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Answers to the Eternal Questions
Submissions to the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival are open, and every year, filmmakers ask the same questions about submitting. So we took three of the most common ones to TFF Co-Executive Director and Programmer Nancy Schafer and asked her for her tw... read more
Story Behind the Scene: For Ellen
Director So Yong Kim and star Paul Dano describe a pivotal scene depicting the relationship between a father and a daughter in the drama “For Ellen,” now playing in theaters and on VOD. read more
Tribeca Takes: Leslie Cockburn on American Casino
Director Leslie Cockburn was making the TFF 2009 doc American Casino just as the subprime mortgage crisis—the film's subject—unfolded. She talks about the meta-ness of it all and audience reaction in the current economic ... read more
Doha TFF: The Conversation Continues
TFF Executive Director Nancy Schafer reflects on the success of the inaugural Doha Tribeca Film Festival, and the friendships (Marty and Mira!) and year-round filmmaking programs rising in its wake. read more
The Real Mad Men:<br>Art & Copy
Director Doug Pray talks about his new film Art & Copy, which takes us inside the advertising revolution, when art directors and copy writers first put their heads together and changed the way we view the world. read more
Film & Sports: More Than a Game
Rookie director Kris Belman spent 7+ years tracing the arc of B-ball superstar LeBron James and his high school team, aka Akron's Fab Five. The result? A winning, narrative doc that joins Hoosiers and Hoop Dreams at half-court. read more
Film & Fashion: Coco Before Chanel
Just how does one become a fashion icon? Director Anne Fontaine and star Audrey Tautou (Amélie) team up to tell the backstory of Coco Chanel, an independent woman clearly ahead of her time. read more
American Road Trip: Everybody's Fine
To transform an Italian story into a road trip movie starring De Niro as a red-white-and-blue retiree, British director Kirk Jones had to find just the right mix of actors, landscape, and cheap transportation. read more
Penelope and Pedro: Broken Embraces
With their fourth feature together, Broken Embraces (Los Abrazos Rotos), we submit that the talented Spanish icon Pedro Almodóvar and goddess Penélope Cruz have officially reached that exalted director/muse status. read more
Film & Literature: American Malaise
Director Jason Reitman, stars Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick, and author Walter Kirn discuss the timely Up in the Air, a beautiful film about job loss and human connection. read more
Film & Literature: Father and Son
Director John Hillcoat talks about adapting Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic classic The Road into a brutal and beautiful film starring Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee. read more
The Imaginarium of Terry Gilliam
The visionary director discusses the challenges of making his wildly inventive The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus—in particular, the sad, sudden death of his star, Heath Ledger. read more
Woman On The Verge
Director Kat Coiro discusses While We Were Here, her heartbreaking but hopeful romantic drama starring Kate Bosworth and set against the backdrop of the luscious Italian seaside. read more