Tribeca Film Festival top brass have booked the world premieres of Curtis Hanson's romance Lucky You starring Eric Bana and Drew Barrymore and festival closer The Gates, an art installation documentary from Antonio Ferrera and Albert Maysles.

Lucky You, which stars Bana as a poker player wrestling with personal issues while he tries to win a major cards tournament, will screen on May 1 and opens domestically through Warner Bros on May 4.

The Gates, an HBO Documentary Film about artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude's 26-year 'golden river' project in New York, will play on May 5. HBO will broadcast the film in February 2008 to commemorate the anniversary of the project's launch.

Festival founders Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff announced that seven SOS short films will premiere on the opening night of Apr 25.

SOS is the campaign behind the Live Earth global concert series on Jul 7 and was designed to raise awareness of the global climate crisis.

'Premiering the SOS films at Tribeca will ensure that these pieces will be viewed all over the world for years to come - and hopefully they will help spur to action the next generation of international leaders to join the effort to solve the climate crisis,' former US Vice President and star of An Inconvenient Truth Al Gore said.

For further details about the festival visit the official website a twww.tribecafilmfestival.org.

Topics