2017 TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL
The 16th annual festival will take place April 19-30, 2017 in New York, NY. The opening night film, Clive Davis: Soundtrack of Our Lives, will world premiere at Radio City Music Hall on April 19th, followed by performances from Aretha Franklin, Jennifer Hudson, Earth, Wind, and Fire, and more to be announced.
THEMES
Themes that have evolved from the 2017 program speak to topics including:
– Art & Portraits of Artists (Blurred Lines: Inside the Art World, Bobbi Jene, Gilbert, Hondros, Manifesto, My Art, Shadowman, Tom of Finland)
– Criminal Justice (Copwatch, The Family I Had, For Ahkeem, Frank Serpico, I Am Evidence, LA 92, No Stone Unturned, True Conviction)
– Comedy (The Clapper, Dumb: The Story of Big Brother Magazine, Flower, Gilbert, Holy Air, Literally, Right Before Aaron, The Lovers, Rock’n Roll, Take Me, A Thousand Junkies, The Trip to Spain, The Wedding Plan)
– Coming of Age (Blame, The Boy Downstairs, For Ahkeem, My Friend Dahmer, One Percent More Humid, Son of Sofia, Super Dark Times, Thumper)
– Environment & Earth Day (The Last Animals, A River Below, WASTED! The Story of Food Waste)
– Journalism and the Media (Dabka, Dumb: The Story of Big Brother Magazine, ELIÁN)
– LBGT (The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson, Nobody’s Watching, Saturday Church, Tom of Finland)
– Politics & Current Events (ACORN and the Firestorm, City of Ghosts, ELIÁN, Get Me Roger Stone, Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS, Newton, No Stone Unturned, The Reagan Show, When God Sleeps)
– Social and Citizen Activism (ACORN and the Firestorm, City of Ghosts, Copwatch, The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson, The Divine Order, No Man’s Land, When God Sleeps)
– Sports (Chuck, Sambá, Year of the Scab)
– Unconventional Romance (Flames, Keep the Change, The Lovers, Permission, A Suitable Girl, Thirst Street, The Wedding Plan)
FILMMAKERS:
– Directors of note:
o Guillaume Canet (Rock’n Roll)
o Alex Gibney (No Stone Unturned)
o Sebastian Junger (Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS)
o Oren Moverman (The Dinner)
o Michael Winterbottom (The Trip to Spain)
o Daniel Lindsay, TJ Martin (LA 92)
o Nick Broomfield (Whitney. “can I be me”)
o David France (The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson)
o Lana Wilson (The Departure)
o SABU (Mr Long)
o Josephine Decker (Flames)
– Producers of note:
o John Battsek (Whitney. “can I be me”)
o Joshua Blum (Thirst Street)
o Simon Chinn (LA 92)
o Kate Churchill (Abundant Acreage Available)
o Blair Foster (Get Me Roger Stone)
o Mariska Hargitay (I Am Evidence)
o Lars Knudsen (Love After Love)
o Riva Marker (Hondros)
o Zachary Quinto (Aardvark)
o Liev Schreiber (Chuck)
o Morgan Spurlock (No Man’s Land)
o Jett Steiger (Super Dark Times)
– Executive Producers of note:
o Anthony Bourdain (WASTED! The Story of Food Waste)
o Abigail Disney (When God Sleeps)
o Cary Fukunaga (Thumper)
o Alex Gibney (ELIÁN)
o Julie Goldman (The Family I Had, Shadowman, When God Sleeps)
o David Gordon Green, Danny McBride, Jody Hill (Flower)
o Jake Gyllenhaal (Hondros)
o Werner Herzog (A Gray State)
o Martin Scorsese (Abundant Acreage Available)
CAST OF NOTE:
– Barkhad Abdi (Dabka)
– Richard Armitage (Pilgrimage)
– Jon Bernthal (Pilgrimage, Sweet Virginia)
– Cate Blanchett (Manifesto)
– Lindsay Burdge (Thirst Street)
– Guillaume Canet (Rock’n Roll)
– Chevy Chase (Dog Years)
– Chang Chen (Mr Long)
– John Cho (Literally, Right Before Aaron)
– Steve Coogan (The Dinner, The Trip To Spain)
– Marion Cotillard (Rock’n Roll)
– Zoe Deutsch (Flower)
– Lena Dunham (My Art)
– Jim Gaffigan (Chuck)
– Julia Garner (One Percent More Humid)
– Richard Gere (The Dinner)
– Gina Gershon (Permission)
– Melanie Griffith (Dabka)
– Luis Guzman (Literally, Right Before Aaron)
– Rebecca Hall (The Dinner, Permission)
– Jon Hamm (Aardvark)
– Lena Headey (Thumper)
– Anne Heche (My Friend Dahmer)
– Ed Helms (The Clapper)
– Dree Hemingway (Love After Love)
– Tracy Letts (The Lovers)
– Adam Levine (The Clapper)
– Justin Long (Literally, Right Before Aaron)
– Laura Linney (The Dinner)
– Jon Lynch (Pilgrimage)
– Rami Malek (Buster’s Mal Heart)
– Zosia Mamet (The Boy Downstairs)
– Chris Messina (Blame)
– Elisabeth Moss (Chuck)
– Andie McDowell (Love After Love)
– Tracey Morgan (The Clapper)
– Alessandro Nivola (One Percent More Humid)
– Chris O’Dowd (Love After Love)
– Al Pacino (Dabka)
– Ron Pearlman (Chuck)
– Evan Peters (Dabka)
– Imogen Poots (Sweet Virgina)
– Parker Posey (My Art)
– Bill Pullman (A Thousand Junkies)
– Michael Rapaport (Chuck)
– Burt Reynolds (Dog Years)
– Amy Ryan (Abundant Acreage Available)
– Liev Schrieiber (Chuck)
– Taylor Schilling (Take Me)
– Adam Scott (Flower)
– Chloe Sevigny (The Dinner)
– Amanda Seyfried (The Clapper)
– Kate Lyn Sheil (Buster’s Mal Heart)
– Jenny Slate (Aardvark)
– Cobie Smulders (Literally, Right Before Aaron)
– Jason Sudeikis (Permission)
– Juno Temple (One Percent More Humid)
– Alan Thicke (The Clapper)
– Zachary Quinto (Aardvark)
– Milo Ventimiglia (Devil’s Gate)
– Jessica Walter (Keep the Change)
– Naomi Watts (Chuck)
– Debra Winger (The Lovers)
– Ariel Winter (Dog Years)
DOCUMENTARY SUBJECTS OF NOTE
– Anthony Bourdain (WASTED! The Story of Food Waste)
– Whoopi Goldberg (Gilbert)
– Elián González (ELIÁN)
– Gilbert Gottfried (Gilbert)
– Richard Hambleton (Shadowman)
– Tony Hawk (Dumb: The Story of Big Brother Magazine)
– Spike Jonze (Dumb: The Story of Big Brother Magazine)
– Johnny Knoxville (Dumb: The Story of Big Brother Magazine)
– Jay Leno (Gilbert)
– Howie Mandel (Gilbert)
– Bam Margera (Dumb: The Story of Big Brother Magazine)
– Ronald Reagan (The Reagan Show)
– Frank Serpico (Frank Serpico)
– Steve-O (Dumb: The Story of Big Brother Magazine)
– Roger Stone (Get Me Roger Stone)
– Donald Trump (Get Me Roger Stone)
2017 PROGRAMMING:
The 2017 festival program includes the following films with distribution:
– Buster’s Mal Heart – A Well Go USA release.
– Can I Be Me – A Showtime release.
– Chuck – An IFC Films release.
– City of Ghosts – An Amazon Studios release.
– Dumb: The Story of Big Brother Magazine – A Hulu release.
– Get Me Roger Stone – A Netflix release.
– Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS – A National Geographic release.
– Hounds of Love – A Gunpowder & Sky release.
– I Am Evidence – An HBO Documentary Film release.
– LA 92 – A National Geographic release.
– Manifesto – A FilmRise release.
– The Dinner – The Orchard release.
– The Lovers – An A24 release.
– The Trip to Spain – An IFC Films release.
– The Wedding Plan – A Roadside Attractions release.
– Year of the Scab – An ESPN Films release.
FESTIVAL ALUMNI
Directors:
– Sarah Adina Smith – Buster’s Mal Heart (Holidays; Director, TFF 2016)
– Justin Benson – The Endless (Resolution, Director, TFF 2012; Resolution, Producer, TFF 2012)
– Bryan Buckley – Dabka (Asad, Director, TFF 2012; Wake-Up Caller, Director, TFF 2005)
– Antonino D’Ambrosio – Frank Serpico (Let Fury Have The Hour, Director, TFF 2012)
– Geeta Gandbhir – I Am Evidence (Prison Dogs, Director, TFF 2016; Prison Dogs, Producer, TFF 2016)
– Alex Gibney – No Stone Unturned (Catching Hell, Director, TFF 2011; Freakonomics, Director, TFF 2010; My Trip to Al-Qaeda, Director, TFF 2010; Taxi to the Dark Side, Director, TFF 2007; Untitled Eliot Spitzer Film, Director, TFF 2010; Untitled James Brown Documentary, Director, TFF 2014)
– Matthew Heineman – City of Ghosts (Cartel Land, Director, TFF 2015; Cartel Land, Producer, TFF 2015)
– Oren Jacoby – Shadowman (Sister Rose’s Passion – short, Director, TFF 2004; Sister Rose’s Passion, Director, TFF 2006)
– Angus MacLachlan – Abundant Acreage Available (Goodbye to All That, Director, TFF 2014)
– Aaron Moorhead – The Endless (Resolution; Director, TFF 2012)
– Oren Moverman – The Dinner (Ticket, Producer, TFF 2016)
– Till Schauder – When God Sleeps (Duke’s House, Director, TFF 2003), Duke’s House (Producer, TFF 2003)
– Nathan Silver – Thirst Street (Actor Martinez, Director, TFF 2016)
– Landon Van Soest – For Ahkeem (Five Star, Producer, TFF 2014)
– Max Winkler – Flower (King of Central Park, Director, TFF 2006)
– Michael Winterbottom – The Trip To Spain (9 Songs, Director, TFF 2005; Emperor’s New Clothes, Director, TFF 2015; Killer Inside Me, Director, TFF 2010; Road to Guantanamo, Director, TFF 2006; Trip, Director, TFF 2011; Trishna, Director, TFF 2012)
Returning producers include:
– Trish Adlesic – I Am Evidence (Gasland Part II, Producer, TFF 2013)
– David Alvarado – True Conviction (Untitled Bill Nye Documentary, Director, TFF 2016; Untitled Bill Nye Documentary, Producer, TFF 2016)
– Simon Chinn – LA 92 (Garnet’s Gold, Producer, TFF 2014; My Scientology Movie, Producer, TFF 2016)
– Mel Eslyn – Take Me (Dreamland, Producer, TFF 2016; One I Love, Producer, TFF 2014)
– Blair Foster – Get Me Roger Stone (Untitled James Brown Documentary, Producer, TFF 2014)
– Julie Goldman – The Family I Had (Enlighten Us: The Rise and Fall of James Arthur Ray; Producer, TFF 2016; Indian Point, Producer, TFF 2015; Life, Animated, Producer, TFF 2016; One Nation Under Dog, Producer, TFF 2012)
– Margot Hand – Permission (Meadowland, Producer, TFF 2015; Tumbledown, Producer, TFF 2015)
– Matthew Heineman – City of Ghosts (Cartel Land, Director, TFF 2015; Cartel Land, Producer, TFF 2015)
– Oren Jacoby – Shadowman (Sister Rose’s Passion, Director, TFF 2004; Sister Rose’s Passion, Director, TFF 2006)
– Mino Jarjoura – Dabka (Asad, Producer, TFF 2012)
– Lucas Joaquin – Love After Love (Keep the Lights On, Producer, TFF 2012; When I Live My Life Over Again, Producer, TFF 2015)
– Riva Marker – Hondros (Life Partners, Producer, TFF 2014)
– Sev Ohanian – Take Me (Tenured, Producer, TFF 2015)
– Jason Orans – Frank Serpico (Night School, Producer, TFF 2016 ; Satellite, Producer, TFF 2005)
– Matthew Perniciaro – Copwatch (Maurizio Cattelan: Be Right Back, Producer, TFF 2016)
– Rick Rosenthal – A Thousand Junkies (Match, Producer, TFF 2014)
– Till Schauder – When God Sleeps (Duke’s House, Director, TFF 2003;Duke’s House, Producer, TFF 2003)
– L.A. Teodosio – The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson (AWOL, Producer, TFF 2016)
– Lydia Tenaglia – WASTED! The Story of Food Waste (Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent, Director, TFF 2016)
– Jeff Tremaine – Dumb: The Story of Big Brother Magazine (Angry Sky, Director, TFF 2015; Birth of Big Air, Director, TFF 2010)
TRIBECA FILM INSTITUTE
The 2017 program will include the following feature films supported by the Tribeca Film Institute:
– ACORN and the Firestorm – directors Reuben Atlas & Sam Pollard
– The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson – director David France
– The Departure – director Lana Wilson
– The Family I Had – directors Katie Green & Carlye Rubin
– No Man’s Land – director David Byars
– Nobody’s Watching – director Julia Solomonoff
– The Reagan Show – directors Sierra Pettengill & Pacho Velez
– The Sensitives – director Drew Xanthopoulos
– True Conviction – director Jamie Meltzer