2014 TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES SHORT FILM SELECTIONS March 11th, 2014
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 2014 TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES SHORT FILM SELECTIONS
(NEW YORK, NY) March 11, 2014 The 2014 Tribeca Film Festival (TFF), presented by AT&T, today announced its lineup of 58 short films, 29 of which are world premieres. The selections were curated from 3,074 submissions. The 2014 program includes shorts from 16 countries, including Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, India, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Scotland, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.
The shorts will be presented in 9 thematic programs 5 narrative, 3 documentary, and 1 experimental. Last year's popular genre-specific program returns this year as Totally Twisted with some added unusual comedies.
The Festival will screen the recent 2014 Academy Award -winning Live Action Short, Helium. Edoardo Ponti, the 2013 winner of Tribeca's Best Narrative Short film, The Nightshift Belongs to the Stars, returns to Tribeca to world premiere Human Voice, featuring a powerful performance by Sophia Loren and cinematography by Academy Award -winner, Rodrigo Prieto. Ponti is among a number of returning filmmakers including Steve James, Bill Morrison, Anita Thacher, and Ondi Timonor. The lineup also features performances by Alfie Allen (Game of Thrones), Danny DeVito (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia), Sally Hawkins (Blue Jasmine), Jon Huertas (Castle), Seamus Dever (Castle), and voiceovers by Sigourney Weaver, Steve Buscemi, and Fred Armisen.
Recipients of the Tribeca Film Festival's Best Narrative Short and Best Documentary Short Awards will qualify for consideration in the Short Films category of the Annual Academy Awards provided the film complies with the Academy rules.
We had a lot of fun programming the strange brew of comedy and creepiness in our late-night program, and we're always looking to try something new in bringing short films to our audience, said Sharon Badal, Director of Short Film Programming and Initiatives, This year our popular New York Shorts program is comprised entirely of world premiere documentary shorts, so it, too, has a different flavor than in years past.
A list of the short film selections within the nine programs is as follows:
AFTER WORDS documentary program
These short documentaries are at times political, occasionally provocative, and always personal, reflecting the past and illuminating the present. Once a year, Duke Phillips and his crew of Colorado ranchers rounds up 2,000 wild buffalo as part of a unique conservation effort to preserve this endangered animal and the rich landscape it inhabits in Duke and the Buffalo. In a small Scottish town in 1974, factory workers refuse to carry out repairs on warplane engines as an act of solidarity against the violent military coup in Chile in Nae Pasaran. When young filmmaker Alexandra embeds surveillance cameras in her kitchen to capture a decade long affliction of unconscious nighttime eating episodes, her image of self is turned inside-out in Nocturnity. In The Next Part, a double-amputee Army Bomb Tech and his wife grapple with his injuries amidst unexpected events. In a small American town in the state of Georgia, a good citizen is an armed citizen In Guns We Trust. Four decades after one of the world's most notorious crimes, a Manson Family member breaks her silence to reveal how a series of choices led to ultimate destruction in Life After Manson.
Duke and the Buffalo, directed and written by Alfredo Alcantara and Josh Chertoff. (USA) World Premiere.
Nae Pasaran, directed by Felipe Bustos Sierra. (Scotland) North American Premiere.
Nocturnity, directed and written by Alexandra Liveris. (USA) World Premiere.
The Next Part, directed and written by Erin Sanger. (USA) World Premiere.
In Guns We Trust, directed and written by Nicolas L vesque. (Canada) U.S. Premiere.
Life After Manson, directed and written by Olivia Klaus. (USA) World Premiere.
BEFORE LONG documentary program
Time waits for no one in these short documentaries. From serious to show biz ; they run the gamut of emotion. An elderly man struggling to cope with his wife s dementia becomes captivated by a young actress at Dracula s, the theater restaurant in Ghost Train. Greg O'Brien, long-time Cape Cod reporter and newspaperman, who is diagnosed with Early-onset Alzheimer's, decides to confront the disease and his imminent decline by writing candidly about the journey in A Place Called Pluto. When their football dreams are dashed, three athletes use their muscle and charm to become TV stars on American Gladiators, one of the oddest, most injury-riddled sports' shows ever concocted in True Gladiators. Traveling on the road with one of the most controversial musicians today, AMANDA F***ING PALMER ON THE ROCKS explores her fractious relationship with the music industry in the aftermath of her record-breaking crowd funding campaign and her intense online and physical interactions with her fans. Three pink tutus, three pink helmets and three pink skateboards meet Bella, Sierra, and Rella, as the young girls prove skateboarding is not just for boys in The Pink Helmet Posse. Meet seven Hollywood golden era veterans with a combined age of 662 from a Vaudeville comedian still working at age 100 to the stunning siren that dated Ronald Reagan when he was a Democrat these, ladies and gentlemen, are Showfolk.
Ghost Train, directed and written by Kelly Hucker and James Fleming. (Australia) North American Premiere.
A Place Called Pluto, directed by Steve James. (USA) New York Premiere.
True Gladiators, directed by Kevin Donovan. (USA) World Premiere.
AMANDA F***ING PALMER ON THE ROCKS, directed and written by Ondi Timoner. (USA) World Premiere.
The Pink Helmet Posse, directed by Benjam
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2014 TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES SHORT FILM SELECTIONS March 11th, 2014 
