..Gary Dretzka
..Noah Forrest
..Leonard Klady
..R.J. Matson
..David Poland
..Douglas Pratt
..Ray Pride
..Michael Wilmington

May 1 , 2005

For Immediate Release

"STOLEN LIFE," "EL PERRO NEGRO," "PLAY,"
and "FAVELA RISING"
TOP WINNERS AT FOURTH ANNUAL TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL
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Tim Robbins, Denis Leary, Rosie Perez, Michael Imperioli, Michael Ian Black,
Griffin Dunne, Michael Showalter, Jeffrey Wright, Damon Dash, Doron Weber, Eddie Izzard, Diane Von Furstenberg, and Others Present Awards To
Film Competition Winners

New York, NY - April 30, 2005 - The fourth annual Tribeca Film Festival, co-founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff, and presented by American Express, today announced the winners of the Festival's film competition at an awards ceremony at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center in Tribeca.

A full list of awards, sponsors, presenters, prize amounts and associated artwork is attached.

This year's Festival included more than 250 films from 45 countries on six continents, and featured panel discussions, filmmaker events, gala premieres of major studio releases, the Family Festival, and visits by delegations from Sarajevo and Shanghai.

"We congratulate the winning filmmakers and look forward to seeing more great work from each of them," said De Niro.

"I was asked this week, what is the Tribeca Film Festival all about? Are you about American film, or international film?" said Jane Rosenthal, Co-Founder of the Tribeca Film Festival. "The answer is both because this is New York. Like our City, we have strived to make our film festival a microcosm of the world. New York is local and it is global and in the same breadth. So too, we have the same hopes for Tribeca.

"In 2005 we greatly expanded the reach and impact of the Tribeca Film Festival," said Hatkoff. "The number of foreign films we featured and the international delegations we hosted helped make us as a global marketplace for film. At the same time, the Festival remains committed to Lower Manhattan and this great city."

"As an organization that prides itself on enabling creative endeavors, American Express is privileged to acknowledge and help support two filmmakers who have emerged at this Festival, not only for having produced remarkable pieces of work, but for truly embodying the Festival's incomparable energy and dynamic," said John Hayes, chief marketing officer of American Express.

"The only complaints our jurors seem to have had this year is that they had so many good films to choose from. And the members of our two feature juries went out of their way to remark how appreciative they were that the films they watched had helped expose them to a wealth of different worlds not represented often enough in our movie theatres," said Peter Scarlet, executive director of the Tribeca Film Festival.

In addition to cash awards and in-kind services provided by sponsors - including American Express; New York State Governor's Office for Motion Picture and Television Development; New York City Mayor's Office of Film, Theater and Broadcasting; Post Factory; Kodak; Budweiser/Triggerstreet.com; The Playboy Foundation; Delta Air Lines; Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; Alpha Cine Labs; Fondazione Prada; Scholastic, Inc.; Apple; and TIME Magazine - the Festival presented the winners with awards created by acclaimed artists.

Following are the awards and their winners:

" The Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature - "Stolen Life (Sheng Si Jie)"
Director: Li Shaohong, China
Special Mention - "My Brother's Summer" ("L'estate di mio fratello")
Director: Pietro Reggiani, Italy

" Best Documentary Feature - "El Perro Negro: Stories from the Spanish Civil War"
Director: Péter Forgács, Netherlands/Hungary

" Best New Narrative Filmmaker - "Play"
Director: Alicia Scherson, Chile/Argentina

" Best New Documentary Filmmaker - "Favela Rising"
Directors: Jeff Zimbalist, Matt Mochary, Brazil/USA

" Best Actor in a Narrative Feature Film - Cees Geel in "Simon"
Director: Eddy Terstall, Netherlands

" Best Actress in a Narrative Feature Film - Felicity Huffman in "Transamerica"
Director: Duncan Tucker, USA

" NY Loves Film Documentary - "Rikers High"
Director: Victor Buhler, USA/France
Special Mention - "The American Ruling Class," - Director: John Kirby, USA

" Best Made in New York Narrative Feature - "Red Doors"
Director: Georgia Lee, USA
Special Mention - "Bittersweet Place" - Director: Alexandra Brodsky, USA

" Kids Pick for Best Family short - "Spandex: A Father's Tale"
Director: Matthew Manson, USA

" Student Visionary Award - "Dance Mania Fantastic"
Director: Sasie Sealy, USA
Special Mentions:
"Draft" - Director: Naomi Levari, Israel
"Photo of Luzmila" -Director: Mayu Mohanna, Peru/USA

" Best Documentary Short - "The Life of Kevin Carter"
Director: Dan Krauss, USA

" Best Narrative Short - "Cashback"
Director: Sean Ellis, UK
Special Mentions:
"Jihad" - Director: Michael Shapiro, USA
"Wake-up Caller" - Director: Bryan Buckley, USA

" Tribeca Film Institute/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Screenplay Development Winners - Penny Penniston (script: "Love is Brilliant) and Shawn Lawrence Otto (script: "Hubble: A Science Noir About the Mystery of the Universe and the Heart of Man")

" Tribeca All Access Creative Promise Award for Narrative Feature - "The Life & Times of H.J. Hermin" by Dennis Lee, USA

" Tribeca All Access Creative Promise Award for Documentary Feature - "Nice Bombs" by Usama Alshaibi, USA

" Tribeca All Access Creative Promise Award for Screenwriting - "The Undeniable Charm of Sloppy Unruh" by Mario de La Vega, USA

" Audience Award - "Street Fight"
Director: Marshall Curry, USA

Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff founded the Tribeca Film Festival in 2002 in response to the attacks on the World Trade Center. Now in its fourth year,
the Festival's mission is to promote New York City as the world's independent film capital and to foster the economic and cultural revitalization of Lower Manhattan through an annual celebration of film, music and culture. The first three festivals attracted nearly 1 million visitors and created over $125 million in economic activity for Lower Manhattan.

American Express is the Founding Sponsor of the Tribeca Film Festival. Part of a multi-year relationship, the sponsorship demonstrates American Express' dedication to the goals of the Festival and the revitalization of lower Manhattan.

Tribeca Film Festival has been successful in building long term relationships with their sponsors and is pleased to thank the following Signature Sponsors: Anheuser-Busch, General Motors, Prada, WNBC, Delta Air Lines, The Lower Manhattan Development Corp., The New York Times, The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Vanity Fair, Bloomberg L.P., Regal Entertainment Group, and Sony Electronics. The Festival is also honored to welcome the following new Signature Sponsors for 2005: Apple, Nokia, Dewars 12, the Tribeca Grand Hotel, the Empire State Development Corp and the Port Authority of NY and NJ.

Full List of Award Details: Awards, Sponsors, Presenters
Prizes, Artwork, and Jury

" The Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature -Presented by Robert De Niro. Winner receives $25,000. Art award created by Eric Fischl. Jury included Sheryl Crow/Mirsad Purivatra/Mitch Glazer/Griffin Dunne/Darren Aronofsky/Francoise Romand.
" Best Documentary Feature - Sponsored by Fondazione Prada. Presented by Michael Imperioli and Lisa Panzera, Director, Fondazione Prada, New York. Winner receives $25,000. Art award created by Matthew Barney/A Pele de Lamina. Jury included Alan Berliner/Michael Imperioli/Whoopi Goldberg/Diane Von Furstenberg/Mort Zuckerman/Peter Kunhardt.
" Best New Narrative Filmmaker - Sponsored by American Express (My Life, My Card). Presented by Griffin Dunne and John Hayes, Executive Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer. Winner receives $25,000. Art award created by April Gornik. Jury included Sheryl Crow/Mirsad Purivatra/Mitch Glazer/Griffin Dunne/Darren Aronofsky/Francoise Romand.
" Best New Documentary Filmmaker -Sponsored by American Express (My Life, My Card). Presented by Diane Von Furstenberg and John Hayes, Executive Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer. Winner receives $25,000. Art award created by Richard Prince. Jury included Alan Berliner/Michael Imperioli/Whoopi Goldberg/Diane Von Furstenberg/Mort Zuckerman/Peter Kunhardt.
" Best Actor in a Narrative Feature Film -Sponsored by Delta Air Lines. Presented by Eddie Izzard and Joanne D. Smith, President of Song. Winner receives two round-trip, business elite tickets anywhere Delta Air Lines flies. Jury included Sheryl Crow/Mirsad Purivatra/Mitch Glazer/Griffin Dunne/Darren Aronofsky/Francoise Romand.
" Best Actress in a Narrative Feature Film -Sponsored by Delta Air Lines. Presented by Eddie Izzard and Joanne D. Smith, President of Song. Winner receives two round-trip, business elite tickets anywhere Delta Air Lines flies. Jury included Sheryl Crow/Mirsad Purivatra/Mitch Glazer/Griffin Dunne/Darren Aronofsky/Francoise Romand.
" NY Loves Film Documentary - Sponsored by New York State Governor's Office for Motion Picture and Television Development, Post Factory and Kodak. Presented by Pat Kaufman, Executive Director of the Governor's Office for Motion Picture and Theater Development, and the Deputy Commissioner of Empire State Development. Winner receives $5,000, Post Factory (1week avid time, 1day symphony time) and 5000ft of Kodak Film Stock. Art award created by Todd Stone. Jury included Armond White/David Sterritt/Scott Crary/Serena Altschul/Jack Rosenthal.
" Best Made in New York Narrative Feature -Sponsored by New York City Mayor's Office of Film, Theater and Broadcasting, Post Factory and Kodak. Presented by Katherine Oliver. Commissioner of the New York City Mayor's Office of Film, Theater, and Broadcasting. Winner receives $5,000, Post Factory (1week avid time, 1day symphony time), 5000ft Kodak Film Stock. Art award created by Stephen Hannock, Tribeca Dawn. Jury included Dwight Brown/Peter Travers/Jennifer Reeves/Ingrid Sischy/Amy Sacco/Alan Cumming.
" Kids Pick for Best Family short -Sponsored by Scholastic, Inc. Winner receives $5,000. Presented by Deborah Forte, President, Scholastic Media. Jury included the Family Fest Audience.
" Student Visionary Award - Sponsored by Apple. Presented by Michael Ian Black, Michael Showalter and Paul Fradin, General Manager of the Apple Store, New York. Winner receives $10,000 (Value in-kind). Jury included Barbara Corcoran/Stephanie Hull/Roz Lichter/Larry Meistrich/Tracey Ross/Caroline Baron.
" Best Documentary Short - Sponsored by TIME Magazine. Presented by Jeffrey Wright and Steve Koepp, Deputy Managing Editor. Winner receives $5,000. Jury included Barbara Corcoran/Stephanie Hull/Roz Lichter/Larry Meistrich/Tracey Ross/Caroline Baron.
" Best Narrative Short - Sponsored by Alpha Cine Labs. Presented by Damon Dash. Winner receives $10,000 (Value in-kind). Jury included Tom Wolfe/Teri Hatcher/Anthony Mackie/Jeff Bezos/Damon Dash.
" Tribeca Film Institute/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Screenplay Development Winners - Penny Penniston (script: "Love is Brilliant) and Shawn Lawrence Otto (script: "Hubble: A Science Noir About the Mystery of the Universe and the Heart of Man"). Recognized by Doron Weber from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Winners receive $48,000.
" Audience Award - Sponsored by Budweiser/Triggerstreet.com. Presented by Denis Leary. Winner receives $25,000.
" Tribeca All Access Creative Promise Award for Narrative Feature - Sponsored by The Playboy Foundation. Presented by Rosie Perez and Chris Napolitano, Editorial Director of Playboy Magazine. Winner receives $10,000. Art award created by Nicky Nodjoumi. Jury included Chris Eyre/Bruce Ferguson/Antoine Fuqua/LisaGay Hamilton/Rosie Perez/BD Wong.
" Tribeca All Access Creative Promise Award for Documentary Feature - Sponsored by The Playboy Foundation. Presented by Rosie Perez and Chris Napolitano, Editorial Director of Playboy Magazine. Winner receives $10,000. Art award created by Tom Sachs. Jury included St. Clair Bourne/Thelma Golden/Bethann Hardison/Warrington Hudlin/Sheila Nevins/John Trudell.
" Tribeca All Access Creative Promise Award for Screenwriting - Sponsored by The Playboy Foundation. Presented by Rosie Perez and Chris Napolitano, Editorial Director of Playboy Magazine. Winner receives $5,000. Jury included Guillermo Arriaga/Mary Schmidt Campbell/Ruben Santiago-Hudson/Veronica Webb.

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