The Tribeca Family Festival is proud to screen a collection of shorts made by young filmmakers. Downtown Youth Behind the Camera is presented as part of the Festival’s commitment to giving young filmmakers a venue for their creativity, and encouraging them to express themselves through this vital art form.
Following the screening, the participating student filmmakers will be led in a discussion by Robert Kirbyson, writer/director of Mpower Pictures feature film Snowmen starring Ray Liotta and Christopher Lloyd, which is part of the Tribeca Film Festival. At 19 Robert was working as a self-taught animator for Sesame Street and wrote and directed several Canadian series. He wrote and directed the award-winning Web series CTRL for NBC/Universal.
The Tribeca Family Festival gratefully acknowledges the youth programs and their teachers and advisors who have contributed to this program:
Manhattan Youth After-School Program at PS 150
Tony Kunin
Church Street School for Music and Art
Teaching Artist: Azikiwe Mohammed
Children’s Museum of the Arts
Teaching Artists: Prescott Trudeau, Will Ellis, Mica Anaya,
Joe Vena and Harlan Muir
Manhattan Youth After-School
Theseus Roche
Andrea Dao Wong
Chloe Raynes
Nest+m
Greg Farrell
PROGRAM
1000 Years in a Volcanic City (2:11)
Church Street School for Music and Art
Filmmakers: Jessica Gross, Maia Villalba, Piper Rosenkranz, Chloe Rosenkranz, Flora Belle Stanzak, Nikolai Usiatynski.
Traffic (00:44)
Manhattan Youth After School @ PS 150
Filmmakers: Alejandro Vilarrasa-Corriero, Aniah Reid, Elio Bourcart, Jordan S. Pierce, Kevin R. Gonzalez, Max Ebanks
And Milan Jeremov
George and the Volcano (2:25)
Manhattan Youth After School @ PS 150
Filmmakers: Etai Abramovich, Ivan Birchall, Joey Kallan,
Josse Hosmer, Matisse Vacher, Mitchell Owens and Stanley Luo
Detention Never Tasted So Good (5:59)
Manhattan Youth After School
Director/Camera: Declan Rexer
Cast: Maxwell Schuss, Rachel Weir, Jane Hollander, Declan Rexer
Dr. Todd & the Pizza God (8:20)
Children’s Museum of the Arts
Filmmakers: Eli Cohen, Amos DeMartino, Abe Goren, Gabriel Granger, Ji Tan Haines, Julian Kaufman, Tai Manheim, Mak Manheim, Cale Shumway, Leah Smiley and Jane Zeman
NYC Shoes (5:31)
Nest+m School Project
Writer/Director: Maia Ezratty
Skate Ting (2:40)
Director: Gavin Zinzell
Crew: Kian Zinzell
