry transitions out of...
Tribeca 2019 Review: AAMIS (RAVENING), A Forbidden Romance Consumes Star-Crossed Lovers
Set in the far northeastern Indian state of Assam, Bhaskar Hazarika's sophomore feature Aamis (Ravening) is a film unlike anything you've ever seen. A forbidden love story between a man and a woman separated by perhaps a dozen years, several...
Tribeca 2019 Review: THE GASOLINE THIEVES, A Brutal And Tragic Coming-of-Age Film
The Gasoline Thieves (aka Huachicolero), the first feature-lenght film by Mexican director Edgar Nito, begins as a crime thriller, with a captivating nocturnal scene with little dialogue in which a pair of huachicoleros (one of them played by Pascacio López)...
Tribeca 2019: Exclusive Clip for Scottish Thriller RUN
British director Scott Graham is perhaps best know for his debut feature Shell which was nominated for a BAFTA. His latest is a Scotland-set thriller about a man who mistakenly takes his son's girlfriend on a street racing odyssey. The...
Tribeca 2019 Interview: Director Edgar Nito On THE GASOLINE THIEVES
Fantastic cinema aficionados started to notice Edgar Nito back in 2014, when the young Mexican director made one of the segments of the horror anthology México Bárbaro. A year later, his short film Masacre en San José quickly took him to...
Tribeca 2019 Preview: Raising the Curtain on the Rest of the Program
Yesterday we took a look at the competitions at this year's Tribeca Film Fest. Ahead of the festival's kick off tonight -- with the world premiere of Harlem theater docu The Apollo -- we are touring the rest of the...
Tribeca 2019 Preview: Across the Competitions
NYC's big indie festival the Tribeca Film Fest kicks off tomorrow. It's another solid lineup of features (plus TV, plus VR, plus talks) and we've been poring over the catalog looking for the special gems. The festival runs three competitions:...
Tribeca 2019: Poster Debut for Mexican Thriller THE GASOLINE THIEVES (HUACHICOLERO)
One of our most anticipated movies at the upcoming Tribeca Film Fest is Edgar Nito's thriller The Gasoline Thieves (aka Huachicolero). With the producing power of Joshua Sobel, Tom Davia, Annick Manhert, Pablo Guisa, Hugues Barbier, Victor Leycegui, and Mario...
Tribeca 2019 Full Lineup Hits
It has already been announced that Roger Ross Williams's (of Life, Animated and God Loves Uganda fame) will be opening NYC's Tribeca Film Festival 2019 edition with his latest doc The Apollo about the eponymous Harlem theater. Today comes the...
Tribeca 2018 Review: LEMONADE, Male Toxicity Contaminates the Promised Land
The feature debut by Ioana Uricaru is a Romanian New Wave shrouded as U.S. indie.
Tribeca 2018 Dispatch: Showbiz Documentaries
The typical showbiz documentary, like the true-crime doc, the unexplored-niche doc and so many other related subgenres, has its hooks, its patterns, its agendas. What’s neat about some of the showbiz docs at the Tribeca Film Festival (TFF) this year...
Tribeca 2018 Dispatch: Recommended Genre Shorts
In 2018 Tribeca’s overall shorts program, as in past years, has been both vast and satisfying. Perhaps more impressively, the genre shorts are particularly strong, not just token entries included to appease certain audience segments. These, then, are some of...
Tribeca 2018 Dispatch: The Many Pleasures of Horror
Perhaps not every horror fan will confess this, but we’re not always looking for masterpieces, or even movies that we’d recommend wholeheartedly. Instead, it’s all about moments and ideas, preferably ones that reflect the whole of the filmmaker’s heart and...
Tribeca 2018 Poster Debut: Nathan Silver's THE GREAT PRETENDER Will Make You Believe
If you are a long time reader of these here pages, then you may very well already be aware of my love for the cinematic works of Nathan Silver. Working under the mode of roughly a movie a year, Silver...
Tribeca 2018 Dispatch: VR Round Up
Tribeca is back at it with another excellent lineup of VR content across their three curated sections: Storyscapes, Virtual Arcade, and Cinema 360. I got a chance to check out the majority of what was on tap and it is...
Tribeca 2018 Preview: Ten Notable Fest Selections
The 17th edition of the Tribeca Film Festival, running through April 29, is once again packed with films, talks, and moving image work beyond film such as VR, television, online work, and gaming events. The opening film is Lisa D'Apolito's Love,...
Tribeca Announces Impressive 2018 Feature Film Lineup
The Spring-time film festivals are coming thick and fast and one of Spring's biggest is out today with an impressive lineup. The 17th edition of the Tribeca Film Festival runs April 18-29 in New York City. A few notable filmmakers...
Tribeca 2017 Review: THE LOVERS, Break Up To Make Up, That's All They Do
Azazel Jacobs is a young filmmaker who’s continuing a family tradition. His father is avant-garde cinema legend Ken Jacobs, and his mother Flo and sister Nisi are also participants, all of them having worked on each other’s films. (Ken and Flo played the protagonist’s parents in Azazel’s 2008...
Tribeca 2017 Review: THE CIRCLE, Where All Are Trapped in the Social Media Web
The subject of our hyper-connected, social media-based cultural landscape is a fruitful and relevant one for filmmakers, and one with great potential for mass audience interest, given how pervasive this is in our daily lives. David Fincher’s Facebook origin story The Social Network can be looked upon as the gold...
