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Robert Niro and his Tribeca Festival Co-Founder Jane Rosenthal have joined the chorus of calls for Iranian actress Taraneh Alidoosti to be released from prison, along with “other members of Iran’s art and entertainment community who have risked their lives to speak out against the government.” Double…

Hollywood does not usually get into bidding wars over movies about retired married couples from small-town America, but that is exactly what happened when the true story of Jerry and Marge Selbee came to national attention by way Jason Fagone’s HuffPost article in 2018. A 60 Minutes piece followed the next year…

Directed by Alison Klayman (HBO's Jagged, and Netflix's White Hot), Unfinished Business follows members of the WNBA  and members of the New York Liberty team.  About the film: In 1997, the National Basketball Association made history by establishing its women's division, the WNBA. The New York Liberty was the first…

Writer-producer-director Theodore Melfi has a different take than those who think independent filmmaking is becoming an endangered species; in fact, he tells me right now we are in “a golden age of independent film.” That might be one of the reasons he is bullish about both films he has at this week’s Tribeca Festival…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has a new clip from the political thriller 88, which will make its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 11, screening at the Village East Cinema at 8:30 p.m. The film centers on Femi Jackson (Brandon Victor Dixon), Financial Director for One USA—a democratic super PAC to elect…

EXCLUSIVE: Sci-fi doc Sophia has its world premiere at Tribeca before being given a theatrical run this fall ahead of Showtime premiere later this year, and we’ve got an exclusive clip of the show from The Wolfpack director Crystal Moselle and When Lambs Become Lions’ Jon Kasbe. Sophia tells the story of the world’s…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has a new teaser for the psychological drama The Integrity of Joseph Chambers, from writer-director Robert Machoian (The Killing of Two Lovers), which is making its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival today. The film centers on Joseph Chambers (Clayne Crawford), an insurance salesman…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a clip from Letitia Wright and Josh O’Connor-starring Aisha, which will premiere at Tribeca in three days’ time. Wright plays the lead, a young Nigerian woman seeking asylum in Ireland floundering in a maze of social services and bureaucracy. As her situation becomes increasingly dire, she struggles…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has a new clip from Parker Seaman’s comedy Wes Schlagenhauf Is Dying, which is making its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival tomorrow. The film centers on aspiring filmmakers Seaman and Devin Das, who find out that their best friend Wes Schlagenhauf is dying. They subsequently decide that…

EXCLUSIVE: Documentaries can free people from prison (The Thin Blue Line, the Paradise Lost trilogy). They can help put someone behind bars (The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst). They can cement a legacy (Bob Dylan in Dont Look Back; Michael Jordan in The Last Dance; Muhammad Ali in When We Were…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has the first teaser for Mali Elfman’s feature directorial debut, Next Exit—a darkly humorous ghost story, which is making its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 10. In the genre-bender written and directed by Elfman, a research scientist makes national news by proving she can…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has the first trailer for The Courtroom, a new drama written by Succession breakout Arian Moayed, which will make its world premiere at the Metrograph in New York City, as an official selection of the Tribeca Film Festival, on June 16. Originally presented as a critically-acclaimed off-Broadway…