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Live from Tribeca its SNL: Studio laugher Baby Mama to open festival

Published on March 5, 2008

Female presidents, female screenwriters and now female comedians are sharing the spotlight. Having forever played second fiddle to the long list of male comedians on the show, lead by Tina Fey, the SNL girls are finally taking the comedy world by storm and in the same measure, have ventured into television (30 Rock) internet (Sarah’s ode to Matt Damon) and studio feature film territory (Mean Girls). Today, the Tribeca Film Festival (a festival of indie, world and docu offerings that generally opens with studio fair) have announced that the will open with Universal Pictures’ Baby Mama. Written and directed by Michael McCullers, the film centers
on a single career woman (Fey) whose desire to have a child and keep her career
leads her to hire a surrogate (Pohler). Weaver will play Chaffee Bicknell, owner
and operator of the surrogate agency that Fey’s character uses.

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).