Tribeca Drive-In Outdoor Screenings
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Thursday, April 26-----While eyeballs may be rolling at the $18 price tag for tickets to the Tribeca Film Festival, the event is offering a number of free screenings for the community, beginning tonight with the popular Tribeca Drive-In Outdoor Screening Series. Three family-friendly films will screen at dusk for the next three nights at the World Financial Center Plaza.
[img_assist|nid=4135|title=|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=88|height=126]Tonight, the Tribeca Film Festival and Lionsgate commemorate the 20th Anniversary of DIRTY DANCING, the classic musical hit, starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey. A Dirty Dancing contest, movie trivia and karaoke will kick off the festivities at 7:30 p.m., with the screening starting at 8:30 p.m. On Friday evening, the Drive-In goes Hawaiian with a special “work-in-progress” screening of SONY Pictures upcoming feature animated film SURF'S UP. This animated comedy delves behind the scenes of the high-octane world of competitive surfing. The film profiles teenage Rockhopper penguin Cody Maverick (Shia LaBeouf), an up-and-coming surfer, as he enters his first pro competition. The film also includes the vocal contributions of Jon Heder, James Woods, Mario Cantone, Jeff Bridges and Zooey Deschanel. Complete with a luau including food, fun, flame jugglers and a special guest performance by The Kustard Kings, movie goers will also have the opportunity to compete in a limbo contest and learn to hula dance. The luau begins at 7:30 p.m. with the screening starting at 8:30 p.m. [img_assist|nid=4136|title=|desc=|link=node|align=right|width=140|height=144]
B-boy’s from all over the world will be at the final night of the Drive-In for a special dance tribute to James Brown prior to the screening of PLANET B-BOY, a Festival world premiere event. A powerful documentary about the vibrant global resurgence of break-dancing, this explosive documentary goes inside the underground hip-hop dance scenes around the world, as the best crews prepare for the "The Battle of the Year" -- an annual "World Cup" of b-boying. Director Benson Lee combines spectacular dance footage with poignant insight explaining why these dancers make tremendous sacrifices for their art.
The Tribeca Drive-In is free and open to the public. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Programs begin at 7:30 p.m., with screenings starting at 8:30pm. For more information, log on to the Festival website: www.tribecafilmfestival.com
Sandy Mandelberger, Festival Online Dailies Editor
