

With Jahking Guillory, Mahershala Ali, Kofi Siriboe, Christopher Jordan Wallace, Christopher Meyer. Featuring a soundtrack packed with hip-hop classics, Justin Tipping’s debut feature is an urban coming-of-age tale told with grit, humor, and surprising lyricism. When his hard-earned kicks get snatched by a local hood, fifteen-year old Brandon and his two best friends go on an ill-advised mission across the Bay Area to retrieve the stolen sneakers. “Kicks,” directed by Justin Tipping, written by Justin Tipping and Josh Beirne-Golden. Narrative Competition, International Narrative Competition, World Documentary Competition and Viewpoints sections are listed below (all synopses provided by Tribeca). Of the feature slate, there will be 77 world premieres, with 42 filmmakers making their feature directorial debuts.
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This year’s festival is also playing home to a record number of films made by female filmmakers, a full one-third of the festival’s offerings. Narrative section will open with Justin Tipping’s “Kicks,” while the world premiere of “Madly” (a short film anthology with sections directed by Gael García Bernal, Mia Wasikowska, Sebastian Silva, Anurag Kashyap, Sion Sono and Natasha Khan) will open the International Narrative Competition and the Viewpoints section will open with the world premiere of “Nerdland,” directed by Chris Prynoski and starring Paul Rudd and Patton Oswalt. Vincent, Nelly Furtado and Ad-Rock” and will serve as the opening film for the section. The festival also boasts screenings of festival favorites like Drake Doremus’ Kristen Stewart-starring “Equals” and Ben Wheatley’s “High-Rise.”Īlso of note is the world premiere of Bill and Turner Ross’ documentary “Contemporary Color,” “which captures the unprecedented event at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center to celebrate the art of color guard with performers including St.

and international narratives to strengthen the Festival’s support for American narrative filmmaking and allow the breadth of international filmmaking to be reflected in the program.” The new sections have already paid off, and this slate includes fresh offerings from filmmakers like Sophia Takal, Demetri Martin, Gael Garcia Bernal and Jeff Grace. Narrative and International Narrative competition sections, along with the Documentary competition selections and the out-of-competition Viewpoints titles.Īs part of this year’s festival (its 15th in existence), Tribeca “introduced separate narrative sections for U.S. The Tribeca Film Festival has today announced the first half of its stacked (and 101 films strong) feature slate, unveiling 55 titles from its newly created U.S.
