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TRIBECA FILM INSTITUTE Programs

The submission deadline for all TFI programs below is October 10.

Artist Programs

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  • Tribeca All Access: Now in its eighth year, the industry-lauded program helps to foster and nurture relationships between film industry executives and filmmakers from traditionally underrepresented communities for the last eight years. 
    • TAA has supported the careers of more than 210 filmmakers and has facilitated 3,355 one-on-one meetings between its program participants and key industry professionals.
    • Making the Boys, a TAA alum film, screened theatrically in March 11, 2011.
    • Two TAA alumni filmmakers will also premiere their films at the upcoming Tribeca Film Festival: Jesus Henry Christ, directed by Dennis Lee (2005 TAA participant) and Give Up Tomorrow, directed by Michael Collins (2008 TAA participant).

o    TFI New Media Fund: New this year, TFI partnered with the Ford Foundation's JustFilms initiative for its February 2011 launch. A $750,000 fund will provide support and funding to film projects which go beyond traditional screens to activate audiences around issues of contemporary social justice and equality.

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  • Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund:  Now in its fourth year, the Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund provides finishing funds to feature-length documentaries which highlight and humanize issues of social importance from around the world.
    • To date, Fund has financially supported 21 projects, 11 of which have been completed. Of the recent successes of the Fund include: Enemies of the People, a ground-breaking documentary on Cambodia's Killing Fields, which is slated to run on PBS' POV this year; Sons of Perdition, about the teenagers who were exiled from the Fundamentalist LDS compound on the Utah/Colorado border, which was acquired by the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) and will be presented as part of Oprah's Documentary Film Club; and Marathon Boy, a dynamic epic which follows a four-year-old boy plucked from the slums of India and trained as a marathon prodigy, premiered at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival (April 20- May 1) and will have its debut on HBO this fall.
  • TFI Documentary Fund: New this year and presented by HBO, provides more than $100,000 in fellowships and grants for three engaging, character-driven, feature-length documentaries. The Fund will arrange one-on-one meetings with key HBO Documentary Film executives, in addition to providing financial support, supervision and guidance from TFI and HBO.

o    TFI Latin American Media Arts Fund: Supports innovative film and video artists who are living or working in Mexico, Central and South America and working independently in their efforts to reach a larger audience.  Administers $20,000 in grants to artists working in documentary, animation or hybrid forms.