Tribeca Film Festival

  • Movie News

‘Bumblebees’ Director Sebastian Sdaigui Died Before Its Tribeca Premiere — But the Short Film Is Only the Beginning of His Legacy

"Bumblebees" director Sebastian Sdaigui died before finding out that his short film starring A Quiet Place's Millicent Simmonds, Orange Is the…

2 years ago
  • Movie News

Skin Writer-Director Guy Nattiv On Turning His Oscar-Winning Short Into a Feature

In February Israeli-born writer-director Guy Nattiv and his producer-wife Jaime Ray Newman celebrated winning their first Academy Award for "Skin,"…

5 years ago
  • Directing

Road-Tripping: Director Sebastian Schipper on Why Shooting Roads Chronologically Was His Film’s Best Path Forward

Rarely is a film shot chronologically. But then Roads is a unique feature. Inspired by children’s literary classic Where The…

5 years ago
  • Directing

Framing John DeLorean: Directors Don Argott and Sheena M. Joyce Talk Blending Archival Footage With Reenactments

A fleet of sleek, gull-wing DMC-12 DeLoreans revved up to New York's SVA Theater for the recent premiere of Framing…

5 years ago
  • Movie News

A Life in Pictures: Ondi Timoner on Transitioning from Docs to Narrative, Patti Smith, and Casting the Iconic Photographer in Mapplethorpe

Acclaimed documentary filmmaker, Ondi Timoner (Dig!, Brand: A Second Coming, Jungletown), brings a punk rock sensibility to her work. At this…

6 years ago
  • Directing

Exclusive: Up-and-Comer Faraday Okoro Lauded by Crew on the Set of Nigerian Prince (Video)

A bustling Nigerian city and by-the-books calm composure flesh out the world of AT&T's Untold Stories grant recipient Faraday Okoro's…

6 years ago
  • Moviemaking

A Different Way of Doing Things: Orthodox Moviemaker Rama Burshtein on Her Hasidic Rom-Com The Wedding Plan

The Wedding Plan, the second feature by 50-year-old ultra-Orthodox Israeli writer/director Rama Burshtein, is a rom-com with the simplicity of…

7 years ago
  • Interviews

She’s Every Woman: In Julian Rosefeldt’s Manifesto, Cate Blanchett Proves It’s All in Her (Interview)

Cate Blanchett is every woman in Julian Rosefeldt’s feature film Manifesto, based on the German artist/director’s multi-screen video art installation,…

7 years ago
  • Movie News

The Best Advice I Ever Received: How the Team Behind Slamdance Film Cortez Found the Courage to Make Their Film

The Man with the White Hair sat a long way away from me, his '80s-era glasses slipping down his nose.…

7 years ago
  • Festivals

Tribeca West for This Jersey Fest: Northeast Film Festival 2016

They’ve begun calling it Tribeca West. Not West Coast, though: Teaneck is a beautiful suburb just west of the New…

7 years ago
  • Festivals

Absolute Submission: Top Programmers Share the Secrets to Getting Into the Festivals of Your Dreams

Dear moviemakers, I want you to know this: I love you. Or at least, I really want to love you.…

7 years ago
  • Summer 2016

The Film Festival Court of Controversy: How Festivals Moderate Discussions Before Films Reach Theaters

In the world of studio and independent filmmaking circa 2016, anything goes so frequently, and in such gauche, boundary-demolishing fashion,…

8 years ago
  • Directing

Indie Diaries: Jeff Grace, Riding Festival Momentum in Los Angeles

For the “Film School, Film Careers” special in our upcoming Summer 2016 issue, we asked three indie moviemakers to chronicle…

8 years ago
  • Movie News

Still Worth the Fare: Taxi Driver Screens at Tribeca Film Festival to Celebrate its 40th Anniversary

The Tribeca Film Festival nearly stopped all traffic for the 40th anniversary of Taxi Driver at the Beacon Theater on…

8 years ago
  • Festivals

Tribeca Film Festival 2016 Diary: Director Jeff Grace of Folk Hero & Funny Guy

What's it like to have your feature debut premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival? Moviemaker Jeff Grace has spent the…

8 years ago
  • Movie News

Op Ed: The Tribeca Precedent and the Framing of Vaxxed

The following Op Ed was submitted to MovieMaker Magazine by its author, Philippe Diaz of Cinema Libre Studio. As the leading magazine…

8 years ago
  • Other

Manufacturing Filth: How Smart Production Design Got “Big Boy” into Tribeca

Director Bryan Campbell and production designer Kristen Bonnalie, of the Tribeca-premiering short "Big Boy," explain how they created the most…

9 years ago
  • Directing
  • Interviews

The Unconscious Signature: An Interview with Hungry Hearts Director Saverio Costanzo

In Saverio Costanzo's Hungry Hearts, in a tiny basement bathroom of a Manhattan Chinese restaurant, Mina (Alba Rohrwacher) is trapped…

9 years ago
  • Directing
  • Interviews

An Outsider Comes In: Felix Thompson on his Tribeca Winner, King Jack

With King Jack, a coming-of-age tale about a complex kid with a talent for getting into trouble, Felix Thompson makes…

9 years ago
  • Acting
  • Interviews

On Directing Actors: An Interview with Tim Blake Nelson

For nearly 20 years, Tim Blake Nelson has shoe-horned in his filmmaking alongside a robust and, as he describes it,…

9 years ago
  • Festivals
  • MM Guide 2014

Festival Strategy 101: Plot the Right Course for Your Film

We’ve all heard the tired homily about a Sundance premiere being the festival holy grail, without which your film is…

10 years ago
  • blog-test

Editor’s Weekend Pick: Director Felix Van Groeningen’s Exclusive Account of The Broken Circle Breakdown by Felix Van Groeningen

“Every day I was crying,” says director Felix Van Groeningen about his experience in production on The Broken Circle Breakdown,…

10 years ago
  • Documentary

Strongman Documentary Bending Steel Flexes Perceptions of Coney Island

The strongman documentary Bending Steel is an inspiring movie from filmmakers Dave Carroll and Ryan Scafuro that explores the life…

11 years ago
  • Festivals

The Lonely Desperation of the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival

I always go into the Tribeca Film Festival with a mixture of excitement and dread. Of the 738 (or so)…

11 years ago