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Press Release - 2008 TFF Announces World Narrative/Documentary Competition

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contacts:
Nicole Quenqua Adler

Tribeca Film Festival
212-843-8000
nqadler@rubenstein.com
Tammie Rosen

Tribeca Film Festival
(212) 941-2003
trosen@tribecaenterprises.com

New York, NY [March 11, 2008] – The 2008 Tribeca Film Festival, presented by American Express, today announced the line-ups for its World Narrative and World Documentary Feature Film Competitions as well the films it has chosen to present in the Encounters section for the seventh annual Festival. The Festival will take place April 23 – May 4, 2008 in Lower Manhattan.

The Festival will present a streamlined selection of 121 feature films from 31 different countries, including 53 World Premieres,6 International Premieres,30 North American Premieres, 7 U.S. Premieres and 20 New York City Premieres. 145 directors will be presenting feature works at the Festival, with 66 of these filmmakers presenting their feature directorial debuts. These films were selected from 2,329 feature submissions.

Twelve narrative features and an equal number of documentary features will compete for combined unrestricted cash prizes amounting to $100,000, including prizes totaling $50,000 from American Express for the Best New Narrative and Documentary Filmmakers. These 24 films come from 18 countries and over half of the filmmakers in competition will be making their feature directorial debuts.

"Each year the festival’s programming team sets out to bring together a community of filmmakers from around the world and around the corner to share their artistic visions and stories with our international audiences and industry," said co-founder Jane Rosenthal. "This year’s Festival is a quintessential reflection of our world."

"This year our narrative and feature competitions and our "Encounters" selections include a few works by directors who are well-known on the international scene— Egypt’s Yousry Nasrallah, England’s Shane Meadows, Germany’s Rosa von Praunheim and Morocco’s Nabil Ayouch as well as our own Robert Drew and Melvin Van Peebles, but most of these outstanding films are by promising new talents and that’s exciting news for us all," said Peter Scarlet, the Festival’s Artistic Director.

Tribeca also announced the return of the popular Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival launched last year. Eleven films will be part of this program as well as the main festival slate and will be announced in their main sections but all share a focus on sports or competition. In addition to screening with all the other films in the Festival slate, these movies will play as part of two Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival marathon days – on Sunday, April 27th and Saturday, May 3rd – during which audiences will have the opportunity to screen the films back-to-back.

The complete list of films selected for World Narrative Feature Competition, World Documentary Feature Competition and Encounters follows below:

Encounters
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Sure to spark conversation during the festival and beyond, this assortment of 11 narrative and ten documentary films offers high-profile talent and notable subject matters, featuring performances by veteran actors Frank Langella, William H. Macy, Sissy Spacek, and Danny Glover; new work from venerable New York filmmakers Melvin Van Peebles and Bill Plympton; profiles of political and spiritual figures John F. Kennedy, the Dalai Lama, and Che Guevara; and portraits of artists Celia Cruz and Diego Rivera.

* I Am Because We Are, directed by Nathan Rissman. (UK) - World Premiere, Documentary. Madonna uses the power of documentary film to expose the tragic stories of the millions of children orphaned by AIDS, offering both a call to action and a revelatory personal journey. Featuring interviews with Bill Clinton and Desmond Tutu, the film is a testament to survival, change, and hope. English, Chichewa with English subtitles.

Contacts for all these feature-length films can be viewed in the media section of the Tribeca Film Festival website.

Festival films screen in ten sections: World Narrative Competition, World Documentary Competition, Encounters, Discovery, Midnight, Spotlight, Showcase, Restored/Rediscovered, Galas and Special Events. The Discovery and Midnight sections and Spotlight, Showcase, Restored/Rediscovered and special events will be announced on March 13 and March 17, respectively.

Box Office Information
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