About Tribeca All Access
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What We Do
It’s a simple premise that has achieved great success in eight years: provide both established and emerging filmmakers with unprecedented access to industry professionals, giving them the contacts, knowledge and confidence they need to make their films.
Tribeca All Access (TAA) provides grants, one-on-one meetings with industry representatives, career development workshops and informational panels to ten exceptional filmmakers working in narrative and documentary. The TAA Creative Promise Awards, presented by Time Warner, come with a total prize of $20,000: $10,000 for narrative and $10,000 for documentary, as well as an original piece of art from a contemporary artist.
See a list of the 2012 projects here.
Who Comes?
TAA participants are filmmakers from traditionally under-represented communities with great stories and a desire to tell them. Industry representatives come from the worlds of development, production and distribution, as well as agencies and law firms that have a passion for contributing diverse voices to the film industry.
For industry representatives, TAA is a place to meet talented filmmakers, find new and exciting scripts covering a range of genres and budgets, and get a first look at documentary works-in-progress.
What Happens?
Selected filmmakers participate in an intensive four-day program, held concurrent with the Tribeca Film Festival. This intensive includes individual one-on-one meetings with industry members, networking with fellow filmmakers, and workshops that address the latest in fundraising, marketing and audience engagement. Program participants are also eligible for the TAA Creative Promise Awards.
The Tribeca All Access Creative Promise Awards
These juried awards, presented by Time Warner, are presented to one filmmaker in each category (narrative or documentary). These cash awards of $10,000 are determined by a jury of noted professionals in the field. Examples of past jurors include Neda Armian, John Cho, Viola Davis, Chris Eyre, Antoine Fuqua, Jessica Hagedorn, Hill Harper, Warrington Hudlin, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Sanaa Lathan, Jesse L. Martin, Sheila Nevins, Rosie Perez, Freddy Rodriguez, Kerry Washington, B.D. Wong.
The 2011 narrative jurors were Hiam Abbass, Ajay Naidu and F. Gary Gray. The 2011 documentary jurors were Elvis Mitchell, Suroosh Alvi and John Quinones. The winners they selected:
- TAA Creative Promise Award for Documentary
Gideon’s Army
Every day, more and more people are arrested, handcuffed, shoved into asquad car, and booked. Weeks turn into months and their only line of defense is in the hands of a public defender. “Gideon’s Army” asks, are public defenders up to the fight?
Dawn Porter (Director) - TAA Creative Promise Award for Narrative
County Line
A Southern town's underbelly exposed when its sheriff tries to rid himself of a drug alliance with a family friend and investigate the deaths of his female informants. In the process, he must confront his son's addiction to the drugs he's allowed in his county.
Tina Mabry (Director, Producer)
Morgan R. Stiff (Producer, Screenwriter, Editor)
Lee V. Stiff, (Producer, Executive Producer)
In 2011, TAA also expanded its support for program alumni by offering grants of $5,000 to $10,000 for projects which have already participated in TAA, or for new projects from program alumni.
- Tribeca All Access Ontrack Grant Narrative
When I Saw You
Jordan, 1960s. An eccentric and unbounded boy runs away from home knowing full well his young mother will follow in this search for freedom.
Annemarie Jacir (Director, Producer, Screenwriter) - Tribeca All Access Ontrack Grant Documentary
Untitled Gay Retiree Documentary
Set against the backdrop of various LGBTQ-friendly communities, Untitled Gay Retiree Documentary captures the experiences of several LGBTQ seniors as they navigate the adventures, challenges and surprises of their "golden years."
PJ Raval (Director, Producer)
Sara Giustini (Producer)
Kyle Henry (Editor) - Tribeca All Access Trans Media Award Narrative
Chinafornia
America, 2018. Unable to pay the ten trillion dollars it owes to China, the U.S. comes up with a plan: it gives China the state of California. ANIMATION
Ellie Lee (Director, Screenwriter)
Peter Dowd (Screenwriter) - Tribeca All Access Trans Media Award Documentary
Untitled Mu Xin Project (Working Title)
In the sweep of China's turbulent history, Mu Xin sacrificed everything for his art. Starting while he was illegally imprisoned, he transformed his experiences into a body of work merging East, West, classicism, modernism, terror and transcendence.He has avoided speaking of the horrors he has seen - until now.
Francisco Bello (Director, Producer, Director of Photography)
Tim Sternberg (Director, Producer, Editor) - The TAA Adrienne Shelly Foundation Filmmaker Grant
El Jardin
El Jardin is a portrait of a cemetery in the drug heartland of México. Since the war on drugs began in 2007 it has claimed over 35,000 lives. The cemetery has doubled in size and the mausoleums have doubled in height.
Natalia Almada (Director/Producer) - The Games for Change Fellowship for TAA Alumni
The Undocumented
Marco Williams (Director). The Undocumented is a feature length documentary which chronicles Arizona's deadly summer months, following Border Patrol agents who fight to prevent migrant deaths, medical investigators and the Mexican Consulate who work to identify migrants who die crossing the border, and Mexican families who struggle to accept the loss of loved ones. - Audience Activation Grant
The Ipo Boys (aka They Are All My Brothers)
Several boys at a home for abandoned youth in Mexico rebuild their lives while contributing to the social enterprise that sustains them: world-renowned French artisan goat cheese. DOCUMENTARY
Nicole Opper (Director, Producer)
As always, program alumni will continue to have access to free or discounted equipment and services for any of their projects, and be eligible to take part in our workshops, panels and industry events. TAA also offers promotional support for completed films that have come through the program.
Questions
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Video Credit: Music by Cale Parks.
