In the next few weeks, the Apple store in Soho will be transforming into a glass-gated mecca of independent film. Like Vanity Fair, Apple has been an early sponsor of the Tribeca Film Festival. And for the past five years, its “Meet the Filmmaker” Q&A's have been some of the festival’s coolest events—because they’ve attracted top talent and because they’re free and because they’re open to anyone who happens to wander in the store. (This open-door policy can sometimes lead to pandemonium, like the time Robert Pattinson's appearance to promote Twilight threatened to devolve into a Blade-like frenzy of bloodthirsty tweens as their high-frequency squeals nearly shattered the sleek glass surroundings. (See above video.) Or the time Amy Adams and John Patrick Shanley were there talking about Doubt and this looney off the street was raving about how sexual relations between a priest and a child could be a beautiful thing.)
Spike Lee will kick off the lineup on April 22,discussing his two films in contention, his adaptation of the musical Passing Strange and Kobe Doin’ Work, a basketball version of the Zidane movie. Other speakers throught the festival will include Gael Garcia Bernal, Natalie Portman, and Eric Bana. In addition to the Q&A’s, which will be presented in partnership with Indiewire, the Soho Apple store will host over 30 filmmaking workshops between April 22 and May 3. (Since both Benjamin Button and No Country For Old Men were edited entirely on Macs running Final Cut Pro, that’s reason enough to check it out.) A full schedule will soon be available on Apple’s Tribeca website. And now for the complete “Meet the Filmmaker” program.
Wednesday, April 22nd
7:00 p.m.—Spike Lee (Passing Strange and Kobe Doin’ Work)
Friday, April 24th
3:30 p.m.—Natalie Portman (entertainment web project)
6:00 p.m.—Dan Fogler (Hysterical Psycho)
7:30 p.m.—Lee Daniels (Precious)
Saturday, April 25th
4:00 p.m.—So Yong Kim (Treeless Mountain and Bradley Rust Gray (Exploding Girl)
6:30 p.m.—Ti West (The House of the Devil)
Sunday, April 26th
5:00 p.m.—Connor McPherson (The Eclipse)
Monday, April 27th
5:00 p.m.—Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna and writer Carlos Cuarón (Rudo Y Cursi)
6:30 p.m.—Gabriel Noble (P-Star Rising)
8:00 p.m.—Atom Egoyan (Adoration)
Tuesday, April 28th
6:30 p.m.—Eric Bana (Love the Beast)
Thursday, April 30th
5:00 p.m.—Kirby Dick (Outrage)
Friday, May 1
7:00 p.m.—Nia Vardalos and Donald Petrie (My Life in Ruins)
Saturday, May 2
5:00 p.m.—Student Filmmakers panel
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