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Official Contest Rules: Los Angeles Plays Itself
11 hours ago
Los Angeles Plays Itself Giveaway Sweepstakes 2009 Official Rules No Purchase Necessary. Void In Puerto Rico And Where Prohibited. 1. Sweepstakes Period. 'Los Angeles Plays Itself Giveaway' Sweepstakes (the 'Sweepstakes') begins 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time ('Et') Wednesday, November 11, 2009 and ends at 11:59 p.m. Et on Wednesday, November 18, 2009 ('Sweepstakes Period'). 2. Eligibility: Sweepstakes is offered only in the United States to legal residents of the 50 United States (and the District of Columbia) excluding Puerto Rico, who both submit a completed Official Registration Form (as described below) and are aged 18 or older (as of the submission date). Employees of Tribeca Enterprises ('Sponsor') and their respective sponsors, affiliates, subsidiaries, officers, directors, shareholders, agents and advisors, and all others associated with the development and the execution of this Sweepstakes, and the immediate family or members of the households of each, whether or not related (collectively, 'Sweepstakes Entities') are ... »
2010 Tribeca Film Festival: Early Deadline 11/13!
14 hours ago
The ninth annual Tribeca Film Festival will take place from April 21 to May 2, 2010 in - where else? - New York City. Filmmakers with narrative features, documentary features, and short films in the works should take note of the following deadlines: November 13, 2009 Early deadline for features and shorts December 14, 2009 Official deadline for all features and shorts completed in 2009 January 11, 2010 Late deadline for features still in post-production and completed after the official deadline Read the rules and regulations. Still have questions? Read the updated Submissions Faq. Submit your film now! Don't forget: the corresponding Tribeca All Access program (part of the non-profit Tribeca Film Institute) is set for April 19-26, 2010. The early deadline for submissions passed (October 30), but their final deadline is looming large on the horizon: December 14. Learn more about Tribeca All Access, offering support to qualifying feature-length scripts and documentary works-in-progress. It's a new decade. With new films. Will we »
Watch: Four Seasons Lodge
16 hours ago
'You have to be obsessed,' said director Andrew Jacobs, talking and coughing (he was fighting a cold) over the phone about what drove him to make the documentary Four Seasons Lodge. 'If you're not obsessed with the subject, if you dont feel impossibly devoted to it, it's really hard when you have a full time job at the same time and you're trying to raise the money and organize the shoot, and then organize [the film] and edit it and market [the film]. i'm exhausted.' Jacob's passion for the subject was enough to get the legendary documentarian Albert Maysles on board as one of the cinematographers, and he first found out about this 'different side of Dirty Dancing-land' while reporting on the Catskills for the New York Times, where he has been a staff writer for the past ten years: 'I was talking to some people at a bungalow colony and »
The Messenger's Ben Foster is Transcendental
17 hours ago
Woody Harrelson and Ben Foster in The Messenger. The Messenger is the incredibly personal story of two soldiers whose daily duty is to inform families their loved ones have died in action. Injured Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery (Ben Foster) is spending his last three months as part of Army's Casualty Notification alongside Captain Tony Stone (Woody Harrelson), a strong-jawed patriot who wants to stick to the script. As Will struggles with his new job, he also finds himself falling for war widow Olivia Pitterson (Samantha Morton), whom he and Tony informed about the death of her husband. A striking debut from screenwriter (Jesus' Son, I'm Not There) turned director Oren Moverman, who co-wrote the film with producer Alessandro Camon, The Messenger puts a human face on the casualites of a war where photos of the dead didn't even make the newspapers. The result? A powerful portrayal of the everyday struggles »
Tc Kids Club a Success!
18 hours ago
The first installment of the Tribeca Cinemas Kids Club series is history, and according to the little people in attendance, it was an unrivaled success! One of our intrepid Tribeca Kids Access correspondents was on hand to take in all the action, report on the films, and interview the audience. For many, it was their first movie theater experience! Hi, this is Margaret from Tribeca Kids Access. Earlier this year, when I was a kid reporter for the Tribeca Film Festival, I thought that the Tribeca Family Festival Street Fair was the last event. Luckily, I was wrong. Today my old classmate Gavin and I had an awesome time seeing a couple movies at the Tribeca Cinemas Kids Club. The first one was a group of shorts put together, movies that were loved in previous Tribeca Film Festivals, and were hilarious to both kids and parents. For many of the »
Price of a Movie: 11.11.09
18 hours ago
This week's Price of a Movie brings you fun films and festivals, plus, a chance to actually Make some money! Meet The Filmmakers: Fantastic Mr. Fox Director Wes Anderson's new film Fantastic Mr. Fox opens in theaters this Friday! The cast is... well... fantastic (Meryl Streep and George Clooney as Mr. and Mrs. Fox, along with Jason Schwartzman, Willem DaFoe, Bill Murray and Owen Wilson among others) and we're also intrigued by the use of classic handmade stop-motion animation techniques that give the film its unique look. To add to that, apparently very little time was actually spent in a sound studio; instead, most of the voice-over work was done outdoors - in forests, attics, stables, and even underground. Want to know more? Stop by the Apple Store in Soho on Wednesday evening (tonight!) for a discussion with the filmmakers. Wes Anderson, Meryl Streep and Jason Schwartzman will be there, »
The Reelist: David Brind on Teen Angst
10 November 2009 7:30 AM, PST
Dare: Zach Gilford and Emmy Rossum Dare, the new film directed by Adam Salky, opens this Friday after its premiere earlier this year at Sundance. Written by Tribeca Film Festival alum David Brind (Twenty Dollar Drinks, Tff 2006), Dare follows the story of three teens caught up in a tempestuous love triangle. With so many influences evident in the story, we asked Brind to share his inspiration with us. We are pleased to present our first-ever guest-hosted Reelist. From the classic Rebel Without A Cause to seminal 90s hits (Election, The Ice Storm, Welcome to the Dollhouse) to the more recent Mean Girls, he's picked a gem of a list, and we have updated our Netflix queue accordingly. I've been a fan of the high school movie genre for as long as I can remember. Adolescence, for me, was a time of extremely heightened emotions, desires, and drives. The tricky »
Southern Ethics:[p]That Evening Sun
10 November 2009 7:30 AM, PST
With That Evening Sun, first time writer/director Scott Teems has adapted a modern Southern story (I Hate To See That Evening Sun Go Down, by Tennessee writer William Gay) into a elegiac, quiet film with heart, rugged authenticity, and a stubborn mule of a central character, portrayed by veteran actor Hal Holbrook. Holbrook's revelation of a performance in Sean Penn's Into the Wild two years ago (for which he received his first Oscar nomination at the age of 82 - the oldest actor ever nominated) caught Teems' eye; as he said, 'We knew we'd found our Abner.' Abner Meecham is an 80-year-old widower whose only son has moved him from his farm in West Tennessee into an assisted living facility several hours away. When Abner decides he's had enough of the place, he hitches back to the farm, only to find it (legally) occupied by the family of Lonzo Choat, »
Doha Tff: The Conversation Continues
10 November 2009 7:00 AM, PST
Key industry, notable press, and local audiences all came together this past week to make the inaugural Doha Tribeca Film Festival - which drew notable directors like Mira Nair and Martin Scorsese - an unqualified success. I'm not just saying that because I work here, or because the hard work of the past few months has faded into the rosy glow of an event's aftermath. I'm saying that because, even though there were glitches and bumps to stumble over, it was well done, with good films and happy participants. From the City Center multiplex to I.M. Pei's latest masterpiece (the Museum of Islamic Art), from the historic Souq Waqif to the Four Seasons, the Festival spanned the entire city to showcase the depth of culture found in Doha. Highlighted by quality cinema and sparkling events, an event of this magnitude was no easy feat (quick shout out to the amazing duo at the helm, »
Jason Reitman: Flying Solo
9 November 2009 9:00 AM, PST
You can learn a lot from director Jason Reitman; after all, with only three features to his name - Thank You For Smoking, Juno, and the upcoming George Clooney vehicle Up in the Air - he's already established himself as one of the brightest filmmakers around, with a knack for making smart and human comedies, and he's barely into his thirties. For Reitman, the reason he gravitated so strongly towards his biggest hit, the Oscar-winning Juno, which made stars out of screenwriter Diablo Cody and actress Ellen Page, is because he loved the unusual decisions of its characters. 'I have no idea where my characters come from or what they do,' said Reitman. 'I just think of them as human beings.' Keeping in mind Reitman's love of 'unusual decisions,' it's no wonder that he veered from the usual Apple Store Meet the Filmmaker Talk format of a moderator, »
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