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Consuming Spirits

Nearly 15 years in the making, Chris Sullivan's Consuming Spirits is a meticulously constructed tour de force of experimental animation. Shooting frame by frame in 16mm, Sullivan seamlessly blends together a range of techniques into a distinct, si... read more

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BAM150

Go behind the scenes like never before at BAM, the nation's oldest performing arts center. Featuring footage of recent BAM performances, interviews with groundbreaking artists like Laurie Anderson and Robert Wilson, and the fascinating history of ... read more

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100 Years of Universal

In celebration of 100 years of Universal Studios, join us for a conversation with iconic actor Robert De Niro and director Judd Apatow as they share their favorite moments and memories from Universal's extraordinary history. Moderate... read more

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Benji

In 1984, 17-year-old Ben Wilson was a symbol of everything promising about Chicago: a sweet-natured youngster from the city's fabled South Side, and America's top high school basketball prospect. His senseless murder on the day before his senior s... read more

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Avant-Garde Masters: A Decade of Film Preservation

The Avant-Garde Masters grants were created in 2003 by the National Film Preservation Foundation and The Film Foundation to preserve American Avant-Garde cinema. Funded by The Film Foundation, the program has helped save more than 90 films in its ... read more

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Any Day Now

In the late 1970s, when a mentally handicapped teenager is abandoned, a gay couple takes him in and becomes the family he's never had. But once the unconventional living arrangement is discovered by authorities, the men must fight a biased legal s... read more

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Marrakech Program Panel Discussion

At the conclusion of the Marrakech/Tribeca Filmmaker Exchange in the fall of 2005, legendary Iranian filmmaker and master instructor Abbas Kiarostami called his 16 pupils, half from NYC's Hunter College and half from Morocco, the best master class... read more

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On the Bowery

On the heels of its lovely restoration of Lionel Rogosin's Come Back, Africa (1960), which premiered at TFF last year, the Cineteca di Bologna has just finished restoring Rogosin's first film, the Oscar®-nominated documentary about the harsh and o... read more

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Native New Yorker

Native New Yorker is a kind of Manhattan travelogue seen through the eyes of Native American Terry "Coyote" Murphy. Starting from Inwood Park, Coyote makes his way down Broadway and winds up at ground zero. Along the way, locations are stripped of... read more

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When Fried Eggs Fly

A Greenwich Village public-school music teacher finds that he may be in over his head when he brings together more than 150 video-generation kids, their parents, and their teachers to compose, perform, and record an original piece of music about ... read more

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Mariners and Musicians

An experimental non-linear cinematic tone poem based on conversation, writings, and music by acclaimed singer/ songwriter/ author Rosanne Cash. This dreamlike mosaic portrait, with stunning Super 8mm and 16mm visuals and Holga animation, features ... read more

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The 100% Perfect Girl

A melancholic fairy tale exploring the possibility/impossibility of perfect love. An anonymous boy believes that he's met "the 100% perfect girl." read more

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VISIONS OF HISTORY & TRUTH: Artists in Action After 9/11

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth. - John F. Kennedy In response to the events of September 11th, many artists chose to act in the way they knew best - through their craft. Challenged by tragedy, th... read more

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I Got it Made: Case studies in Super 16 filmmaking

Super 16mm filmmaking is back in full swing. Find out why so many indies are opting to stay on film using this easy, low-budget option. Festival filmmakers discuss the look, the cost, and the post-production paths that make their features successf... read more

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Ontic Antics Starring Laurel and Hardy: Bye, Molly

Jacobs, a major figure of the experimental filmmaking world, embraces digital technology in this video reworking of the 1929 Laurel and Hardy film, Berth Marks. Preceded by Hidden Inside Mountains, Laurie Anderson's 20-minute meditation on "natur... read more

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Goal! The Dream Begins

A poor Mexican-American immigrant from Los Angeles (Kuno Becker) uses his soccer talent to follow his dreams of playing professional soccer for Newcastle United in England. Goal! The Dream Begins takes audiences into the electrifying, heart-poundi... read more

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One Last Thing

In this sweet comedy, terminally ill Dylan (Michael Angarano) and his mother (Cynthia Nixon) attend a televised event designed to grant last wishes to dying children. While on air, Dylan makes an eyebrow-raising request. As he gaily prepares to ha... read more

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Brothers of the Head

London, 1975. Conjoined twins with a creepy, crypto-erotic bond take the burgeoning glam/punk scene by storm in this wrenching adaptation of Brian Aldiss' novel. Luke and Harry Treadway deliver searing performances as two very different parts of o... read more

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Taking Father Home

Filled with bitterness and a thirst for revenge, a 17-year-old boy leaves his rural Chinese village to seek out the father who abandoned him 6 years earlier. But once the boy arrives in the big city of Zigong, the long-awaited encounter with his f... read more

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10 on Marrakech

An homage to Abbas Kiarostami's Ten. read more

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Too Tough to Die

On September 12, 2004, just two-and-a-half days before Johnny Ramone's death, a group of musicians and friends-among them Deborah Harry, Eddie Vedder, and The Red Hot Chili Peppers-staged a benefit concert to celebrate The Ramones' 30th anniversar... read more

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The Heart of Steel

Produced in partnership with The September 11th Families Association, The Heart of Steel follows a group of volunteers who banded together-calling themselves The Renegade Volunteers-immediately after the attacks. Guglielmo's documentary highlights... read more

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Fair Wind to Java

This 1953 South Seas adventure, starring Fred MacMurray and Vera Ralston, is the essence of Republic Pictures' "B" movie style, and it's been lovingly restored to its TruColor glory by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Climaxing with a volcani... read more

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Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards

Tribeca Film Festival, in association with Harvard's Professor Clayton Christensen (The Innovator's Dilemma) and the Disruptor Foundation, presents its Third Annual Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards, hosted by the NYU Stern School of Bus... read more

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Future of Film Lunch Series - April 23

Annie Correal (Head of Community at Cowbird) and Jigar Mehta (director of 18 Days in Egypt) will present projects that are helping redefine how people are using digital technology to tell stories and discuss what this means fo... read more