TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL AND DISRUPTOR FOUNDATION ANNOUNCE HONOREES FOR FIF ANNUAL TRIBECA DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION AWARDS

TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL AND DISRUPTOR FOUNDATION ANNOUNCE HONOREES FOR FIFTH ANNUAL TRIBECA DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION AWARDS April 21st, 2014

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL AND DISRUPTOR FOUNDATION ANNOUNCE HONOREES FOR FIFTH ANNUAL TRIBECA DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION AWARDS

Award collaboration with Harvard professor Clay Christensen to highlight successful disruptive innovation including non-traditional, identity-based domains such as culture, education, healthcare, philanthropy, politics, religion and social entrepreneurship

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(NEW YORK, NY) April 21, 2014 The Tribeca Film Festival (TFF), in association with noted Harvard Business School Professor Clay Christensen and Tribeca's Craig Hatkoff, who are co-founders of the Disruptor Foundation, announced it will hold the fifth annual Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards. The fifth edition, co-sponsored by Accenture and AT&T will be hosted at NYU Skirball Center for Performing Arts, on Friday April 25th. The Tribeca Film Festival runs from April 16th to 27th.

The Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards celebrates two dozen honorees whose ideas have broken the mold to create significant impact beyond the original technological and industrial realms into the fields of healthcare, education, international development, politics and advocacy, media, the arts and entertainment. This year, the ceremony includes several awards including the Lifetime Achievement Award. Being honored for Class of 2014 Lifetime Achievement is Jay Walker, curator and chairman of TEDMED. TEDMED is the sole independent licensee of the world-famous TED organization, whose online talks have over one billion views. Walker is also the founder of three companies that serve more than 50 million customers each, including Priceline.

At NYU Tisch School of the Arts, we prize creative innovation and disruptive thinking for their power to create value, said Mary Schmidt Campbell, Dean of NYU Tisch School of Performing Arts. We are excited to host this year's Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards at Skirball Center for Performing Arts, and thrilled that our students will share in this unique learning experience.

Rick Rubin and Kanye West will be not be attending this year's awards, but will be shown live at the event accepting the Roland 808 s award for contribution to hip hop.

Other honorees include JC Curleigh and Amanda Palmer, two of the several honorees who have been newly selected since the first dozen were announced in February by Tribeca Film Festival. James Curleigh, President of the Levi's brand, is responsible for leading the strategic direction and execution of the Levi's brand globally with a focus on product creation, marketing concepts, and market solutions. His role is to drive this iconic brand confidently into the future. Curleigh has more than 20 years of experience building and expanding consumer brands around the world. He previously acted as President and CEO of KEEN Footwear, Inc. as well as President and CEO of Salomon Sports North America. He also established and led TaylorMade adidas golf division in Europe and held various leadership positions at M&M Mars. Curleigh is a triple citizen of the USA, Canada, and the UK.

Amanda Palmer, widely known as The Social Media Queen of Rock-N-Roll is also being recognized. Her constant and disarmingly intimate engagement with her fans via her blog, Tumblr, and Twitter (800,000+ followers), and has been at the vanguard of using both direct to fan and pay what you want (patronage) business models to build and run her business. In May of 2012 she made international news when she raised nearly $1.2 million pre-selling her new album, Theatre is Evil, along with related merchandise and experiences via Kickstarter. Theatre is Evil went on to debut in the Billboard Top 10 when it was released on Sept. 11, 2012, and has been released in over 20 countries on her own label, 8ft records. Provocative, irreverent, controversial and wildly creative, Amanda Palmer is a fearless singer, songwriter, playwright, blogger and an audaciously expressive pianist who simultaneously embraces and explodes traditional frameworks of music, theater and art. Amanda was invited to present a TED Talk at TED's 2013 Conference. To date her Talk, The Art of Asking , has been viewed more than 4 million times worldwide.

Yael Cohen, founder of Fuck Cancer is being honored with the Henry IV Prize. Fuck Cancer is a cancer education organization aiming to activate Gen-Y to engage with their parents about early detection, preventative lifestyles and communication around cancer. Yael launched Fuck Cancer in 2009 after her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. Now at four years old, Fuck Cancer creates unique tools and campaigns that people can relate to, using technology, humor, and celebrities to enable their community to engage with cancer on a different level. Wochit, based in New York, is being honored with the Gutenberg Prize for is disruptive potential in the field of journalism. The cloud based video creation platform enables brands and storytellers to instantly react to any story and economically scale branded, studio-quality video production.

The 2014 Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards, inspire

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