Keep It Together
TFI Suppport
Tribeca All Access® 2019
Logline
In 1976 civil-war-torn Beirut, a young rebellious woman fights to free her neighborhood from the control of the Holiday-Inn Sniper and to maintain her relationship with a woman bound by social norms.
Bane Fakih
Director, Screenwriter
Bane Fakih is a writer/director originally from Beirut, based in New York. Her first short film ASSIL AND JAD was awarded Best Short Film at the European Film Festival of Beirut, Best Student Film in Nadi Li Kol El Nass, Best Original Screenplay at the New York City International Film Festival - where it also was nominated for Best Actress in a leading role and Best Director - and participated in various local festivals including the “Meshkal” Festival in Beirut. Bane holds a BA from the Saint Joseph University of Beirut and an MFA degree in Screenwriting/Directing at Columbia University. During her time at Columbia Bane wrote and directed VIBES, which is now touring in festivals such as Berlin Feminist week and FilmOut San Diego. Also, she was the lead actor in the award-winning short film NICE TALKING TO YOU.
Federica Belletti
Producer
Born and raised in Italy, Federica Belletti is a producer based in New York. She has produced multiple short films in collaboration with filmmakers from all over the world including REFUGE (Montclair Film Festival, NBR Student Award, Kodak Student Award, Refinery29 Best Short at Columbia Film Festival), VIBES (Berlin Feminist Film Week, FilmOut San Diego), NICE TALKING TO YOU (SXSW ‘19, Kodak Student Award), KIKO (Bushwick Film Festival, Syracuse Film Festival), NOWHERE (Museum of Moving Images in New York) and BLISTER. In 2018, Belletti won the Arthur Krim Memorial Award for Excellence in Producing, the Katharina Otto Bernstein Production Award and the Sloan Treatment Award for her pilot DARK MATTERS. Belletti interned at Gamechanger Films, the Austin Film Festival and Maven Pictures. In 2018 she freelanced as Location Manager for Animal Kingdom, Big Mouth Productions and for TAPE, a feature inspired by the #metoo campaign. She is the first person to crowdfund a post graduate education program at Columbia University’s School of the Arts where she obtained her MFA degree in 2018, and holds a BA with honors in Media and Communication from IULM University in Milan. Belletti is currently working at CounterNarrative Films, where she is assistant to Anna Gerb and Neal Dodson.
Birgit Gernböck
Producer
Gernböck is currently traveling the festival circuit with Darya Zhuk's feature film CRYSTAL SWAN, shot on location in Minsk, Belarus in collaboration with Vice Media and supported by the German Film Fund. The drama is the first submission from the former Soviet Republic nation since 1996, and follows a young female Belarusian hip-hop DJ in the mid-1990s who dreams of emigrating to join the American music scene.