The Tribeca Festival has announced seven shorts that will be competing in its shorts competition this year. The festival, which takes place June 5-16, has put a growing emphasis on animated shorts over the past few years and has also been strong in identifying new, emerging talent in the VR and immersive fields.
“Tribeca received more than 8,000 short film submissions, and for the first time, we’re proud to present a majority-female directed program,” Tribeca’s VP of Shorts Programming Ben Thompson told Deadline. “We hope our 12 curated shorts programs — and our first-ever online music video competition — will delight, inspire, and even titillate our enthusiastic New York audiences as they discover diverse storytelling from original voices all over the world.”
The seven shorts selected for the animation competition are:
- Budō. Directed by Alexander Toma, Amanda Aagard (Sweden) Intl. Premiere
- In the Shadow of the Cypress. Directed by Hossein Molayemi, Shirin Sohani (Iran) N. American Premiere
- LUKi and the Lights. Directed by Toby Cochran (Netherlands, U.S.) N.Y. premiere
- Nate & John. Directed by Jumai Yusuf (U.S.) World Premiere
- Ruthless Blade. Directed by Bo Zhang. (China) International Premiere
- Scrubby. Directed by Paul Vollett (Germany) World Premiere
- The Mayfly. Directed by Betty Buckley (U.S.) New York Premiere
The festival will also showcase the animated feature Mars as part of its midnight sidebar. Directed by Sevan Najarian, the 84-minute feature centers on a group of misfits who embark on a wild space adventure to Mars, only to realize that they’ve been bamboozled by a billionaire.
For more info, visit tribecafilm.com/festival.
