Awards for TFC Films from Tribeca 2019
Our Time Machine • Gay Chorus Deep South • Changing the Game • Artifishal |
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Dear Programmers:
We’re proud to update you on the many film festival successes of our recent Tribeca 2019 slate, only a couple of weeks since their respective world premieres…
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OUR TIME MACHINE — AWARD WINNER!
Tribeca — Best Cinematography, Documentary; Los Angeles Asian Pacific (LAAPF) — Grand Jury Award, International Documentary Feature; CAAMFest — Best Documentary
The film 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 (trailer).
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GAY CHORUS DEEP SOUTH — AWARD WINNER!
Tribeca — Audience Award, Best Documentary; Northwest Fest — Audience Award, Best Documentary; Jury Prize, Best Music Documentary; Pink Apple Zurich — Audience Award, Best Documentary
The film 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 (trailer).
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CHANGING THE GAME — OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
Tribeca, Telluride Mountainfilm, Frameline: San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival
A ground-breaking documentary that takes us into the lives of three high school athletes—all at different stages of their athletic seasons, personal lives, and unique paths as transgender teens (trailer).
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ARTIFISHAL — OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
Seattle International, Telluride Mountainfilm, Seoul Eco, Greenwich International
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 (trailer).
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Be sure to watch the trailers for these wonderful films, and *see below* for more details.
Please email us at festivals@thefilmcollaborative.org for screeners.
All best,
The Film Collaborative |
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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
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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
TRAILER:
Watch Trailer
MORE INFO:
timemachinefilm.com
Email us for screeners or streaming links.
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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
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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. |
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2019 | USA | 95 min.
Director Michael Barnett
Writers Michael Barnett, Michael Mahaffie
Producers Clare Tucker, Alex Schmider
Executive Producers Alex Schmider, Chris Mosier, Jeffrey Pechter, Jeffrey Ellermeyer, Carlos Cusco, Emerson Machtus, Andrew Davies Gans, Allen Orr
Co-Executive Producer Russell Sanzgiri
Associate Producers Jenn Roman, Jess Berry
Editors Michael Mahaffie, Amanda Griffin
Cinematographers Turner Jumonville, Michael Barnett
Music Tyler Strickland
Cast Mack Beggs, Sarah Rose Huckman, Andraya Yearwood
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ABOUT THE FILM:
Michael Barnett’s dynamic documentary takes us into the lives of three high school athletes—all at different stages of their athletic seasons, personal lives, and unique paths as transgender teens. Their stories span across the U.S.—from Sarah, a skier and teen policymaker in New Hampshire, to Andraya, a track star in Connecticut openly transitioning into her authentic self. The film centers on Mack Beggs, who made headlines last year when he became the Texas State Champion in wrestling and was heralded as a hero by some while receiving hate and threats from others.
Trans athletes have to work harder than their cisgender peers in order to thrive in their field while also having the courage and resilience to face daily harassment and discrimination. The kids in this film have found sports as a way to channel the negativity around them into a positive, to gain a sense of self-worth and validation. This film is their urgent, articulate plea for acceptance.
—Lucy Mukerjee, Tribeca Film Festival
FESTIVALS
2019: Tribeca (World Premiere)
FESTIVAL TERRITORIES
The World
EXHIBITION FORMATS
DCP, Blu-Ray
TRAILER:
Watch Trailer
MORE INFO:
IMDb Page
Email us for screeners or streaming links.
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2019 | USA | 75 min.
Director Josh “Bones” Murphy
Producers Josh “Bones” Murphy, Laura Wagner
Executive Producer Yvon Chouinard
Editor Collin Kriner
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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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