BY JENNI MILLER |
Tribeca Film Festival's 2010 Short Film Line-up
TFF 2010 is presenting 47 short films from around the world, including 21 world premieres and one Oscar winner.
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This year's Tribeca Film Festival, presented by Founding Sponsor American Express®, features a wide variety of short films from around the world: from Queens to Singapore to the Netherlands to New Zealand. Some feature stars you'll recognize, like Sam Rockwell (star of TFF 2009's Moon), Big Love's Harry Dean Stanton, The Hurt Locker's Brian Geraghty, David Thewlis from the Harry Potter series, and Zombieland's Jesse Eisenberg, and others are packed with virtual unknowns. First-time directors will rub shoulders with award-winners like Joachim Back, who took home an Oscar for his short film The New Tenants, which stars Vincent D'Onofrio and Kevin Corrigan.
A unique aspect of the Festival shorts programming is that the films will be grouped together around the loose themes Hard Core, Wishful Thinking, Identity Theft, Between the Lines, Flashback, and Experimental Collisions. In The New Tenants, a Hard Core short, two New Yorkers' new neighbors are definitely weirder (and possibly more dangerous) than your typical folks down the hall. The Icelandic Epic Fail, which has already been sold to Canal+ and falls under Wishful Thinking, features an awkward soundman who joins forces with a snarky goth chick after he's robbed. Take a trip back to the Bronx in 1983 for a peek at the early days of hip-hop at the legendary Disco Fever club and the life and death of DJ Junebug in White Lines & the Fever: The Death of DJ Junebug, part of the Flashback series. Or you can catch Bastard, which was written and directed by Kirsten Dunst.
You can also catch 15 of these short films online as part of the Tribeca Film Festival Virtual. One Premium pass, which you can buy now, will run you $45; with it, you'll get access not only to the shorts, but a selection of feature-length films, panel discussions, Q&As, live red carpet action, and much more. (You can buy your pass here.)
Below is a full list of all the shorts playing at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival. Visit the Film Guide to learn more about each film.
Hard Core
Bedford Park Boulevard, (USA), Narrative, New York Premiere, directed and written by Felix Thompson (Student film)
Billy and Aaron, (USA, Netherlands), Narrative, New York Premiere, directed and written by Rodney Evans (TFF Virtual)
Cookie, (USA), Narrative, World Premiere, directed and written by Francisco Ordonez (TFF Virtual)
F--K, (USA), Narrative, World Premiere, directed by Rick Rodgers, written by Ed Vassallo (TFF Virtual)
In Space (Soonyakat), (Thailand, USA), Narrative, New York Premiere, directed and written by Visra Vichit-Vadakan (Student film)
The New Tenants, (USA, Denmark), Narrative, New York Premiere, directed by Joachim Back, written by David Rakoff
Something in the Air, (USA), Narrative, World Premiere, directed and written by Ramsay Davila (TFF Virtual)
Wishful Thinking
A Border Story, (USA), Narrative, World Premiere, directed by Tobias Louie, written by Conor Welter, Tobias Louie
Cried Suicide, (USA), Narrative, World Premiere, directed and written by Lauren Palmigiano (TFF Virtual)
Delilah, Before, (Singapore), Narrative, New York Premiere, directed and written by Melanie Schiele (Student film) (TFF Virtual)
The Dinner Party, (USA), Narrative, International Premiere, directed and written by Peter Glanz
Edgar, (Germany), Narrative, North American Premiere, directed and written by Fabian Busch (TFF Virtual)
Epic Fail (Epik feil), (Iceland), Narrative, North American Premiere, directed and written by Ragnar Agnarsson
The Pool, (Ireland), Narrative, World Premiere, directed by Thomas Hefferon, written by Thomas Hefferon, TJ Hundtofte
The Wake, (Australia), Narrative, New York Premiere, directed by Gemma Lee, written by Charlie Clausen (TFF Virtual)
Identity Theft
Arena, (Portugal), Narrative, US Premiere, directed and written by João Salaviza
The Crush, (Ireland), Narrative, New York Premiere, directed and written by Michael Creagh
Day Trip, (New Zealand), Narrative, World Premiere, directed by Zoe McIntosh, written by Costa Botes (TFF Virtual)
Kiss (Kus), (Netherlands), Narrative, North American Premiere, directed and written by Joost van Ginkel (TFF Virtual)
Loop Planes, (USA), Narrative, New York Premiere, directed by Robin Wilby, written by Robin Wilby, Austen Rachlis (Student film) (TFF Virtual)
Poi Dogs, (USA), Narrative, New York Premiere, directed and written by Joel Moffett (TFF Virtual)
Record, (Canada), Narrative, New York Premiere, directed and written by Dylan Reibling (TFF Virtual)
some boys don't leave, (USA), Narrative, World Premiere, directed by Maggie Kiley, written by Matthew Mullen, Maggie Kiley (Student film)
Between the Lines
Athena, (USA), Narrative, New York Premiere, directed and written by Max Hoffman
Bastard, (USA), Narrative, World Premiere, directed by Kirsten Dunst, written by Kirsten Dunst, Sasha Sagan
Brucie, (UK), Narrative, World Premiere, directed and written by Clair Breton (TFF Virtual)
Father Christmas Doesn't Come Here, (South Africa), Narrative, New York Premiere, directed by Bheki Sibiya, written by Sibongile Nkosana, Bongi Ndaba
The Pool Party, (Iran, USA), Narrative, World Premiere, directed and written by Sara Zandieh (Student film)
Roots in Water, (USA), Narrative, World Premiere, directed by Domenica Cameron-Scorsese, written by Richard Nelson
The Third Rule, (USA), Narrative, World Premiere, directed by Aundre Johnson, written by Aundre Johnson, Aaron Crowe (TFF Virtual)
Flashback
A .45 at 50th, (USA), Documentary, New York Premiere, directed by Joshua Bell, John Cromwell, written by John Cromwell (TFF Virtual)
Hard Rock Havana, (Cuba/USA), Documentary, New York Premiere, directed by Nicholas Brennan (Student film) (TFF Virtual)
Missed Connections, (USA), Documentary, World Premiere, directed by Mary Robertson (TFF Virtual)
New American Soldier, (USA), Documentary, New York Premiere, directed by Emma Cott, Anna Belle Peevey (Student film)
Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn, (USA), Documentary, New York Premiere, directed and written by Nancy Kapitanoff, Sharon Yamato
White Lines & the Fever: The Death of DJ Junebug, (USA), Documentary, New York Premiere, directed by Travis Senger, written by Travis Senger, Mark Skillz
Experimental Collisions
Berlin, (Canada), Narrative/Documentary, World Premiere, directed by Martin Laporte
BLACK WHITE BLACK WHITE, (USA), Narrative/Documentary, World Premiere, directed and written by John Thompson (Student film)
This disk is the same as the other one, Ce disque est le même que l'autre (France), Narrative/Documentary, North American Premiere, directed by Jean-Jacques Palix
Collision of Parts, (USA), Narrative/Documentary, World Premiere, directed by Mark Street
The Delicate Art of the Bludgeon (L'Art Délicat de la Matraque), (France), Narrative/Documentary, North American Premiere, directed
by Jean-Gabriel Periot
Grandmother's Eye (Mormors Öga), (Sweden), Narrative/Documentary, North American Premiere, directed by Jonathan Lewald (Student film)
Lachen Verlernt, (UK), Narrative/Documentary, World Premiere, directed and written by Tal Rosner
The Visible and Invisible of a Body Under Tension (Parties visible et invisible d'un ensemble sous tension), (France), Documentary, North American Premiere, directed by Emmanuel Lefrant
Release, (USA), Narrative/Documentary, World Premiere, directed by Bill Morrison
Walkway, (USA), Narrative/Documentary, North American Premiere, directed by Ken Jacobs