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We're excited to share with you our slate of films and clients for the 2004 TriBeCa Film Festival. If the state of our slate at all reflects the state of the Festival, than we think it's fair to say that this year's program is edgier, gayer, cooler and, in the case of "Tying the Knot" and "Poster Boy," more timely and political than the films screened at TriBeCa in 2003.

If you think you may want time with our stars or filmmakers, please contact us well ahead of the Festival. Emma Griffiths, whom some of you may know from the Sundance Film Festival, is working with JW+A through TriBeCa. She might be a good person to call first.

Please contact us in advance of the Festival at 212-595-6161 or at jeremy@jeremywalker.com.
Films are listed in the order of their first public screening.


SO THIS IS NEW YORK
Restored and Rediscovered

This 1948 gem was the first film produced by the legendary Stanley Kramer ("High Noon," "Inherit the Wind," "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"). A hilarious screen adaptation of Ring Lardner's "The Big Town," SO THIS IS NEW YORK follows a newly minted heiress, her husband and sister from South Bend, Indiana to New York City, with the plan that the sister will marry money. Despite its great title, SO THIS IS NEW YORK never opened in a first run theatre here. Why? Because Kramer's hugely successful adaptation of Lardner's "Champion" stole his first film's thunder. Born and raised in Hell's Kitchen and a graduate of NYU, Kramer's films garnered 85 Oscar Nominations; he was honored with the Academy's Thalberg Award in 1961.

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Public Screenings:

Friday, May 1st, 6:00pm, Pace University Auditorium
Thursday, May 6th, 3:00pm, Pace University Auditorium

Talent Available:

Stanley Kramer's widow, Karen Kramer, lives in LA and is available by phone.




TYING THE KNOT
World Premiere - New York, New York Documentary Competition

Three years in the making, TYING THE KNOT documents the political war between gay people who want to marry and the people who want to stop them. The filmmakers tackle the political with the deeply personal, intertwining the true stories of a widowed gay rancher's fight to keep his home and a lesbian police officer's battle for her slain wife's pension. Audiences will get a kick out of the film's use of great archival footage from 1971, when members of the hippie Gay Activists Alliance took over Manhattan's marriage bureau in a prescient and daring act of public disobedience. When juxtaposed with today's demonstrations, we see that not much has changed on one side of the clerk's window. On the other side, however, today's players are more likely to be parents with two kids and a mortgage than long-haired members of the counterculture. TYING THE KNOT is director Jim de Sève's feature debut.

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Public Screenings:

Sunday, May 2nd, 5:30pm, Stuyvesant High School
Saturday, May 8th, 2:00pm, UA Battery Park City

Press Screenings:

Thursday, April 15th, 4:30pm, at TriBeCa Cinemas 2
(54 Varick St. - formerly The Screening Room)




THE ORIGINS OF AIDS
Documentary Competition

Did scientists inadvertently cause the AIDS epidemic? This film explores this controversial and ongoing debate. More than 20 years after the AIDS epidemic started, we still do not know its origins. We know for sure that AIDS was born from contact between humans and chimpanzees infected by the Simian Immuno-deficiency Virus (SIV), a virus very similar to HIV (Human Immuno-deficiency Virus). But where, when and how did this devastating contact occur? Many believe the answer lies hidden in research on a polio vaccine undertaken by scientist Hilary Koprowski in the Belgian Congo in the late 50s. The scientific community is torn by dissension around this extraordinary controversy. As the community's ethical responsibilities are called into question, the debate over the origins of AIDS rages on. The film is co-directed by Peter Shappell and Catherine Peix.

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Public Screenings:

Sunday, May 2nd, 6:30pm, UA Battery Park City
Tuesday, May 4th, 3:30pm, UA Battery Park City
Wednesday, May 5th, 3:00pm, UA Battery Park City

Press Screenings:

Friday, April 16th, 4:30pm, TriBeCa Cinemas 2
(54 Varick St. - formerly The Screening Room)

Talent Available:

Co-director Catherine Peix is available by phone.




A HOLE IN ONE
World Premiere - Feature Competition

Set in small-town America circa 1953, A HOLE IN ONE is a romantic drama starring Michelle Williams as Anna, a young woman whose desire for piece of mind leads her to covet its latest fashion -- transorbital lobotomy. Raised in a pre-feminist era where women are not expected to think for themselves, Anna is scooped up by Billy (Meat Loaf), a small time gangster, when she is just barely old enough to be considered a woman. Anna looks for a way to relieve her pain, yearning for fulfillment, clarity and calm as madness flickers around the edges of her life. She thinks she finds a panacea in the pages of Life Magazine, in an article on the latest techniques in brain surgery. In the meantime, Dr. Harold Ashton (Bill Raymond), a renowned neurologist, comes to town and becomes a celebrity as he performs the new transorbital lobotomy on adolescents, alcoholics, veterans and other troubled types. Eventually, Anna is caught between Billy and Tom, a kind Korean War vet (Tim Guinee) on Billy's payroll. Anna meets Tom on the day she is to see Dr. Ashton for her lobotomy, but will it be too late? Will it be possible for Anna to ever be truly happy? Featuring exquisite photography, rich period detail, an evocative score by Stephen Trask and based on meticulously researched "stranger than fiction" historical facts and medical practices, A HOLE IN ONE is the debut film by writer / director Richard Ledes.

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Public Screenings:

Sunday, May 2nd, 8:00pm, Stuyvesant High School
Sunday, May 9th, 3:15pm, UA Battery Park City

Press Screenings:

Wednesday, April 21st, 4:00pm, TriBeCa Cinemas 1
(54 Varick St. - formerly The Screening Room)

Talent Available:

Writer / Director Richard Ledes and actress Michelle Williams both live in New York.




JAILBAIT
World Premiere - New York, New York Feature Competition

Brett C Leonard's JAILBAIT stars Michael Pitt (Bertolucci's "The Dreamers", "Murder By Numbers") as Randy, a convict on his third strike who shares a cell with Jake, played by Stephen Adly Guirgis (Todd Solondz's upcoming "Palindromes," author of last year's off Broadway hit "Our Lady Of 121st Street"-named New York Times Play of the Year). Randy is to serve twenty-five years on marijuana and vandalism charges; his cellmate Jake's sentence is life without the possibility of parole, for the murder of his adulterous wife. JAILBAIT is a stark and disturbing, often comical, study of one man's subjugation of another. As a playwright, Leonard's latest work "Guinea Pig Solo" (also featuring Guirgis) will premiere May 2nd at New York's esteemed Public Theater in collaboration with Philip Seymour Hoffman and John Ortiz's LAByrinth Theater Company. Producers include Leonard, Dan O'Meara, and Linda Moran and Rene Bastian of Belladonna Productions ("L.I.E.").

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Public Screenings:

Monday, May 3rd, 9:00pm, UA Battery Park City
Tuesday, May 4th, 2:45pm, UA Battery Park City
Saturday, May 8th, 2:45pm, UA Battery Park City

Press Screenings:

Tuesday, April 20th, 2:00pm, TriBeCa Cinemas 1
(54 Varick St. - formerly The Screening Room)

Talent Available:

Writer / Director Brett C. Leonard and actor Stephen Adly Guigis are both in New York and available for interviews. Actor Michael Pitt may be available depending on his work schedule.




POSTER BOY
World Premiere - Feature Competition

A politically-minded coming of age story, POSTER BOY stars Matt Newton in the title role of Henry, the closeted son of a conservative U.S. Senator (Michael Lerner) in the midst of a re-election campaign. Just as the Senator puts pressure on Jack to introduce him at a campus campaign appearance, Henry hooks up with Anthony (Jack Noseworthy), a sexy and confident activist who has infiltrated the campus for personal, not political, reasons. As Henry struggles with an opportunity to spin the Senator's campaign in an unexpected direction, he and Anthony form a connection, which ends up surprising both of them. Framed by Henry's "tell-all" interview with a hard-boiled newspaper reporter (Steve Sheffler), POSTER BOY's loose narrative style and jangly photography bring a lively and edgy sensibility to this timely story of loyalty and identity.

Download Press Notes


Public Screenings:

Tuesday, May 4th, 6:00pm, Stuyvesant High School
Saturday, May 8th, 12:00pm, UA Battery Park City

Press Screenings:

Wednesday, April 21st, 2:00pm, TriBeCa Cinemas 1
(54 Varick St. - formerly The Screening Room)




LIPSTICK AND DYNAMITE
Showcase

LIPSTICK & DYNAMITE, PISS & VINEGAR: THE FIRST LADIES OF WRESTLING shines a spotlight on the forgotten first ladies of the pro-wrestling ring. Gladys 'Killem' Gillem wrestled women, men, alligators and bears. At 18, Ida May Martinez took to the road to flash the only thing she knew - how to kick, punch, and defend herself. Narrowly escaping a date rape at 16, Penny Banner trained for survival. Still kicking butt at 80, The Fabulous Moolah and Johnnie Mae Young live together with midget wrestler sidekick Diamond 'Lil, and continue to take bumps with World Wrestling Entertainment. Each woman reflects on her own remarkable life with fond and bitter memories, reconciling a wild, flamboyant youth with the reality of getting older and fading away. LIPSTICK & DYNAMITE is directed by Ruth Leitman.

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Public Screenings:

Wednesday, May 5th, 7:30pm, UA Battery Park City
Thursday, May 6th, 3:30pm, Tribeca Cinema 2
Sunday, May 9th, 4:00pm, UA Battery Park City

Press Screenings:

Wednesday, April 21st, 10:00am, at Kodak Screening Room
360 West 31st St., 7th Floor (enter on Ninth Ave bet. 30th/31st).
To attend this screening you must phone Emma at 212-595-6161.

Talent Available:

Director Ruth Leitman will be in New York April 22nd and 23rd; will be here with female wrestlers The Fabulous Moolah, The Great Mae Young, Ida May Martinez and Gladys (Kill 'em) Gillem from the film May 3-9.




THE 24TH DAY
Showcase

Opens NYC May 14th from Screen Media Films. It's been 24 days since Tom (Scott Speedman), a married man who has lived his life as "straight," finds out that he is HIV-positive. Consumed with sorrow and rage about his situation, Tom sets out to find Dan (James Marsden), the only man he's ever slept with and the person he believes is responsible for giving him the virus. Tom's violent kidnapping of Dan and Tom's murderous threats clearly pass the bounds of legal and rational behavior. And yet, if Tom's conviction about Dan is true, then Dan is accountable for more than a minor moral lapse. Writer/Director Tony Piccirillo's hot-button film sets off a host of explosive questions: What moral responsibilities do we have to one another in the age of AIDS? Are we only answerable to ourselves? Is there such a thing as absolute "Truth"? THE 24th DAY features two of today's hottest young actors delivering kick-ass performances.

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Public Screenings:

Thursday, May 6th, 9:00pm, Stuyvesant High School
Saturday, May 8th, 11:45am, UA Battery Park City

Press Screenings:

Tuesday, April 27th at 6pm
Wednesday, April 28th at 2pm
Wednesday, May 5th at 8pm

All screenings will take place at Magno Review 2,
729 Seventh Ave., 2nd floor (bet. 48th & 49th Sts.)
You must R.S.V.P. to 212-362-2794 to attend.

Talent Available:

Director Tony Piccirillo and stars James Marsden and Scott Speedman are expected at the Festival.




Again, please don't hesitate to call us at 212-595-6161. We look forward to hearing from you!

All the best,

Jeremy Walker             Mary Litkovich             Christine Richardson             Jessica Grant             Emma Griffiths