Lee, Levinson To Screen Latest During Tribeca’s Talks Series

“Passing Strange,” Spike Lee’s filmed record of the 2008 Tony Award-winning Broadway rock musical, will make its debut in New York for a one-time screening and subsequent panel discussion with Spike Lee, award-winning show creator and star Stew and co-composer Heidi Rodewald (Lee’s “Kobe Doin’ Work” will also premiere at the fest).

“Tribeca Talks: After the Movie” will include:

“Outrage,” a documentary by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Kirby Dick that takes “a bold look at the hidden lives of closeted politicians and the media’s complicity in keeping their secrets,” will be followed by a conversation with the director, former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey and Sirius Radio host Michelangelo Signoreli, moderated by author and activist Rodger McFarlane.

“Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi,” a documentary about the kidnapping of an Italian journalist and his Afghan “fixer”—someone hired by foreign journalists to facilitate, translate and gain access for their stories—will be followed by a discussion with The Nation reporter Christian Parenti, former Afghan fixer Naqeeb Sherzad, director Ian Olds, and New Yorker staff writer and author of “The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq” George Packer after the screening.

“American Casino,” investigative journalist Leslie Cockburn’s feature debut that contrasts high-level players in the subprime mortgage gamble with the working-class Americans who were the unwitting chips on the table, will be followed by a conversation with director Leslie Cockburn, producer Andrew Cockburn, NYU Stern School of Business Economics Professor and Chairman of RGE Monitor Nouriel Roubini and Bloomberg News’ Mark Pittman about the relationship between Wall Street and Main Street.

“The Girlfriend Experience,” featuring Academy Award-winning director Steven Soderbergh and the film’s stars Sasha Grey and Chris Santos in a discussion following the screening of his film, a narrative that follows five days in the life of a $2,000-an-hour Manhattan call girl.

“Making the Boys,” a screening of the documentary, about the groundbreaking play that debuted one year before Stonewall, will be followed by a conversation with director Crayton Robey, playwright/screenwriter Mart Crowley, Village Voice columnist Michael Musto and other special guests, moderated by Tony Award winning producer and filmmaker Dori Berinstein.

“Inherit the Wind,” presented by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation: a screening of the 1960 classic about the case against a science teacher teaching evolution will be followed by a conversation between Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Beak of the Finch” Jonathan Weiner, Jon Amiel, director of the Charles Darwin biopic Creation and Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education Dr. Eugenie Scott about how a scientific explanation of the world, backed by evidence, can bring with it both public and private controversy.

For a full list of panels, including their schedule, check out the next pages.