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The 2011 Tribeca Film Festival announced an online component, the 2011 Tribeca (Online) Film Festival, which will run concurrently with the festival April 20-May 1 and be supported by American Express.
The 2011 Tribeca (Online) Film Festival will offer free viewing of feature films and short films and allow users to engage with filmmakers and industry experts. Content is divided into five areas: Festival Streaming Room, Live from …, Tribeca Q&A, Filmmaker Feed, and blog Future of Film.
Festival Streaming Room will offer six feature films and 18 short films, including two and four, respectively, that are premiering at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival.
Live from … will present live streams of events from the festival, including its opening press conference, red-carpet premieres, and awards show.
Tribeca Q&A will allow users to submit questions to 20-25 subjects including: Tribeca’s Jane Rosenthal, Geoff Gilmore, and Nancy Schafer; Whoopi Goldberg; Brian Williams; filmmakers David Gordon Green and Zach Braff; and other participating Tribeca (Online) filmmakers, programmers, actors, jurors, and film experts, and more. The top questions chosen by community members will be submitted.
Filmmaker Feed is a source for information on all filmmakers featured at the festival, including biographies, interviews, favorite links, social-media feeds (Twitter/Facebook), blog posts, and video updates.
And blog Future of Film features experts from film and technology commenting on the ever-changing media environment.
Bloggers attended a Tea Party during the week of Oct. 18-22, while Tweeters took to the sky with an iPhone and HD video camera, and the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube featured unidentified flying objects over midtown Manhattan, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index.
Delaware Republican Senate candidate and Tea Party member Christine O’Donnell‘s comments during a debate Oct. 19 represented the top subject of news links shared by bloggers, at 17 percent. It was followed by: an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times by former Yukos (Russian oil company) head Mikhail Khodorkovsky, at 14 percent; more Tea Party fun, with former Alaska Gov. and vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin saying her supporters can’t “party like it’s 1773” until Washington is full of like-minded conservatives, at 8 percent; an op-ed in The Washington Post by Michael Gerson accusing President Barack Obama of being an “intellectual snob,” also at 8 percent; and NPR’s firing of Juan Williams, at 8 percent, as well.
