“I’m not going to lie I cried, I sobbed. And I sort of hate to admit it, because it’s not about me, but we worked so hard for you know a couple of years on this movie and it felt like there w…
also are feeling the loss of this showcase as a World Premiere venue for worthy projects involving them.Those three films that include the searing documentary of Penn’s relief efforts in Haiti calledStardust
were all hoping to launch out of Tribeca and into distribution deals. Those plans have changed and producers and sales companies are coming up with other ways of reaching the marketplace and attracting buyers.
“I think that it’s an interesting piece of American history that we’re looking at where America really was at a turning point in that moment and the world sort of changed pretty drastically and pretty quickly after that. And so it’s interesting to look back on it and use music as the lens to look at this subject of a very important historical figure, but to always be reminding ourselves that music is our touchstone. And that’s what we’re showing his experience as it relates to music.
A few days after the quake, I happened to have a meeting with Sean Penn about another project and he was very distracted throughout our conversation. It was obvious he had other things on his mind. Gradually it became clear that during our meeting he was coordinating with the State Department to get a confirmed landing time in Port au Prince so he could take a plane full of supplies and medical personnel into Haiti. It all seemed a little bizarre and implausible.
The Tribeca Film Festival was started by Robert De Niro and his producing partner Jane Rosenthal in 2002 as a way to help bring that area of New York City back on its feet after the devastating attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001. Now it could be playing a new important role, however virtually , after another devastating event – for New York and the world – in 2020 by allowing the voices of artists to still thrive.
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