A teenager from New Orleans is competing at the big table at this year's Tribeca Film Festival
Robert De Niro is honored during an event in New York on April 3. The actor's Tribeca Film Festival kicks off Wednesday night with movies that include a teenager's acclaimed debut. By Steven Zeitchik Steven Zeitchik Reporter covering the business of entertainment in the U.S. and beyond Email Bio Follow April 25 at 12:17 PM NEW YORK — Phillip Youmans, a freshman at New York University, was sitting in his psychology recitation one day in February when a message popped up on his phone.
Youmans’s story is an example of the creativity that film festivals, particularly the scrappy entity of Tribeca, are showing to find talent at a time when new voices are at a premium. By attempting to break out these voices, Tribeca provides a case study in whether the location-based enterprise that is an American film festival can be relevant in the age of digital media.
But the festival is often left to fight with the more established Sundance for polished work. So it’s looked to a novel niche: finding filmmakers it believes will go on to greatness, even if the pieces in question need work. The effort has borne fruit — and raised a few very 2019-era challenges. Yet after Sundance opted not to premiere the film, DaCosta came to Tribeca. The movie was acquired by Neon shortly after and released last week to warm reaction. DaCosta, who is African American, was heralded as an important new voice. And Jordan Peele tapped her to direct “Candyman,” spiritual sequel to the horror classic he’s producing.Youmans takes the discovery trend one step further.
When he was finished, Youmans sent a trailer to Benh Zeitlin, New Orleans-based director of “Beasts of the Southern Wild." And Bridget Savage Cole and Danielle Krudy will world-premiere one of the most anticipated movies of the festival -- “Blow The Man Down,” a drama about young women in Maine involving a murder, a madam and a small town.
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