New TFC Films World Premiering at Tribeca 2019

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New TFC Films @ Tribeca 2019

Gay Chorus Deep South • Our Time Machine • Artifishal


	Dear Programmers: It gives us great pride and pleasure to announce three world premiere films at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, now available for bookings at venues around the globe. These diverse offerings showcase very different aspects of documentary cinema. GAY CHORUS DEEP SOUTH is an instant-classic human rights film, detailing the efforts at community reconciliation undertaken by the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus in the wake of the Trump election. Watch the trailer. OUR TIME MACHINE is a transcendent story of both large-scale artistic achievement and intimate human struggle, focusing on a leading Chinese conceptual artist and his quest for a final connection with his larger-than-life father. ARTIFISHAL is a highly localized story of environmental and wildlife degradation that speaks to humanity’s overarching and ultimately self-defeating desire to control the natural forces around us. Watch the trailer. Please email us at festivals@thefilmcollaborative.org for screeners. All best, The Film Collaborative


	2019 \| USA \| 100 min. Writer & Director David Charles Rodrigues Producers Bud Johnston, Jesse Moss Executive Producers James Goode, Tony Högqvist Associate Producers Freddie Whitman, Harrison Watkins Editor Jeff Gilbert Cinematographer Adam Hobbs Additional Photography Thorsten Thielow Music Bryan Senti Cast Dr. Tim Seelig, Ashlé, Jimmy White, Terrance, Riley, Pastor Jim Dant, Malaysia Walker		Gay Chorus Deep South ABOUT THE FILM: In response to a wave of discriminatory anti-LGBTQ laws in Southern states and the divisive 2016 election, the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus embarks on a tour of the American Deep South. Led by Gay Chorus Conductor Dr. Tim Seelig and joined by The Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir, the tour brings a message of music, love and acceptance, to communities and individuals confronting intolerance. Over 300 singers traveled from Mississippi to Tennessee through the Carolinas and over the bridge in Selma, performing in churches, community centers and concert halls in hopes of uniting us in a time of difference. The journey also challenges Tim and other Chorus members who fled the South to confront their own fears, pain and prejudices, on a journey towards reconciliation. What emerges is a less divided America, where the lines that divide us—faith, politics, sexual identity—are erased through the soaring power of music, humanity and a little drag. FESTIVALS 2019: Tribeca (World Premiere) FESTIVAL TERRITORIES The World EXHIBITION FORMATS DCP, Blu-Ray TRAILER: Watch Trailer MORE INFO: gaychorusdeepsouth.com Email us for screeners or streaming links.


	2019 \| China \| 81 min. Directors Yang Sun, S. Leo Chiang Co-Director Shuang Liang Producers S. Leo Chiang, Yang Sun Executive Producers Jean Tsien, Sally Jo Fifer, Nick Fraser Editor Bob Lee Cinematographers Yang Sun, Shuang Liang Music Paul Brill		Our Time Machine ABOUT THE FILM: 43-year-old Maleonn is one of China’s most influential conceptual artists today. His father, Ma Ke, was the artistic director of the Shanghai Chinese Opera Theater. After being humiliated and forbidden from working for a decade during the Cultural Revolution, Ma Ke immersed himself in theater. The mysterious excitement of Ma Ke’s creative world inspired the young Maleonn, but his father’s absence stoked early feelings of resentment. When Ma Ke is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, Maleonn pours everything into an ambitious new theater project: “Papa’s Time Machine,” a visually stunning time-travel adventure told with human-sized puppets. At the play’s heart are autobiographical scenes inspired by Maleonn’s memories with his father. He hopes this will bring the them together artistically and personally. With enthusiasm both domestically and from abroad, the play shows signs of a promising future. But Ma Ke’s condition deteriorates. Maleonn is torn between the original goal to honor his father and the pressure toward commercial success. FESTIVALS 2019: Tribeca (World Premiere) FESTIVAL TERRITORIES The World EXHIBITION FORMATS DCP, Blu-Ray MORE INFO: timemachinefilm.com Email us for screeners or streaming links.


	2019 \| USA \| 75 min. Director Josh “Bones” Murphy Producers Josh “Bones” Murphy, Laura Wagner Executive Producer Yvon Chouinard Editor Collin Kriner		Artifishal ABOUT THE FILM: ARTIFISHAL is a film about wild rivers and wild fish that explores the high cost—ecological, financial and cultural—of our mistaken belief that engineered solutions can make up for habitat destruction. The film traces the impact of fish hatcheries, and the extraordinary amount of public money wasted on an industry that hinders wild fish recovery, pollutes our rivers and contributes to the problem it claims to solve. ARTIFISHAL also dives beneath the surface of the open-water fish farm controversy, as citizens work to stop the damage done to public waters and our remaining wild salmon. FESTIVALS 2019: Tribeca (World Premiere) FESTIVAL TERRITORIES The World EXHIBITION FORMATS DCP, Blu-Ray TRAILER: Watch Trailer MORE INFO: patagonia.com/artifishal Email us for screeners or streaming links.

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