Tag: cinema

Major Film Festivals Across the World Join with YouTube to Announce We Are One: A Global Film Festival Starting May 29

NEW YORK, NY– April 27, Monday, 2020 – Tribeca Enterprises and YouTube jointly announced today We Are One: A Global Film Festival, an unprecedented 10-day digital film festival exclusively on YouTube, bringing together an international community of storytellers to present festival programming for free to audiences around the world. Set to begin on May 29 on YouTube.com/WeAreOne .

The 49th Annual New Directors/New Films March 25 to April 5 – Presented by Film at Lincoln Center & The Museum of Modern Art

Twenty-seven feature films and 10 short films from 35 countries with 13 North American Premieres and 4 U.S. Premieres. Fifteen films directed or co-directed by women, and 15 works by first-time feature filmmakers. Opening Night Feature: Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss’s BOYS STATE. Closing Night Feature: Maite Alberdi’s THE MOLE AGENT.
”Twelve days of spellbinding cinema” – Gregg W. Morris

NANA Film Review

NANA is not a historical documentary about what happened to the Jewish people during WWII, but rather the story of a blonde girl with a normal life who lost everything, and how her descendants live with the trauma of heritage. It also shows a strong woman who managed to survive and keep her hands clean.

17th Tribeca Film Festival Short Film Lineup of 55 Narrative, Documentary and Animated Selections

The short films will be presented in 10 distinct competition programs, which consist of five narrative, three documentary, one animation, and one hybrid program. The program will also include special screenings and the 12th annual Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival, sponsored by Mohegan Sun. The Shorts Film program, sponsored by Nutella®, runs throughout the Festival, April 18-29.

SUPER DARK TIMES Film Review

The opening sequence for this viscerally stunning, allegorical tour de force about the millennials of a white, suburban Upstate New York town will make audiences shudder. A presage of the shuddering to follow.

BEFORE WE VANISH, NYFF 55 Film Review

Can a whimsical, end-of-the-world sci-fi feature about aliens from another planet attract big audiences, if, one, it isn’t directed/produced by Ridley Scott, Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, Peter Berg, J.J. Abrams, Paul Verhoeven, Luc Besson, George Lucas, M. Night Shyamalan; two, lacks mind boggling special effects; three, is short on gloom, doom and carnage; and, four, might actually be about the power of love?