BY LAUREN ELKINS |
Meet the TFF 2010 Filmmakers at the Apple Store!
Your favorite TFF 2010 actors, writers, producers, and directors are all stopping by the Apple Store Soho to share exclusive filmmaking tidbits throughout the Festival. It's a parade of stars, and it's all free!
For the sixth year in a row, the Tribeca Film Festival, Apple, and indieWIRE have joined forces to present Meet the Filmmakers at the Apple Store Soho (103 Prince Street). In a time where indie film is changing rapidly, with new initiatives like the Tribeca Film Festival Virtual and Tribeca Film leading the way, it's more important than ever to get the real sotory behind the films. Hear in-depth panel discussions with some of the industry’s leading talent, including Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Catherine Keener, Ed Burns, Patricia Clarkson, Naomi Watts, and many more!
All events are free and open to the public. Seating is available on a first come, first served basis. Click here for the full schedule!
Friday, April 23
The Future of Filmmaking: Where is it and Where is it Going?
@ 5:00 pm
Panelists include producers Karin Chien (winner, 2010 Piaget Producers Award), Lisa Cortes (Precious), Mynette Louie (Children of Invention), Jason Kliot, Jay Van Hoy (Old Joy, Treeless Mountain), and Mary Jane Skalski (Mysterious Skin, The Visitor, and Dare).
Beware the Gonzo
with director Bryan Goluboff and actors Ezra Miller and Zoë Kravitz
@ 6:30 pm
Writer/director Goluboff and actors Miller and Kravitz discuss their Tribeca teen comedy about an underground newspaper.
Saturday, April 24
Cairo Time
with director Ruba Nadda and actor Patricia Clarkson
@ 5:00 pm
Director Nadda and actor Clarkson discuss their romantic drama about a forbidden love affair in Cairo, screening at Tribeca.
Tetsuo: The Bullet Man
with director Shinya Tsukamoto and actor Eric Bossick
@ 6:30 pm
Hear from cult Japanese filmmaker Tsukamoto as he talks up the third and only English-language film, showing at Tribeca, in his Tetsuo series.
Sunday, April 25
Mother and Child
with director Rodrigo García and actors Kerry Washington and Naomi Watts
@ 5:00 pm
Adoption is the central topic of the new film by writer/director García with actors Washington and Watts.
sex & drugs & rock & roll
with director Mat Whitecross and actor Andy Serkis
@6:30 pm
Learn about the Tribeca Film pick, Whitecross' musical biopic of The Blockhead's Ian Dury, as played by Serkis.
Monday, April 26
Please Give
with director Nicole Holofcener and actors Catherine Keener and Oliver Platt
@ 5:00 pm
Writer/director Holofcener will discuss the Tribeca comedy of New York manners along with actors Keener and Platt.
Nice Guy Johnny
with actor/director Ed Burns: Monday, April 26, 6:30 p.m.
@ 6:30 pm
The accomplished actor and director talks about his new romantic dramedy, which opens TFF Virtual.
Babies
with director Thomas Balmès
@ 8:00 pm
You've awwwwed over the adorable preview for months, and now meet director Balmès, who will discuss his documentary about, yup, babies.
Tuesday, April 27
William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe
with directors Emily and Sarah Kunstler
@ 6:30 pm
The sisters discuss their powerful documentary about their father, the late radical civil rights lawyer William Kunstler.
Road, Movie
with director Dev Benegal and actors Abhay Deol, Satish Kaushik, and Tannishthah Chatterjee
@ 8:00 pm
Benegal discusses Road, Movie, his stunning film, which has been compared to Cinema Paradiso. It plays TFF and is viewable through Tribeca Film.
Wednesday, April 28
Legacy
with director Thomas Ikimi and actor Idris Elba
@ 5:00 pm
Join Ikimi and Elba for a peek inside the psychological thriller screening at Tribeca.
Vidal Sassoon The Movie
with director Craig Teper
@ 6:30 pm
Director Craig Teper discusses his Tribeca documentary on the famed hairstylist & businessman, Sir Vidal Sassoon.
Thursday, April 29
Ondine
with director Neil Jordan
@ 5:00 pm
Listen to Jordan talk about Irish mythology and his new film playing Tribeca.
Metropia
with diector Tarik Saleh
@ 6:30 pm
The Egyptian-Swedish writer/director speaks about his Tribeca Film animated flick, a futuristic look at a Europe where the world is running out of oil.
Friday, April 30
The Directors of Freakonomics
@ 6:00 pm
Join an all-star roster of documentarians, including Eugene Jarecki, Morgan Spurlock, Seth Gordon, Alex Gibney, Heidi Ewing, and Rachel Grady, as they discuss their TFF 2010 closing nght film.
Micmacs
with Jean-Pierre Jeunet
@ 7:30 pm
The French auteur behind Delicatessen and Amélie discusses his latest film and Tribeca pick.
Did we mention these events are 
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Click here for the full schedule!