Tribeca Talks: Series Announced for the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival

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Tribeca Talks: Directors Series

This year, Tribeca’s annual series has expanded to include this new and exciting panel program. Join these entertainment industry icons and acclaimed directors for the following exclusive interviews:

Robert De Niro with Brian Williams
April 23, 3 pm
BMCC’s Tribeca Performing Arts Center (TPAC)
NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams will interview Tribeca Film Festival co-founder and Academy Award®-winning actor Robert De Niro.

Doug Liman with Alec Baldwin
April 26, 6 pm
SVA Theater 1
Blockbuster filmmaker Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity) will be interviewed by Academy Award® nominee and multiple Emmy Award winner Alec Baldwin.

Martin Scorsese with Souleymane Cissé
April 29, 4 pm
SVA Theater 1
Souleymane Cissé, Malian filmmaker and first filmmaker of African descent to win a major award at the Cannes Film Festival, will be interviewed by legendary director Martin Scorsese.

Tribeca Talks: After the Movie

Pose your post-screening queries to the directors and stars of our featured movies and special screening, A Beautiful Mind, with these After the Movie panels:

A Beautiful Mind
April 30, 3 pm
SVA Theater 1
Been dying to pick the brains behind uber-brain John Forbes Nash Jr. since you first saw the Academy Award®-winning film? The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation presents a special 10th anniversary screening at this year’s Festival, followed by a conversation with director Ron Howard, producer Brian Grazer, screenwriter Akiva Goldsman, the film’s math consultant Dave Bayer, and author of the original book Sylvia Nasar. This talk will be moderated by NPR’s Ira Flatow.

Revenge of the Electric Car (World Premiere)
April 23, 5 pm
SVA Theater 2
The film is look behind the closed doors of Nissan, General Motors and Tesla Motors as they race to develop the world’s first and most economically accessible electric car. Followed by a discussion with director Chris Paine, President and CEO of Nissan Motor Co. Carlos Ghosn, Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk, Pulitzer Prize-winning Wall Street Journal columnist Dan Neil, and moderated by actor/writer/director David Duchovny.

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