Word: tribeca
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...Tribeca Film Festival, April 23-May 4 Robert De Niro and two friends founded the Tribeca festival after Sept. 11 to help revitalize Lower Manhattan. Since then, it has become one of the most anticipated cinematic gatherings of the year by both the A-listers who want to promote their latest films and the moviegoers who flock to watch them. Aimed at supporting new talent, the festival shows independent films side-by-side with big-name blockbusters. There's also a drive-in, a live music lounge and a family street fair, so the fun doesn't end when...
...financed movie industry can be as erratic as the region's governments; but the infrequent hits are always worth the wait, and that's certainly true of Paraiso Travel, which opened last month in Bogota and is setting Colombian box-office records before it heads to New York's Tribeca film festival next month. Like other memorable Latin films of this decade, including Mexico's Amores Perros and Brazil's City of God, Paraiso Travel is as richly crafted as a fine Day of the Dead altar. But for Yanquis, this tale of a Medellin couple's harrowing odyssey...
...million to renovate the 680,000 sq. ft. (about 63,000 sq m) Fifth Avenue flagship store, which hasn't been touched since the 1970s. In addition to redoing the entire store inside and out and opening a specialty eatery by Drew Nieporent (the restaurateur who operates Nobu and Tribeca Grill), Baker will shrink the store to a more manageable size and rent out the remaining space as luxury offices. The money made will be reinvested in the store...
Until they win a change in sentencing guidelines, activists hope to win support for their cause simply by spreading the word. They hope a planned wide release of a documentary entitled Lockdown USA, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2006, will help restart a push for reform. "The problem is that they are using a prison cell to address what should be public health issue," says Gabriel Sayegh, a project director at the Drug Policy Alliance. "This isn't the criminal justice system we're supposed to have in this country...
...innate ability to recognize the most powerful truths. He often cites an African proverb that says, "If you wish to go quickly, go alone. If you wish to go far, go together." Then he builds on it. "We have to go far, quickly," he said in April at the Tribeca Film Festival, where he was introducing a series of environmental films that will be shown at Live Earth. "We have to make it through an uncharted region, to the outer boundaries of what's known, beyond the limits of what we imagine is doable." Then he recited a famous line...