We're thrilled to announce our new Works-In-Progress Program! As a continued effort to connect traditionally underrepresented filmmakers with industry professionals, six TFI selected documentary and fiction features will be presented to accredited industry at the upcoming Tribeca Film Festival. Each filmmaking team will have the opportunity to show excerpts of their selected works, most of which are currently in the post-production stage. This gives filmmakers an opportunity to show footage to an industry audience and enhance the connections made during the festival.
The Works-In-Progress participants were selected through TFI's submissions cycle and each project will also be participating in TFI Network, presented by AT&T.
2018 marks our second year of partnership with AT&T, and their continued support has propelled this year's TFI Network into being more inclusive and beneficial than ever.
In addition to the Works-In-Progress films, as well as Tribeca All Access grantees and Sloan Filmmaker Fund grantees taking part in TFI Network, we selected a handful of exceptional projects to take meetings and participate in the annual film market. These projects are chosen through our grant application pool and our partnerships with film markets and festivals in the US and abroad, and all of the projects are currently in development, production or post-production. Through industry meetings, participants have the opportunity to make connections with leading professionals who can provide invaluable support and mentorship to their projects. These filmmakers also receive year-round mentorship and professional guidance by the TFI Artist Programs department.
An aspiring filmmaker in New Orleans quits her high school teaching job to make a film about punk rockers in Yangon, Myanmar, overlooking one detail: she has no story.
Heading into her final Olympic games, synchronized diver Mariel discovers a terrible truth about her partner, forcing her to confront her painful past marked by sexual abuse, manipulation and lies.
Director, Screenwriter: Maria Abraham | Producer: Luz Agudelo Gipson | Associate Producer: Lucía Moscoso T.
Near Quito, Ecuador, Diana escapes an institution for troubled girls with her son, embarking on a journey to rescue her younger sister from an abusive home. Diana faces the harsh realities of surviving as a teen mom while looking for a new life.
A group of police officers investigate a set of videos found in a camera that has passed through various strata of Cuban society, revealing their judgements and biases.
Martínez, a cranky and lonely bureaucrat resisting retirement, receives a surprise gift from a deceased neighbor. He finally begins to enjoy life through a love affair with her through her old belongings.
Isabel is a grieving widow who gains a new sense of creativity and purpose by helping her friend Toña plan their neighbor's funerals. Once she learns that Toña assists these sick neighbors in their deaths, Isabel begins to come to terms with her own grief and loss.
In Laos, two Hmong siblings with diverging destinies are responsible for grooming a bull into a prize fighter that will earn the family money and honor.
Living in Santiago, best friends Rafaella and Gabriela compromise their relationship when they are faced with challenges of getting Rafaella an illegal abortion.
During the year between Clemence's earth-shattering diagnosis of bipolar disorder and her earth-shattering comeback, she attempts to rejoin society from her room in her parents' basement.
A teenage girl starts her sophomore year of high school being anonymously betrayed. This act inspires her to tell her life story with self-created videos and social media to figure out why this happened, who might have done it, how to move forward - and who she is.
RAJADA DALKA (NATION'S HOPE) is an inter-generational, character-driven portrait of courageous young women in Somalia and their coaches as they stand up against oppression and gender bias, illuminating the power of basketball as a sport that ends up reuniting and inspiring a fractured nation.
THE SEER AND THE UNSEEN is an unexpected environmental film about invisible elves, the free market and the surprising power of belief told through a grandmother's quest to save a threatened landscape in Iceland – and preserve the beloved home her family has lived in for generations.
THE SYRIANS presents existential stories of Syrian refugees in contemporary Beirut: mother-to-be Leena, postcard artist Omar, surfer Ali, and closeted transgender Myriam. Filmmaker Ismaël explores these individuals' aspirations and struggles as they go through important moments in their lives.
The island of El Roblito in Nayarit Mexico, surrounded by jungles and an open sea, appears to be inhabited only by children. El Roblito seems like a pure and idyllic place that lacks adult supervision - until the children's actions slowly reveal signs of the adults' repressive behavior and the negative influences that loom over their childhood.
TFI Network - presented by AT&T takes place April 19th and 20th during the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival.