Tribeca film festival to go online

Spring festival programme including six feature films and nine shorts will be available to online subscribers Tribeca, the film festival launched by Robert De Niro in 2001 to support growth and culture in Manhattan following the September 11 terrorist attacks, is to open up its programme to online viewers for the first time. Six feature films and nine short movies from the 2011 festival will be streamed over the internet live to subscribers at the same time as they are shown at the event, which runs from 20 April to 1 May. A further nine short-film “favourites” from past events will be available to view, and organisers are also promising coverage from the event’s star-studded red carpet, its opening press conference and its awards show, all in real-time. A spokesperson said: “In addition, the online festival will host the Tribeca Q&A, which will offer online audiences the opportunity to engage with not only each other, but industry experts including Brian Williams, Whoopi Goldberg, film-makers David Gordon Green and Zach Braff, in addition to Tribeca’s Jane Rosenthal, Geoff Gilmore, and Nancy Schafer; and many more. This interactive experience will bring never-before content directly to a participating public.” “Seats” for online Tribeca screenings can be reserved at tribecaonline.com from 18 April (or 12 April for those with American Express cards). Other content is already available on the site from today. Movies that will be available to view include Donor Unknown, the documentary tale of a woman conceived via artificial insemination who goes in search of her real father, and Flowers of Evil, described as a rootless story of young love between Gecko, an Algerian-French hotel bellman and parkourer, and Anahita, an Iranian student forced to leave her country for her own safety after the controversial elections in 2009. Highlights of the main festival programme include a directorial debut from Vera Farmiga , which was greeted warmly at its premiere in Sundance, documentaries on the lives of Elton John and Ozzy Osbourne, and a comic western which counts as the highest-grossing Chinese movie of all time. Festivals Robert De Niro Internet New York Ben Child guardian.co.uk

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