ESPN, Tribeca Fest Team Up
By Staff -- Multichannel News, 12/10/2006 7:00:00 PM
New York — New York— Next spring, the Big Apple will be home to a multiplatform sports film festival.
Through a multiyear agreement, ESPN Inc. and Tribeca Enterprises, the parent company of the Tribeca Film Festival, will launch The Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival. Aimed at both the film industry and sports-film fans, the festival will feature a complete program of film screenings, live events, online interactivity, and media extensions.
ESPN will provide television, radio, print and online promotional resources in support of the festival.
The inaugural event, slated to take place from April 25 through May 5 as part of the Tribeca Film Festival, will showcase premiere screenings of sports-related narrative and documentary feature and shorts, as well as user generated online content selected by the festival’s programmers.
The festival will also feature “Sports Saturday,” at which all the independent sports films will screen and special interactive community events will take place with opportunities to meet sports stars, filmmakers and actors.
Since its 2002 inception, the Tribeca Film Festival has screened 29 films about sports ranging from basketball to surfing to wrestling, including Step into Liquid, Shaolin Soccer, Lipstick & Dynamite, Rize, Through the Fire, Blue Blood, Freedom’s Fury, Goal! The Dream Begins and Once in a Lifetime.
“ESPN’s collaboration with the Tribeca Film Festival demonstrates our continued commitment to serving sports fans by extending the discussion about sports overall,” ESPN executive vice president John Skipper said in a statement. “Independent film has grown exponentially in the last few years, and sports-themed films have grown with it. The Tribeca Film Festival has captured sports films like no other film festival and has proven to be creative, smart and passionate about nurturing films of all kinds. Together, we hope to inspire filmmakers to make sports-themed films with this new platform in mind and thereby raise the level of the genre.”
Films in the Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival will be accepted through the Tribeca Film Festival’s submission procedures. Information will be available at www.tribecafilmfestival.org/espn.html.
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