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Hey, folks, Welcome to a special episode of The Projection Booth.
I'm your else Mike White. On this special episode, I'm talking with Jonathan
Penner all about the Tribeca Film Festival and their Escape from Tribeca series. The
festival runs from June seventh through eighteenth, twenty twenty three, and if you
are anywhere near New York, you really need to go and try to get
tickets for these screenings. They sound amazing by those and learn more via Tribeca
Film dot org. Enjoy the interview. Jonathan Panner, We've spoke last year
about Tribe Exploitation, which is a little bit of a mouthful, yes,
but it was a success. Tell me a little bit about how last year
went down and what is happening this year for Tribeca. Glad to be back
to talk about this year the twenty seconds running of the Triedbecta Festival, and
last year we showed three New York exploitation movies movies made by New York filmmakers
shot in New York. And it was pretty successful, but it wasn't really
as fully integrated in the festival as I had hoped it would be as I
tried to make it. Anyway, it was a different audience than the Tribeca
audience was appealing to. So this year they asked me to kind of expand
on it, cut back on the exploitation, which is fine. And what
I've created is something that we're calling Escape from Tribeca, and Escape from Tribeca
is movies that make you screen. The idea is and what I sold to
them is, you know, though these are not your classic Tribeca movies or
for your classic Tribeca audience, there's a huge audience like the folks that we're
talking to right now who love genre movies, action movies, horror movies that
you want to see in a pack theater and yell at the screen and get
to have events screenings that essentially are what we're calling eventized. That is,
every time you come to a Tribe Escape from Tribeca screening, you're going to
get some swag where you're going to get some special surprise something like that.
It's not your classic feeling festival where we'll show the movie and then we'll sit
and talk to the filmmakers afterwards, and then you all go home. So
we have a program of five movies with a couple of extras. So the
movie these are the fiftieth Anniversary, Have Entered the Dragon Credible and Angela Mao,
Superstar. Angela Mao is coming out and look, h my god,
right exactly how that's great. We're so excited that we tracked her down and
she said, she's so funny. She said, yes, I will come.
But the deal breaker is I need a photo with Robert de Niro,
my favorite actor. And we said right, and we said, you know
what, she's got some balls, balls of steel. Absolutely, Agela,
we will make that happen. So she's and Andre Morgan, the producer who
worked at Golden Harvest, who's still in the business. He's coming out and
he has unbelievable stories about Bruce Lee in the making of this movie. Shannon
Lee, Bruce Lee's daughter, may come. We're hoping that she does,
and that's going to be a great night. And we have a whole demonstration
of Ki Kundo, and we have an audience participation ceremony to commemorate Bruce Lee.
So that's going to be a great night, right. Then there's a
movie called Enter the Clones of Bruce. Enter the Clones of Bruce, made
by a gun named David Gregory, who made Lost Soul, the Making of
the Island of Doctor Moreau, Richard Stanley's and he made a movie about al
Adamson, the great genre filmmaker who was buried underneath the jacuzzi by a murderer.
Anyway, he loves seenre movies. He spent six years putting together this
movie about Bruce ployitation films, the movies with Bruce Lai and Bruce Lowe and
Dragon Lee that followed Bruce Lee's death, and he was able to track down
three or four of these guys well, of course, or as old as
Bruce Lee would have been if he was still alive, and his death really
impacted their lives and their careers. So it's a really fun, really kind
of brilliant documentary that we're gonna show several films. Is bringing swag. Every
audience member is going to get some cool shit if they come and see movie.
Joe Lydge, fabulous guy, great director. He's made a movie.
There was an old Dennis Powley sprint. I actually read years ago that Stuart
Gordon was going to direct one of the follow ups to Reanimator and From Beyond,
and of course Stewart Gordon died. Dennis Powley switched the sexes of the
leads, so instead of two men, it's two women. Barbara Crampton came
on board and Heather Graham, and the two of them are in this outrageous
HP Lovecraft, body swapping, demon possession, lots of fucking and death movie
called Suitable Flesh. So we're going to show that world premiere of Suitable Flesh.
They're all coming out and in conjunction with the Brooklyn Horrorfest, we're gonna
show Reanimator and Barbara Crampton is gonna introduce Reanimator thirty five millimeter print at the
Nighthawks Cinema. It's gonna be amazing, right, Like we're showing a movie
Cold Final Cut. Your audience is going to know this movie. It's a
movie from Japan called One Cut of the Dead, which is this really funny
zombie movie making farce. The guy named Michael has A. Benicus, who
made the Artist won the Oscar for the Artist has done what we're calling a
requel, which is a remake and a sequel to one cut of the Dead
made in France. And we're going to have the New York premiere of this
of this movie, and we're going to do a like a zombie makeup parade.
I just was in touch with Steve Barton from Dread Central and he and
Damian Leone, the Leone from Terrifier, may come out and be the judges
of our zombie contest. Anyway, it's going to be really, really fun.
And the Japan Society is going to show one cut of the Dead,
so you can see two versions of that same story if you want that escape
from Tribeca. And then the big movie that we're showing, we have the
world premiere in three D of a Hollywood or Bollywood, an Indian movie called
Addie poorsh which is a seventy five million dollar VFX Uber production. If you're
a fan of R r R, this is going to be as big as
that, we hope. A guy named rob Us is the star of it,
who's brilliant, huge star. He's coming the entire casting crew are coming
all the way from India to be with us, and it's going to be
a huge, huge, huge event. So that's really exciting, right,
That's what we've put together. And then we have a panel, two panels.
We have Mike Flanagan who's going to do a master class in horror.
We're out to Joe Ill to be his interviewer. I'm not sure Joe will
do it, but wouldn't that be amazing to get Joe Hill and Mike Flanagan
on stage talking about all things scary. And there's a panel discussion women in
horror, gender and genre. Hate Siegel, who's Mike's wife, who's the
actress and the writer Barbara Crampton, and a couple of the directors of two
of our midnight movies who are women horror filmed directors are going to be on
that table. So we have an incredible collection of stuff that we're doing.
And I hope everybody who's watching this, I know I talked a lot and
very fast. But if you like horror, if you like action, martial
arts and bear breasts, please come to Escape from tredbeca with us, and
there'll be a couple of parties, a lot to giveaway to trivia contests.
It's really going to be a ball that is so stacked. And I love
all the synergy with all you know, the Japan Society and this festival and
these people over here. I mean, it's amazing. Wow, what a
what an effort you did with this. Yeah, yeah, we're putting really
been so much fun. I'm working with a guy named Matt Drone who he's
one of the directors of the Brooklyn horror Fest and he's been helping me program
this. He's been invaluable. So we're going to have posters, we hope,
all around New York and hopefully they'll be merch for people if they are
interested in Escape from TREDBECA. Are you dealing at all with the guys that
wrote these Fist Break Bricks? Yes, yes, yes, these Fist Break
Bricks is Grady Hendry, Sad and Chris. We were desperate to have them
come out and run the panel on the rust Ploytation movies. Unfortunately they're not
available. But literally before I got on the phone with you, they said
that they're going to send over some signed editions as giveaways for some lucky audience
members. That's the kind of stuff that we're going to be giving away.
I mean, if you guys, you haven't read that book or picked it
up, it is fantastic book on the kung fu movie explosion of the early
seventies called The Spiss Break Bricks. And of course Grady Hendricks is a really
funny, really smart horror author as well and before so check that out if
you can. And yeah, we're going to be giving away some of those.
That's amazing. So when when are all these films playing? When is
this happening? The festival is from June seventh to June eighteenth of this year.
In Tripbeca tickets you're going to go on sale. You know they'll be
on sale at this when when this goes live, you'll be able to go
to tribbecafest dot com or triedbeca dot com and find them. We are escape
from Triedbackcat. Tickets are going to go fast, so please please check it
out. And there may be some tickets available sort of on the day of,
but don't take my word for it. Really try to get tickets because
there's some of these things are going to be pretty tightly packed. We're gonna
try to fill every house that we have. There should be two or three
screenings of almost all these movies. Into the Dragon we have the one screening,
but the other films will screen at least twice, maybe three times.
I wish I was in New York for this. That sounds so good.
I'm so glad. If you think so, then other people are going to
think so. You're you're one of the tastemakers. You know, we've really
no honestly, I mean, we've really worked hard, and it's been very
interesting putting this sort of festival together. Some of it is my dreams of
like fiftieth anniversary event of The Dragon. Can we get Angela? Mao,
it's not worth doing it? We can't. And we got her, you
know, and how do we make an incredible evening around her. What are
the best horror movies available to us that will let us World premiere them?
There were very few, honestly, that we're going to hold out for October.
You know, when we tried to get the Last Voyage of the Demeter,
we tried to get the insidious Red Door things like that, and you
know, for whatever reason, they they're just not available. So suitable flesh
is incredibly exciting audiences who loved Reanimator. We are going to have an absolute
ball with this movie. So, you know, learning how this sausage has
made how a festivals put together has been a really really interesting experience for me
and very rewarding, a lot of fun. I hope you get to be
there when Angelo Mao meets Robert de Niro. Well, do you know I'm
going to be there. Then I'll make sure there's a photo of meat taken
with them as well. You know that's going to happen. No. Apparently
she said that she saw The Godfather Part two when it came out, which
was right around the time that that Edge of the Dragon came out and she
was a big star. You know. She said she saw it ten times
in the movie theater in Hong Kong, that she like worships this guy,
and I'm hoping, you know, I'm believe me. I'll make sure he
knows exactly who she is, and he actually is. I've had a chance
to meet him a couple of times. He's lovely his public persona, I
mean, he can be very shy and you know, kind of like this
you know in person too. But the truth is He's incredibly bright, incredibly
well read, informed person you know who just isn't that comfortable in crowds.
He's not that comfortable like okay, Robert DeNiro, be Robert DeNiro, you
know. Whereas when you get him alone, he's very interested and very engaged.
So that's that's actually been really really cool find out Alert Well, Jonathan,
thank you so much and good luck with this. I wish you the
best. I hope that you have a fantastic festival. Thanks buddy, appreciate
it. Everybody come out of you can love to see you say say hi,
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