Don't Miss These 13 TFI-supported Projects at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival

2019-04-11
Don't Miss These 13 TFI-supported Projects at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival

The Tribeca Film Festival kicks off on April 24th with the World Premiere of THE APOLLO, directed by TFI alumni and current board member Roger Ross Williams. Roger's APOLLO premiere takes place nearly a decade after his first Tribeca All Access grant for GOD LOVES UGANDA, and on the heels of his TRAVELING WHILE BLACK (2015 Tribeca All Access grantee) premiere at Sundance.

Following Opening Night, we're excited to have 13 TFI-supported projects making their world premiere at #Tribeca2019! Click each title to get tickets, or if you want premium access, there's no better way to experience the Festival than our Z Passes, which directly benefit our work.

Features

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Stray Dolls

Two young women working in a motel are caught in a web of crime when one petty theft spirals into the next, setting off a domino of violent events. 

SCREENWRITER, DIRECTOR: Sonejuhi Sinha
PRODUCER: Charlotte Rabate
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Shane Sigler
COMPOSER: Gingger Shankar
  • Saturday, 4/27 - 9:00 PM VILLAGE EAST CINEMA-01 
  • Sunday, 4/28 - 8:45 PM REGAL CINEMAS BATTERY PARK 11-4 
  • Wednesday, 5/1 - 5:45 PM REGAL CINEMAS BATTERY PARK 11-4 
  • Saturday, 5/4 - 6:15 PM REGAL CINEMAS BATTERY PARK 11-9
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The Short History of the Long Road

Teenage Nola grew up living out of a van with her charismatic father, Clint—two nomads against the world. When tragedy strikes, Nola must confront the reality of life on the road alone. She’ll need to take the wheel for the first time – learning to own her grief, her past and her new destination.

SCREENWRITER, DIRECTOR: Ani Simon-Kennedy
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Cailin Yatsko
PRODUCER: Kishori Rajan
PRODUCER: Darren Dean
  • Saturday, 4/27 - 2:30 PM VILLAGE EAST CINEMA-07 
  • Sunday, 4/28 - 5:00 PM REGAL CINEMAS BATTERY PARK 11-6 
  • Wednesday, 5/1 - 5:45 PM VILLAGE EAST CINEMA-03 
  • Saturday, 5/4 - 9:00 PM - REGAL CINEMAS BATTERY PARK 11-11
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Clementine

A heartbroken woman becomes entangled with a younger girl after breaking into her ex's lake house in the Pacific Northwest. Equal parts psychological drama and sexual coming-of-age story, Clementine is a tense rumination on who to love and how to let go.

Clementine was developed with the support of the Venice Biennale College-Cinema, the Sundance Institute, Film Independent, and IFP. It stars Otmara Marrero (Crackle’s “Start-up”), Sydney Sweeney (Hulu’s THE HANDMAID'S TALE, HBO’s SHARP OBJECTS), Will Brittain (KONG: SKULL ISLAND, EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!!), and Sonya Walger (ABC’s THE CATCH and LOST).

Director, Screenwriter: Lara Jean Gallagher
Producer: Aimee Lynn Barneburg
Producer: Davis Priestley
Producer: Karina Ripper
  • Saturday, 4/27 - 5:45 PM VILLAGE EAST CINEMA-03 
  • Monday, 4/29  - 5:30 PM VILLAGE EAST CINEMA-06 
  • Thursday, 5/2 - 6:00 PM REGAL CINEMAS BATTERY PARK 11-11 
  • Saturday, 5/4 - 5:30 PM REGAL CINEMAS BATTERY PARK 11-1
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Lucky Grandma

Grandma is an ornery, chain-smoking Chinese grandmother with a small-time gambling habit.  When a local fortune-teller predicts a most auspicious day in her future, Grandma decides to go “all in” and lands herself on the wrong side of luck, and in the middle of a Chinese gang war.

Director, Screenwriter: Sasie Sealy
Screenwriter: Angela Cheng
Producer: Krista Parris
Producer: Cara Marcous
  • Sunday, 4/28 - 2:30 PM VILLAGE EAST CINEMA-07
  • Tuesday, 4/30 - 5:30 PM REGAL CINEMAS BATTERY PARK 11-1 
  • Thursday, 5/2 - 5:00 PM REGAL CINEMAS BATTERY PARK 11-6 
  • Sunday, 5/5 - 5:45 PM VILLAGE EAST CINEMA-03
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A Woman's Work

Football and feminism collide in this feature documentary that follows three former NFL cheerleaders and their class-action lawsuits brought against their teams.

PRODUCER, DIRECTOR: Yu Gu
PRODUCER: Elizabeth Ai
  • Saturday, 4/27 - 6:30 PM VILLAGE EAST CINEMA-07 
  • Monday, 4/29 - 5:45 PM VILLAGE EAST CINEMA-03 
  • Wednesday, 5/1 - 6:45 PM VILLAGE EAST CINEMA-05 
  • Saturday, 5/4 - 3:45 PM VILLAGE EAST CINEMA-04 

Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

Radical Communist, counter-cultural television producer, Apple shareholder, and private archivist Marion Stokes captured three decades of television on her VCR. Her expansive project tore her family apart, but it’s now being digitized by the Internet Archive.  

Director: Matt Wolf
Producer: Kyle Martin
  • Thursday, 4/25 - 6:30 PM VILLAGE EAST CINEMA-07 
  • Friday, 4/26 - 7:00 PM REGAL CINEMAS BATTERY PARK 11-3 
  • Saturday, 4/27 - 12:45 PM REGAL CINEMAS BATTERY PARK 11-9 
  • Saturday, 5/4 - 7:00 PM REGAL CINEMAS BATTERY PARK 11-3 
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Our Time Machine

Two influential Chinese artists--a son and his ailing father--dream up an ambitious, magical theater performance in order to reconcile their rocky relationship before their time together is up. OUR TIME MACHINE is a visually sumptuous exploration of memory, aging, and the lasting impact of the Cultural Revolution.

Director/Cinematographer: Yang Sun
Producer: S. Leo Chiang
Editor/Executive Producer: Jean Tsien
Executive Producer: Nick Fraser
  • Sunday, 4/28 - 5:30 PM VILLAGE EAST CINEMA-06 
  • Tuesday, 4/30 - 7:00 PM REGAL CINEMAS BATTERY PARK 11-3 
  • Friday, 5/3 - 7:00 PM REGAL CINEMAS BATTERY PARK 11-3 

Shorts

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Little Miss Sumo

Banned from competing professionally, female sumo wrestling champion Hiyori will have to retire at the age of 21. Fighting tradition, Hiyori embarks on a remarkable journey, confronting obstacles both inside and outside the ring in an attempt to help change Japan's national sport forever.

Director: Matt Kay
Executive Producer: Chi Thai
Producer: Andrew Carver
Producer: Didi Mae Hand
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The Boxers of Brule

Shaionna, a young Lakota woman, creates a girls' boxing team to combat the youth suicide epidemic threatening the Lower Brule Sioux Reservation. With the odds stacked against her, Shaionna must confront her own demons as she fights to bring hope and healing to her community.

Co-producer: Shiala Grey-Sky King
Director, Co-producer, Cinematographer, Editor: Jessie Adler
Associate Producer, Additional Sound Recorder: Hanna Nordenswan
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Mack Wrestles

Transgender wrestler Mack Beggs broke records and changed history by winning the Texas state title two years in a row. With high school ending and college on the horizon, the sports champion, national activist, and high school hero must grapple with what comes next.

Co-director: Taylor Hess
Co-director: Erin Sanger
Associate Producer: Katie Barnes

LITTLE MISS SUMO, THE BOXERS OF BRULE and MACK WRESTLES screen in the Sports Shorts Program: 

  • Saturday, 5/4 - 6:00 PM VILLAGE EAST CINEMA-01 
  • Sunday, 5/5 - 3:00 PM VILLAGE EAST CINEMA-03 

Interactive

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Water Melts

A blue-hearted rom-com about people who are going to lose someone they love. Nobody knows what to say. So they fight about nothing, laugh or cry, and dance at the wedding. It's a romantic comedy, after all.

Co-Director/Writer: Lillian Mehrel
Co-Director/Cinematographer: Mary Evangelista
Producer: Tingerine Liu
Animator: Maya Edelman
Composer: Ariel Marx
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Armonia

Armonia - an orchestra given wings.

Director/Writer/Developer: Bracey Smith
Producer/Writer: Anja Moreno-Smith
Sound Engineer: Daniel Coletta
3D Designer/Modeler: Jacques Lalo
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Dreams of the Jaguar's Daughter

Dreams Of The Jaguar's Daughter is a surreal VR documentary where Achik', the spirit of a young Maya immigrant, guides the viewer through her dreams and memories of her arduous journey north​

Director: Alfredo Salazar-Caro
Writer: Génesis Mancheren Abaj
Producer: Samantha Quick
Producer: Gregory Ketant
Developer: Prashast Thapan
Assistant Producer/Videographer: Tarek Turkey

WATER MELTS, ARMONIA and DREAMS OF THE JAGUAR'S DAUGHTERS all screen in the Cinema360: Such Sweet Sorrow Program:

  • Friday, 4/26 - 3:00 PM & 8:30 PM TRIBECA FESTIVAL HUB 
  • Saturday, 4/27 - 3:00 PM & 7:00 PM TRIBECA FESTIVAL HUB 
  • Sunday, 4/28 - 3:00 PM & 7:00 PM TRIBECA FESTIVAL HUB 
  • Monday, 4/29 - 3:00 PM & 7:00 PM TRIBECA FESTIVAL HUB 
  • Tuesday, 4/30 - 3:00 PM & 7:00 PM TRIBECA FESTIVAL HUB 
  • Wednesday, 5/1 - 3:00 PM & 7:00 PM TRIBECA FESTIVAL HUB 
  • Thrusday, 5/2 - 3:00 PM & 7:00 PM TRIBECA FESTIVAL HUB 
  • Friday, 5/3 - 3:00 PM & 7:00 PM TRIBECA FESTIVAL HUB 
  • Saturday, 5/4 - 3:00 PM & 7:00 PM TRIBECA FESTIVAL HUB
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