On Saturday, June 10th “The Fourth Wall” directed by Luke Meyer premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. The ten-year in the making documentary is a character-driven piece following the story of the Sullivanians, who created a secret psychotherapy sex cult hidden in the heart of Manhattan’s Upper West Side in the 1970s and 80s.
Things are heating up in Miami Beach as ABFF makes a return for their 27th annual film festival! With They Cloned Tyrone being the opening night film, movie goers got to see actor John Boyega, who played Fontaine in the film, get into character by serving three separate red carpet looks.
On June 14, the Tribeca Film Festival presented “Tribeca X” at Spring Studios. The day-long event featured leading voices in advertising and entertainment. Headliners included keynote Diane von Furstenberg in conversation with Seth Meyers, GE’s Linda Boff, and General Motors’ Alan Wexler. Tribeca X announced their award winners as well. The event celebrated the intersections of entertainment and advertising. Tribeca Film Festival had a similar mission.
What exactly is the role of the producer? In today’s ever-changing entertainment industry, especially in film and television, the answer can be confusing for some. GLAAD co-hosted a Tribeca Talks roundtable at Spring Studios during this year’s Tribeca Festival to unpack the role of the producer and how to improve the industry not only for producers but everyone in front of and behind the camera in the film industry.
“The Space Race weaves together the stories of Black astronauts seeking to break the bonds of social injustice to reach for the stars, including Guion Bluford, Ed Dwight and Charles Bolden among many others,” National Geographic Documentary Films said in a statement.
On June 10, the Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) screened ‘Back to the Future.’ The ‘80s classic starred Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly and Christopher Lloyd as Dr. Emmett Brown. MoMI featured this movie as part of their “See It Big” summer series. The screenings started on May 5 and will end on July 28.
Pain, sadness, loss and regret all encompass this absorbing tale of life and death in acclaimed documentarian Ondi Timoner’s newest piece of work entitled “Last Flight Home”, where she explores the sad and tear-jerking death of her late father and venture capitalist Eli Timoner.
Grammy-Award-winning singer Gloria Gaynor was celebrated at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival with the premiere of the documentary Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive. The documentary which follows Gaynor who achieved massive success in the 1970s with her disco hit I Will Survive on her journey to making a musical comeback in the gospel music genre. The documentary was produced and directed by Betsy Schechter.
When we think of a Western, several images come to mind. A tumbleweed rolling through a dusty town. The hero has to be the first to draw his gun. John Wayne rides off on his horse into the great wide somewhere. These stories tend to have one thing in common: a man in his natural habitat. The Old West towns, the wide open plains, the badlands are all considered to be rightfully possessed by the hero who roams them—and that hero is always a man.
Then Callie Khouri’s screenplay for Thelma & Louise flipped the script on the genre forever.
In lieu of the Western genre’s signature cowboy, Thelma & Louise featured two anti-heroes cursed by their femininity. Instead of a horse, audiences got a blue 1966 Ford Thunderbird. The scenery of mountains, oil rigs, deserts, and canyons were deserving of the genre—but served the purpose of being their escape instead of their domain.
The Cinema Center Event Programming Runs Opening Weekend of June 10th through June 18th, 2023.