Six-second video sharing app Vine has only been available since this January, but already the film industry has been hard at work considering what exactly to do with it, from filmmakers and actors embracing the app to Oscilloscope releasing the David Cross comedy "It's a Disaster" in six second loop...
Read More »The spirit of Keanu Reeves hung heavy in the SVA theater last Thursday at Tribeca Talks' New Filmmaker in the Digital Age panel, or specifically the themes and influence of the actor's much lauded documentary "Side by Side," a comparison of film and digital filmmaking techniques taught as sort of a ...
Read More »Based on British author Jon Savage's punk history novel, Matt Wolf's "living collage" of a documentary, "Teenage," aims to tell the story of the formulative of years of youth culture. The doc, which premiered at Tribeca last Saturday, presents a bounty of rare archival footage and beautifully shot r...
Read More »The 12th annual Tribeca Film Festival presented the winners of its competition categories with awards tonight in New York City.
Read More »Why not give the documentary profiles their own space to shine? Given that this type of filmmaking can be found among countless new features each year, the festival's programmers may want to consider carving out a better space for them in the next edition. In the meantime, these movies still provide...
Read More »Among the films having their world premiere at Tribeca this year is Kat Coiro's romantic comedy "A Case of You," which made its debut on Sunday. The film, co-penned by star Justin Long, follows a neurotic hack writer (Long) who embarks on becoming the dream man of a barista named Birdie (Evan Rachel...
Read More »Last Thursday, Richard Linklater's "Before Midnight" had its New York premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. Already one of the most lauded and anticipated films of the year after premiering at Sundance, "Midnight" is the third part in the filmmaker's continuing story of Jesse and Celine (Ethan Hawk...
Read More »When Marina Zenovich made her 2008 doc "Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired," she had an angle on her subject that gave the film a sense of urgency even though it was centered around events that took place 30 years before. It wasn't a simple profile of Polanski, it was a look at his sexual abuse scan...
Read More »Ranging from screens as small as your phone to the largest theaters in the nation, the analysis of Big Data, extremely large data sets detailing -- in this case -- how media is consumed, has quickly become a key to decide what media is presented to us. Whether through long planned advertising ...
Read More »Whoopi Goldberg, already the versatile actress-comedienne-talk-show-host-songwriter-activist, has added a director title to the list of her many talents with the debut of her first documentary "I’ve Got Somethin’ to Tell You," at the currently underway Tribeca Film Festival. The film resurrects Jack...
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