BOF: 2007 Tribeca film festival

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TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL

When: April.25 to May.6, 2007
Counting Down:
Where: New York City, New York – United States
Official Website: tribecafilmfestival.org/

What: In 2002, the Tribeca Film Institute successfully launched the First Annual Tribeca Film Festival. Created by Jane Rosenthal and Robert De Niro, the mission of the Tribeca Film Festival is to enable the international film community and the general public to experience the power of film by redefining the film festival experience. The Tribeca Film Festival was founded to celebrate New York City as a major filmmaking center and to contribute to the long-term recovery of lower Manhattan.

Accreditation: Academy Award ® accreditation

World Narrative Feature Competition

Born and Bred (Nacido y Criado) – Pablo Trapero
Gardener of Eden – Kevin Connolly
Half Moon – Bahman Ghobadi
Lady Chatterley – Pascale Ferran
The Last Man (Atlal/Le dernier homme) –  Ghassan Salhab
Lost In Beijing (Ping Guo) – Li Yu
Making Of – Nouri Bouzid
My Father My Lord (Hofshat Kaits) – David Volach
Napoleon and Me (Io e Napoleone) – Paolo Virzi
Playing the Victim (Izobrazhaya zhertvu) – Kirill Serebrennikov
Still Life (Sanxia Haoren) – Jia Zhang-Ke
Times and Winds (Bes vakit) – Reha Erdem
Towards Darkness (Hacia la Oscuridad) – Antonio Negret
Two Embraces (Dos Abrazos)
Two in One (Dva v odnom) – Kira Muratova
Vivere – Angelina Maccarone
West 32nd – Michael Kang
The Year My Parents Went On Vacation – Cao Hamburger

World Documentary Feature Competition

9 Star Hotel (Malon 9 Kochavim) – Ido Haar
Between Heaven and Earth (Tussen Hemel En Aarde) – Frank van den Engel, Masja Novikova
Beyond Belief – Beth Murphy
Bomb It – John Reiss
Forging a Nation (Hacer Patria) – David Blaustein
I Am an American Soldier: One Year in Iraq with the 101st Airborne – John Laurence
Miss Universe 1929 – Péter Forgács
Planet B-Boy – Benson Lee
Santiago – João Moreira Salles
A Slim Peace – Yael Luttwak
A Story of People in War & Peace – Vardan Hovhannisyan
The Sugar Curtain (El Telón de Azúcar) – Camila Guzmán Urzúa
Taxi to the Dark Side – Alex Gibney
The Tree (El Árbol) – Gustavo Fontán
A Walk into the Sea: Danny Williams and The Warhol Factory – Esther B. Robinson.
We Are Together (Thina Simunye) – Paul Taylor

Spotlight

2 Days In Paris (Deux jours á Paris) – Julie Delpy
Chops – Bruce Broder
The Grand – Zak Penn
Invisibles – Mariano Barroso, Isabel Coixet, Javier Corcuera, Fernando León de Aranoa, Wim Wenders
The Killing of John Lennon – Andrew Piddington
My Best Friend (Mon meilleur ami) – Patrice Leconte
The Optimists (Optimisti) – Goran Paskaljevic
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song – Jim Brown
The Power of The Game – Michael Apted
Purple Violets – Ed Burns
Razzle Dazzle – Ken Jacobs
The Road to St. Diego (El Camino de San Diego) – Carlos Sorin
Steep – Mark Obenhaus
Take the Bridge – Sergio M. Castilla
This Is England – Shane Meadows
Tuya’s Marriage (Tu Ya De Hun Shi) – Wang Quan'an
You Kill Me – John Dahl 

Awards and their winners:  

The Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature – My Father My Lord (Hofshat Kaits), directed by David Volach (Israel).      

Best New Narrative Filmmaker – Two Embraces (Dos Abrazos), directed by Enrique Begne (Mexico).  

Best Actor in a Narrative Feature Film – Lofti Edbelli in Making Of (Akher film), directed by Nouri Bouzid (Tunisia, Morocco). 

Best Actress in a Narrative Feature Film – Marina Hands in Lady Chatterley, directed by Pascale Ferran (France, Belgium). 

Best Screenplay – Making Of (Akher film), written and directed by Nouri Bouzid (Tunisia, Morocco). 

Best Documentary Feature – Taxi to the Darkside, directed by Alex Gibney (U.S.A.).

Best New Documentary Filmmaker – A Story of People in War & Peace, directed by Vardan Hovhannisyan (Armenia). 

“NY Loves Film” – Documentary – A Walk into the Sea: Danny Williams and The Warhol Factory, directed by Esther Robinson (U.S.A.). 

“Made In NY” – Narrative – The Education of Charlie Banks, directed by Fred Durst (U.S.A.). 

“Made In NY” Special Jury Recognition – Narrative – The Killing of John Lennon, directed by Andrew Piddington (U.K.).

Best Narrative Short – The Last Dog in Rwanda (Den sista hunden i Rwanda), directed by Jens Assur (Sweden).  

Special Jury Prize for Best Narrative Short – Super Powers, directed by J. Anderson Mitchell & Jeremy Kipp Walker (U.S.A.). 

Best Documentary Short – A Son's Sacrifice, directed by Yoni Brook (U.S.A.).  

Student Visionary Award – Good Luck Nedim (Sretan Put Nedime), directed by Marko Santic (Slovenia). 

Student Visionary Award – Someone Else's War, directed by Lee Wang (U.S.A./Philippines).  

Cadillac Award – “Thina Simunye” (We Are Together) 

Tribeca All Access Creative Promise Award – Documentary – Dee Rees for her documentary work-in-progress, Eventual Salvation.

Tribeca All Access Creative Promise Award – Narrative – Ben Rekhi for his current screenplay, Waste, co-written by John Campo.

Tribeca All Access Creative Promise Award – Screenwriting – Marilyn Fu for her screenplay, The Sisterhood of Night.

Recipient of the 2007 Tribeca/Sloan Screenplay Development Program Grant – David Freeman for A First Class Man. 

L’Oréal Paris Women of Worth Vision Award – Cherien Dabis for her screenplay Amreeka. 

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