May 2010
Tribeca 2010 Critic's Choice: "Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll"
Kurt Brokaw hand selects and reviews films from Tribeca 2010.
May 21st, 2010 | Kurt Brokaw
Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll
(Mat Whitecross. 2009. UK. 115 min.)
Tribeca 2010 Critic's Choice: "Visionaries"
Kurt Brokaw hand selects and reviews films from Tribeca 2010.
May 18th, 2010 | Kurt Brokaw
Visionaries
(Chuck Workman. 2010. USA. 90 min.)
Tribeca 2010 Critic's Choice: "The Killer Inside Me"
Kurt Brokaw hand selects and reviews films from Tribeca 2010.
May 11th, 2010 | Kurt Brokaw
The Killer Inside Me
(Michael Winterbottom. 2010. USA. 109 min.)
Tribeca 2010 Critic's Choice: "The White Meadows"
Kurt Brokaw hand selects and reviews films from Tribeca 2010.
May 11th, 2010 | Kurt Brokaw
The White Meadows
(Mohammad Rasoulof. 2009. Iran. 93 min.)
Defending Tribeca in an Era of Megabrands
In addition to serving up his top choices from Tribeca 2010, reviewer Kurt Brokaw celebrates the festival's sprawling, something-for-everyone approach.
May 11th, 2010 | Kurt Brokaw
Kurt Brokaw stamps his critic's seal on select films from Tribeca 2010 and explains why the festival deserves a nod for nine years of expansive programming in a post-9/11 neighborhood... and world.
Those French scamps who walked off with this year’s Best Short Oscar (LogoRama) didn’t sneak in a Tribeca Film Festival logo among their 2,500 global power players.
Struggle and Triumph for Haiti's Ciné Institute
Against all odds, students and faculty at Haiti's Ciné Institute use their cameras to transform pain and destruction into artful moving images.
May 6th, 2010 | Beth Brosnan
In a special report for The Independent, Beth Brosnan speaks with students and staff of Ciné Institute, Haiti's only professional film school, about life after the region's devastating earthquake. Brosnan explores how, months later, they're using filmmaking techniques to cope with tragedy, rebuild, and even thrive in the face of adversity.
On January 12th, Haiti’s only professional film school, Ciné Institute, lost its main building in the massive earthquake that devastated the Port-au-Prince region.
Tribeca 2010: Travis Senger on "White Lines and The Fever: The Death of DJ Junebug"
Travis Senger takes on '80s hip-hop and an unsolved murder in his latest film, just named Best Documentary short at Tribeca 2010.
May 1st, 2010 | Michele Meek
With never-before-seen footage and interviews with Kurtis Blow, DJ Hollywood, and club owner Sal Abbatiello, the short documentary White Lines and The Fever: The Death of DJ Junebug portrays life in the ‘80s when hip-hop was young, cocaine was in, and life as a DJ often meant you did a little of both.
After winning a special jury prize at SXSW 2010, Filmmaker Travis Senger brings his short documentary White Lines and The Fever: The Death of DJ Junebug to the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival this week. His documentary explores the old days of hip-hop and the dangerous underworld at the legendary Disco Fever.
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