Dennehy, Schreiber, and More to Be Featured in 2010 Tribeca Films

The 2010 Tribeca Film Festival (TFF), presented by American Express, the Founding Sponsor of the Festival, today announced its remaining out-of-competition feature film selections in the Encounters, Discovery, Cinemania and Spotlight sections. The Festival will take place from April 21 to May 2, 2010 in lower Manhattan, offering audiences film screenings, conversations and an array of free community events. As previously announced, the 2010 film selection encompasses feature films from 38 different countries, including 45 World Premieres, 7 International Premieres, 14 North American Premieres, 6 U.S. Premieres and 12 New York Premieres.

The Encounters section is comprised of 14 films that highlight works by a wide range of established talent and feature recognizable subjects. Eleven of the 14 films are world premieres, including new works by Academy Award®-winning filmmakers Alex Gibney and Chuck Workman, as well as Academy Award-nominated Dana Adam Shapiro, and featured actors include Ellen Barkin, Tilda Swinton, Liev Schreiber, Helen Hunt, Brian Dennehy, Eddie Izzard, Kim Cattrall, Rashida Jones and Melissa Leo.

The Discovery section presents 17 films by new talent appealing to a range of tastes. Its documentaries showcase everything from the North Pole and Congressional redistricting to a comedy tour of the Middle East. Its narrative films feature performances by stars including Amy Sedaris, Jesse McCartney and Jay Baruchel, and the writing/directing debut of Omar Rodriguez Lopez of the Grammy-winning rock band Mars Volta. Cinemania, the section formerly known as Midnight, features new work by Hong Kong filmmaker Ho-Cheung Pang, the outrageous teen comedy Spork, and a new film by Kieran and John Carney, director of Oscar® winner Once.

The eight films in this year's Spotlight section are all highly anticipated features. They include performances by Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba, Robert Duvall, Colin Farrell, Amanda Peet and Rebecca Hall. The selection contains films from acclaimed filmmakers, including Academy Award® winners Aaron Schneider and Neil Jordan, and will be available to TFF audiences before they hit theaters.

This year for the first time, audiences will have the opportunity to experience the Festival from their homes. Through video-on-demand, more than 40 million households will have access to 12 feature length films acquired by the recently launched Tribeca Film. Seven of the 12 films are part of the 2010 TFF line-up and will be screened day-and-date with the Festival; they include five in the sections unveiled today.

Additionally, Tribeca has unveiled the eight films that have been curated for the Tribeca Film Festival Virtual (TFF Virtual), the online Festival experience that brings films in the Festival directly to audiences across the U.S. TFF Virtual will also feature panel discussions, Q&As with filmmakers and actors, live TFF red carpet action and more-all via the Internet.

"We are proud of how the entire program reflects the scope of filmmaking that is happening in the world today. Cinemania is a great cross-section of genre films. Asia has a strong presence with horror and action, while the Americans and Irish deliver the out-there humor," said David Kwok, Director of Programming. "The Spotlight section is full of anticipated films by well known and admired talent. It's great to give our audience the festival experience with these films before they get released."

"Our Discovery and Encounters sections complement one another-one highlights fresh talent that is breaking onto the scene, while the latter continues to offer original films that reflect pop culture and contemporary issues," said Genna Terranova, Senior Programmer. "Both categories are packed with entertaining stories about real life individuals and inventive characters. These films have a palpable energy with varying degrees of levity and seriousness."

This collection of engaging narrative and documentary features known as Encounters includes a mixture of mystery-thrillers and lighter fare with performances by Ellen Barkin, Tilda Swinton, Liev Schreiber, Helen Hunt, Brian Dennehy, Eddie Izzard, Kim Cattrall, Rashida Jones and Melissa Leo. The selections include profiles of men who revolutionized music around the world-the legendary Canadian band Rush, British punk rock pioneer Ian Dury, and Long Island music legend Billy Joel-as well as a look into the life of a man who revolutionized hair and modern pop culture, Vidal Sassoon.

Encounters will include:

Every Day, directed and written by Richard Levine. (USA) - World Premiere, Narrative. Meet Ned: his live-in father-in-law is putting serious strains on Ned's marriage. He's having a hard time adjusting to raising an independent teenager. His job as a TV writer is unfulfilling, and late nights with a sexy coworker are only complicating matters... Liev Schreiber, Helen Hunt, Brian Dennehy, Carla Gugino, Eddie Izzard, and Ezra Miller star in this eloquent and honest look at an everyday family dealing with life's little curveballs.

Meet Monica Velour, directed and written by Keith Bearden. (USA) - World Premiere, Narrative. In this quirky comedy, Tobe (Dustin Ingram, perfectly cast), an awkward teenage aficionado of 1980s soft-core, sets off in his grandfather's (Brian Dennehy) used Weinermobile to see his sexual idol perform at the Gentlemen's Club in Indiana. After defending her honor against ruffians who taunt the aging erotic starlet (Kim Cattrall) off the stage, he negotiates his unripe romantic impulses with the reality of her anything-but-glamorous life as a trailer-park single mother.

To see the full list of films, click here.

Brian Dennehy (Erie Smith/Krapp) returns to the Goodman, where his credits include Desire Under the Elms (2009), Hughie (2004, also at Trinity Repertory Company and Long Wharf Theatre), Long Day's Journey Into Night (2002), Death of a Salesman (1998), A Touch of the Poet (1996), The Iceman Cometh (also at The Abbey Theatre, Dublin) and Galileo (1986). His Broadway credits include Desire Under the Elms, Inherit the Wind, Long Day's Journey Into Night (Tony Award for Best Actor, 2003), Death of a Salesman (Tony Award for Best Actor, 1999) and Translations. His off-Broadway credits include Richard Nelson's Conversations in Tusculum at The Public Theater, Trumbo at Westside Theatre, The Cherry Orchard at Brooklyn Academy Of Music and Says I, Says He at Phoenix Theatre. Dennehy's regional credits include All's Well That Ends Well, Hughie and Krapp's Last Tape at The Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario; The Exonerated (New York tour/Chicago/Boston/Washington, D.C.) and Says I, Says He at Mark Taper Forum; and Rat in the Skull at Wisdom Bridge Theatre. He appeared in Death of a Salesman (Olivier Best Actor Statue, 2005) in London's West End.

Liev Schreiber was nominated for a Tony Award for his portrayal of Barry Champlain in Eric Bogosian's Talk Radio, directed by Robert Fall and received the award for his performance in David Mamet's Glengarry GLen Ross, directed by Joe Mantello. Other stage work: Macbeth (Shakespeare in the Park, directed by Moisas Kaufman). Film/TV: Taking Woodstock, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Defiance, The Painted Veil, "Lackawanna Blues," The Manchurian Candidate, The Sum of All Fears, Kate & Leopold, The Hurricane, Hamlet, "RKO 281" (Emmy and Golden Globe nominations), Spring Forward, A Walk on the Moon, Mixed Nuts, "The Sunshine Boys," and the Scream trilogy. Upcoming: Salt, Repossession Mambo, Every Day. Documentary narration work includes: Mantle, :03 Seconds from Gold, and A City on Fire: The Story of the 68 Detroit Tigers; the series Nova and Nature. Schreiber made his directorial debut with Everything is Illuminated. Adapted from Jonathan Safran Foer's best-selling novel, the film received special recognition for excellence in filmmaking by the National Board of Review.

Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff founded the Tribeca Film Festival in 2001 following the attacks on the World Trade Center to spur the economic and cultural revitalization of the lower Manhattan district through an annual celebration of film, music and culture.

The Festival's mission is to help filmmakers reach the broadest possible audience, enable the international film community and general public to experience the power of cinema and promote New York City as a major filmmaking center. Tribeca Film Festival is well known for being a diverse international film festival that supports emerging and established directors.

The Tribeca Festival has screened over 1100 films from over 80 countries since its first festival in 2002. Since its founding, it has attracted an international audience of more than 2.3 million attendees and has generated an estimated $600 million in economic activity for New York City

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