Tuesday, April 14, 2015

April Means Tribeca Film Festival

One of the world’s most celebrated film festivals, participants in Tribeca can expect to rub elbows with some of the leading cutting edge producers, directors, film critics, and general movie fans to be found anywhere.

The big news this year is that Tribeca will feature the debut of 11 female directors from the New York area. Among them are Erin Lee Carr, whose film “Thought Crimes” examines the story of the alleged “cannibal cop” Gilberto Valle. Natallia Leite will present “Bare,” which takes a look at the story of a waitress who falls in love with and older female customer in what appears to be an almost mystical, drug-filled love affair.
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The festival will fun for 11 days beginning on April 15. There will be 40 first-time directorial premiers and more than 100 feature films presented.  The opening night special showing will be Bao Nguyen’s Live from New York! which is a tribute to the television comedy show Saturday Night Live. The closing night event will be a 25th anniversary tribute to the film Goodfellas, where the classic movie’s creators and cast will all come together at the Beacon Theater.

Screening will take place all over New York. Passes can be purchased from $40 to $300, while individual tickets are on sale for $10 to $35.