This week, the Crosby Street Hotel was the site of the New York Premiere of the independent modern musical film STUCK from director Michael Berry. The film stars Grammy Award-winning artist and actress Ashanti and Teen Wolf star Arden Cho who were both in attendance along with members of the cast, crew, and select media invitees.
The Tribeca Film Festival returns to New York City from April 24 to May 5. The Tribeca Film Festival will feature 103 titles. Expect world premieres of Georgetown, The Kill, Team, Dreamland, to name a few.
The 2019 feature film selection is as follows:
U.S. NARRATIVE COMPETITION
Tribeca’s U.S. Narrative Competition showcases extraordinary work from breakout independent voices and distinguished filmmaking talent. These ten world premieres will vie for the Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Actor, and Best Actress. Last year, the award for Best Narrative Feature went to Kent Jones’ Diane while Jeffrey Wright was awarded Best Actor for his role in O.G. Other previous films from this section include Reed Morano’s Meadowland (2015), Ingrid Jungermann’s Women Who Kill (2016), and Nia DaCosta’s Little Woods (2018).
On Wednesday night, we stopped by The Roxy Cinema for the premiere of Love after Love, presented by Ruffino Wines and Cinema Society. Love after Love stars legendary actress, Andie MacDowell who was in attendance. MacDowell looked gorgeous in a Bottega Veneta black dress.
Last night, SVEDKA Vodka supported the highly anticipated I, TONYA, premiere at the Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles. Following the premiere, movie stars such as Margot Robbie, Sebastian Stan, Allison Janney, Paul Hauser and Caitlin Carver walked over to Liaison Restaurant + Lounge for the official after party. Actress Margot Robbie (garnering Oscar-buzz for her starring role) was spotted talking about portraying Tonya Harding to the real Tonya Harding!
Last night, stars Jennifer Aniston, Olivia Munn, Jason Bateman, T. J Miller and Courtney B. Vance, as well as directors Josh Gordon and Will Speck attended The Cinema Society’s premiere and after-party of Office Christmas Party presented by SVEDKA Vodka. The film’s stars were joined by cast members Kate McKinnon, Vanessa Bayer, and producers Scott Stuber, Guymon Casady and Daniel Rappaport. Other notables that joined in on the holiday festivities included Molly Sims, Actors Norman Reedus, Nick Kroll, Pauly Shore and Will Kopelman, Actresses Kathy Najimy, Dana Delaney and Danielle Brooks, Designers Jenna Lyons and Reed Krakoff and TV Personality Carson Kressley.
The World Premiere of the 2014 Imagination Series Films took place Tuesday, April 22, 2014, in lower Manhattan as part of the Tribeca Film Festival. Presented by Bombay Sapphire Gin, the event centered a great evening of entertainment and delicious cocktails on two floors with five short films.
Upon entering the event, guests were greeted with cocktails named after the five films, and 45 minutes into the event, guests were seated to view the five films. The first film, “Reflections” directed by Anthony Khaseria from the United Kingdom, centered around a couple on a date whose evening is disrupted by a mirror that peaks into an alternate reality. The second film and my favorite of the five was The Other Side of the Game, a psychological thriller directed by New Yorker Kiara Jones that has an ending that will leave all stunned who watch it.
The third short was “Graffiti Area” directed by Maiti Fernandez of Spain, which looks into the vivid imaginations of two graffiti artists. The fourth film was “Need For Speed (Dating)” directed by New Yorker Allyson Morgan. It takes a look at the world of speed dating from the perspective of an imaginative woman who knows what she is looking for. The fifth and final short was “Exit Log” directed by Chris Cornwell from the United Kingdom, which takes a futuristic look at time travel over 200 years into the future.
Immediately following the premieres, Academy Award winner Geoffrey Fletcher, who wrote the short scripts, led a question and answer session with each of the directors. “Sci-Fi is great fun to work with on a short,” Cornwell said about his work. Fernandez, who learned about her film’s selection on her birthday, said “The imagination is like a muscle. You have to exercise” in her first visit to New York City. Khaseria was really humbled by the experience. “I am really touched to have gotten this far,” he said of being selected. Morgan talked about her personal life’s influence on her short. “My partner Michael and I have a two-year old son. I thought about being trapped.” The veteran even surprised her partner Michael with the film, as he didn’t know it was semi-autobiographical. She described the process of being selected for the Bombay Sapphire Imagination Series as “starting at the finish line”, and talked about trying to think of the audience and getting down to the core of what emotion is. Morgan talked about her process starting with “a delicious Bombay Sapphire drink” which inspired cheers from the crowd. She included lines from actual gentlemen in her short, and thanked her many friends who were there. “You are only as good as your support system.”
After the Q&A session, patrons enjoyed more Bombay Sapphire cocktails while listening to the soulful sounds of DJ Mel DeBarge, who even got me on the dance floor during the evening. There were two virtual tours at the event, an interactive piano that played music and voices of different recordings of people whose faces appeared on a giant video board, and there were too many cocktail stations to name. The event also included passed appetizers, cotton candy, popcorn, and much more. To check out the five shorts, visit YouTube.com/BombaySapphire and be on the lookout next year for the third installment of Bombay Sapphire Imagination Series during the Tribeca Film Festival next year.
Parlor was the place to be as Heineken hosted the Official After-Party for the critically-acclaimed film X/Y, bringing together the film’s cast – including America Ferrera, Ryan Piers Williams, Jon Paul Phillips, Dree Hemingway and Melanie Diaz. Guests literally danced the night away while enjoying delicious treats, cocktails, and of course Heineken!
The glamour of The Great Gatsby was brought to life as the stars, producers and nearly 700 guests straight out of Gatsby’s mansion, including Leonardo DiCaprio, Jay-Z, Carey Mulligan, Tobey Macguire, Isla Fisher Jake Gyllenhaal, and director Baz Luhrmann all partied with Moët & Chandon at the after-party for the NY premiere of the film.