The Audience Award winners have been unveiled for the 2024 Tribeca Festival, which concludes today (6/16).
In the Narrative category, first place goes to Bad Shabbos, a hilarious ensemble comedy where a Shabbat dinner in New York City takes a darkly comedic turn. Daniel Robbins directed and co-wrote (with Zack Weiner) Bad Shabbos.
Second place is awarded to The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write about a Serial Killer, a dark comedy where a struggling writer, played by John Magaro, befriends a retired serial killer, portrayed by Steve Buscemi, who becomes his unlikely muse and marriage counselor. Tolga Karacelik was writer-director.
In the Documentary category, first place goes to ¡CASA BONITA MI AMOR!, directed by Arthur Bradford. The film tells the story of South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s efforts to restore the iconic Colorado “eatertainment” mecca Casa Bonita to its former glory.
Taking second place in the Documentary category is Checkpoint Zoo, directed and produced by Joshua Zeman. The film shows how after the Russian invasion, thousands of animals were trapped behind enemy lines at the zoo in Kharkiv, Ukraine. With animals running out of food and water while facing constant peril from Russian bombs, a heroic team of zookeepers and volunteers undertake a daring rescue.
The announcement of the Audience Award winners comes three days after the Competition Winners were revealed for the 2024 Tribeca Festival. SHOOT’s coverage of those honored films and filmmakers can be found here.
Carrie Coon Relishes Being Part Of An Ensemble–From “The Gilded Age” To “His Three Daughters”
It can be hard to catch Carrie Coon on her own.
She is far more likely to be found in the thick of an ensemble. That could be on TV, in "The Gilded Age," for which she was just Emmy nominated, or in the upcoming season of "The White Lotus," which she recently shot in Thailand. Or it could be in films, most relevantly, Azazel Jacobs' new drama, "His Three Daughters," in which Coon stars alongside Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen as sisters caring for their dying father.
But on a recent, bright late-summer morning, Coon is sitting on a bench in the bucolic northeast Westchester town of Pound Ridge. A few years back, she and her husband, the playwright Tracy Letts, moved near here with their two young children, drawn by the long rows of stone walls and a particularly good BLT from a nearby cafe that Letts, after biting into, declared must be within 15 miles of where they lived.
In a few days, they would both fly to Los Angeles for the Emmys (Letts was nominated for his performance in "Winning Time" ). But Coon, 43, was then largely enmeshed in the day-to-day life of raising a family, along with their nightly movie viewings, which Letts pulls from his extensive DVD collection. The previous night's choice: "Once Around," with Holly Hunter and Richard Dreyfus.
Coon met Letts during her breakthrough performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?" on Broadway in 2012. She played the heavy-drinking housewife Honey. It was the first role that Coon read and knew, viscerally, she had to play. Immediately after saying this, Coon sighs.
"It sounds like something some diva would say in a movie from the '50s," Coon says. "I just walked around in my apartment in my slip and I had pearls and a little brandy. I made a grocery list and I just did... Read More