The 2009 Tribeca Film 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.

The 2009 DYBC program will be held on Sunday, April 26, at 10 am at the School of Visual Arts Theatre.

Following the screening, the participating student filmmakers will be led in a discussion by Marshall Curry, director of the documentary Racing Dreams. Returning to the Festival after winning the  2005 Audience Award for Street Fight, Curry peeks into the lives of three kids who are all competing for the World Karting Association's national championship, a huge stepping stone to auto racing's big show—NASCAR.
 

Program: 2009 Downtown Youth Behind the Camera

The Magic Coins (2:50)
Manhattan Youth After-School Program at IS 89
Director:  Aaron Lee

The Pain (4:21)
Children’s Museum of the Arts
Filmmakers:  Kei Tsuruta, Jasper Covey, Langston Stahler, Riley Sexton, Helna Zhen, Sofia Heineman, Sage Friedman,
Yui Maehara, Max Burin, Jonathan Cheong, Kay Wong, Hans Prakash, Jasmine Liang

Vaults of Lower Manhattan (5:06)
Director:  Mahgdalen Prophitt-Schwartz
Special thank you to Sebastian Duque

Joe Dance (1:05)
Director: Gavin Zinzell

The Followers (7:52)
Manhattan Youth After-School Program at IS 89
Director: Theo Klein

Lurchin’s Lockup (8:40)
K Studies
Filmmakers:  Ryan Bruno, Gaby Freid, Anamae Gilroy
Emily Samar, Griffin Taylor

Animals out the Door (3:44)
Children’s Museum of the Arts
Filmmakers:  Stokely Duverney, Zinga Duverney, Tristan Gillia, Darcie Grunblatt, Noah Leoplold, Ariana McCagg, Claudia Mullaney, Alexander Mullaney. Julia Noonan, Richard Perry, Lily Pinchbeck, Emily Rosenberg, Rebecca Siegel, Emily Silverstein, Sarah Swint, Alexander Weremchuk
 

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 IS 89
Theseus Roche
Andrea Wong

Children’s Museum of the Arts
Joe Vena
Ian Savage
Prescott Trudeau

K Studies
Kacy Mayer
Karen Leskly Dobkin
Dan Lubell