Tribeca All Access at photo Miami 2009

In collaboration with the fourth annual photo MIAMI 2009 (pM09) contemporary international art fair, Tribeca All Access hosted events in the VIP lounge, including a collectors' breakfast and screenings of TAA-supported films. Other special events at photo MIAMI included one benefiting Usher’s New Look Foundation (UNL;) and the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI).  

The selected Tribeca All Access supported films that were screened were Ella Es el Matador (She Is the Matador) by Gemma Cubero & Celeste Carrasco and the works-in-progress Making the Boys by Crayton Robey and Beijing Taxi by Miao Wang.  See below for more information about these films.

Coinciding with Art Basel Miami Beach, photo MIAMI commenced on December 1 and continued through December 6 with a curatorial line up of photo-based art, video, and new media, alongside a host of events.

Ella Es el Matador (She Is the Matador)

Director/Producer/Writer: Gemma Cubero and Celeste Carrasco;

Executive Producers: Sheila C. Johnson, Suzanne LaFetra, and Gemma Cubero.

Film website

For Spaniards and for the world — nothing has expressed their country's traditionally rigid gender roles more powerfully than the image of the male matador; Ella Es el Matador offers fascinating profiles of two female matadors currently in the arena: the acclaimed Mari Paz Vega & neophyte Eva Florencia whose passion for bullfighting  motivates them to pursue a dream. 

Ella Es el Matador participated in the 2008 Tribeca All Access program, where it was honored with the juried Creative Promise Award and received additional funding through an introduction to Executive Producer Sheila Johnson during the program.  Additional support was provided in collaboration with Women Make Movies.

 

Beijing Taxi

Director/Producer/Editor: Miao Wang; Producer: Ivana Stolkiner;

Editor: Sikay Tang; Cinematography by Sean Price Williams and Ian Vollmer

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Beijing Taxi takes us on a lyrical journey into fragments of a society riding the bumpy roads to modernization set in the build-up to the 2008 Olympics games. 

Beijing Taxi participated in the 2008 Tribeca All Access program.  Additional support was provided through collaborations with Media Rights’ DocuClub.

 

Making the Boys

Director/Producer: Crayton Robey;

Producer: Douglas Tirola, Susan Bedusa;

Co-Producer: Miguel Camnitzer; Editor: Seth Hurlbert

Film Website

Making The Boys explores the drama, struggle, and enduring legacy of the first-ever gay play and subsequent Hollywood movie to reach a mainstream audience successfully. 

Making The Boys participated in the 2008 Tribeca All Access program where it received additional funding through an introduction to 4th Row Films during pre-scheduled one-on-one meetings with filmmakers & industry.  The project also received additional support through participation in Tribeca All Access OnTrack, the year round support initiative for alumni.

Featuring: Mart Crowley, Laurence Luckinbill, Edward Albee, Paul Rudnick, Robert Wagner, Michael Cunningham, and Tony Kushner

 
 

About photo Miami:

Coinciding with Art Basel Miami Beach, the acclaimed contemporary international fair photo MIAMI commenced on December 1 and continued through December 6 with a curatorial line up of photo-based art, video, and new media, alongside a host of events.

In its fourth year, photo MIAMI  returned in a new, 30,000 square foot venue at 34th and North Miami in Miami's Wynwood Arts District.  The fair's new location was strategically positioned in Miami's midtown arts corridor.  photo MIAMI was on the main thoroughfare for all of the major satellite fairs in Miami, as well as the Rubell Family Collection and the new warehouse for the Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz Collection, which opened the week of the fair.

www.photomiami-2009.com

About Tribeca All Access:

Tribeca All Access (TAA), a year round program of the Tribeca Film Institute, fosters and nurtures relationships between film industry executives and filmmakers from traditionally underrepresented communities.  TAA is a recognized talent pool within the industry and an unrivaled opportunity for participating filmmakers to advance their careers.  During the annual Tribeca Film Festival, TAA hosts a diverse group of emerging and established filmmakers who are selected to participate in a series of workshops and panels and given the opportunity to pitch their narrative scripts or documentary works-in-progress in a series of one-on-one business meetings with industry executives.  Year round, the program supports alumni through TAA OnTrack, which offers free use of digital filmmaking and editing equipment; promotional support for completed films; hosted presentation screenings, educational panels and workshops; and fellowships.  Since its founding in May 2004, Tribeca All Access has supported the careers of more than 155 filmmakers and facilitated over 2,430 one-on-one business meetings.