TAA 2009 Program Highlight
The 2009 Tribeca All Access (TAA) program will hold six days of events taking place April 20 – 25 during this year’s Tribeca Film
24 U.S.-based filmmakers involved in 21 narrative scripts and documentary work-in-progress and 6 addition international projects will have access to workshops, networking opportunity, and one on one meetings with registered industry at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. Please visit the industry corner for more info on the selected filmmakers and projects.
This year’s program will begin with a welcome lunch where the selected filmmakers and Tribeca All Access supporters can meet and discuss the events and goals ahead. A Kickoff Celebration later that day will continue to build the relationships of the selected filmmakers and the industry. The selected filmmake/rs will also get to participate in special workshops with respected Industry personnel and later get feedback on their pitch before taking part in three days of one on one scheduled meetings with the registered Industry. A special TFI award show will conclude the week of networking, pitching, and advancement of their careers.
At the 2009 TFI Award Celebration a total of $55,000 will be awarded in juried cash prizes to selected TAA winners through the TAA Creative Promise Award and the L’Oréal Paris Women of Worth “Vision” Award. Amongst the 2009 Tribeca All Access narrative jurors are Viola Davis, Sanaa Lathan, Anne Carey, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Luis Guzman, Darnell Martin, Lance Reddick and Amy Robinson. The 2009 TAA Documentary jurors are Ellen Kuras, Fenton Bailey, and Lola Ogunnaike.
TAA Alumni at the Tribeca Film Festival
Tribeca All Access OnTrack, which provides year-round support to TAA alumni, will showcase a special presentation of work-in-progress films by Michael Golamco, Bennie Klain and Camila Martins. Please visit the TAA OnTrack Presentations page to learn more about these filmmakers and their projects.
This year, two TAA alumni were also selected to premiere their films at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival in the Discovery program. A third TAA alum will also provide a work-in-progress screening:
- Off And Running, directed by Nicole Opper (2008 TAA participant) – World Premiere, Documentary. Off And Running follows Avery, a 17-year-old African American track star and adopted daughter of two white Jewish lesbian moms in Brooklyn, who embarks on a quest to meet her birth mother in
- Entre Nos (We Can), directed by Paolo Mendoza and
- Making the Boys, directed by Crayton Robey (2007 TAA participant) – Work-in-progress, Documentary. Making the Boys is an in-depth look at the creation of the ground breaking play and film that dramatized the complex experience of being a gay man in the 1950s, long before the Stonewall riots and gay pride parades. The screening will be shown as a work-in-progress and a talk with Crayton, Mart Crowley (the writer of The Boys in The Band) and other guests will follow the screening.
