Logan Sandler's LIVE CARGO to Screen at Tribeca Film Festival 2016

Tribeca Film Festival 2016 will present the World Premiere of LIVE CARGO as part of the US Narrative Competition. Directed by Logan Sandler and written by Logan Sandler and Thymaya Payne, LIVE CARGO stars Dree Hemingway, Keith Stanfield, Leonard Earl Howze, Sam Dillon and Robert Wisdom.

Following a devastating loss, Nadine (Dree Hemingway, STARLET) and Lewis (Keith Stanfield, SHORT TERM 12) retreat to a small Bahamian island where Nadine's family has kept a house for many years. As they try to heal and move forward with their relationship, the community on THE ISLAND shows signs of unraveling -- with the island's mayor, Roy (Robert Wisdom, "The Wire"), squaring off against Doughboy (Leonard Earl Howze), a human trafficker who manipulates the impressionable homeless teenager Myron (Sam Dillon) into assisting with his smuggling operation.

Based on writer-director Logan Sandler's own experience growing up in and around the Bahamas, LIVE CARGO is a powerful meditation on love, loss and healing in a post-colonial world. Shot entirely in black and white, the film upends the "tropical paradise" archetype through its sharp, neorealist focus on the day-to-day of THE ISLAND community. Newcomer Dillon delivers a breakout performance as Myron, a mysterious, homeless youth who is desperate to belong. LIVE CARGO marks Sandler's feature directorial debut and is co-written and produced by Thymaya Payne, director and producer of the award-winning documentary STOLEN SEAS.

Screenings:

Pre-Festival Press Screening: Tuesday, March 29, 4:15PM (Tribeca Screening Room)

World Premiere: Friday, April 15, 8:45PM (Regal Battery Park 11-10)

P&I Screening #1: Saturday, April 16, 10:30AM (Regal Battery Park 11-9)

Public Screening #2: Saturday, April 16, 9:30PM (Regal Battery Park 11-1)

Public Screening #3: Tuesday, April 19, 9:15PM (Regal Battery Park 11-6)

Public Screening #4: Wednesday, April 20, 7:30PM (Regal Battery Park 11-9)

P&I Screening #2: Thursday, April 21, 10:30AM (Regal Battery Park 11-9)

LIVE CARGO

TRT: 88 Minutes

Country: USA, Bahamas

Language: English

Premiere: World

Category: US Narrative Competition

Director: Logan Sandler

Producers: Thymaya Payne, Logan Sandler, Rene Bastian, Lauren Brady, Mortimer Canepa, Randolph Hearst Harris, Tina Preschitz

Executive Producers: Scott Sandler, Valery Dorshimer, Ron Simons, Steven Sablotsky

Screenwriters: Logan Sandler and Thymaya Payne

Principal Cast: Dree Hemingway, Keith Stanfield, Leonard Earl Howze, Sam Dillon, Robert Wisdom??