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You may have noticed that many tickets for the upcoming Tribeca Film Festival are $18, which indieWIRE notes is a 50% jump. The TFF says, "In an effort to continue to provide the best possible experience, we have raised our prices, which have until now been lower than most other festivals." A spokeswoman tells the Post that the festival must spend "a significant amount of money to outfit all theaters it uses with digital projection equipment, and to fly in top-tier talent for personal appearances at screening Q&A's." Plus, people who live in the 'hood can get discounts.
indieWIRE looked at the prices of other film festivals and theater programming in the area: For instance, Gen Art offers $30 tickets, but that includes a party, while SXSW recently charged $8 per ticket. Tickets for New Directors/New Films are $12 ($10 with MoMA or Film Society of Lincoln Center membership). And tickets at the NY Film Festival cost between $16-40 (usually the premiere, centerpiece and closing night films are more expensive). There are, though, rush tickets.
Do more expensive tickets prevent you from seeing films at film festivals? Or are you so interested in the films that it doesn't matter?
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if it's too expensive, i'm not going. us poor college kids have other things to do anyway.
The TFF is a joke. Its another chance for rich people to pat themselves on the back that they're contributing to culture. They're offering discounts to neighborhood residents? Nobody lives in Tribeca other than crappy investment bankers and some celebrities.
Any thing over $10 for any movie ticket is way too much.
My experience with the past few years TFF is that most of the films with "buzz" are highly comped: a disproportionate percentage of tickets are reserved for the industry, press and VIPs. For example, Half Nelson, last year's buzz film, was nearly impossible to see unless you knew someone.
So, should you spend $18 to see an indie film that might never see the light of day? I would like to support the independent film industry, but, at $18 a ticket, it's very hard to justify.
Come on, DeNiro and friends: don't turn this into an elitist festival.
Maybe they're raising pricing because they ran through their AmEx sponsorship money faster than they were supposed to. Remember, some one is always making money...
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English 101, maybe?
fuck film festivals!!! They are all hippie liberal crap like little miss sunshine about indie staples like gays and aids and suffering and looking forlorn and staring into space like zach braff in garden state. BORING!!! What happened to good films like trainspotting and pulp fiction that blew you away? Just rent the dvd from the library when the hype from New York Critics circle wears off and then you can say "WOw! Crash won best picture? what a piece of pig turd!"
I look at it this way: if the movie is really good it means that it will continue to be shown in independent film theaters or even in regular, mass audience venues after the festival is over; at that point I will consider the movie worth watching and spend just 10-11 bucks to see it. If, on the other hand, it was just a flick not be remembered after that weekend (like the big majority of films shown in the TFF and other festivals like it)then it will fall on the wayside and run its course for the duration of the festival. I use those festivals as a way to pick out the movies that really deserve my attention. To me, that is the only use of festivals from a movie-goer's point of view.
Is this even a Film Festival? I mean, come on now.
they did this because of some 911 bullkrap/rudy giuliani krap about how we should live our lives as normally etc etc etc.
I hope this FF fails and fails big. Who even goes to this stuff?
And, I'm neither a libtard or a republipuke.
The thing is, Sundance and Tribeca Film Fest are more film markets than film festivals. It's a week of screening indie films that are looking for distribution. And since TFF is the new kid on the block, they get the leftovers after Cannes, Sundance and Tornoto. I predict they will not screen anything worth $18.
The last thing I saw at TFF was David LaChappelle's film. If it were screening for $18 this year, I probably wouldn't go. It had the buzz that told me it would make into a DVD distro deal. However, I did also see Morgan Freedman speak at TFF. That's something I would continue to pay for.