March 14, 2010

Tribeca Announces First Films in 2010 Lineup

Highlights include Alex Gibney's Eliot Spitzer documentary

by Rebecca Pahle | Published Mar. 10, 2010

The 2010 Tribeca Film Festival, taking place April 21 through May 2 in New York City, has announced the first 34 of the 85 feature films to be presented at the festival. At first glance, highlights include a work-in-progress screening of an untitled Eliot Spitzer documentary directed by Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side); Lee Isaac Chung's Munyurangabo follow-up, Lucky Life; a Serge Gainsbourg biopic, Gainsbourg, Je t'Aime... Moi Non Plus, directed and written by Joann Sfar; and Metropia, an animated film with Vincent Gallo voicing the lead. All of this, of course, follows the festival's somewhat incongruous opening night screening of Mike Mitchell's Shrek Forever After. The first batch of films announced for the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival follows: (No comments yet)

Cigarettes, Accordions and Movies in Serbia

by Jessica Rhys

I just returned from Serbia, where my husband, MM Publisher Tim Rhys, and I attended a strange and fascinating film festival at the home and “personal village” of famed Serbian auteur moviemaker, musician and actor, Emir Kusturica, deep in the mountains of the Mokra Gora region near Bosnia.

Brian Wimmer Takes Action at X-Dance

by Josh Elmets

Established in 2001, Salt Lake City's X-Dance Action Sports Film Festival has become one of the few viable outlets for extreme sports moviemaking.

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China Pulls Two Films From Palm Springs Film Festival

by Natalie Sullivan
The Palm Springs International Film Festival announced yesterday that two Chinese films set to screen at the 2010 festival, City of Life and Death and Quick, Quick, Slow, have been withdrawn. (1 comment)

Paul Osborne Gets His Official Rejection

by Paul Osborne
"Oh, yeah, you guys are infamous," said Bruce Fletcher as he leaned back in his chair, his trademark jack-o'-lantern grin stretching across his face. "You're downright notorious." He was referring to the reaction our documentary about film festivals, Official Rejection, generated when it came up in conversation during a recent informal gathering of various festival directors at the Toronto International Film Festival. (No comments yet)

Film Festival Dos and Don’ts

by Paul Osborne
You’ve made your little independent feature film, financed with love, credit cards and some spare change from mom and dad. Now you’re going to take it to Sundance, where it will be watched by excited buyers from all of the major distributors. One of said distributors will cut you a big check, gather your movie up into its warm, welcoming arms and sprinkle it into theaters all across the land. Right? (4 comments)

25 Coolest Film Festivals: 2009

by Jennifer M. Wood
Depending on the era in which one grew up, what is “cool” can be a very different thing. But whether you watched James Dean on the big screen, were introduced to cinema through Quentin Tarantino or believe that great movies begin and end with Michael Bay, “cool” cinema takes us beyond the expected, captures the zeitgeist and changes the way we view the films that come along for us afterward. The same can be said for the 25 film festivals profiled below. With the help of hundreds of independent moviemakers, festival directors and fest attendees, we scoured the world to identify more than two dozen fests that are creating a truly unique film festival experience (for moviemakers and festival-goers). (17 comments)

Lynn Shelton Celebrates Humpday

by Lynn Shelton
This year has been a bit surreal for me. Humpday is my third feature and the first of mine to be accepted into the Sundance Film Festival. I made the film on a shoestring budget in Seattle, the town where I live, with talented, wonderful friends whom I love—just as I have made my previous two movies. (2 comments)

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