2024 Tribeca Festival Press Credentials for the WORD. Also, a 72-Hour Shootout Update

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Brief history. The Tribeca Film Fest provides a cornucopia of networking and grapevine possibilities for students in all manner of media. I became impressed with the numbers of NYU students in various positions at the fests. I don’t knoq if they were paid, non-paid, but I imagined they were most certainly gobbling up potential opportunities, that’s for sure.

If NYU, why not Hunter students or at the very least students enrolled in my J-classes. I feel a connection between journalism and filmmaking. The following recent comment from a big-time film publicity company warmed the cockles of my hear: “Hey Gregg! Yes. Looping you in with my colleague … so we can get you a ticket to one of the screenings. You’ve been such an amazing friend of some of … Studio’s prior projects and short films in general.”

(Picture Above — Taken Many Moons Ago — Worth Thousands and Thousands of Words (in the Works)

Also, Please Note:

The annual 72 Hour Shootout is a global filmmaking competition for everyone from novices to established filmmakers. Filmmaking teams are given a common theme at the start of the Shootout and then have 72 hours to write, shoot, edit, and complete short films up to five minutes in length. For almost two decades, the Film Lab and the Shootout have provided a platform for faces, voices and stories too often marginalized, whitewashed or silenced by mainstream media.