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Tribeca Talks: ‘Bending Steel’ Trio on Flexing Their Creative Muscles and Finding Themselves through Their Unique Film
Mention the strongman profession in everyday conversation and you are bound to be on the receiving end of a few perplexed looks and shoulder shrugs. And such responses wouldn’t be totally unjust. In fact, the...
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Tribeca Talks: ‘Lil Bub & Friendz,’ The Story of One Celebrity Cat
Internet cat videos – you’re probably guilty of watching them a few times in your life. Perhaps, you’ve even forwarded a few of them to your friends. After all, who can resist watching the adorable fur balls as...
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Tribeca Talks: A Conversation with Enid Zentelis, Filmmaker
Bottled Up, an Olympus Pictures narrative film written and directed by Enid Zentelis, is a current Spotlight feature in the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival. Starring Oscar winner Melissa Leo, Marin Ireland and Josh...
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Tribeca Reviews & Talks: The Shattered Moment
“You hurt people; it’s just what you do.” Those are the spiteful but honest words from a war photojournalist’s daughter in Jane Weinstock’s new feature length film, The Moment, currently featured in the 2013... -
Tribeca Talks: Jessica Oreck’s Days of Wild Reindeer Herding in Finland
With a strong desire to make nature films since she was 14, Jessica Oreck stumbled upon one of the world’s most stunning and isolated landscapes, while on the hunt for a Hollywood cowboy. For nearly two years this...
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Tribeca Talks: ‘The Rocket’s Kim Mordaunt Talks Bringing a Cinematic Voice to Laos
In 2007, Australian director Kim Mordaunt, with a camera and crew in tow, trekked through the rough terrain of Laos for months to document the efforts of a bomb disposal specialist who works to rid the war-torn,...
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Tribeca Reviews — ‘The Rocket’ Soars With Human Spirit and Cute Kids
Witnessing beauty stained with tragedy or innocence ripped away by loss is not the sort of experience that washes away instantaneously. In the harsh wilderness of Laos, a country in Southeast Asia tortured by decades...
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Tribeca Reviews — Road Tripping Farah: Sexuality, Politics and Feminism in “Farah Goes Bang”
A film about three peach-fuzzed, male 20-somethings road tripping through America’s heartland in search of one-night stands could surely raise a feminist eyebrow or two. If only because there’s already been...
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Tribeca Reviews: ‘Bending Steel’ Twists a Whimsically Poignant Tale
Traveling carnival sideshows are as vintage nowadays as an Instagram filter. Stepping right up to sneak a peek at the bearded ladies, the sword swallowers and the fire breathers no longer amaze audiences seeking an...
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Tribeca Reviews — ‘Hide Your Smiling Faces’: A Naturalistic Glimpse of Brotherhood, Friendship and Fatality
Nature and death are, oftentimes in cinema, omnipresent, larger-than-life specters; as ubiquitous guiding forces, one could argue that these themes play roles almost as integral as a narrative’s principal...
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