The 2024 Tribeca Competition will supply the world premieres of a Brat Pack documentary, a film starring Lily Gladstone and movies that hint the lives of the music world figures Linda Perry and Avicii, organizers mentioned Wednesday as they introduced the occasion lineup.
Additionally on the schedule might be a characteristic starring Jenna Ortega, a buddy comedy with Michael Cera, Maya Erskine and Kristen Stewart and a documentary that appears on the world of queer stand-up comedy.
This yr’s pageant, which is able to run in Decrease Manhattan from June 5-16, will open with the documentary “Diane von Furstenberg: Girl in Cost” and can embody 103 options from 114 filmmakers in 48 international locations. The pageant will supply 86 world premieres and 30 motion pictures directed by first-time filmmakers.
Officers mentioned their remaining choices had been chosen from greater than 13,000 submissions — a file excessive.
“We really feel actually fortunate that there was such enthusiasm, notably with all the challenges that the trade had this yr,” Cara Cusumano, the Tribeca Competition’s director, mentioned in a cellphone interview. “It made me really feel actually optimistic about the way forward for unbiased movie and in regards to the resiliency of the artistic neighborhood,”
The documentary “Brats” will observe Andrew McCarthy as he crisscrosses the nation reconnecting with fellow actors Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Ally Sheedy, Emilio Estevez and others who within the Nineteen Eighties and ’90s grew to become collectively often known as the Brat Pack. A panel that includes McCarthy, who directed the documentary, and different members of the forged will observe the premiere.
Recent off a robust awards season, Gladstone is teaming up as soon as once more with the author and director Morrisa Maltz in “Jazzy,” a follow-up to the 2023 drama “The Unknown Nation.” Gladstone received a Gotham Award for her efficiency in that characteristic earlier than she started snatching up prizes for her work in “Killers of the Flower Moon.”
The documentary “Avicii — I’m Tim” will observe the prodigious digital dance music producer via his personal phrases. (He died in 2018 at age of 28.) And pageant organizers mentioned that the pop star turned songwriter Linda Perry would carry out after the debut of “Linda Perry: Let It Die Right here.”
Ortega is starring in a teen love story titled “Winter Spring Summer time or Fall,” whereas Cera, Erskine and Stewart get snarled on a spontaneous highway journey in “Sacramento.”
“Excellent: A Comedy Revolution” options Lily Tomlin, Wanda Sykes, Rosie O’Donnell, Hannah Gadsby and Joel Kim Booster. Earlier than the film, stars of the movie will give a standup efficiency, organizers say.
Cusumano additionally highlighted what she known as a “female-forward” lineup of musical performances, together with Perry, Renée Elise Goldsberry (of “Hamilton” and “Girls5eva” fame) and the DJ and singer Sister Nancy.
And Cusumano famous that a number of movies would grapple with well timed points like international battle, the 2024 presidential election and synthetic intelligence.
“We had been very aware of our place within the calendar so near the election,” she mentioned, pointing to the inclusion of flicks about affirmative motion, misinformation and extremism.
“As well as, we additionally wish to make sure that the pageant has levity and leisure, so there’s additionally a good quantity of comedy occurring,” she added. “Folks having a superb time.”
