{"id":19412,"date":"2012-03-21T19:55:09","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T00:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=19412"},"modified":"2018-11-14T00:19:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T05:19:22","slug":"tribecca-offers-four-films-for-vod-during-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/21\/tribecca-offers-four-films-for-vod-during-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribecca Offers Four Films For VOD During Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/TribecaFilmFestivalLogo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19413\" title=\"TribecaFilmFestivalLogo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/TribecaFilmFestivalLogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/TribecaFilmFestivalLogo.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/TribecaFilmFestivalLogo-300x123.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a>If Manhattan is too far to journey for the upcoming Tribeca Film Festival, or if the fest\u2019s local resident preferential ticket sales policy make it difficult to attend even if you don\u2019t mind traveling a few hours to New York City, you can still have a bit of the festival right in your own living room. The film festival has announced that it will be making four of the features it will be presenting next month available through various video on demand services at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>From April 17 through June 19, the features<strong> The Giant Mechanical Man<\/strong>, <strong>Death Of A Superhero<\/strong> and <strong>Sleepless Night<\/strong> will be available various cable and satellite services as well as online video on demand outlets. The documentary <strong>Booker&#8217;s Place: A Mississippi Story<\/strong> will become available on April 26.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a trailer for the drama <strong>Death Of A Superhero<\/strong>, which features Andy Serkis in a rare, no performance capture role.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tO2Ja6X09Sg\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here are the Festival\u2019s official descriptions of all four films-<\/p>\n<p>BOOKER\u2019S PLACE: A MISSISSIPPI STORY, directed by Raymond De Felitta. (USA) \u2013 World Premiere in TFF\u2019s Spotlight section. In 1965, filmmaker Frank De Felitta made a documentary for NBC News about the changing times in Mississippi that featured Booker Wright \u2013 an African-American waiter who worked in a \u201cwhites only\u201d restaurant. Booker went on national television and exploded the myth of who he was and his position serving the white community. 46 years later, Frank\u2019s son, director Raymond De Felitta (CITY ISLAND, TWO FAMILY HOUSE), documents a journey into the past and current-day Mississippi with Booker\u2019s granddaughter, in search of who Booker Wright was, the intricacies surrounding his courageous life and untimely murder, and the role Frank De Felitta\u2019s documentary may have played in it. BOOKER\u2019S PLACE will begin a theatrical release on April 25 in L.A. and April 27 in New York.<\/p>\n<p>DEATH OF A SUPERHERO, directed by Ian Fitzgibbon, written by Anthony McCarten. (Ireland, Germany) \u2013 U.S. premiere in TFF\u2019s Viewpoints section. Donald is a teenager with extraordinary talents, wild daydreams, and a bright future as an artist of fantastical graphic novels. But when Donald discovers that a very real enemy is trying to kill him, an unorthodox psychologist tries to help him find the light in an otherwise dark world. Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Andy Serkis and Aisling Loftus star in this exceptionally honest drama about discovering life, love, and death. DEATH OF A SUPERHERO will have a limited theatrical release beginning May 4.<\/p>\n<p>THE GIANT MECHANICAL MAN, directed and written by Lee Kirk. (USA) \u2013 World Premiere in TFF\u2019s Spotlight section. Thirty-somethings Janice (Jenna Fischer) and Tim (Chris Messina) haven\u2019t quite learned how to navigate adulthood. Tim is a street performer whose unique talents as a \u201cliving statue\u201d don\u2019t exactly pay the bills. Janice is out of work and under pressure by her sister (Malin Akerman) to date an egotistical self-help guru (Topher Grace). In this charming comedic romance, these two strangers help each other to realize that it only takes one person to make you feel important. THE GIANT MECHANICAL MAN will have a limited theatrical release starting April 27 in New York.<\/p>\n<p>SLEEPLESS NIGHT (Nuit Blanche), directed by Frederic Jardin, written by Frederic Jardin and Nicolas Saada. (France, Belgium, Luxembourg) \u2013 New York Premiere in TFF\u2019s Cinemania section. Vincent is a dedicated police officer, or so it seems. After he steals a massive bag of cocaine, his young son winds up being held for ransom by the mob boss it belongs to. When Vincent travels to the outskirts of Paris to trade the drugs for his son, he gets caught in an intense cat-and-mouse game that quickly spirals out of control. This night might not only be the longest of his life\u2014it could be the last. SLEEPLESS NIGHT will have a limited theatrical release beginning May 11 in New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Have a film festival in your living room with this quartet of Tribeca Film Festival entries.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/21\/tribecca-offers-four-films-for-vod-during-festival\/\" title=\"Tribecca Offers Four Films For VOD During Festival\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19412","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19412"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=19412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}