2015 TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES ATTENDANCE April 27th, 2015 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 2015 TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES ATTENDANCE
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Festival's 14th edition welcomed over 138,000 movie-goers over 12 days of screenings and panels with a total attendance of over 467,000
NEW YORK, NY (April 27, 2015) The 2015 Tribeca Film Festival (TFF), co-founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff, and presented by AT&T, today announced that during the Festival's 14th edition more than 467,000 people attended screenings, panels, virtual reality experiences and free community events including the Tribeca Drive-In series, Family Festival Street Fair, Tribeca/ESPN Sports Day, the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards, and programming housed at TFF s inaugural downtown creative hub, Tribeca Film Festival at Spring Studios.
From April 15 through 26, the Festival hosted 492 screenings and panels. A total of 101 features, 60 short films and five immersive storytelling projects from 38 countries were screened for more than 138,000 movie-goers and panel attendees over the course of the 12-day Festival. For the second year, thanks to AT&T, an entire day of film screening tickets were free through Film for All Friday, where over 10,000 tickets were claimed for the screenings on Friday, April 24th.
This year, thanks to our new Festival hub at Spring Studios, we have been able to connect more deeply than ever before with audiences seeing films, attending talks, and experiencing the cultural and technological innovations at the forefront of storytelling, said Jane Rosenthal, co-founder, Tribeca Film Festival. Bringing these audiences together with filmmakers and great stories is the reason we do what we do.
The free community events returned with the Tribeca Drive-In movie series on the waterfront plaza at Brookfield Place, co-sponsored by AT&T and hosted by Brookfield Place. The program featured a 30th anniversary screening of Clue, a 60th anniversary screening of the Disney classic Lady and the Tramp, and the world premiere of A Faster Horse, a documentary celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Ford Mustang. More than 7,500 visitors came out for the free, outdoor films and participated in games and activities, including a Murder Mansion photo booth, Italian love song sing-alongs, face painting, and interactive car-themes simulations.
Festival organizers and Lieutenant C. Ficalora of the NYPD First Precinct estimated that a crowd of 300,000 enjoyed the signature Tribeca Family Festival Street Fair and Tribeca/ESPN Sports Day, sponsored by Mohegan Sun, on Saturday, April 25, which included Games for Change Public Arcade, interactive sports experiences with NY teams including The New York Knicks, New York Rangers and New York Liberty, live performances from The Rockettes and the casts of Broadway shows including Wicked, Kinky Boots, On The Town, and much more.
Tribeca Film Festival at Spring Studios, the new creative hub and gathering place for festivalgoers in the heart of Tribeca, welcomed nearly 20,000 people throughout the 12 day festival. The space hosted Storyscapes, a juried section showcasing groundbreaking exhibits in technology and interactive storytelling presented in collaboration with BOMBAY SAPPHIRE Gin, DEF CON's renowned hacking conference, Oculus Story Studio's virtual reality experience, Stanford Virtual Human Interaction Lab, Sinatra at 100: Film & Music a special evening of film and music with the Lincoln Motor Company in celebration of Frank Sinatra's centennial, and talks with artists and industry leaders including A$AP Rocky, Google's Astro Teller, Stanford's Jeremy Bailenson, AOL's Tim Armstrong and more.
The Beacon Theatre housed four of the Festival's special events. Events included Opening Night, presented by AT&T, the world premiere of the documentary Live From New York!, celebrating the 40th anniversary of Saturday Night Live and followed by a performance by Chris Ludacris Bridges; an American Express Card Member exclusive screening of Mary J. Blige: The London Sessions, a documentary chronicling the artist as she writes, records, and curates one of her most experimental albums to date, followed by a performance by Blige; a reunion of the five surviving members of Monty Python followed by a special screening of Monty Python and The Holy Grail; and the Festival's Closing Night, co-sponsored by Infor and Roberto Coin, a remastered 25th anniversary screening of Martin Scorsese's GoodFellas with a discussion with cast members Robert De Niro, Lorraine Bracco, Ray Liotta and Paul Sorvino led by Jon Stewart.
2015 Tribeca Film Festival anecdotes:
Nearly 1000 industry delegates were in attendance from 40 countries including Argentina, Bulgaria, India, Israel, Kosovo, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, and the United Arab Emirates.
There were 34 Tribeca Talks conversations at the festival, 16 of which were turned into live podcasts from WNYC http://www.wnyc.org/shows/tribecafilm
Over 780 one-on-one meetings were scheduled at Tribeca Film Institute s Network Market, one-on-one industry meetings designed to allow filmmakers to network with film industry executives, potential investors, development executives, producers and agents. Additionally, over 125 industry/decision makers attended.
The Festival presented 20 virtual reality projects from Chris Milk, Oculus Story Studio, Stanford Virtual Human Interaction Lab, Penrose, Nonny de la Pena and two projects in Storyscapes: The Enemy and Machine To Be Another
The Festival celebrated the powerful connection between music and film, featuring a centennial tribute to the man who exemplified that pairing: Frank Sinatra. Tony Bennett, Ne-Yo and Alice Smith, Brandon Flowers, Lea Delaria, and Savion Glover honored his influence following a special
