12 films to look for at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival
The 2012 Tribeca Film Festival kicks off this Wednesday. IndieWire has a good overview of 12 films to watch for there. They are:
“Any Day Now”: In the late 1970s, when a mentally handicapped teenager is abandoned, a gay couple takes him in and becomes the family he’s never had. But once the unconventional living arrangement is discovered by authorities, the men must fight a biased legal system to adopt the child they have come to love as their own. Writers: Travis Fine, George Arthur Bloom
“Cheerful Weather for the Wedding”: On her wedding day a girl knows she is about to make a serious mistake. Writers: Donald Rice, Mary Henely-Magill
“Downeast”: [Documentary] Explores Italian immigrant Antonio Bussone’s use of federal grants to return factory work to the United States.
“First Winter”: When winter begins, life is serene for a group of new-age Brooklynites living in a remote country farmhouse. Sex, drugs, yoga, and organic cooking absorb their days, safely tucked away from the stresses of urban life. But when a blackout of apocalyptic proportions strands them with no heat and no electricity during the coldest winter on record, their utopian commune is breached by anxiety and their idyllic harmony begins to lose its tune. Writer: Benjamin Dickinson
“The Fourth Dimension”: Grolsch Film Works and VICE Films present ‘The Fourth Dimension’, a film that gives us a glimpse of enlightenment through the eyes of three one-of-a-kind characters. Writers: Aleksei Fedorchenko, Jan Kwiecinski, Oleg Loevsky, Yaroslava Pulinovich
“The Girl”: A young Texan mother who loses her child to foster care begins smuggling Mexicans across the border. Writer: David Riker
“Let Fury Have the Hour”: In his feature directorial debut, acclaimed author, visual artist, and filmmaker Antonino D’Ambrosio has fashioned a lively social history that chronicles how a generation of artists, thinkers, and activists used their creativity-and their creations-as a response to the reactionary politics that came to define our culture in the 1980s. Writer: Antonino D’Ambrosio
“Lola Versus”: Dumped by her boyfriend just three weeks before their wedding, Lola enlists her close friends for a series of adventures she hopes will help her come to terms with approaching 30 as a single woman. Writers: Daryl Wein, Zoe Lister Jones
“Off Label” [Documentary], Directors: Donal Mosher, Michael Palmieri
“Revenge For Jolly!”: A man recruits his cousin to find out who is behind his dog’s suspicious death. Writer: Brian Petsos
“Struck By Lightning”: After being struck and killed by lightning, a young man recounts the way he blackmailed his fellow classmates into contributing to his literary magazine. Writer: Chris Colfer
“Supporting Characters”: Two New York film editors balance their personal relationships while reworking a movie in crisis. Writers: Tarik Lowe, Daniel Schechter
For the festival’s entire online film guide, go here.
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