Recent Tribeca All Access Alumni Highlights
Following on the heels of a successful sixth year of Tribeca All Access, we are excited to share some TAA alumni highlights.
She is the Matador and Off & Running – at SILVERDOCS
Two documentaries featured in the 2008 TAA program was screened at the 2009 SILVERDOCS film festival, within the Sterling US Feature Competition section.
Silverdocs included the U.S. premiere of She is the Matador, an artful portrait of female bullfighting that features two women struggling to succeed in one of the last strongholds of Spanish machismo. Co-Directors Gemma Cubero and Celeste Carrasco brought this project to TAA in 2008, where they received the TAA Creative Promise Award and were introduced to philanthropist Sheila Johnson, who joined the project as Executive Producer.
She is the Matador screens:
| Wednesday, June 17 | 5:00 PM | AFI Silver Theater 1 |
| Friday, June 19 | 12:15 PM | AFI Silver Theater 3 |
Nicole Opper’s Off & Running, which recently premiered in the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival, examines race and identity through one girl’s search for her birth mother. The film also recieved the WGA Documentary Screenplay Award at the Silverdoc Film Festival.
Off & Running screens:
| Saturday, June 20 | 7:00 PM | AFI Silver Theater 3 |
| Tuesday, June 16 | 4:30 PM | AFI Silver Theater 1 |
Please refer to the SILVERDOCS for further information.
Children of Invention – New York Premiere
Children of Invention, written and directed by 2006 TAA alumnus Tze Chun, had its NY premiere at the upcoming BAMcinemaFEST. For this debut feature, Chun received an equipment loan through TAA OnTrack, which provides year round support for TAA alumni. Loosely based on Chun’s own childhood, Children of Invention, follows two young children living outside Boston who are left to fend for themselves when their hardworking mother gets embroiled in a pyramid scheme and disappears.
Children of Invention screens:
| Thursday, June 18 | 6:30 PM |
| Saturday, June 20 | 3:15 PM |
For more information about these screenings, please visit the BAMcinemaFEST website. To learn about more opportunities to see the film, please visit www.childrenofinvention.com.
Herb & Dorothy – Now in Theaters
Opening this Friday, the documentary Herb & Dorothy tells the extraordinary story of Herbert Vogel, a postal clerk, and Dorothy Vogel, a librarian, who with very modest means managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history. Director Megumi Sasaki participated in TAA in 2006 with this film and returned in 2008 to do a special work-in-progress screening at the Tribeca Film Festival. It received the Audience Awards at Silverdocs, Cinefeast, and the Hamptons Film Festival, where it also won the Golden Starfish for best documentary.
Herb & Dorothy opened Friday, June 5th at the Beekman Theatre and Cinema Village in New York City. To learn about more opportunities to see the film, please visit www.herbanddorothy.com
Like So Many Things - Now on IFC.com
TAA alumus Anslem Richardson helms the unique series Like So Many Things, which is now available through IFC. In conjunction with its broadcast premiere on the IFC Channel in May, Like So Many Things is now also available at IFC.com. This is the first time that IFC has done a "day and date" release of a series on air and online. The seven-part series, told in six to eight minute segments, explores the universal awkwardness, humor, passion, and possibilities of meeting someone for the first time and finding romance- or even friendship.
Richardson is also working on his TAA project Bardos with producer Frida Torresblanco, whom he met through TAA in 2008.
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We encourage our alumni to keep in touch with TAA staff with updates, announcements and questions about how TAA can help support you and your work. Please contact us at allaccess@tribecafilminstitute.org, to the attention of Program Director Tamir Muhammad.
