Tribeca 2019 Fesival wrap up.
By Michiel Pilgram, New York based Producer & Editor.
I took a week off from editing for PBS and producing and editing documentaries and it was well worth it this year. I never expected to see so many films with stories from the LGBTQ community. They where among the best films I saw. One of them; Gay Chorus Deep South (I didn’t see) won the audience Award.
I saw a cross section of foreign, domestic, narrative, documentaries and shorts. I avoided films already sold to Netflix, PBS, HBO etc. I saw a total of 30 long-form and 18 shorts in 9 days. For me as a filmmaker the Tribeca Film festival is an important annual event that brings the world of film making to my hometown. See previous posts for comments and links to reviews.
I saw: Documentaries:
Devil’s Pie — D’Angelo
17 Blocks
Recorder: the Marion Stokes Project
It takes a lunatic
Nomad: In the footsteps of Bruce Chatwin.
Scheme Birds >winner best documentary
Features:
Burning Cane Best U.S. narrative feature, Best actor Wendell Pierce
Best Cinematography by 19-year-old NYU freshman, director Philip Youmans
Gully
Luce
Pearl
Wild rose.
Flesh out
House of Hummingbird >winner best international Narrative feature.
Two/One
Blow the man down
Swallow
Winner Best Actress in a U.S. Narrative Feature Film – Haley Bennett
37 Seconds Now on Netflix
Safe Spaces
Aamis
The Short History of the Long Road
The Kill Team >American army movie
Based on the documentary of the same title that won Best Documentary at Tribeca in 2013.
Low Tide
Extreme Wicked, Shokingly Evil and Vile
Shorts:
Learning To Skateboard In A Warzone (If You’re A Girl)
Framing Agnes
Metronome (In Time)
Black hat