2015 TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES SHORT FILM SELECTIONS March 6th, 2015
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 2015 TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES SHORT FILM SELECTIONS
NEW YORK, NY (March 6, 2015) The 2015 Tribeca Film Festival (TFF), presented by AT&T, today announced its lineup of 60 short films, 40 of which are world premieres. The selections were curated from 3076 submissions. The 2015 program includes shorts from 18 countries, including Argentina, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Liberia, Mexico, Northern Ireland, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The 14th annual Tribeca Film Festival will take place April 15-26. The shorts will be presented in nine programs made up of five narrative, three documentary, and one combined, narrative and documentary programs.
Forty of the 60 shorts are making their world premiere at TFF, a record for the Festival. We're excited to have discovered this wonderful new work, said Sharon Badal, Director of Short Film Programming and Initiatives, Tribeca Enterprises.
Several TFF Alumni return this year as part of the short film program. Filmmaker Stefan Nadelman, who screened his short film Terminal Bar at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2003, returns to premiere his short film Last Call. Producer Ellen Bar returns to the festival this year with narrative Early Sunday Morning, starring American Ballet Theatre dancers Isabella Boylston and James Whiteside. Bar produced the documentary feature Ballet 422 which premiered at TFF 13. Also returning is Andrew Jenks with the short documentary film All American Family, a personal story about four generations of star football players in California who happen to be deaf. In 2008 Jenks screened his sports documentary The Zen of Bobby V.
This year's selection features exceptional talent on both sides of the camera. Olivia Wilde produced the short documentary Body Team 12 about the Ebola outbreak, directed by four-time returning filmmakers David Darg and Bryn Mooser. In the the artistic and cerebral Gallery Opening' program, JR's Les Bosquests, reveals his experience in the Montfermeil ghetto, where he created Portraits of a Generation; and artist Daniel Arsham directs Juliette Lewis in Future Relic 03. Boman Modine's Merry Xmas stars Dick Van Dyke, Valerie Harper, Glenne Headly, and his father Matthew Modine, and Katie Holmes directs Eternal Princess starring Nadia Comaneci. The lineup also features performances by Patrick Fugit, Tim DeKay, and SNL alums Fred Armisen and Paula Pell.
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. Last year's Festival winner for Best Narrative Short, The Phone Call, won this year's Academy Award for the Best Live-Action Short.
Our New York shorts return with a narrative and a documentary program, and we've also added a uniquely artistic program called Gallery Opening,' as well as FML,' a program that's curated for today's online-living audience, said Badal. Each year we try to do something a little different, and that is particularly reflected in this year's programs.
This year, audiences across the country, and around the world can experience a selection of the Short Films online. Each of the seven stories featured in FML', a program created for modern-day audiences living online, will be part of the Tribeca Online Festival. Three hours after FML' premieres in the cinema, it will be available for the world to view online at tribecafilm.com, through to April 26. These present-day and futuristic short stories confront the consequences of living a digital life, touching on many intriguing topics including wearable tech, online dating, and homeland.
A list of the short film selections is as follows:
Be Yourself Documentary program
Personal stories about self-identity are the focus of these documentary shorts.
American Renaissance explores the fantastic world of Elizabethan England at one of the largest renaissance faires in the U.S., and is a portrait of the characters that return annually. Live Fast, Draw Yungfollows 7-year-old rap portraitist Yung Lenox and his dad Skip, an unconventional artistic duo navigating the tumultuous worlds of hip hop and modern day parenting. Eternal Princess explores the extraordinary life of famed Romanian gymnast, Nadia Comaneci, who at the age of 14 scored the first perfect 10 during the 1976 Olympics, and is now a loving mother, philanthropist and sports icon. In All American Family four generations of the Pederson family have had a star player on The Eagles, one of the best football teams in California, but unlike other teams these players are all deaf. In 1974 when a Mormon missionary in Elder falls in love with a handsome Italian Communist, his world turns upside down. In My Enemy, My Brother former Iran-Iraq War enemies, Zahed and Najah, become blood brothers 25 years after one saves the other's life.
American Renaissance, directed and written by Ryan Scafuro, and Jarred Alterman. (USA) - North American Premiere.
Live Fast, Draw Yung, directed by Stacey Lee and Anthony Mathile. (USA) - World Premiere.
Eternal Princess (Printesa Vesnica), directed by Katie Holmes. (USA) - World Premiere. ESPN Film's 30 for 30 short.
All American Family, directed by Andrew Jenks. (USA) - World Premiere.
Elder, directed and written by Gen a Gaudet. (USA) - World Premiere.
My Enemy, My Brother, directed and written by Ann Shin. (Canada) - World Premiere.
Family Dynamics Narrative Program
Relationships are often complicated, particularly so for the characters in this short program.
A mischievous dad in Merry Xmas tells
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2015 TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES SHORT FILM SELECTIONS March 6th, 2015 
