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08/06/2024

AT&T, together with , is once again connecting emerging and historically underrepresented filmmakers to greater possibilities with the seventh installment of AT&T Presents: Untold Stories – an annual pitch competition and year-round mentorship program. This year’s winner will receive $1M to take their pitch from idea to full-length feature film that will premiere at next year’s 2025 Tribeca Festival

2024 Untold Stories finalists include:

•Carmen Corral and Gabriela Garcia Medina - “For Your Own Good”
•Lilian T. Mehrel - “Honeyjoon”
•Adrian Cardenas - “In an Orderly Fashion”
•Kanani Koster - “Shoots”
•Desdemona Chiang and Julia Morizawa - “Something About the Tide”

Audiences can register here to sit in the audience as these finalists pitch their feature concepts live at the Tribeca Festival Hub, Spring Studios on Friday, June 7. Moderated by journalist and host Brooke Baldwin, an esteemed Greenlight Committee of industry professionals including Yvette Nicole Brown, Daveed Diggs, Cynthia Erivo, Tanya Saracho, So Young Shelly Yo and Kellyn Smith Kenny will to decide who will be the next $1 million dollar prize recipient

More info tribecafilm.com

08/06/2024

With CEO and co-founder of Google DeepMind Demis Hassabis getting all the details about his new documentary film

Demis Hassabis has always been thinking about thinking. It started during his childhood career as a chess champion, continued to Bullfrog Games where he helped develop one of the most successful games in history at just 17 years old, and then followed him through his PhD in cognitive neuroscience at University College London. All this led him to co-founding DeepMind, an artificial general intelligence company with one simple mission: to solve intelligence. Like they’re running out of time, The Thinking Game chronicles DeepMind’s sprint toward creating the smartest machine in the world in the AI space race

With extraordinary archival footage from Hassabis’ life and career, we follow every step that contributed to DeepMind’s monumental achievements. Hassabis leads the film — and his company — with the utmost optimism and ambition, forging a path where artificial intelligence can be used to solve any problem you can think of — and the ones that you can’t. Balancing the weight of the massive responsibility this kind of technology requires, The Thinking Game illuminates the real positive impacts AI can have, from a simple chess game to curing cancer

30/05/2024

Excited to be covering the upcoming film festival celebrating its 23rd year from June 5–16, 2024 in NYC

, presented by OKX, brings artists and diverse audiences together to celebrate storytelling in all its forms, including and programming. With strong roots in independent film, Tribeca is synonymous with creative expression and entertainment. Tribeca champions emerging and established voices, discovers award-winning talent, curates innovative experiences, and introduces new ideas through exclusive premieres, exhibitions, conversations, and live performances

The festival was founded by and in 2001 to spur the economic and cultural revitalization of Lower Manhattan following the attacks on the World Trade Center. In 2019, James Murdoch’s Lupa Systems bought a majority stake in Tribeca Enterprises, bringing together Rosenthal, De Niro, and Murdoch to grow the enterprise

27/05/2024

Let us take a moment to remember the fallen, honor their courage, and express our gratitude for the liberties we enjoy. May their sacrifice always be remembered, and may we strive to create a world that embodies the values they fought to protect

Wishing you a meaningful Memorial Day, filled with reflection and unity

12/03/2024

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12/03/2024

The 2023-2024 awards season is wrapped and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer takes home top spot for the year with list 233 wins. After racking up wins for Best Editing, Score, and Cinematography all year -they finished with a resounding exclamation point and a pair of Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director

The rest of the list is as we expected, with the top winners most of the year taking home their predicted prizes 🏆

10/03/2024

The day is finally here: it’s the ✨ will host a live blog bringing you updates from every single moment of the evening, from the first arrivals on the Oscar red carpet to the dance floor inside the iconic

03/03/2024

Being the (Digital Griot) is a social humanoid artificial intelligence created by interdisciplinary artist Rashaad Newsome

Rashaad Newsome’s work blends several practices, including collage, sculpture, film & video, animation, photography, music, writing, computer programming, software engineering, community organizing, and performance, to create a divergent field that mirrors the intersectionality of their lived experience

Using the diasporic traditions of improvisation, they pull from the world of advertising, the internet, art history, Black and Q***r culture to produce counter-hegemonic work that shifts between social practice and abstraction

23/02/2024

TIME Magazine honors Greta Gerwig on thecover of ‘Women of The Year’ issue

Gerwig is an American actress, playwright, screenwriter, and director. She has collaborated with Noah Baumbach on several films, including Greenberg (2010), Frances Ha (2012), for which she earned a Golden Globe nomination, and Mistress America (2015)

Gerwig made her solo directorial debut with the critically acclaimed comedy-drama film Lady Bird (2017), which she also wrote, and has also had starring roles in the films Damsels in Distress (2011), Jackie (2016), and 20th Century Women (2016)

Gerwig’s ‘Barbie’ (2023) made history, becoming first Billion-Dollar movie directed solely by a woman

15/02/2024

Thank you for the invitation to watch Martin Scorsese’s “Masterpiece” KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON receiving 10 Academy Award Nominations including Best Picture and Best Actress

The Osage Nation has long been aware of the horrific mass murders that occurred over a century ago

However, for many of us who have been fortunate enough to lead lives unaware of these events, such a tragedy went completely unnoticed by our very own history books. But they are undeniably real and Grann’s book meticulously portrays these precise details

At the heart of these narratives lies the tragedy that befell the Osage Nation in early 20th-century Oklahoma, following the discovery of oil on their reservation. This revelation prompted many white American settlers to conspire in tapping into the wealth of the oil-rich lands by plotting to murder the Osage

These events were further facilitated by the federal government and a systemic erasure that resulted in the dispossession of the Osage from their land, and the terrorization of families who held the rights to the profits. This became known as the “Reign of Terror”

13/02/2024

If there’s one thing about THE BLONDS -it’s that they know how to put on a show

The concept of performance isn’t new for The Blonds, who have been dominating the runway for over ten years with showstopping designs and an impressive lineup of celebrity guests

“Looking back at that really helped us rediscover and get re-inspired by things we had done in the past, and then take those things and then develop them into collections,” David Blond told CR backstage pre-show.”

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12/02/2024

The winner of the Special Jury Prize for Directing goes to Masha Ko for The Looming .



A glimpse into aging and the fear of being forgotten by those we love, Ko’s film tells the story of Chester (Joseph Lopez), a 70-year-old man who begins hearing strange noises in his home. Although he seeks help from his daughter and coworkers, they dismiss his concerns. But when Luna (Brianne Buishas), his home audio assistant, detects the sounds, Chester realizes that it has not all been in his head

Ko wrote, directed and produced the genre short, intended to evoke empathy surrounding the topics of loneliness and dementia, which previously won Best Short Film at Screamfest 2023. It premiered in Sundance’s U.S. Fiction Short Film competition on January 22nd, 2024

02/02/2024

So excited to welcome Jaevon Williams to the team ✨ Jaevon is NY Times published writer and an actor on SNL!

29/01/2024

, the German director Nora Fingscheidt’s mesmeric adaptation of Amy Liptrot’s 2016 memoir, accepts such trite foundations as a point

Rona, played by a never-better , has a familiar pattern of despair and renewal – broken relationships, destructive blackouts and blistering hangovers. Derailed by alcohol at age 30, she returns to Orkney, an archipelago of about 70 islands in the northest north of Scotland where she grew up, to find herself in sobriety. She is not the first to start this journey, and she won’t be the last

27/01/2024

Hello from Park City, Utah ✨

23/01/2024

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22/01/2024

WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION: NEVER LOOK AWAY

World Premiere January 18, 2024

New Zealand–born groundbreaking CNN camerawoman Margaret Moth risks it all to show the reality of war from inside the conflict, staring down danger and confronting those who perpetuate it

WRITER/DIRECTOR: Lucy Lawless
FEATURING: Margaret Moth @

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22/01/2024

U.S. DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION: SKYWALKERS

World Premiere January 22nd .

To save their career and their relationship, a daredevil couple journey across the globe to illegally climb the world’s last super skyscraper and perform a life-or-death acrobatic stunt on the spire

WRITER/DIRECTOR: Jeff Zimbalist
FEATURING: Angela Nikolau, Ivan Beerkus

20/01/2024

20/01/2024

Opening Night Gala: Celebrating 40 Years Presented by Chase Sapphire® took place on Jan 18th at the DeJoria Center in Utah. The annual Opening Night Gala enables the nonprofit to raise critical funds to support independent artists year-round through labs, grants, and public programming that nurture artists globally

Honorees and presenters included:

Christopher Nolan - Inaugural Sundance Institute Trailblazer Award
Presented by Robert Downey Jr.

Kristen Stewart - Visionary Award
Presented by Jesse Eisenberg

Pat Mitchell - Vanguard Award for Philanthropy
Presented by Mary Robinson

Celine Song (Vanguard Award for Fiction)
Presented by Christine Vachon

Maite Alberdi (Vanguard Award for Nonfiction)
Presented by Jodie Foster

14/01/2024

Congratulations Moustapha Fall the Senegalese actor who earned praise for his debut performance in Matteo Garrone’s Golden Globe-nominated Io Capitano. It is his first time at the

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13/01/2024

Films to see in 2024 🍿 IO CAPITANO | Directed by Matteo Garrone

A Homeric fairy tale that tells the adventurous journey of two young boys, Seydou and Moussa, who leave Dakar to reach Europe

“A grand, honestly felt emotional sweep. . . Garrone’s most robust, purely satisfying filmmaking since his international breakthrough with Gomorrah 15 years ago.”
— Variety

IndieWire Critic’s Pick
“Matteo Garrone’s stunning film puts a human face on the migrant crisis.”
—IndieWire

“Emotionally searing but ultimately uplifting.”
— The Hollywood Reporter

“Anchored by a powerful performance by first-time actor Seydou Sarr.”
—Screen Daily

08/01/2024

Emma Stone wins the Golden Globe 🏆 Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, Dogtooth) is known to have an affinity for the bizarre, insatiable curiosity for the human psyche, and a uniquely recognizable tone, and his latest film Poor Things is no exception. Based on the 1922 novel of the same name and offering a modern twist on the classic Frankenstein tale, Poor Things is a visual concoction of Tim Burton’s imagination of oddities, Wes Anderson’s quirky characters, and Guillermo Del Toro’s gothic fairy tale ambiance

Lanthimos crafts a world both vivid and strange, where peculiar characters don whimsical costumes against sets that lure viewers into an intriguing and fantastical realm. The film, while balancing absurdity with humor, delves into profound questions of human existence, the joy of curiosity, and the cost of love while subversively exploring gender roles and s*xuality, reminiscent of this year’s popular film, Barbie

The film’s tagline, “She’s like nothing you’ve ever seen,” undoubtedly alludes to Emma Stone’s remarkable performance, which stands out as one of the most courageous, bold, and formidable in recent memory. Watching her embody the infantile nature of Bella’s character and her maturation throughout the film is nothing short of mesmerizing

In a year with new releases from Martin Scorsese, Greta Gerwig, Wes Anderson, Christopher Nolan, Hayao Miyazaki, and David Fincher, Yorgos Lanthimos’ adaptation of Poor Things distinguishes itself as a captivating cinematic journey—an eccentric and h***y feminist fable that transcends conventional expectations. It unfolds as an epic Greek odyssey, weaving together wonder, s*x, beauty, and beasts

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05/01/2024

Tbt Sundance 2023 ✨

The , a program of the nonprofit, , is the pre-eminent gathering of original storytellers and audiences seeking new voices and fresh perspectives. Since 1985, hundreds of films launched at the Festival have gone on to gain critical acclaim and reach new audiences worldwide. The Festival has introduced some of the most groundbreaking films and episodic works of the past three decades, including Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie, Fair Play, A Thousand and One, Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields, Rye Lane, Navalny, Fire of Love, Flee, CODA, Passing, Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), Minari, Clemency, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, Zola, O.J.: Made in America, On the Record, Boys State, The Farewell, Honeyland, One Child Nation, The Souvenir, The Infiltrators, Sorry to Bother You, Top of the Lake, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, Hereditary, Call Me by Your Name, Get Out, The Big Sick, Mudbound, Fruitvale Station, Whiplash, Brooklyn, Precious, The Cove, Little Miss Sunshine, An Inconvenient Truth, Napoleon Dynamite, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Reservoir Dogs, and s*x, lies, and videotape

05/01/2024

Kristen Stewart will receive the Visionary Award in recognition of her work as an uncompromising artist and contributions to the field of independent film. She was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance as Princess Diana in Spencer and was the first American actress to receive a César Award for her role in Clouds of Sils Maria

Stewart’s profound work as an actor has exemplified the bold, risk-taking storytelling that Sundance has championed for many years. Throughout her impressive career, she has had 10 films screen at the Festival, including The Runaways, Adventureland, and Lizzie. She made her directorial debut with Come Swim at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.

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04/01/2024

Mark you calendars 🗓️ for this year’s installment of Sundance Film Festival taking place on Jan 18–28th. See films on the mountain in beautiful Utah or watch from home with on-demand online viewing

Tickets on https://festival.sundance.org/tickets/

The Sundance Film Festival is the ultimate gathering of original storytellers and audiences seeking new voices and fresh perspectives

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01/01/2024

As the world prepares to ring in a new year, more than one billion people are expected to tune in to watch a glowing orb drop down a pole to mark midnight in New York City

The tradition going back more than a century features star performers, quirky customs and some practical challenges or the hundreds of thousands of revelers packed into Times Square

Here’s what you may not have known about one of the world’s most highly-anticipated New Year’s Eve celebrations

The concept began with sailing ⛵️

Starting in the 1800s, balls dropped from poles were used to signify the time to sailors out at sea. The first was installed in Portsmouth, England, followed by another ball in Greenwich, the namesake of Greenwich Mean Time, and that timekeeping ball is still dropped every day

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14/12/2023

Amazing time covering and this year, and meeting many new talented artists from all over the 🌎

13/12/2023

Another stunning piece presented by featuring the work of Carol P. Govaert

Carol is a first-generation American of Latin American descent. As a conceptual photographer, she is both eclectic and experimental. Her work isn’t confined to a specific genre; rather, it’s characterized by a distinct atmosphere, one that is moody, eerie, melancholic, and cinematic. What truly inspires her is the darker side of life

Carol is captivated by the shadowy, murky, and sometimes depraved aspects of human nature. Photography serves as her medium for processing the world’s complexities and her own fears

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13/12/2023

Presented by ✨ is a groundbreaking artist who uses artificial intelligence to create stunning and surreal images that challenge the boundaries of human perception. CRAITR’s art is a fusion of technology and creativity, exploring themes such as identity, memory, and reality

CRAITR’s AI art is not only visually impressive, but also raises questions about the role of the artist, the meaning of art, and the future of creativity

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