2007 Tribeca Talks Panel Series Announced

The Tribeca Film Festival announced today its 2007 Tribeca Talks Panel Series. The Film Panel Notetaker will be at several of these panel discussions, so please be on the lookout for either me or my fellow contributor AMPeters during the series and at the overall festival. If you may be at any of the panel discussions, we welcome you to share your own notes. Hope to see you there.

Here's the schedule for the 2007 Tribeca Talks Panel Series:

THE KID SLAYS IN THE PICTURE
If it bleeds, it leads. Blood, guts and severed limbs have historically been box office cash cows but as Capitol Hill turns up the heat on television violence, studios and filmmakers wonder…will the big screen be next on the chopping block?
PANELIST: Jim Steyer (CEO, Founder, Common Sense Media)

DATE: Thursday, April 26
TIME: 7 pm
LOCATION: BMCC TribecaPAC 2


BRINGING HOME THE BACON
They act. They write. They produce. And they direct. We sit down with some of Hollywood’s super hyphenates—those multi-tasking film stars who have become media conglomerates of their own.

PANELISTS: Eva Mendes (Live!, Hitch), Julie Delpy (2 Jours A Paris, Before Sunrise), Julia Stiles (Raving, Save The Last Dance,), Rosario Dawson (Kids, Descent) and Mary Stuart Masterson (The Cake Eaters, Fried Green Tomatoes)

DATE: Friday, April 27
TIME: 7 pm
LOCATION: BMCC TribecaPAC 2


AND THEN…HE ATE A SNAKE
Statistically, the person most likely to get attacked by a shark is the one with the most flesh exposed. Get tips like this and more when we sit down with some seriously adventurous filmmakers—those who immerse themselves in the elements, so that you don’t have to! Let’s compare scars.

PANELISTS: Josh Bernstein (Digging For the Truth) Les Stroud (Survivor Man) and Philippe Cousteau, Jr. (President, EarthEcho International, Ocean’s Deadliest).

MODERATOR: Boyd Matson (Wild Chronicles, National Geographic Today)

DATE: Saturday, April 28
TIME: 1 pm
LOCATION: BMCC TribecaPAC 2


SPIES LIKE THEM
Before, he was evil and my enemy; now, he is evil and my friend.
Alec Leamas, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

Wondering what side that G-Man’s on? Or if she’s a sparrow? We join real life secret agents and the ones that play them to crack the code behind the public’s fascination with espionage on the big screen.

PANELISTS: Milt Bearden (CIA consultant on The Good Shepherd), Robert Baer (Syriana), and Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity, Mr. & Mrs. Smith)
MODERATOR: Christopher Isham (ABC News)

DATE: Saturday, April 28
TIME: 7 pm
LOCATION: BMCC TribecaPAC 2


TRIBECA TALKS: TIKI BARBER, NO PAIN...NO GAIN
Broken bones, torn ligaments, concussions. Tiki Barber’s tenure as the New York Giants' premier running back may prove to be the perfect training ground for a career in entertainment and news. Jonathan Tisch sits down with the master of rushing and receiving to discuss what the future holds for this neo-renaissance man.

DATE: Sunday, April 29
TIME: 1 pm
LOCATION: BMCC TribecaPAC 2



LOOK WHOSE LAUGHING
And they are not supposed to be. A recent study out of Stanford University suggests that women are not, well, funny. We beg to differ and our guests are hilarious proof.

PANELISTS: Rachel Dratch (Saturday Night Live), Rachael Harris (Notes From the Underbelly, Evan Almighty)

DATE: Sunday, April 29
TIME: 4 pm
LOCATION: BMCC TribecaPAC 2


CINEMA 2.0: ME, MYSELF AND IPOD
Today, you are the master of your own domain, the creator, the conjurer. Whether in Beirut, Bangkok or Brooklyn, your audience is a webcam away. Our panel of web-celebs and content creators step out from behind their laptops to take a look at the revolution and responsibility of this socio-technological phenomenon and what it means for the future of creativity.

PANELISTS: Charles Leadbeater (Author, We-think, Up the Down Escalator) Brent Weinstein (President, UTA Online) Kathleen Grace (Co-Creator: The Burg), Jonathan Lethem (The Promiscous Materials Project, You Don’t Love Me Yet: A Novel), and Jerry Paffendorf (Electric Sheep Factory, Second Life).

DATE: Monday, April 30
TIME: 7 pm
LOCATION: BMCC TribecaPAC 2


REAL HORROR STORIES
From Blood Diamond and The Last King of Scotland to both real and fictionalized accounts of refugees in Sudan and Sierra Leone horrendous stories from the world's most devastated places have become a kind of cultural cache. Can the visibility afforded by pop culture actually create real-life change?

PANELISTS: Suliman Baldo (International Center for Transitional Justice), Ishmael Beah (A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier) Terry George (Hotel Rwanda, Reservation Road) Christopher Quinn (Director, God Grew Tired of Us) John Dau (God Grew Tired of Us, Director of Sudan Project, Direct Change, Inc.)

DATE: Tuesday, May 1
TIME: 7 pm
LOCATION: BMCC TribecaPAC 2


TRIBECA TALKS: LUDACRIS
Three time Grammy® winner, multi-platinum musician, actor, record label executive and producer. Chris "Ludacris" Bridges is one of today's fastest rising screen talents. With critically acclaimed performances in Crash, Hustle & Flow and Law & Order SVU, Bridges is soon to be seen in the comedy film Fred Claus. He sits down with Vanity Fair's Lisa Robinson to talk about music, movies and more.

DATE: Wednesday, May 2
TIME: 7:30 pm
LOCATION: BMCC TribecaPAC 2


FAME! I’M GONNA LIVE FOREVER!
In my stars I am above thee; but be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. - Twelfth Night

Ah, to be famous. The money, the lifestyle, the paparazzi picking through your garbage cans….With the price tag on interviews, pictures, anything having to do with a celebrity growing higher each day, Tribeca Talks gets serious about fame. What drives it, who wants it and is it something you are born to have? Our panel of scientists and damage-control experts discuss the psychological roots behind the need to swivel necks and the collateral damage that comes with being a household name.

PANELISTS: Jake Halpern (Author, Fame Junkies), Robert Millman (Psychologist, Acquired Situational Narcissism) Bruce Dern (They Shoot Horses Don't They?, Things I've Said, But Probably Shouldn't Have: An Unrepentant Memoir), Janice Min (Editor In Chief US Weekly).
DATE: Thursday, May 3
TIME: 7pm
LOCATION: BMCC TribecaPAC 2


Alfred P Sloan Foundation presents:

PRODIGIES, NOBELISTS AND PENGUINS: SCIENCE AND STEREOTYPES IN THE MOVIES
Drawing on several new films at this years festival--Vitus, Nobel Son and Eye of the Dolphin--and such acclaimed movies as A Beautiful Mind, Proof, Good Will Hunting, The Aviator, March of the Penguins and more Tribeca Talks brings filmmakers and scientists together for an entertaining conversation about science in the movies.

DATE: Saturday, May 5th
TIME: 1 pm
LOCATION: BMCC TribecaPAC 2