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Tribeca Film Festival: An April Industry Tradition

The Tribeca Film Festival – one of the most highly-anticipated industry events in New York – takes place this April 19-30. Now in its 16th year, the Festival is a platform for creators and community members to demonstrate how film, culture and art affect the city and world in which we live. Its broad and eclectic programming includes presentations of full-length films, documentaries, shorts, TV premieres, virtual reality projects and new online work. The festival also brings together some of today’s top filmmakers through its Tribeca Talks series. This year several New York-based films that participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program will be showcased throughout the Festival. These films, which shot and did their post-production work here, made a significant economic impact in New York State with approximately $16.6 million in spending and creating an estimated 1,483 hires.

“We program films from all around the world but there is always something special when we premiere movies that are shot and post-produced right here in New York,” said Tammie Rosen, Tribeca Film Festival’s Executive Vice President of Communications & Programming.

In addition to all the film screenings, the finalists in the I LOVE NEW YORK @ Tribeca Student Film Competition will be announced during the festival. College students enrolled in film programs throughout New York State were invited to pitch their ideas for a short film. Eleven finalists will be selected and will be given a $5,000 stipend to shoot their film. Those films will be judged by a celebrity panel and the final winner will receive a $15,000 scholarship, a DSLR camera, film-editing software and an all-expense paid vacation in New York State. The New York-based films listed below that participated in the tax credit program, have been selected to screen during this year’s festival: Aardvark, directed and written by Brian Shoaf. (USA) World Premiere. While battling her own anxieties, therapist Emily Milburton (Jenny Slate) spends her time listening to other people’s problems. Her professional and personal worlds collide when Emily’s newest patient, Josh Norman (Zachary Quinto), walks through her door. Mentally ill and experiencing hallucinations, Josh harbors complex feelings for his estranged brother, Craig (Jon Hamm). Things begin to get interesting when Emily falls for Craig. With Sheila Vand, Tonya Pinkins, Marin Ireland. The Boy Downstairs, directed and written by Sophie Brooks. (USA) World Premiere. Zosia Mamet stars as Diana, navigating the rite of passage of every single New Yorker: the search for an apartment. She seemingly finds a jewel of a home until realizing her downstairs neighbor is the ex whose heart she broke. Like a true New Yorker, she keeps the apartment. With Matthew Shear, Deirdre O’Connell, Sarah Ramos, Diana Irvine. The Dinner, directed and written by Oren Moverman. (USA) North American Premiere. Two brothers, Congressman Stan and caustic former teacher Paul, are locked in sibling rivalry and are forced to come head to head over a dinner with their wives. As the two couples (Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Steve Coogan and Rebecca Hall) sit down to dine, their dark family secrets are dragged out and onto the table along with the main course, in this adaptation of the Herman Koch bestseller. With Chloe Sevigny. An Orchard release. Keep the Change, directed and written by Rachel Israel. (USA) World Premiere. In a support group for adults living with autism, David—a smooth talker struggling to hide his disability—meets a woman with similar learning challenges, and they quickly forge an intimate bond. Starring a cast of nonprofessional actors on the autism spectrum, Keep the Change details an underrepresented community with authenticity, optimism and humor. With Brandon Polansky, Samantha Elisofon, Nicky Gottlieb, Will Deaver, Jessica Walter, Tibor Feldman. Love After Love, directed by Russell Harbaugh, written by Russell Harbaugh, Eric Mendelsohn. (USA) World Premiere. The world of a mother and her two adult sons feels emotionally untethered following the death of their family’s patriarch. Andie MacDowell, Chris O’Dowd, and James Adomian deliver searing performances in this absorbing story of a family losing and regaining their equilibrium in the wake of loss. With Juliet Rylance, Dree Hemingway, Gareth Williams. My Art, directed and written by Laurie Simmons. (USA) North American Premiere, Narrative. For cultured artist Ellie (Laurie Simmons), age really isn’t anything but a number. Unhappy with where her career has gone, the single New York City socialite flees Upstate to recharge her creative spark away from the city’s various distractions. There, she attracts the romantic interests of three men and figures out what she wants from life—even though she’s 65 years old. With Lena Dunham, Robert Clohessy, John Rothman, Josh Safdie, Parker Posey, Blair Brown, Barbara Sukowa. ***My Friend Dahmer, directed and written by Marc Meyers. (USA) World Premiere, Narrative. Before Jeffrey Dahmer became one of the most notorious serial killers of all time, he was a teenage loner. Conducting grisly experiments in a makeshift backyard lab, Jeff was invisible to most, until his increasingly bizarre behavior unexpectedly attracted friends. Based on the cult graphic novel, My Friend Dahmer chronicles the origins of the man, the monster…the high school senior. With Ross Lynch, Anne Heche, Dallas Roberts, Alex Wolff, Tommy Nelson, and Vincent Kartheiser. ***Participated in the New York State Post-Production Credit program One Percent More Humid, directed and written by Liz W. Garcia. (USA) World Premiere. Catherine (Julia Garner) and Iris (Juno Temple) are childhood friends home from college for a hot New England summer. As they attempt to enjoy parties and skinny-dipping and the usual vacation hijinks, a shared trauma in their past becomes increasingly difficult to suppress. As the wedge between the friends grows, they each pursue forbidden affairs to cope. With Alessandro Nivola, Maggie Siff, Philip Ettinger, Mamoudou Athie. Permission, directed and written by Brian Crano. (USA) World Premiere. Anna (Rebecca Hall) and Will (Dan Stevens) are the definition of long-term monogamy, and with great careers, an impending marriage, and a potential new home, things couldn’t be better. But after a close friend’s joke about her non-existent sexual experience hits too close to home, Anna proposes to Will an experiment to broaden their horizons without sabotaging their relationship: to try an open relationship—together. With Gina Gershon, Francois Arnaud, Morgan Spector, David Joseph Craig, Jason Sudeikis.

Saturday Church, directed and written by Damon Cardasis. (USA) World Premiere. 14-year-old Ulysses is a shy and effeminate teen being raised in the Bronx by his strict Aunt Rose. He finds escape in a rich fantasy life of music and dance, and soon with a vibrant transgender youth community called Saturday Church. Damon Cardasis’ directorial debut is a rousing celebration of one boy’s search for his identity. With Luka Kain, Margot Bingham, Regina Taylor, Marquis Rodriguez, MJ Rodriguez, Indya Moore, Alexia Garcia. Super Dark Times, directed by Kevin Phillips, written by Ben Collins, Luke Piotrowski. (USA) North American Premiere, Narrative. Teenagers Zach and Josh have been best friends their whole lives, but when a gruesome accident leads to a cover-up, the secret drives a wedge between them and propels them down a rabbit hole of escalating paranoia and violence in Kevin Phillips’ atmospheric ‘90s-set mystery-thriller. With Owen Campbell, Charlie Tahan, Elizabeth Cappuccino, Max Talisman, Sawyer Barth, Amy Hargreaves.

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