Geoffrey Gilmore is the Director of the Tribeca Film Festival and a member of the UCLA Producers Program faculty. (wikipedia)
There's nothing in that competition that will ever be mistaken by anybody as having emerged from a Hollywood company.
We thought that the best way to end the festival was with a closing night ... to end the festival in a fun way.
There's filmmakers here, almost every single one of them, who are thinking about (the world) when they work and we saw it throughout the festival.
Come Early Morning. I really admire someone who's willing to take on the kind of role she's willing to take on.
With a magnificent ensemble cast, 'Friends With Money' addresses both contemporary social issues and personal lives, a characteristic of many great movies and an exciting film to open this year's festival.
A lot of the people that sent us international work sometimes thought Sundance wasn't a place for them. Now they do. It's exciting to us.
It's rare that a group of us programmers will walk into a movie and walk out unified in our response.
While every year the Festival evolves and has a different complexion, the through line is the discovery of fresh, original voices from around the world with quality storytelling that takes risks whether it be in dramatic or documentary films.
I'm really expecting surprises. I'm really expecting myself to be surprised, when I want to look out and see what's going to play and what people are going to respond to.
It's a festival that very much kind of underscores for me what independent film-making is,
