Tribeca has curated a selection of feature and short films that will be available exclusively online for U.S. audiences through the Tribeca at Home platform. These thought-provoking and compelling narratives and documentaries can be viewed now through June 26. Get your Tribeca at Home Pass Now. – By Gregg W. Morris
Many notable films that have won Tribeca Festival Jury Awards have gone on to win the Academy Awards. Many of the award winning titles will be available on Tribeca At Home until June 26th. Buy your pass to stream these and other notable Tribeca Festival films and talks you may have missed. – By Gregg W. Morris
LIFT, shot over a period of 10 years, is a riveting 87 minutes because of Director David Petersen’s consummate cinematic story telling about The New York Theatre Ballet’s LIFT scholarship program for selected children to develop untapped skills as classical dancers and pursue their dreams. The kids and their families are in constant peril because of the homelessness plaguing them in the hellholes of the worse Bronx and South Bronx neighborhoods. – By Gregg W. Morris
Bravura 2021 NYC DOC Selection being released on digital and cable on Demand Platforms in the U.S. Tuesday, June 14, 2022. VOD Platforms include Apple/iTunes, Amazon, GoogldePlay, Vudu, Microsoft – and more. Review by Gregg W. Morris
He’s been a professor at the school, a staff writer for The New Yorker, an author, a documentary producer, and the director of the Ira A. Lipman Center for Journalism and Civil and Human Rights.
KAEPERNICK & AMERICA examines the man and his protest, exploring the remarkable conflict stirred by such a symbolic gesture. “It raised so many of the core issues that Black people deal with everyday in America,” says Co-Director Tommy Walker. Says Co-Director Ross Hockrow, “This was a massive story. One worthy of many different tellings. And I hope they tell this story many times, through many mediums, from all different perspectives.”
By Gregg W. Morris
Representing documentaries at the Tribeca Festival this year from June 8 – 19. TFF 2022 Press screenings are for festival-accredited press only. DREAMING WALLS, Dir. Amélie van Elmbt & Maya Duverdier Executive Produced by Martin Scorsese Viewpoints (North American Premiere)…
In BFF 2021 juried competition program, 71 percent of the films were directed by women, 75 percent by people representing BIPOC or API, and 33 percent by people of the LGBTQIA+ community. Seventy percent of the films were written by women, 70 percent by BIPOC or API, 32 percent by people of the LGBTQIA+ community and 87 percent featured a female lead, 81 percent a BIPOC or API lead, and 30 percent an LGBTQIA+ lead.
Ninety-six percent of these films had a cast and crew that was made up of more than half of people from these same communities.
