| Frederic Boyer Named as TriBeCa Artistic Director |
| Tuesday, 29 November 2011 10:20 | |||
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The Tribeca Film Festival has announced that Frederic Boyer, a veteran film executive who most recently ran the Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival, has been named Artistic Director of the 2012 edition of the TriBeCa Film Festival.
Boyer, 52-years-old, has served as the Artistic Director and Head of Programming for the Directors’ Fortnight since 2009. From 2004 to 2008, he was head of its Film Selection Committee. Before joining the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes, he created and managed Videosphere, a renowned video store in Paris with a library of some 60,000 titles, including a wide range of arthouse films.
“The Tribeca Film Festival has always been a platform for a wide spectrum of filmmaking, and Frederic shares our passion and curiosity for film and storytelling,”said Tribeca co-founder Jane Rosenthal. “We know he will make our festival team even stronger, and enhance the Tribeca experience as we enter our second decade.”
Boyer added, “I could not be more honored and excited to begin this new chapter at Tribeca. This Festival has matured and developed so impressively from its origins, but there are many more frontiers to explore while keeping the core focus on discovering new voices in filmmaking. I am grateful to Jane, Geoff, Nancy and the entire team for giving me the opportunity to help lead that exploration through the medium of film.”
Since Tribeca’s founding through 2011, the Tribeca Festival has screened over 1200 films from over 80 countries and it has attracted an international audience of more than 3.5 million attendees and generated an estimated $725 million in economic activity for New York City.
The 11th annual Tribeca Film Festival will be held April 18-29, 2012, in New York City.
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