Directed by Alan Taylor, whose Palookaville won the award for best first feature atthe Venice Film Festival, Kill The Poor appears in the NY, NY sidebar dedicated to films shot inNew York. InDigEnt was previously responsible for several Sundance FilmFestival hits, including Tape, Tadpole,Personal Velocity andPieces Of April.
A rueful and darkly comic spin on the American Dream that is basedon the novel by Joel Rose, Kill The Poor tells the 1980s story of a young man who buys into asquatter tenement in the Lower East Side neighbourhood where his immigrantgrandparents first settled, hoping to make a life for his new wife and the babythey have on the way. Simmering tensions all then come to a boil.
TheTribeca Film Festival, spearheaded by Robert De Niro and his producing partnerJane Rosenthal and programmed by festival director Peter Scarlet, todayannounced the five additional categories that make up the overall film slate(see a list of the world premieres below).
Amongthe other highlights will be never before seen footage with Clint Eastwood fromthe restored The Good, The Bad And The Ugly. The Spaghetti Western is being shown as part of aprogramme of restored and rediscoverd classics that also includes the New Yorkpremiere of Charles Laughton Directs "The Night of the Hunter", UCLA Archivist Robert Gitt's film about theproduction of the classic which usesrushes, trims, and outtakes to show how it was made.
Among theinternational films making their North American debuts in Tribeca are featuresfrom Australia, Vietnam, China, Senegal, Germany, Sri Lanka and France, whichshowcases two documentaries about the late fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent.
Persona NonGrata, Oliver Stone's personalessay on the Middle East crisis that includes interviews with four Isrealiprime ministers, Yasser Arafat as well as Palestinian freedom fighters, alsogets an airing.
For fullprogramme details visit: www.tribecafilmfestival.org.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK (NY, NY)
This section features 23 new narrative and documentary filmsshot in New York City and includes the following world premieres:
DRAMATIC
ASH TUESDAY (US)
directed by Jim Hershleder and featuring Janeane Garofalo, Tony Spiridakis,Tony Goldwyn and Giancarlo Esposito
DUKE'S HOUSE (US)
directed by Till Terror
GHOSTLIGHT (US)
directed by Christopher Herrmann and featuring Ann Magnuson, Deborah Harry,Mark Morris, Isaac Mizrahi and Richard Move
A GOOD NIGHT TO DIE (US)
directed by Craig Singer and featuring Ally Sheedy, Ralph Macchio, DeborahHarry, Gary Stretch, Michael Rappaport, and Seymour Cassel
JUST ANOTHER STORY (US)
directed by GQ
KILL THE POOR (US)
directed by Alan Taylor
THE LUCKY ONES (US)
directed by Loren-Paul Caplin
LUSTRE (US)
directed by Art Jones
NOLA (US)
directed by Alan Hruska
PARTICLES OF TRUTH (US)
directed by Jennifer Elster
VOTE FOR ME! (US)
directed by Nelson Antonio Denis
DOCUMENTARY
ASHTANGA, NY (US)
directed by Caroline Laskow and Mary Wigmore and featuring Gywneth Paltrow, WillemDafoe and Mike D of the Beastie Boys
THE CEDAR BAR (US)
directed by Alfred Leslie
DIVAN (US/Hungary)
directed by Pearl Gluck
FIGHT BACK, FIGHT AIDS:15 YEARS OF ACT UP (US)
directed by James Wentzy
WITNESSING (US)
directed by Aileen Ghee.
RESTORED & REDISCOVERED CLASSICS
AMC presents MartinScorsese's and the Film Foundation's restored and rediscovered classics. Amongthem is this world premiere:
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THEUGLY (Italy)
(Il Buono, Il Bruto, Il Cattivo)This is the restored 180 minute version of Spaghetti Western classic directedby Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach and Lee Van Cleef
SHOWCASE
In addition to theFestival's previously announced competitive sections, the Showcase presentsmore outstanding new features and documentaries from all over the world,screening out of competition. The 56 films in this section include thefollowing world premieres:
BOUGHT & SOLD (US)
directed by Michael Tolajian
BRINGING RAIN (US)
directed by Noah Buschel and featuring Adrian Grenier
HOOKED: THE LEGEND OF"HOOK" MITCHELL (US)
documentary feature directed by Michael Skolnik and William O'Neill
RESISTING PARADISE (US)
documentary feature directed by Barbara Hammer
Among the internationalfilms making their North American or US premieres at Tribeca are:
CALIXTO, THE LANDLORD (Honduras)
(No Hay Tierra Sin Dueno) directed by Sami Kafati
CHINESE ODYSSEY 2002 (Hong Kong/China)
(Tianxia Wushuang) directed by Jeff Lau
DISTANT LIGHTS (Germany)
(Lichter) directed by HansChristian Schmid
FLYING WITH ONE WING (Sri Lanka)
(Tani Tatuwen Piyabanna) directedby Asoka Handagama
HEJAR (Turkey/Greece/Hungary)
directed by Handan Ipekci
LOST AND FOUND (Vietnam)
(Cua roi) directed by Vuong TuanDuc
MADAME BROUETTE (Senegal/Canada/France)
directed by Moussa Sene Absa
THE RIVER (Guinea/France)
directed by Mama Keita
ERIC CLAPTON AND FRIENDS (UK)
documentary directed by Jana Bokova
PERSONA NON GRATA (US/France/Spain)
Oliver Stone's documentary feature about the Palestinian conflict
YVES SAINT LAURENT - 5AVENUE MARCEAU 75116 PARIS (France)
documentary feature directed by David Teboul (France)
YVES SAINT LAURENT - HISLIFE AND TIMES (France)
(Yves Saint Laurent - Le Temps Retrouv') directed by David Teboul
MIDNIGHT
Midnight includes nine films that will be screened atMidnight during festival week. Among them are these world premieres:
BLACK CADILLAC (US)
directed by John Murlowski
THE LOOK (US)
directed by David Sigal
THE WANNABES (Australia)
directed by Nick Giannopoulos
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