Tribeca Film Festival Virtual Giveaway

This year, the Tribeca Film Festival is making a really exciting move, by offering you the chance to take part, without having to physically attend. Billed as Tribeca Film Festival Virtual, you get a chance to see films, watch live panels, and much more from the comfort of home. It's an exciting idea, and I have a giveaway for you to help celebrate.

TFF Virtual will bring the experience of Tribeca outside of New York for the first time via the Internet. Complementing TFF’s theatrical screenings in New York City, TFF Virtual premium pass will enable a broad online audience to experience the following:

• Eight full-length 2010 TFF features, which will screen day-and-date with each film’s Festival premiere. Following each film’s TFF and TFF Virtual premiere, passholders will be able to view it an unlimited number of times until TFF Virtual ends April 30
• An eclectic collection of TFF 2010 short films
• Conversations with filmmakers and fellow audience members both online and at the Festival
• Panel discussions featuring top voices from the world of film
• Exclusive filmmaker interviews
• Live coverage of red-carpet premieres

Full-Length Features-

Nice Guy Johnny, directed and written by Edward Burns. (USA) – World and TFF Virtual Premiere, Narrative. A master of the modern relationship dramedy, Edward Burns crafts a summery gem centered on baby-faced 24-year-old Johnny Rizzo, who’s about to trade his dream job in talk radio for some snoozeville gig that’ll pay enough to please his fiancée. Enter Uncle Terry (Burns), a rascally womanizer set on turning a day in the Hamptons into an eye-opening fling for his nephew. Nice guy Johnny’s not interested, of course, but then he meets Brooke….

Elvis & Madona (Elvis e Madona), directed and written by Marcelo Laffitte. (Brazil) – North American and TFF Virtual Premiere, Narrative. The lives of a beautiful biker babe and a tall blonde trannie intertwine in this vibrant Rio-set romantic comedy. Elvis is an aspiring young photographer delivering pizzas to make ends meet. Madona’s plans for a spectacular drag show have just been dashed when her rotten sometime lover steals all her money. When they meet by chance, Elvis and Madona’s unlikely love will help them chase their dreams and deal with the obstacles that arise along the way. In Portuguese with English subtitles.

Spork, directed and written by J.B. Ghuman, Jr. (USA) – World and TFF Virtual Premiere, Narrative. Junior high isn't easy for anyone—especially if you're a frizzy-haired, pink-cheeked hermaphrodite like Spork. But when the talent show shines a chance for Spork to show up Betsy Byotch's mean girls gang, her recently best-friended trailer-park neighbor, Tootsie Roll, steps it up to coach her in booty-poppin’ moves. This ’80s-inspired dance send-up is littered with colorful dialogue from a tween cast with mouths beyond their years.

Buried Land, directed by Geoffrey Alan Rhodes and Steven Eastwood, written by Geoffrey Alan Rhodes, Steven Eastwood, and Dzeno Medanovic. (Bosnia and Herzegovina, UK, USA) – World Premiere. The small town of Visoko heralds to the world a remarkable discovery: A valley of ancient pyramids predating Egypt exists under the hills of central Bosnia. Tourists flood the warscarred region, and locals are caught between the real and the imagined (mirroring the film’s vacillation between documentary and fiction). With the help of a young man returning to his homeland, an American film crew determines the role of faith in capturing what can not yet be proven. In English, Bosnian with English subtitles.

Into the Cold, directed by Sebastian Copeland. (USA) – World and TFF Virtual Premiere, Documentary. The absolute top of the earth is a place few try to reach on foot. Even fewer succeed. With the vast arctic ice vanishing rapidly, photographer, extreme adventurer, and environmental advocate Sebastian Copeland sets out to reach the North Pole on the centennial of Admiral Peary’s reach in 1909. This inspiring documentary follows their tumultuous two-month trek—not just through piercing cold and merciless terrain, but straight into the depths of the soul.

Possessed (Bool-sin-ji-ok), directed and written by Lee Yong-ju. (South Korea) – North American Premiere. College student Hee-jin returns home in the wake of her younger sister’s disappearance, only to find her mother a fanatical religious convert and the family’s neighbors offing themselves in increasingly bizarre and grotesque ways. Together with detective Tae-hwan, Hee-jin must unravel the tangled web of connections between the victims that will lead back to the missing girl in this eminently creepy horror show. In Korean with English subtitles.

Freetime Machos, directed by Mika Ronkainen. (Finland, Germany) – North American and TFF Virtual Premiere. Matti and Mikko play for Finland’s worst amateur rugby team. Overworked and domesticated, the two men long for a space to revel in their masculinity and bond with other men. Following the two friends and their teammates on a quest to end the season with just a single win, award-winning writer/director Mika Ronkainen (Screaming Men) crafts a genuine and disarmingly funny love story of modern male friendship. In Finnish with English subtitles. Part of the Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival.

The Sentimental Engine Slayer, directed and written by Omar Rodriguez Lopez. (USA, Mexico) – North American and TFF Virtual Premiere, Narrative. Reality and fantasy entangle in the semi-autobiographical tale of a twentysomething misfit’s loopy trip through manhood in the dusty US-Mexico border town of El Paso, Texas. While director/writer/star Omar Rodriguez Lopez’s psychedelic sonic sensibilities are most well-known for fueling the Grammy-winning rockers The Mars Volta, it is piercingly clear that he is also a riveting and rare voice for independent American cinema. In English, Spanish with English subtitles.

Win Big with Tribeca Film Festival Virtual!

This year, movie lovers anywhere and everywhere across the US have a chance to experience the Tribeca Film Festival (TFF) without ever having to leave home through Tribeca Film Festival Virtual (TFF Virtual).  From April 23 – 30, you can watch eight full-length 2010 TFF films, eighteen 2010 TFF short films, conversations with filmmakers and actors, live panels, Q &A’s, and red carpet action as they happen and on demand all on a brand new high definition video player.

As a TFFV Premium Passholder, you will also have access to an eclectic collection of TFF 2010 short films, exclusive access to live coverage of star-studded red-carpet premieres, behind the scenes interviews with leading filmmakers and established and up-and-coming actors and insider panels. In addition, you will have the opportunity to interact with fellow TFF Virtual Festival-goers via online chats and live Q&As with the TFFV filmmakers so you can attend the Festival with all of your friends no matter where they live in the US!!!

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Enter to win a Tribeca Film Festival Virtual prize pack!

–             Tribeca Film Festival Swag Bag

–             Tribeca Film Festival Virtual Pass

Leave a comment below to enter. Winner will be randomly selected April 20th.

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About Marc Eastman

Marc Eastman is the owner and operator of Are You Screening? and has been writing film reviews for over a decade, and several branches of the internet's film review world have seen his name. His reviews have brought him personal praise from the director of a major motion picture, and have been used as required reading in a course at a major University. These priceless rewards, along with just bags of cash, keep him from straying from freelance writing. He is also a member of The Broadcast Film Critics Association and The Broadcast Television Journalists Association.

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