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, Hiam Abbass and Elvis Mitchell.
The 2012 narrative jurors were Rosario Dawson, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Mekhi Phifer and Gabourey Sidibe. The award’s documentary jurors were Claire Aguilar, Julie Goldman, Eugene Hernandez, Jean Tsien and Debbie Zimmerman.
- TAA Creative Promise Award for Narrative
Rhymes for Young Ghouls
This film is a raucous coming of age tale about Aila, a young Mi’gMaq girl embroiled in the family drug trade who is coping with the suicide of her mother and the recent release of her imprisoned father.
Jeff Barnaby (writer/director); John Christou & Aisling Chin-Yee (producers) - TAA Creative Promise Award for Documentary
The New Black
This documentary uncovers the complicated and often combative histories of the African-American and LGBT civil-rights movements.
Yoruba Richen (director); Yvonne Welbon & Angela Tucker (producers) - TAA Creative Promise Honorable Mention for Narrative
Bypass
20 year-old Katie is popular, high-achieving and obese, but all of this is about to change when she undergoes a series of radical gastric and plastic surgeries. BYPASS is a modern day twist on Frankenstein in which the protagonist is herself both creator and monster.
Liliana Greenfield-Sanders (writer/director); Amy Basil & Rowen Riley (producers)
TAA also supports its 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.
- TAA Alumni Documentary Grants
The Path
In a dusty Pakistani village lives an 80 year-old barber who has rescued over 8,000 kidnapped children. The Path follows his journey from personal barber to Pakistan’s president to savior of thousands.
Senain Kheshgi (director/producer); Rasheed Ahmed (producer, Pakistan)
Out Run
This feature documentary follows two pioneering LGBT activists in conservative parts of the world as they undertake highly visible and dangerous new struggles as openly gay candidates running for public office.
S. Leo Chiang & Johnny Symons (directors/producers) - Tribeca All Access OnTrack Grant Narrative
I Am Nojood
Based on the true story of Nojood, a 10-year-old Yemeni girl married off by her impoverished family and repeatedly abused by her 30-year-old husband. With the help of an activist lawyer and sympathetic judges, she becomes the youngest person ever to be granted a divorce in Yemen.
Kadija Al-Salami (writer/director); Anne Hubbell & Amy Hobby (producers) - Tribeca All Access Ontrack Grant Documentary
God Loves Uganda
This documentary is a journey into the heart of East Africa, where Ugandan pastors and their American counterparts spread God’s word and evangelical values to millions desperate for a better life. Inspired by his own roots in the African American Baptist church, director Roger Ross Williams seeks to explore a place where religion and African culture intersect.
Roger Ross Williams (producer/director); Julie Goldman (producer) - The TAA Adrienne Shelly Foundation Filmmaker Grant
Xanadu
An inveterate tomboy tries to win over the new girl in town, despite her flamboyant brother’s amusingly ineffectual attempts to sabotage her.
Rose Troche (director); Susan Austin (writer); Amy Lo (producer) - TAA Marketing & Web Fellowship
An American Promise
This documentary, 12 years in the making, chronicles the intricate school experiences of two African American boys and their families, offering an intimate look at the complexities of race, parenting, privilege and education at the dawn of the 21st century.
Michele Stephenson & Joe Brewster (directors/producers) - The Games for Change Fellowship for TAA Alumni
Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines
From the birth of the comic book super-heroine in the 1940s to the blockbusters of today, WONDER WOMEN! looks at how popular representations of powerful women often reflect society’s anxieties about women’s liberation.
Kristy Guevara-Flanagan (director); Kelcey Edwards (producer) - TAA Packaging the Pitch Grant Narrative
Akilla’s Escape
Akilla is a narcotics trader who finds himself at the centre of a robbery and soon discovers the crime syndicate he once belonged to orchestrated the heist. Akilla’s Escape follows a man forced to face ethical dilemmas around his chosen path, while confronting a vicious cycle of youth violence.
Charles Officer (writer/director) Christina Piovesan (producer) - TAA Packaging the Pitch Grant Documentary
Spies of Mississippi
This documentary will bring to light in chilling detail how a secret shadow state government, determined to maintain segregation, spied on its own citizens in brazen defiance of the law. The dead, and some still living…will finally reveal their secrets.
Dawn Porter (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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