In this Side Swipes clip from “Side By Side,” directors Lana and Andy Wachowski (“Cloud Atlas,” “The Matrix”) contend that actors’ performances have always been manipulated.
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Side Swipes is a daily video series featuring clips from “Side By Side” that didn’t make the final cut. In this clip, animator Adam Valdez (“The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, “Starship Troopers”) talks about...
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In this clip from our Side Swipes series, pioneering director James Cameron explains that even babies know 2-D images are not “real.” 3-D, however… that’s another story.
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In today’s Side Swipes clip from “Side By Side,” veteran director Barry Levinson (“Rain Man,” “Diner,” “Wag the Dog”) makes no bones about the sheer force of the digital revolution, as evidence...
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TFF '09: Shorts Section
The House of the Devil, the latest offering from wunderkind director Ti West, is an homage to '80s horror, complete with Satanic rituals, unanswered phones, and a big empty house.
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Nicole Opper’s first feature documentary, Off and Running, tells a uniquely American coming-of-age story. We spoke with the director about the joys, and occasional frustrations, of working with a high school girl.
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The directors of Cropsey revisit their Staten Island childhood ghost stories in this must-see horror documentary. That's right, horror documentary!
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Swooning black and white film, jazz, and dear dirty old... Boston? We talk to the director of Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench.
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Tribeca Director of Programming David Kwok talks with four returning producers about their 2009 world premieres, their TFF history, and advice for those aspiring to fill their shoes.
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Tribeca Director of Programming David Kwok talks with three of this year's directors about setting their films in the city we know and love.
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We talk with Richard Laxton, the very British director of An Englishman in New York, an extraordinarily acted film about Quentin Crisp, featuring moving performances by John Hurt and Cynthia Nixon.
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We talk with actor Eric Bana about his directorial debut, the passionate documentary Love the Beast, and the best places on earth to take a car out for a cruise.
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With her new movie, Handsome Harry, a reprise of her 1984 Variety, and a star turn in doc Blank City, director Bette Gordon is on full display at TFF 2009.
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Tribeca Short Film Programmer Sharon Badal talks with five directors of short films in this year's Festival, all of whom are based in New York City.
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At last night's panel discussion following The Girlfriend Experience, director Steven Soderbergh and star Sasha Grey told us how to capture a collapsing economy on film.
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Distribution in the film industry is changing at a rapidly increasing rate. Tribeca Director of Programming David Kwok sits down with two international sales agents to discuss where we are headed from here.
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What's it like to be a first-time director about to premiere your feature at the Tribeca Film Festival? Tribeca Senior Programmer Genna Terranova finds out.
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Women unite! Tribeca co-founder Jane Rosenthal hosted a brunch Thursday to celebrate the Festival's women filmmakers. In the mix were jurors, directors, producers, actresses, and staff.
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In the panel following Thursday's screening of the rock doc, director Mandy Stein, Tommy Ramone, Chris Frantz, and Jesse Malin paid tribute to a New York gone by.
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Tribeca Talks: Poliwood
Following Sunday's screening of Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi, director Ian Olds and a panel of experts accustomed to life on the front lines discussed the risks people take to bring news to the world. See Fixer today!
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Portrait of a Woman
At the TFF 2012 Future of Film Lunch Series, Kickstarter’s Film Program Director Elisabeth Holm discussed the definitive crowd-funding community. How can filmmakers use the platform to get their movies made? Watch and learn. Full video to follow.
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In the old city of Ahmedabad, amid India's largest kite festival, a family duels, spins and soars like the countless kites in the skies above. Director Prashant Bhargava on his debu...
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