Gen Art Cinema Circle

The Gen Art Cinema Circle screening series provides Gen Art’s elite members unprecedented access to the filmmaking community: filmmakers, directors, producers, writers and actors. Intimate screenings are followed by a moderator led discussion with key people from the film. A one hour cocktail reception follows for the filmmakers and audience alike. The first movie screened for this series was The Matador, which was the first film put out by the Weinstein Company. The screening of The Matador was followed by a Q & A hosted by director Richard Shepard.

Additional screenings include The Devil Wears Prada in June 2006, and, most recently in 2007, a screening of Tom DiCillo’s film Delirious. The screening in Grand Screen at Tribeca Grand was followed by a discussion with director Tom DiCallo and actors Steve Buscemi and Callie Thorne.

Cornerstone/Fader Film Series

The Cornerstone Promotion/Fader Film Series brings attention to vital early buzz films and film companies, bringing in celebrity attendees and executives from music, film, fashion and press industries, showing cutting-edge independent and studio films before their official release dates. Some of the films screened at the hotel include Sin City (Miramax Films), The Motorcycle Diaries (Focus Features), Hustle & Flow (Paramount), Napoleon Dynamite (Fox Searchlight)  Big Fish (Columbia), Glory Road, and Stoned to name a few.  Most recently, Cornerstone screened Black Snake Moan as well as the documentary Glastonbury, in which director Julien Temple skillfully chronicles the evolution of Glastonbury Festival, the longest-running music festival in the world.

Cinema Society

The Cinema Society unites leaders and notables from the worlds of film, TV, fashion, music, modeling, art, society, and the media, and engages them in highly coveted celebrity-filled evenings that celebrate the most unique films. Some of the evenings benefit various charities, most notably Martin Scorsese’s Film Foundation.

Things We Lost In The Fire - October 6, 2007
Lost and confused after the sudden death of her husband, Audrey Burke (Halle Berry) invites Jerry Sunborne (Benicio Del Toro), an addict who has been her husband’s friend since childhood, to move into the room adjacent to their garage. Struggling to stay clean, Jerry embraces his role as a friend to Audrey and a surrogate parent to her two children. This is a story about unlikely bonds—often the very best kind. Hosted by Cinema Society and Dreamworks Pictures at Tribeca Grand, the screening was followed by an after party in Soho Grand’s Penthouse Lofts.  Director Susanne Bier, producer Sam Mendez, and stars Halle Berry and Benicio Del Toro attended.

Elizabeth: The Golden Age - October 3, 2007
Cate Blanchett returns to the screen as Queen Elizabeth, the virgin queen who, as we saw in the 1998 film Elizabeth, swore to England both her body and soul.  No stranger to temptations of love, political traitors, and plots against her throne, Elizabeth faces King Philip II, the Spanish king who is determined to restore England to Catholicism. Attendees of the advance screening included director Shekkar Kapur and star Cate Blanchett as well as Anna Wintour, LL Cool J, Tommy Hilfiger, Martha Stewart, Zac Posen, Val Kilmer, and Lauren Bacall.

Eastern Promises - September 11, 2007
Naomi Watts stars as Anna, a London midwife who investigates the death of a teenage mother who died while giving birth. Tracing the lineage of the mother by starting with a diary left behind, Anna discovers the Vory V Zakone brotherhood, an Eastern European organized crime family based in London. The result: murder, deceit, and a crime thriller at its best. Eastern Promises was screened at Tribeca Grand followed by an after party in Soho Grand’s Penthouse Lofts. Attendees included dirctor David Cronenberg, screenwriter Steve Knight, producer Paul Webster, and stars Viggo Mortensen, Armin Mueller-Stahl, and Vincent Cassel.

Interview - July 11, 2007
Steve Buscemi directs and stars in Interview, the story of Pierre Peders, a former war reporter, who is forced into the news correspondent’s nightmare—the celebrity interview.  As the interview unravels quickly, an accident brings Pierre and Katya, the actress (Sienna Miller), together for a long night ahead…  Buscemi and Miller both attended the screening at Tribeca Grand and the after party in Soho Grand’s Penthouse Lofts.

Tokion Documentary Film Series

This year we started a documentary film series with Tokion Magazine. The films aim to be eclectic and Tokion seeks out films they believe have something special, regardless of genre, content, or subject. So far Tokion has screened Favela Rising, by Jeff Zimbalist and Matt Mochary which won the ‘Best Emerging Documentary Filmmaker’ Award at the Tribeca Film Festival. The next film slated to screen will be a documentary on the Icelandic Music Festival.

European Film Promotions

European Film Promotions holds two series of industry screenings per year (March and June). Four independent films are selected from four different European Countries. The films that were showed at the last industry screenings in March were  Vitus by Fredi M. Murer (Switzerland), Alice by Marco Martins (Portugal), Every Other Week by Hans Ingemansson, Mans Herngren, Hannes Holm and Felix Herngren (Sweden) and Winky’s Horse by Mischa Kamp (The Netherlands).