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On Sunday the Tribeca Festival held its Narrative Filmmaker Press [...]

James Franco has a lot going for him. At thirty-four he’s already had a prolific career having risen from the parapets of television to Hollywood challenger status, all while attending grad school and appearing in a daytime soap.

But doesn’t this sound like the last-ditch attempt of a fading star seeking to reclaim the limelight? In interviews I’ve seen of him Franco appears as nothing more than

[In keeping with tradition the Tribeca Festival begins with a [...]

Writer-actor-director Tom O'Brien is not from Massachusetts, that much is clear. With his perfect diction and skin unweathered by sea spray it's a little hard (this from someone who grew up on the coast of Maine) to imagine him as the protagonist of Fairhaven, a buddy dramedy that premiered this week at the Tribeca Film Festival. O'Brien plays John, an aimless bachelor still living in his hometown and working on a fishing trawler. We learn early that he wants

Babygirl is Irish filmmaker Macdara Vallely’s alternatively wistful and funny tale of a sixteen year-old wise-beyond-her-years Bronx girl named Lena (Yainis Ynoa) who defiantly protects her mother (Rosa Arredondo). A lonely single mom, Lucy is easily swayed by flattery, which repeatedly links her to unworthy male suitors. When an oily, mustachioed youngster named Victor (Flaco Navaja) flirts openly with both Lena and Lucy on a

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