11.7.09: Tribeca Family Festival Favorites

Kick off the Tribeca Cinemas Kids Club with a selection of Tribeca Film Festival favorites, from a collection of delightful shorts to a feature that will make you dance.

10:30 am: Shorts Program (ages 3+)

1:30 pm: Mad Hot Ballroom (ages 7+)

All events take place at Tribeca Cinemas, 54 Varick Street. Click for a map.

 

November 7, 10:30 am
(Ages 3+)

Shorts Program

A look at the work of three veteran TFF filmmakers, Jay Rosenblatt, Eva Saks and Jennifer Oxley. Varying in styles and formats, these shorts are pure entertainment for the whole family.
 
If you watch kids’ TV today, you’ve surely seen her work—Jennifer Oxley is the recipient of an Emmy Award for her role as Director on Nick Jr.'s Little Bill. She has also directed twelve short films for Sesame Street, as well as the award-winning adaptation of Spike Lee and Tanya Lewis Lee’s children’s book, Please, Baby, Please.

The Melancholy Puff Machine
(5 min, 2007)
directed by Jennifer Oxley & Nicholas Oxley

Janie & Jerome: The Last Note
(2 min, 2004)
directed by Jennifer Oxley

Janie & Jerome: Lights Out
(2 min, 2007)
directed by Jennifer Oxley
 
A recipient of a Guggenheim, USA Artists and a Rockefeller Fellowship, Jay Rosenblatt is an internationally recognized artist who has been working as an independent filmmaker since 1980 and has completed over twenty-five films. His films have received over 100 awards and have screened throughout the world.

I Used to be a Filmmaker
(10 min, 2003)
directed by Jay Rosenblatt

I Like it a Lot
(4 min, 2004)
directed by Jay Rosenblatt

I'm Charlie Chaplin
(8 min, 2005)
directed by Jay Rosenblatt
 
A graduate of NYU Film School and Yale Law School, Eva Saks has produced, written and directed for theater, film and television. Highlights include Sesame Street, Disney, Nickelodeon and the Lincoln Center Theater Director’s Lab. Her award-winning shorts have screened worldwide at festival from Tribeca to Sundance to Telluride.

Colorforms
(8 min, 2003)
directed by Eva Saks

Confection
(4 min, 2003)
directed by Eva Saks
 
Post-screening Q&A with filmmakers Eva Saks, Jennifer Oxley, Eric Weil and Nicholas Oxley.
 

 


November 7, 1:30 pm
(Ages 7+)

Mad Hot Ballroom
(104 min, 2004)
directed by Marilyn Agrelo

In this Tribeca Film Festival favorite and deliriously fun documentary, director Marilyn Agrelo turns her camera on a group of fourth and fifth graders learning ballroom dancing in New York City. The film follows kids from three schools—P.S. 150 in Tribeca, P.S. 112 in Bensonhurst, and P.S. 115 in Washington Heights—from their first day of dance class to the final face-off. Within months, the children of Mad Hot blossom into ladies and gentlemen who revel in the world of dance. They come away with more respect for each other, better etiquette, and a mean salsa. Like Spellbound meets Strictly Ballroom, this film will keep viewers on the edge of their seats, wondering who will win the climactic competition.
 
Following the film, director Marilyn Agrelo, producer and writer Amy Sewell and students featured in the film will be in attendance for a Q&A.

 

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