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Issue date: 5/2/07 Section: Entertainment

Media Credit: www.in-newyorkmag.com This year's festival promises to bring in crowds exceeding previous years (2006 festival pictured above).

A day that brought so much chaos, heartbreak, and terror has also brought along a lot of hope, and unity between Americans. After the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center, actor Robert De Niro and producer, Jane Rosenthal created the Tribeca Film Festival "to enable the international film community
and the general public to experience the power of film by redefining the film festival experience."

After 120 days and 1,300 volunteers, the film festival became a success that brought more than 150,000 people, generated more than $10.4 million in revenues for local Tribeca merchants, and featured several up-and-coming filmmakers.

The festival that year featured Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, About a Boy, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, and A League of Extraordinary Gentleman. In 2003, the festival began to showcase independent features, documentaries, and short films.

By 2006, the film submissions increased three times since the film festival was created in 2002. This year, from April 25 to May 6, fans get to experience a whole new category of movies to love and admire.

This year's festival includes movies in each letter of the alphabet. There is 2 Days in Paris, created by Julie Delpy from Before Sunrise, in which the story revolves around Marion who brings her boyfriend to Paris in which causes clashes of culture, encounters with ex boyfriends and testing of their relationship. A total love story in which girls can and will love to watch.

Alexis Arquette: She's My Brother, is a documentary revolved around transgender life. Arquette, who is known as David Arquette's sibling, takes you through his journey of his last days as a man before having surgery to become Alexis.

The Man of Two Havanas is developed around growing up in Miami, witnessing drive-by shootings and death threats directed towards the director's father, a former friend of Fidel Castro and opponent of the embargo. The director uses never-before-heard CIA audiotapes and fascinating interviews with her father.

We are also taken into the world of music with, The Killing of John Lennon. "A riveting, disturbing glimpse into the mind of John Lennon's killer, Mark David Chapman, during the days leading up to his deadly confrontation with the rock star outside the Dakota. Lines lifted verbatim from Chapman's own journal give actor Jonas Ball's unforgettable performance an eerie, chilling precision."

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