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Tribeca Film Institute Announces 43 Projects to Participate in The First Ever Virtual TFI Network

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Published on Monday, 20 April 2020 17:11
Written by Janet Walker
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Tribeca Film Institute (TFI) announced the participants of their annual TFI Network, the organization's film market that assembles their newly supported storytellers to engage and connect online with industry executives, financiers, producers, and festival programmers.

TFI Network, presented by AT&T, typically brings artists from all over the world to New York City for a day of pitch prep and industry roundtables and two days of one-on-one individual meetings with industry during the Tribeca Film Festival. Given the circumstances due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 TFI Network will be hosted as a virtual event for the first time ever, April 27 through May 1.

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"TFI remains dedicated to creating opportunities for independent artists without compromising their health or safety," said Amy Hobby, Executive Director at Tribeca Film Institute. "The remarkable agility of our team allowed us to quickly pivot this three-day in-person program to an exceptionally robust virtual event, so even through these extraordinary circumstances, we'll continue to connect emerging talent with the tools they need to take their projects to the next level." 

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Participants will participate in "Prep Week" prior to TFI Network, April 21 through 23. Throughout that week, TFI's newly-supported storytellers will participate in online pitch training sessions, with the support of industry professionals acting as pitch mentors. TFI staff will also moderate virtual seminars where invited industry representatives will speak to their organization's or companies' background and inform TFI artists on possible funding support avenues and resources.

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Previous TFI Network participants include Bracey Smith and Anja Moreno-Smith (2019), whose VR project ARMONIA premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival and went on to Cannes 2019; Jiayan "Jenny" Shi (2019), whose documentary feature FINDING YINGYING was selected to premiere at SXSW 2020 and won the festival's Documentary Feature Special Jury Prize for Breakthrough Voice; and Ekwa Msangi, whose scripted film FAREWELL AMOR premiered at Sundance in 2020.

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Teams attending the TFI Network include 2020 Tribeca All Access grantees, 2020 Sloan Filmmaker Fund grantees, and teams selected through partnerships with the following organizations: Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC), Beirut Cinema Platform (BCP), Chicago International Film Festival, Close Up Forum (FKA Greenhouse), Docedge Kolkata (Asian Forum for Documentary), DocsMX (Documentary Film Festival in Mexico City), FICG (Guadalajara International Film Festival), EICTV Nuevas Miradas (Cuba), Kartemquin Diverse Voices in Documentary Program, Los Cabos International Film Festival, Luang Prabang Talent Lab, New Orleans Film Society, NEW INC, Red Sea Film Festival, and SANFIC (Santiago International Film Festival).

In addition to the 2020 Tribeca All Access and TFI Sloan Filmmaker Fund grantees, here are the projects that are participating in TFI Network:

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