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March 14, 2006
'Dreamland' Via NYC: Gen Art, Tribeca Festival Updates
Gen Art unveiled the slate Tuesday for its 2006 film festival, piling together seven features, seven shorts and seven trademark, far-flung West Side parties into one week in early April. The event launches April 5 with Jason Matzner's coming-of-age drama Dreamland (right), followed by another Sundance '06 alumnus, Goran Dukic's wonderful Wristcutters: A Love Story. A few SXSW faves (Steve Anderson's documentary FUCK, Andy Robin and Gregg
Kavet's Live Free or Die) and Joshua Michael Stern's star-studded Neverwas.
The Reeler just got off the phone with Matzner, who confirmed he will be dropping in for Dreamland's opening-night screening. "It's right there in (Gen Art's) demographic," Matzner said of his film's selection. "They're kind of a 20-somehting organization and that's kind of like the target audience for this movie--a youthful, cool cast and that kind of stuff. And it's kind of a relatively feel-good movie, unlike some Sundance films. It's nice to kick off the festival with some thing that's not a dire, depressing story of child abuse and neglect or something like that."
Most of the festival takes place over at the Clearview Chelsea West, but Matzner gets to experience the pleasure of seeing his film projected on the ginormous screen at the Ziegfeld Theater. (Fun fact: The only other movie Matzner has seen there: Oliver Stone's The Doors). And while the director adds he is trying to round up as many cast members (including Agnes Bruckner, Gina Gershon and John Corbett) as he can for the event, co-stars Kelli Garner and Justin Long will be shooting films that day. Still, think about it--Ziegfeld, huge screen, Kelli Garner, that is close enough. Should be a blast.
In other festival news, Tribeca sends word that it has selected the 33 participating projects in this year's Tribeca All Access Connects program. The festival launched the program in 2004 to establish relationships between the film industry and independent filmmakers of color; this year's selections include 13 narrative features, 12 documentaries, six screenplays and two projects for established directors in Tribeca's Signature Series.
Meanwhile, 2004 TAA Connects alums Tanuj Chopra, Stanley Nelson and J. Carlos Peinado will premiere their completed work at the festival next month. Sadly, Kelli Garner will not be attendance there either. But we will try to do the best we can without her. Again.
Posted by stvanairsdale at March 14, 2006 02:40 PM
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