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For the first time ever, the Tribeca Film Festival has opened for podcast submissions! To celebrate, weâre bringing you a special behind the scenes episode about how our short film submissions process works. Leah chatted with Tribecaâs short programmers, Sharon Badal and Ben Thompson, to learn what they look for in the films they select, common mistakes they see, and what filmmakers can do to stand out.
For more information and to submit your film or podcast, go to tribecafilm.com/submissions.
Do you want to learn more about how Tribeca works? Or have you been to a talk at the festival that youâd like to hear again? Let us know! Email us at [email protected] or follow us on social @tribeca.
You can watch some the short films discussed in the episode at the links below:
Chloe Sarbibâs Girl Friend
Marshall Curryâs The Neighborsâ Window
Kobe Bryant and Glen Keaneâs Dear Basketball
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Fierce, a podcast from iHeartRadio and Tribeca Studios, tells the incredible stories of women who history has undervalued. In this episode, youâll hear about Cheng I Sao, the most successful pirate of all time. She innovated the piracy business model, established strict rules about the treatment of women on her ships, successfully evaded the Chinese government, and, unlike pretty much every other pirate, retired.
To listen to the rest of Fierce, go to https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-fierce-31140164/ or subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
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Celebrated singer, songwriter, actor, and producer John Legend sat down with Sara Bareilles as part of Tribecaâs 2018 Storytellers Series. They discussed John Legendâs first job out of college, Sara Bareillesâ most embarrassing song, and their collaboration on Jesus Christ Superstar.
Multiplatinum artist John Legend has garnered eleven GRAMMY AwardsÂź, an Academy AwardÂź, a Golden Globe AwardÂź, a Tony AwardÂź, and an Emmy AwardÂź, making Legend the first African-American man to earn an EGOT. Legend has released seven celebrated albums including, Get Lifted (2004), Once Again (2006), Evolver (2008), Love in the Future (2013), Darkness and Light (2016), A Legendary Christmas (2018), and Bigger Love (2020). Legend starred in NBC's Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert in 2018, winning an EmmyÂź for Outstanding Variety Special and nominated for Outstanding Lead Actor (Limited Series). Legend joined The Voice for Season 16 (2019), and is currently a coach on Season 19. John is a partner in Get Lifted Film Co., serving as an Executive Producer for Southern Rites, United Skates, WGN America's Underground, and films Southside with You and La La Land. As a philanthropist, Legend initiated the #FREEAMERICA campaign in 2015 to change the national conversation surrounding our country's misguided criminal justice policies and to end mass incarceration.
Sara Bareilles first achieved mainstream critical praise in 2007 with her widely successful hit "Love Song,â which reached No. 1 in 22 countries around the world from her debut album Little Voice. Since then, Sara has taken home a GRAMMY awardÂź, received seven GRAMMYÂź nominations, two TonyÂź nominations and three EmmyÂź nominations. Her book, Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song, was released in the fall of 2015 by Simon & Schuster and is a New York Times best seller. Making her Broadway debut, Sara composed the music and lyrics for âWaitress,â and made her Broadway acting debut in 2017 by stepping into the show's lead role. On April 5, 2019 Sara released her fifth full-length and first album of original material since 2013, entitled Amidst The Chaos. For this latest body of work, she joined forces in the studio with legendary Academy AwardÂź-winning producer T Bone Burnett. As a result, the album spotlights her voice as a singer and storyteller like never before, while making an enduring statement. Recently, Sara teamed up with Apple as an executive producer for Little Voice, a 10-episode series for which she will create the original music.
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Initially discovered for her original voice in breakout film Tiny Furniture, Lena Dunham has gone on to win two Golden Globe AwardsÂź, including Best Actress for her work on Girls, which was created by Dunham and helmed by Jenni Konner, whose other work includes the limited series Camping and Undeclared. In a canât miss conversation with EmmyÂź and Golden GlobeÂź award winning actress America Ferrera, Dunham and Konner discussed Girls, the industry, and the highs and lows of their careers at Tribeca 2017.
Lena Dunham created and starred in the critically acclaimed HBO series Girls, for which she also served as executive producer, writer, and director. She was nominated for eight EmmyÂź awards and has won two Golden GlobesÂź, including Best Actress for her work on Girls. In 2010, she won an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay for her feature Tiny Furniture, which she also starred in and directed. In 2013, Dunham made history as the first female to win a DGA award in the Best TV Comedy Director category.
Jenni Konner (Executive Producer) is a writer, director and producer best known for executive producing and writing Girls, which ran for six acclaimed seasons on HBO. Over the course of its run, Girls was nominated for two EmmysÂź for Outstanding Comedy Series and won the 2013 Golden GlobeÂź for Best Comedy Television Series as well as the 2013 BAFTA for Best International Show. Konner also wrote and directed the limited series Camping for HBO. She began her career as a writer on Judd Apatow's celebrated television series, Undeclared. Her additional producing credits include the HBO documentaries Itâs Me, Hilary: The Man Who Drew Eloise and Suited. She currently resides in Los Angeles, where she runs her production company, I Am Jenni Konner Productions.
America Ferrera is an award-winning actress, director and producer known for her breakthrough role as âBetty Suarezâ on ABCâs hit comedy, Ugly Betty. For her performance, Ferrera was recognized with a Golden GlobeÂź, EmmyÂź and SAG Award. Ferrera most recently produced and starred in the NBC workplace comedy, Superstore. She also executive produced and directed episodes of NETFLIXâs new Latinx Dramedy, Gentefied. In 2018, Ferrera released her first book, American Like Me, a New York Times best-seller. In 2017, she worked as one of the driving forces alongside other powerful women in Hollywood to establish the TIMEâS UP movement.
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Academy AwardÂź-winning filmmaker Alejandro GonzĂĄlez Iñårritu, one of only three directors to ever win consecutive OscarsÂź and the first to do so in 65 years, sat down with ground-breaking performance artist Marina AbramoviÄ to discuss his beautifully varied work as part of Tribecaâs 2017 Directors Series.
Academy AwardŸ-winning director, writer, and producer Alejandro G. Iñårritu is one of the most acclaimed filmmakers working today. He made his feature directorial debut at the Cannes Semaine de la Critique in 2000 and was nominated for a Foreign Film Academy AwardŸ with Amores Perros. His following credits include 21 Grams, Babel, which garnered seven OscarŸ nominations and won the Best Director Award at the 2006 Festival de Cannes, and Biutiful, presented in competition in 2010 at Cannes. Iñårritu took home the prize for Best Director, Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay at the 87th Academy AwardsŸ for Birdman. The following year, Iñårritu won his second consecutive Academy AwardŸ for Best Director for The Revenant. He is the first Mexican filmmaker to be nominated for either director or producer in the history of the Academy AwardsŸ and the first Mexican filmmaker to receive a Best Picture award at Cannes. Most recently, Iñårritu created the VR installation Carne y Arena (Virtually present, Physically invisible), which previewed at the 2017 Festival de Cannes as the first VR project ever included in the official selection, and garnered Iñårritu his fifth Academy AwardŸ, a special OscarŸ presented to him by the Board of Governors.
Since the beginning of her career in Belgrade during the early 1970s, Marina AbramoviÄ has pioneered performance art, creating some of the formâs most important early works. The body has always been both her subject and medium. Exploring her physical and mental limits, she has withstood pain, exhaustion, and danger in her quest for emotional and spiritual transformation. AbramoviÄ was awarded the Golden Lion for Best Artist at the 1997 Venice Biennale. In 2010, AbramoviÄ had her first major U.S. retrospective and simultaneously performed for over 700 hours in âThe Artist is Presentâ at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 2014, she completed the three-month performance â512 Hoursâ at the Serpentine Gallery in London. AbramoviÄ founded Marina AbramoviÄ Institute (MAI), a platform for immaterial and long durational work to create new possibilities for collaboration among thinkers of all fields.
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BAFTA, PeabodyÂź, and Emmy AwardÂź winning writer-director Ava DuVernay sat down with GRAMMY AwardÂź winning musician Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival. They discussed why DuVernay is always shooting, the art of lighting and framing dark-skinned actors, and the importance of finding your tribe.
Audience questions:
Tips for writerâs block?Follow up: The pressure of being watched?How do you navigate a male-dominated industry?Do you know everyone prior to being on set? How do you assemble your team?Who are the next iconic female voices?Winner of BAFTA, PeabodyÂź and Emmy AwardsÂź, Academy AwardÂź nominee Ava DuVernay âs directorial work includes the OscarÂź-winning civil rights drama Selma, the OscarÂź-nominated social justice documentary 13th and the Disney childrenâs adventure A Wrinkle in Time, which made her the highest-grossing Black woman director in American box office history. In 2019, she created, wrote, produced and directed the Emmy AwardÂź-winning limited series When They See Us. She is currently producing the fifth season of her acclaimed series, Queen Sugar. Winner of the 2012 Sundance Best Director Prize for her second independent film Middle of Nowhere, DuVernay amplifies the work of Black artists, people of color and women of all kinds through her multi-platform arts collective ARRAY.
ARRAY is a multi-platform media company and arts collective based in Los Angeles. Founded in 2012 by filmmaker Ava DuVernay, the company currently operates a trio of branded entertainment entities: ARRAY Releasing, ARRAY Filmworks and ARRAY Creative Campus in partnership with the non-profit cinema and social justice organization ARRAY Alliance. www.arraynow.com
Famously known as co-founder of A Tribe Called Quest, Q-Tip has become one of the most influential Hip Hop figures of all-time, uniquely fusing rap, jazz, and other styles with piercing, socially conscious lyrics. The group released its sixth and final album We Got It From Here...Thank You 4 Your Service in November 2016 to glowing critical acclaim. His atypical approach and appreciation to hip hop as well as other genres has earned Q-Tip success as a solo artist and producer, working with such celebrated artists as the Beastie Boys, Busta Rhymes, J. Dilla, Janet Jackson, Queen Latifah, Pharrell Williams, Mark Ronson and Mary J. Blige. He has most recently collaborated with Solange, Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar, Arcade Fire and the Chemical Brothers. Q-Tipâs critically praised solo albums include Amplified, GrammyÂź-nominated The Renaissance, and Kamaal the Abstract. Q-Tip is currently the host of Apple Musicâs Abstract Radio, a weekly Friday show where he digs deep into underground favorites and musical legends. Q-Tipâs artistic innovation and exploration continues through his work as a recording artist, a music producer, a DJ, an actor, a film producer, curator, advocate, and ambassador of Hip Hop Culture. He brings his industry expertise to the Kennedy Center to curate a full season of Hip Hop across disciplines, transforming the performing arts center into a home for Hip Hop Culture and history for years to come.
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In 2017, Tribeca premiered the extended music video for Commonâs âLetter to the Free,â directed by Bradford Young. After the screening, Academy AwardÂź, Golden GlobeÂź, and three time GRAMMYÂź winner Common sat down with author and filmmaker Nelson George to discuss âLetter to the Free,â Commonâs work on Selma and 13th, and the power of music.
Common is an artist, actor, activist and, most recently, a New York Times best-selling author with the release of his latest memoir Let Love Have The Last Word. With a storied career spanning three decades, his work has been recognized with numerous GRAMMY AwardsÂź, as well as an EmmyÂź and an Academy AwardÂź for the song "Glory" which he co-wrote and performed with John Legend. In Summer 2019, he released his new album Let Love, inspired by his work and experiences that came from writing his second memoir of the same name.
Nelson George is an author and filmmaker who celebrates black culture in America. He was a producer and writer on the Netflix series The Get Down and directed the Lifetime movie The Real MVP. George's other directing credits include the theatrical documentary A Ballerina's Tale about Misty Copeland as well as docs for ESPN and VH1. He is serving as executive producer on Outlaws, a documentary series on Afeni and Tupac Shakur for the FX Network. He has written many non-fiction books on African-American life including Hip Hop America, The Death of Rhythm & Blues, and the current The Nelson George Mixtape on Pacific Books. He has a blog on Substack also titled The Nelson George Mixtape. His next novel, The Darkest Hearts, will be published by Akashic Books in August. George was born in Brooklyn, New York.
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If youâre a comedy fan, this conversation is for you. Bridesmaids and Freaks and Geeks director Paul Feig sat down with SNL co-head writer, actor, and stand-up comedian Michael Che at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival. They discussed movie jail, internet backlash, and why itâs so hard to make good comedy.
Paul Feig is a successful filmmaker, writer and producer whose films have grossed over a billion dollars worldwide. As a producer, Feig counts series like Love Life for HBO Max and Zoeyâs Extraordinary Playlist. His recent work includes directing Last Christmas and A Simple Favor. In 2016, Feig directed and co-wrote the critically acclaimed reboot of Ghostbusters. In 2015, Feig wrote, directed and produced the comedy Spy. Feigâs other films include The Heat and Bridesmaids. Feig is also known for directing and co-executive producing The Office. Currently, Feig hosts his Quarantine Cocktail Time on his Instagram live while in quarantine.
Michael Che is an American comedian, writer, and actor. Named one of Rolling Stone's 50 Funniest People, Che is currently in his 6th season as co-anchor of Saturday Night Liveâs iconic âWeekend Updateâ segment where he is also a co-head writer for the show. In 2018, Che co-hosted the 70th Annual Primetime Emmy AwardsÂź on NBC. Prior to joining SNL, Che was a correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He also appeared in Chris Rockâs film Top Five. His first hour-long comedy special Michael Che Matters premiered on Netflix in 2016.
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Academy AwardÂź winning actress and director, Jodie Foster, was interviewed by Tony AwardÂź winning director, Julie Taymor at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival. They discussed their wildly different directing styles, why theyâre both sick of the woman director conversation, and the audition that launched Jodie Fosterâs career.
In a career spanning over 50 years, Jodie Foster is considered to be one of the most critically acclaimed actresses of her generation. Her roles in Alice Doesnât Live Here Anymore, Taxi Driver, Nell, Contact, Panic Room, and The Brave One have all won her international attention. Fosterâs stunning performances in The Accused and The Silence of the Lambs earned her two Academy AwardsÂź for Best Actress. Behind the camera, Foster made her motion picture directorial debut in 1991 with Little Man Tate, in which she also starred. She went on to direct Home for the Holidays, The Beaver, Money Monster and recently episodes of Orange is the New Black, House of Cards, Black Mirror and Tales From The Loop.
Julie Taymor: Film: The Glorias, starring Julianne Moore, Alicia Vikander, Janelle MonĂĄe and Bette Midler based on Gloria Steinemâs My Life on the Road, also Oedipus Rex (EmmyÂź) starring Jessye Norman; Titus starring Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange; Frida (Academy AwardÂź) starring Salma Hayek; Across the Universe (Golden GlobeÂź and Academy AwardÂź nominations); The Tempest starring Helen Mirren; and A Midsummer Nightâs Dream. Theatre: The Lion King (two TonysÂź); M. Butterfly starring Clive Owen; Grounded starring Anne Hathaway, The Green Bird, and Juan DariĂ©n. Opera: The Magic Flute (Metropolitan Opera) and Elliot Goldenthalâs Grendel. She is a recipient of the MacArthur âGeniusâ Fellowship.
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This legendary duo came together at the Beacon Theatre as part of Tribeca's 2019 Directors Series to reflect upon their illustrious decades of collaboration from Mean Streets to The Irishman.
This podcast includes clips from Mean Streets, The Last Waltz, Raging Bull, The King of Comedy, Casino, Silence, and The Wolf of Wall Street.
Robert De Niro launched his motion picture career in Brian De Palma's The Wedding Party in 1969. By 1974, he had won the New York Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor in Bang the Drum Slowly and from the National Society of Film Critics for Mean Streets. In 1974 De Niro won the Academy AwardÂź for Best Supporting Actor for The Godfather: Part II. In 1980 he won his second OscarÂź, as Best Actor, for Raging Bull. De Niro has also earned Academy AwardÂź nominations for his work in: Taxi Driver, The Deer Hunter, Awakenings, the remake of Cape Fear and Silver Linings Playbook. He was most recently seen in The Irishman, his ninth collaboration with Martin Scorsese. The Irishman, based on the book I Heard You Paint Houses by Charles Brandt, either won or was nominated for a multitude of awards including being nominated for best picture from the Academy of Motion Pictures and BAFTA. The Irishman, released by Netflix, also won the New York Film Critics and the National Board of Review awards for Best Picture. Prior to The Irishman, De Niro was seen in Warner Bros. The Joker and Tribeca Productionsâ and HBOâs Wizard of Lies starring as Bernie Madoff, for which he received both an Emmy AwardÂź nomination for lead actor in a limited series or movie and a Screen Actors Guild nomination for Outstanding performance by a male actor in a Miniseries or Television movie. In 2009, De Niro received the Kennedy Center Honor for his distinguished acting and the Stanley Kubrick Award from the BAFTA Britannia Awards. De Niro was honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 2011 Golden Globe Awards. He served as the jury president of the 64th Cannes Film Festival. In 2020, De Niro received the Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award. De Niro takes pride in his production company, Tribeca Productions, and the Tribeca Film Festival, which he founded with Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff. Through Tribeca Productions, De Niro has developed projects on which he has served as producer, director and actor. Tribeca's A Bronx Tale in 1993 marked De Niroâs directorial debut. De Niro also directed The Good Shepherd in 2006.
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At the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival, acclaimed actor Alec Baldwin interviewed Academy-AwardÂź winning director Guillermo del Toro. Del Toro discussed how he storyboards and prepares for shoots, the origin of his film school, and what all his movies are really about.
Guillermo del Toro is among the most creative and visionary artists of his generation whose distinctive style is showcased through his work as a filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and author. Born in Guadalajara, Mexico, he is best known for his 2006 Spanish language feature Panâs Labyrinth (winner of 3 OscarsÂź) and his 2018, contemporary fairy tale The Shape of Water, which won the Golden Lion at the 2017 Venice Film Festival, and went on to win two Golden GlobesÂź, three BAFTAs, DGA, PGA and Academy AwardsÂź for Best Picture, Best Direction, Best Score and Best Production Design.
Del Toroâs other films include, Cronos, Mimic, The Devilâs Backbone, Blade II, Hellboy, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Pacific Rim and Crimson Peak.
Since 1980, Alec Baldwin has appeared in numerous productions on stage, in films and on television. He has received a TonyÂź nomination (A Streetcar Named Desire, 1992) an OscarÂź nomination (The Cooler, 2004) and has won three Emmy awardsÂź, three Golden GlobesÂź and seven consecutive Screen Actors Guild Awards as Best Actor in a Comedy Series for his role on NBC-TV's 30 Rock. His films include The Hunt for Red October, Glengarry Glen Ross, Malice, The Edge, Itâs Complicated, Blue Jasmine, Still Alice, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, and The Boss Baby among many others.
Baldwin earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from New York Universityâs Tisch School of the Arts in 1994 and has received honorary doctorates from NYU (2010) and Manhattan School of Music (2012). He serves on numerous boards related to the arts, the environment and progressive politics including the Hamptons International Film Festival and the New York Philharmonic. He is also the radio announcer for the New York Philharmonic.
He has authored three books: A Promise to Ourselves, his memoir entitled Nevertheless and, with Kurt Andersen, the Donald Trump parody You Canât Spell America Without Me.
He is the host of a podcast, Hereâs the Thing, for WNYC.
Baldwin is married to author and wellness expert Hilaria Thomas Baldwin. They have four children: Carmen, Rafael, Leonardo and Romeo, as well as his eldest, Ireland Baldwin. Baldwin hosts ABCâs Match Game, the classic television game show; a portion of his fees are donated to charity through The Hilaria and Alec Baldwin Foundation.
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Barbra Streisand sat down with Robert Rodriguez at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival to discuss how she got her start in the industry, the moment she knew she wanted to direct, the power of the will, and more.
Widely recognized as an icon in multiple entertainment fields, Barbra Streisand has attained unprecedented achievements as a recording artist, actor, director, producer, screenwriter, author, songwriter, and concert performer. Streisand has been awarded two OscarsÂź, five EmmysÂź, ten GRAMMYSÂź including two special GRAMMYSÂź, a Tony AwardÂź, eleven Golden GlobesÂź including the Cecil B. DeMille Award, three Peabodys, and the Directorâs Guild Award for her concert special -- the only artist to receive honors in all of those areas.
In addition, Streisand has also received the American Film Instituteâs Lifetime Achievement Award and the Kennedy Center Honor. She also received the National Medal of Arts from President Clinton, the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Obama, and Franceâs LĂ©gion d'Honneur.
She is the first woman to direct, produce, write, and star in a major motion picture, the first woman composer to receive an Academy AwardÂź, the only recording artist who has achieved #1 albums in six consecutive decades, and the first and only woman to receive a Golden Globe AwardÂź for Best Director.
A woman of action, Streisand is a devoted philanthropist who works tirelessly to fight for what she believes in. She founded The Barbra Streisand Womenâs Heart Center at Cedars-Sinai and co-founded the Womenâs Heart Alliance, helping to raise awareness and push for more research into womenâs heart disease, the leading cause of death among women. Through the Streisand Foundation, which she established in 1986, she has fought for progressive ideas. She has been a leading environmental activist funding some of the earliest climate change research. She has long been a staunch supporter of racial equality, womenâs rights, civil rights, and the very urgent need to protect votersâ rights.
Robert Rodriguez is a film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor and musician. His films include, El Mariachi, Desperado, From Dusk Till Dawn, the Spy Kids franchise, Sin City, and Machete. Rodriguez recently collaborated with director James Cameron on the film Alita: Battle Angel. Rodriguez directed and James Cameron served as producer. Rodriguez is the Founder and Chairman of El Rey Network, a 24-hour, English-language lifestyle network. El Rey's slate includes the one-on-one interview program hosted by Rodriguez, The Director's Chair. He resides in Austin, Texas.
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Jamie Foxx is an award-winning actor, singer, and comedian. At the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival, he sat down with Genius News anchor Jacques Morel to discuss his prolific career.
Perhaps his most iconic role as an actor, Jamie Foxx's portrayal of musician Ray Charles in the biopic Ray landed him an Academy AwardÂź, a Golden GlobeÂź, and a BAFTA in 2005. The very same year, Foxx was nominated for a second OscarÂź for his acting in the film Collateral, making him only the second man in history to receive two acting OscarÂź nominations in the same year for two different roles. In addition to film, Foxx is a GRAMMY awardÂź-winning musician.
Jacques Morel is a Senior Correspondent for Genius News. Prior to Genius, he spent four years working for The Huffington Postâs video team. He also had internships with Sony, Warner Bros, ABC and KarmaloopTV. He has interviewed hundreds of people - notably Jamie Foxx, Yara Shahidi, Jada Pinkett Smith, Tyrese, Senator Cory Booker, Ne-Yo, Sanaa Lathan, Wiz Khalifa, Matisyahu and more. He can be found at @jmorel_jr on all social media platforms.
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Tribeca celebrated the legacy of The Godfather & The Godfather Part II one with a 45th anniversary screening and reunion event at our 2017 festival. The director and cast got together for a conversation after the screening.
Francis Ford Coppola (Director) is one of the most acclaimed filmmakers of our time; a six-time Academy AwardÂź-winning writer, director, and producer of such films as Patton, The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, American Graffiti, The Conversation, Apocalypse Now, and Bram Stokerâs Dracula. He produces a short story magazine called Zoetrope: All-Story, winner of three National Magazine Awards for Fiction, and is the best-selling author of The Godfather Notebook and Live Cinema and Its Techniques, about a new form of art which is a combination of theater, film, and television. He has also been producing wine for nearly forty years at his Napa Valley and Sonoma Valley wineries.
Actor and director Al Pacino (Michael Corleone) was born in East Harlem and grew up in New York Cityâs South Bronx. He attended the School of Performing Arts until he moved on to study acting at the Herbert Berghof Studio with Charles Laughton, and later, at the Actors Studio with Lee Strasberg. His first leading part in a feature film was in the 1971 drama Panic in Needle Park. The following year, Francis Ford Coppola selected him to take on the breakthrough role of Michael Corleone in The Godfather, for which he was nominated for an Academy AwardÂź
One of the most versatile actors in film, James Caan (Sonny Corleone) is best known for his Academy AwardÂź nominated performance as Sonny Corleone in The Godfather and for his EmmyÂź-nominated portrayal of football star Brian Piccolo in Brianâs Song. Appearing in more than 100 movies, Caan also earned great recognition starring in Rob Reinerâs critically acclaimed film Misery; and For The Boys, co-starring Bette Midler. He was equally praised for his performance as a brain damaged football star in Francis Ford Coppolaâs The Rain People. Caan made his directorial debut and starred in the critically acclaimed film Hide In Plain Sight.
A leading man since the 1960s, Robert Duvall (Tom Hagen) has specialized in driven characters of all types. Respected by his peers and adored by audiences worldwide, he has earned numerous OscarÂź nominations for his performances in The Judge, The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, The Great Santini and The Apostle. Duvall won the Academy AwardÂź and a Golden GlobeÂź as Best Actor for his role in Tender Mercies. In addition, he has received Golden GlobeÂź Awards for his performances in the title role of HBOâs Stalin as well as for his memorable turns in Apocalypse Now and Lonesome Dove.
Talia Shire (Connie) comes from a family of artists. The Yale drama school alum has appeared in over fifty movies and television shows, received two Academy AwardÂź nominations, and won the NY Film Critics Award for her performance in Rocky (1976). She and her husband Jack Schwartzman independently financed and produced several movies among them Never Say Never Again (1983) and Rad (1986) whose sequel is currently in development. In 1994 she directed One Night Stand. In 1994 Jack Schwartzman died. In 1997 she was one of several producers on the TonyÂź nominated play Golden Child. Family is at the center of her life. Taliaâs children continue on in the same tradition of theatre and film. Her two step children John Schwartzman (Cinematographer) and Stephanie Schwartzman (Artist), her son Matthew Shire (Writer/Producer), Jason Schwartzman (Actor/Musician/Writer/Director/Producer), & Robert Schwartzman (Actor/Musician/Director/Producer).
Diane Keaton (Kay Adams)
Robert De Niro (Vito Corleone - The Godfather: Part II) launched his motion picture career in Brian De Palma's The Wedding Party in 1969. By 1974, he had won the New York Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor in Bang the Drum Slowly and from the National Society of Film Critics for Mean Streets. In 1974 De Niro won the Academy AwardÂź for Best Supporting Actor for The Godfather: Part II. In 1980 he won his second OscarÂź, as Best Actor, for Raging Bull. De Niro has also earned Academy AwardÂź nominations for his work in: Taxi Driver, The Deer Hunter, Awakenings, the remake of Cape Fear and Silver Linings Playbook. He was most recently seen in The Irishman, his ninth collaboration with Martin Scorsese. The Irishman, based on the book I Heard You Paint Houses by Charles Brandt, either won or was nominated for a multitude of awards including being nominated for best picture from the Academy of Motion Pictures and BAFTA. The Irishman, released by Netflix, also won the New York Film Critics and the National Board of Review awards for Best Picture. Prior to The Irishman, De Niro was seen in Warner Bros. The Joker and Tribeca Productionsâ and HBOâs Wizard of Lies starring as Bernie Madoff, for which he received both an Emmy AwardÂź nomination for lead actor in a limited series or movie and a Screen Actors Guild nomination for Outstanding performance by a male actor in a Miniseries or Television movie. In 2009, De Niro received the Kennedy Center Honor for his distinguished acting and the Stanley Kubrick Award from the BAFTA Britannia Awards. De Niro was honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 2011 Golden Globe Awards. He served as the jury president of the 64th Cannes Film Festival. In 2020, De Niro received the Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award. De Niro takes pride in his production company, Tribeca Productions, and the Tribeca Film Festival, which he founded with Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff. Through Tribeca Productions, De Niro has developed projects on which he has served as producer, director and actor. Tribeca's A Bronx Tale in 1993 marked De Niroâs directorial debut. De Niro also directed The Good Shepherd in 2006.
Taylor Hackford (Moderator) was the director of the Academy AwardÂź winning films Ray and An Officer and a Gentleman. In addition, he helmed the beloved features Against All Odds, The Devilâs Advocate, Dolores Claiborne, and Blood In, Blood Out. Hackford most recently directed Robert De Niro in The Comedian. His feature documentary work is equally acclaimed, with Chuck Berry: Hail!, Hail! Rock nâ Roll and When We Were Kings, a behind-the-scenes look at the legendary 1974 bout between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman, which won for Best Documentary Feature. He has served two terms as president of the Directors Guild of America.
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