robert deniro and co—founderjane rosenthal are very much present.nt partly virtual. not having a physical festival was a loss for all involved. but the organisers are spinning it as a great opportunity. the innovation is really at the root of what we do at tribeca so it felt appropriate that we could lean on that to try to connect audiences and creators in this really exceptional time when we weren't able to do it in a theatre. tony said mercury had doubts about the record. 0ne intriguing tribeca feature film, having its world premiere virtually forjust press and industry professionals, was stardust, inspired by british songwriter and singer david bowie, set mostly in 1971 when he went to america for the first time. i've been obsessed by david bowie since i was a kid, bought all his records, you know, read every magazine article i could get my hands on. and then much more recently read all the biographies, and i guess the thing that sort of always struck me was how little people seem to know about his family background and about this sort of chapter

much on this tv series but first loving dick tracy and then finding my way to the kevin costner robert deniro film that came out in 1987. initially loving it i think because it was it reminded me of the comic strip i loved as a kid that was based on a true story or was supposed to be. not far from chicago that familiarity geographically made me want to know more about the story so i was the kid that would go to the library and try to read as much as i could get something interested me. thee books that i pulled about a-alpha poem and theralcatel ant that many at the time but quickly presented me with a sort of contradiction that i see in the film presenting a great story for every nonfiction books i read presented me with a quite a different i perspective dot he was a glory hound, somebody who took credit for other peoples work and have nothing to do with al capone but i also discovered that a writer whose fiction i already knew had written dick tracy h and some other books abt elliott and his career in presenting a i very different afterward at the end talking about his research into this wor