IN FILM FOOD

Sometimes spaghetti likes to be alone.

 

-Secondo (Stanley Tucci) to a customer in Big Night.

 

Sometimes it’s a prop and sometimes it’s a plot device. It can be its own character (Like Water for Chocolate) or add depth to an existing one (When Harry Met Sally.) Its presentation (Gosford Park) or abundance (Age of Innocence) helps moviegoers enter into the social and cultural world of the films characters. Gael Greene interviews Martin Scorsese about “Food in Film.”

CHANGING +CAREERS BREAKFAST

Tribeca Grill
Friday, May 10th, 2002 – 9:00am

Looking to make the leap from screenwriting to producing? Acting to directing? Meet industry insiders who took a chance and made the leap. Get tips on what not to do….
Moderator: Perri Peltz

Panelists: Lindsay Doran, Fisher Stevens, Kevin Misher, Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas & Frank Whaley.

PRODUCING 101 BREAKFAST

Tribeca Grill
Saturday, May 11th, 2002 – 9:00am
100 decisions—Successes and failures in moviemaking producing.

Moderator: Peter Bart

Panelists: Art Linson, Christine Vachon & Paula Weinstein

LAUNCHING THE NEW YORK FILM INDUSTRY: HOW 12 PEOPLE CREATED A BILLION DOLLAR BUSINESS

It was the original indie dream – and the one that made all the others possible. In the 1950s, a handful of determined moviemakers decided to create a feature film industry in New York – a decision that would change the movies, and the city, forever. How did it happen? Join James Sanders, author of Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies, and his special guest, legendary director Sidney Lumet – along with other noted veterans of the city’s film community – to explore how New York first put itself on the screen.

Moderator: James Sanders architect, author.

Panelists: Sidney Lumet (Dog Day Afternoon, Serpico, Network) & Michael Chapman, cinematographer (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull) Kent Jones(New York film society)

TELL ME THE TRUTH: WHAT DEFINES DOCUMENTARY

The proliferation of cable networks and digital technology has put documentaries in high demand, but where are the guidelines and who sets them? What, really, is the difference between documentary and docudrama. Is one more truthful to the real story in the end? A discussion about that ill-defined art form, the documentary.

Moderator: Sheila Nevins, executive vice-president HBO

Panelists: Barbara Kopple (Harlon County USA, The Hamptons) Albert Maysles (Grey Gardens, When We Were Kings), Co-president of Sony Pictures Classic Tom Bernard & Nick Broomfield (Biggie & Tupac, Kurt & Courtney)

CONFUSION IN A TIME OF UNCERTAINTY: LIFE AFTER SEPTEMBER 11TH

It is a common belief that art has a responsibility to respond to crisis but is there a deadline? Join us for a discussion with filmmakers, musicians, artists and writers about the pressure to draw conclusions post 9/11.

Moderator: Jon Stewart, executive producer and host, The Daily Show

Panelists: Karin Batten (artist), Wendy Wasserstein (The Heidi Chronicles), Susan Sarandon (Thelma and Louise, Dead Man Walking), & Spalding Gray (Swimming to Cambodia, Grays Anatomy).

FEATURING MUSIC BY

From original scores to existing material, the relationship between the musician and the moviemaker.
Moderator: Lisa Robinson, contributing editor for Vanity Fair.

Panelists: Soundtrack Executive Producer Karyn Rachtman, music executive for the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group Kathy Nelson, T Bone Burnett (O Brother Where Art Thou) & Carter Burwell (Fargo, Gods and Monsters).

IN LOVE, IN THE MOVIES

You don’t want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie.

Becky (Rosie O’Donnell) to Annie (Meg Ryan) in Sleepless in Seattle

Throughout history, movies have taken, and even set, the cultural temperature about love. This panel will explore how our ideas about love—what it is, what is should be, what it can be, often come from the screen.
Moderator: Nora Ephron

Panelists: Lauren Bacall, James Harvey, (author, Movie Love in the Fifties,) Jennifer Westfeldt (Kissing Jessica Stein) and screenwriter Paul Rudnick (The Stepford Wives, In & Out).

GOING GLOBAL

Western audiences are used to calling any film that isn’t set in the United States foreign but through technology…and war, the world has become a much smaller and more intimate place. Does anything really feel “foreign” anymore? Has the role of the foreign filmmaker changed? Do they have a responsibility, self-imposed or otherwise to help other cultures understand their own and is that responsibility any different than that of the American filmmaker? International film and its relationship to a new audience—the World.

Panelists: Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding, Karma Sutra) author-media critic Jack Shaheen PhD, Producer and Founder of Film Aid International Caroline Baron, director Alfonso Cuarón, (Y tu mamá también), Jane Campion (The Piano, The Portrait of a Lady) & filmmaker and professor of film and television Jamsheed Akrami

TECHNICALLY SPEAKING: ADVANCEMENTS IN TECHNOLOGY CHANGES STORYTELLING

The world looks different in black and white. And so do the movies. So what happens when technology changes not only how movies are made, but also who is making them? From advancements in animation to digital features, the face of the future moviemaker emerges.

Moderator: Eugene Hernandez, Indie-Wire

Panelists: producer director Gary Winick, Creator and executive director of The Simpson’s Matt Groening, Wim Wenders (The Bueno Vista Social Club), Alexandra Pelosi (Journeys with George) & Eva Kolodner (Boys Don’t Cry).

NEW YORK, NEW YORK, A MOVIEMAKERS MUSE: CONVERSATIONS WITH NEW YORK FILMMAKERS

Many of us fell in love with New York City through the movies: a magical, mythical place where anything can happen. Manhattan has given the movies it’s incomparable energy, it’s glamour, and it’s spirit. We’ve decided to celebrate that spirit with a some people who helped make it that way, New York filmmakers…

Moderator: Nick Davis, (writer/director New York at the Movies)

Panelists: Martin Scorsese, (Gangs of New York, Goodfellas) Jay Cocks (writer, Gangs of New York, The Age of Innocence) & Richard Price (Clockers, Mad Dog & Glory)

SIMPLY PUT: MAKING SCIENCE MORE SEXY

From Apollo 13 to A Beautiful Mind the entertainment industry has helped science go from geek, to sleek…and in some cases, even made science sexy. How did it happen and what effect does this newfound popularity have on the traditional relationship between the arts and science?

Moderator: Robert Krulwich, ABC News Correspondent

Panelists: Alan Alda, actor/host Scientific American Frontiers, physicist/author Brian Greene, Paula Apsell, executive producer Nova & Ann Druyan, writer/producer Contact.

A MEETING OF THE MINDS

From the Academy award winning Beautiful Mind to the Pulitzer Prize winning play “Proof ” the entertainment industry takes on the complexities of the brain, and, some say, are now finally getting it right.

Moderator: Mike Wallace, CBS NEWS 60 Minutes

Panelists: Akiva Goldsman, (A Beautiful Mind), Oliver Sacks, MD, (Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Man), Girl Interrupted author Susanna Kaysen, actor/director Harold Ramis, Jonah Nolan (Memento) & Stuart Firestein, PhD.