November 11, 2009 10:00AM EST
TC Kids Club a Success!
ShareThe first installment of the Tribeca Cinemas Kids Club series is history, and according to the little people in attendance, it was an unrivaled success! One of our intrepid Tribeca Kids Access correspondents was on hand to take in all the action, report on the films, and interview the audience. For many, it was their first movie theater experience!
Hi, this is Margaret from Tribeca Kids Access.
Earlier this year, when I was a kid reporter for the Tribeca Film Festival, I thought that the Tribeca Family Festival Street Fair was the last event. Luckily, I was wrong. Today my old classmate Gavin and I had an awesome time seeing a couple movies at the Tribeca Cinemas Kids Club.
The first one was a group of shorts put together, movies that were loved in previous Tribeca Film Festivals, and were hilarious to both kids and parents. For many of the little kids in the audience it was their first time at the movies, and they were really, really, really, really, really, really (well, you get it), excited. I was talking to one of the little girls, Lila, and she could barely sit still. She had never been to a theater and was intrigued by the fact that the big camera at the back of the room was the same color as the screen. "That's where the movie comes from!" she realized. "I can't wait for it to start!" she went on.
Before that happened, Sara Nodjoumi, the programmer of the shorts program, came up to the mic and welcomed us to the theater, but she was interrupted by a small girl running up to her and yelling to the audience. The girl was her daughter, and pretty much proved that it was a perfect first movie, because there were so many young children and no one expected a silent audience. That made it a lot of fun, as kids were yelling out funny things throughout the shorts. One boy yelled "Spiderman, Spiderman, Spiderman gonna get us!" when fun questions were posted on the screen before the movie, and the answer was Spiderman!
The first few films were about filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt's baby girl, Ella. He includes clips of teaching her to talk and her on Halloween. She was Charlie Chaplin for two years in a row, and was hilarious. My favorite was when she went out to get chocolate ice cream with a white shirt, and came out with a brown one. "I like it a lot too!" shouts Cara, a girl sitting next to me. "I like chocolate!"
The next short was so amusing; there was one little girl in the audience, Jordan, who was laughing without a break through all of it. The film was about a little girl who finger-painted her dog, didn't want to play the harp, threw spaghetti at the dinner table, and just about bathed herself in toothpaste. Her parents decide that her grandfather is the only one who can teach her discipline, and while they think he is teaching her manners the whole day, he takes her out to celebrate Pagwa, an Indo-Caribbean holiday, where people splatter themselves in colorful powder. Jordan liked the part with the harp the best because it reminds her of the story her mom tells her at night.
There were three shorts made by Jennifer Oxley, and all were really good. The first two were cartoons, and she and her partner in the making, Eric, talked about how they made it. They were about a girl who learned things from her dreams, which you saw through a filmstrip coming out of her head. The idea originated from Eric's younger sister saying she had a movie in a pillow, which I thought was very interesting. The last film was so incredible I couldn't believe it! It was my dream when I was really little to build a long course that would set off one thing after another, like dominoes, but never got to it. The last short, by Jennifer Oxley and Nicholas Oxley, was just that! It was so, so amazing, and they did it all in one take. I'm so jealous!
Anyway, Tribeca Cinemas Kids Club was the perfect thing to do with friends or family, and I'm really glad I went.
Thanks for reading!
Margaret
The next Tribeca Cinemas Kids Club event is on November 21, when we'll be showing the musical classic, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang! There are two screenings for all ages: 10:30 am and 1:30 pm.
All events take place at Tribeca Cinemas, 54 Laight Street, one block south of Canal. Get your tickets today!
November 23, 2009 05:49 PM
karina sanchez said:
mad hot ballroom
hi i just wanted to know if they would mad hot ballroom again :)