TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL INTRODUCES TRIBECA INNOVATION WEEK AT the ANNUAL FESTIVAL

TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL INTRODUCES TRIBECA INNOVATION WEEK AT THE 13TH ANNUAL FESTIVAL February 12th, 2014

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL INTRODUCES TRIBECA INNOVATION WEEK AT THE 13TH ANNUAL FESTIVAL

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New Pass Opens the Door to Innovators, Creative Leaders, and Events Celebrating Innovation and Storytelling in the Digital Age

Fifth Anniversary of the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards, in Collaboration with Harvard's Clay Christensen and the Disruptor Foundation, Will Honor Sputnik Satellite, TEDMED's Jay Walker, 1968 Olympian Dick Fosbury, and Warby Parker/VisionSpring among others

Aaron Sorkin to Kickoff Future of Film

(NEW YORK, NY) February 3, 2014 -The 2014 Tribeca Film Festival (TFF), presented by AT&T, announced today the creation of its first-ever Tribeca Innovation Week where the worlds of culture, technology, and storytelling will collide. Taking place April 21-26, Tribeca Innovation Week will be a place for coders, screenwriters, hackers, futurists, gamers, directors, engineers, venture capitalists, film financiers, techno radicals, the generally curious, and anyone who has a story to tell. The week will expand on Tribeca's tradition of connecting the creative and tech communities. A new innovation pass will offer access to some of the Festival's newest and most popular programs, some of which were previously closed to the public. The 13th Annual Tribeca Film Festival will take place April 16-27. #TribecaInnovation

Tribeca Innovation Week will bring together the ever merging communities - creators and innovators - to explore this unique time of convergence in media, movies, art and technology. As the digital and analog worlds continue to blur there has never been more of an opportunity to create and tell stories." said Jane Rosenthal, TFF Co-Founder and CEO.

Tribeca Innovation Week is anchored by the Fifth Annual Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards (TDIA) and five other major events. Full events for the week include TDIA, co-sponsored by Accenture and AT&T, which will honor innovators, pioneers and game-changers across various disciplines and previously was open only by invitation; the Future of Film Live panel series, which will kick off with a conversation with Oscar and Emmy -award winning American screenwriter, producer, and playwright Aaron Sorkin; Storyscapes in collaboration with BOMBAY SAPPHIRE Gin, a showcase of transmedia projects; Tribeca Hacks , the culmination of a two-day hackathon sponsored by AT&T that unites technologists and content creators; the daylong TFI Interactive summit, an initiative of the nonprofit Tribeca Film Institute with leadership support from the Ford Foundation; and the Games for Change Festival, in its first installment as part of the Tribeca Film Festival.

This year's theme for the awards is From Outer Space to Inner Space: a New Sputnik Moment? and will honor people across all fields, from healthcare, education, religion, sports, social innovation politics, media and gaming, who are living laboratories for innovation and disruption. We will honor TEDMED's Jay Walker with our Lifetime Achievement Award. Jays body of work is helping us usher in a Sputnik Moment 2.0 showcasing the possibilities of human imagination. He has cast a light on many epic innovations-- from the 1957 launch of the Sputnik satellite, which we will have on site at the Awards, to the potential for another Sputnik moment: the disruptive power of biomedicine to change the world" said Craig Hatkoff, TFF co-founder and TDIA Chief Curator.

Innovation Week programs are detailed below in date order:

Future of Film Live Series (April 21 - 24) - This series of live programs explores and illuminates the status of story and cinematic narrative at the intersection of technology, culture and commerce. Each of the four live events uses vibrant cross-disciplinary conversation to uncover the prescient questions occupying artists, scientists, philosophers, technologists, entrepreneurs and audiences worldwide. Future of Film will kick off with a conversation with Oscar and Emmy -award winner Aaron Sorkin.

11th Annual Games for Change Festival (April 22 - 24 & 26) - Collaborating around the premise that digital games can effect positive social change, the largest gaming event in New York City is now part of the Tribeca Film Festival. This three-day international event held at NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts unites innovators and game developers with change makers and educators who believe in the transformational power of games and game thinking. On April 26, G4C and TFF will host the Games for Change Public Arcade as part of the TFF Family Festival Street Fair in Lower Manhattan. Join the conversation on Twitter and Facebook with the hashtag #G4C14

Previous attendees have included the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Facebook, Fast Company, Mashable, Microsoft, MIT Media Lab, The New York Times, the UN World Food Programme and Warner Bros.

Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards (April 25) - Returning for its fifth edition, this provocative awards program, co-sponsored by Accenture and AT&T, celebrates the new frontiers of disruptive innovation in collaboration with Harvard professor Clayton Christensen, father of the groundbreaking Disruptive Innovation Theory, and the Disruptor Foundation. Cross-disciplinary disruptors are honored from a broad range of domains, including business, education, art, media, healthcare, technology, religion and spirituality, economics and politics. Recent honorees have included Eric Schmidt, Jack Dorsey, Keith Richards, MakerBot, Handi Ulakaya, Jack Andraka, Kenzo, Alec Ross, Ashton Kutcher, and David Brooks.

The full slate of honorees will be rolled out ahead of the Festival, but 15 of the leaders to be recognized as part of this year&#

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