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Jackie Cruz Bumblebees Sebastian Sdaigui
June 6, 2022
Bumblebees director Sebastian Sdaigui died before the short could make its world premiere at Tribeca next week. But it's only…
August 2, 2019
Skin writer-director Guy Nattiv told us how the tumult of the 2016 election helped get his long gestating feature off…
June 11, 2019
Moviemaker Sebastian Schipper told us about the making of Roads, the ambitious follow-up to his debut feature he shot in…
June 10, 2019
To make their doc-biopic Framing DeLorean, directors Don Argott and Sheena M. Joyce had to invent a narrative style that…
May 17, 2018
Acclaimed writer-director Ondi Timoner is making her narrative feature film debut with Mapplethorpe, a biopic about the revolutionary photographer famous…
March 2, 2018
Hot off a win from AT&T's inaugural Untold Stories competition, moviemaker Faraday Okoro wasted no time establishing himself on set.…
May 15, 2017
The Wedding Plan, directed by Rama Burshtein, is a rom-com with the simplicity of a fairy tale and the ambiguity…
May 8, 2017
Cate Blanchett is every woman in Julian Rosefeldt’s feature film Manifesto, based on the German artist/director’s multi-screen video art installation.
April 10, 2017
Cheryl was getting set to direct our movie Cortez. I was getting set to produce it. Only one thing stood…
January 30, 2017
Teaneck is a beautiful suburb just west of the New York metropolitan area. Its hometown showcase, the Northeast Film Festival,…
November 15, 2016
I just got back from IFP Film Week, where many of you asked me about film submission: “How can we…
August 10, 2016
Moviemakers who take on controversy are often publicly flogged and branded as heretical, their films marched to the gallows before…
June 2, 2016
Los Angeles-based moviemaker Jeff Grace had his directorial debut, Folk Hero & Funny Guy, premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.
April 28, 2016
The Tribeca Film Festival nearly stopped all traffic for the 40th anniversary of Taxi Driver at the Beacon Theater on…
April 22, 2016
What's it like to have your feature debut premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival? Moviemaker Jeff Grace has spent the…
April 20, 2016
When the call came from the Tribeca Film Festival to say that they had “de-selected” our film Vaxxed, I didn’t…
July 8, 2015
"Big Boy" director Bryan Campbell and production designer Kristen Bonnalie explain how they created the most disgusting bathroom on film…
June 10, 2015
Saverio Costanza discusses his approach to filmmaking, how Hungry Hearts wasn't the artistic departure he was hoping for, and advice…
May 14, 2015
Felix Thompson makes his impressive feature film debut with King Jack, a coming-of-age tale about a complex kid with a…
May 14, 2015
For nearly 20 years, Tim Blake Nelson has shoe-horned in his filmmaking alongside a robust and, as he describes it,…
September 17, 2014
We’ve all heard the tired homily about a Sundance premiere being the festival holy grail, without which your film is…
October 31, 2013
“Every day I was crying,” says director Felix Van Groeningen about his experience in production on The Broken Circle Breakdown,…
May 24, 2013
The documentary Bending Steel is an inspiring movie that explores the life of 43 year-old Chris Schoeck, who is training…
Tribeca Film Festival
May 10, 2013
I always go into the Tribeca Film Festival with a mixture of excitement and dread. Of the 738 (or so)…