His family gathers to mourn, and soon a darkness grows, marked by waking nightmares and a growing sense that something evil is taking over the family. Games (and conversations about games) have been included in the Tribeca Film Festival since. Director: Chris McKim | Star: Big Freedia, Directors: Michael Steed, Gillian Brown | Star: Chrissy Teigen. A highlight of games that ‘demonstrate artistic excellence in storytelling’. THE STAND-IN is the story of a disaffected comedy actress and her ambitious stand-in trading places. Seven years later, the committee members struggle with the consequences of that fateful decision. A closely observed psychological portrait of four women, whose lives are bound together by an incident on the New York City subway. Taking audiences backstage and behind the scenes of Pharrell's ground-breaking Something in the Water festival, using music to bring together his divided hometown of Virginia Beach. Late-submitted games have until Jan. 13, 2021. A famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple. Sublet will premiere at The Tribeca Film Festival 2020. The core of the festival program is our main slate of feature and short films, highlighting politically, culturally and socially relevant films from diverse storytellers. Documentary filmmaker Rodney Ascher tackles this question "are we living in a simulation?" The program was co-curated by 21 of the top international film festivals including Cannes, Sundance, TIFF and Venice and showcased over 100 hours of shorts, features, talks and music to an audience of 1.9 million people in 179 countries. Director: Bryan Bertino | Stars: Marin Ireland, Michael Abbott Jr., Xander Berkeley, Lynn Andrews. “We just looked at each other and said we know there’s a way of doing this, so let’s make it happen,” says De Niro. [11], Annual film festival held in New York, US, Best Actor in a U.S. Written and directed by Henrik Burman, the film tracks Lean's rise to fame while "blurring the ... See full summary ». [2] Celebrating diverse, provocative and compelling voices from the Online Space, The best of the small screen on the big screen. But, soon finds himself forced to reconcile with the violence of his past. In 2013, the Dominican Republic stripped the citizenship of anyone with Haitian parents, rendering over 200,000 people without nationality, identity or homeland. Director: Jayro Bustamante | Stars: María Mercedes Coroy, Sabrina De La Hoz, Margarita Kenéfic, Julio Diaz. A man is released from prison after 15 years. Director: BenDavid Grabinski | Stars: Brea Grant, Joel McHale, Natalie Zea, Breckin Meyer. Actors Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan travel from Troy to Ithaca following in the footsteps of the Odysseus. Tribeca organizers said Friday that much of its programming will be available either to the public or to the film industry over roughly the same days that the festival would have taken place in April. After a devastating 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti in 2010 aid workers from around the world went to help, including actor and filmmaker Sean Penn. The issues that Tribeca and other film festivals have been wrestling with are the same ones being debated across the industry. Director: Devereux Milburn | Stars: Sawyer Spielberg, Malin Barr, Barbara Kingsley, Stephen D'Ambrose, Not Rated | 113 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi. Memo lives on a remote Chilean sheep farm, hiding a beautiful singing voice from the outside world. Director: Argyris Papadimitropoulos | Stars: Julie Agoraki, Prometheus Aleifer, Mihalis Alexakis, Orfeas Avgoustidis. Tribeca was founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff in 2001 to spur the economic and cultural revitalization of lower Manhattan following the attacks on the World Trade Center. Director: Alice Wu | Stars: Leah Lewis, Daniel Diemer, Alexxis Lemire, Wolfgang Novogratz. A total of 169 feature films and 99 shorts were selected from 4,100 film submissions, including 1,950 feature submissions—three times the total submissions from the first festival in 2002. The inaugural festival launched after 120 days of planning with the help of more than 1,300 volunteers. The Tribeca Film Festival was founded in 2002 by Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro, and Craig Hatkoff, in response to the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the consequent loss of vitality in the Tribeca neighborhood in Lower Manhattan. Founded by Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal, the Festival champions emerging and established voices through premieres, exhibitions, talks, and live performances.