The 11th annual Tribeca Film Festival (TFF), co-founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff, announced the winners of the two Audience Awards tonight at the wrap party in New York City. This year for the first time two awards—one for narrative and one for documentary—were given to the audience choices for the best films. Any Day Now, directed by Travis Fine, was chosen to receive the Narrative award and BURN, directed by Tom Putnam and Brenna Sanchez, was chosen for the Doc...

The festival begins on Thursday, March 29th with the Opening Ceremonies and Annual Destruction of the rejected submissions. How will the films be destroyed this year? The only way to find out is by coming to the festival! We’ve got a three ring circus filled with Sideshow acts, Stand-up comedy, Burlesque and much more going all night long! As always, we’ll have the Backseat Drinking Game at every screening! New special events lined up for the fifth year in Philadelphia include a Midnight Hor...

The “Other” Venice Film Festival Venice California was one man's dream of a place to resemble Venice, Italy. In 1900 Abbot Kinney founded Venice, California. At first Venice was a romantic network of canals but Kinney's idea never really worked, and with the arrival of cars and freeways to LA, the canals were abandoned. In the 1960s Venice, California became a low rent district on the ocean that attracted artists and young radicals from across the nation. Always slightly on the margin...