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WATCH: Tribeca Film Festival Rocks Out On Opening Night With The National & 'Mistaken For Strangers'

WATCH: Tribeca Film Festival Rocks Out On Opening Night With The National & 'Mistaken For Strangers'

For the first time ever, the Tribeca Film Festival has selected a documentary as its opening night film.  And what a unique documentary.  Mistaken for Strangers chronicles the misadventures of Tom Berninger as he works as a roadie for his brother's band, The National.  Lead singer Matt Berninger points out that Tom "was hoping he was going on tour with Mötley Crüe, and it's like, we're not Mötley Crüe.  Like he got a lot of footage of guys on their laptops.  And he got bored, and that led him to sort of some maybe bad behavior, and ultimately getting fired."

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WATCH: Robert De Niro & Jane Rosenthal Get Down To Business For 2013 Tribeca Film Festival

WATCH: Robert De Niro & Jane Rosenthal Get Down To Business For 2013 Tribeca Film Festival

This Wednesday kicks off the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival, and I got the chance to sit down with festival co-founders Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal to talk shop.  Now while all film festivals have plenty of business going on behind the scenes, Tribeca puts it front and center with events like its Future of Film LIVE talks which focus on film distribution.  According to Rosenthal, the festival is geared to reflect the hot topics of conversation in the film industry today:  "We have to look at how the business is changing and how you create is different because of technology...so it's that merging together of that dialogue."

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Tribeca 2012: Redefining a Festival of Range and Diversity — and a 'Wild Ride'

Tribeca 2012: Redefining a Festival of Range and Diversity — and a 'Wild Ride'

Ahead of tonight's official kick-off of the Tribeca Film Festival with the world premiere of Universal's The Five-Year Engagement, festival brass reflected on the event's 10 years — and its upcoming second decade — at a pre-launch mimosa (and bloody mary) breakfast event downtown where it all began in 2002.
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