July 7, 2021

KISStory World Premiere – Tribeca Festival

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NOIAFT covered the KISStory world premiere at the 2021 Tribeca Festival. After the screening of the A&E documentary, KISS made a special appearance, reopening NYC with 5 classic songs.

Setlist:

Detroit Rock City

Shout It Out Loud

War Machine

Heaven’s On Fire

Rock And Roll All Nite

For footage without our watermark, please contact Taylor Taglianetti at taylor@noiaft.org

KISStory Synopsis: After 50 years, the No. 1 Gold Record-selling band of all time, KISS, is sharing their story of success in this definitive documentary. Founders Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons tell the wild story of the band’s iconic rise to superstardom before smashing their last guitar and extinguishing the fire-breathing demon.

CAST & CREDITS: NETWORK: Produced by Critical Content and Big Dreams Entertainment for A&E Network

DIRECTOR: D.J. Viola

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER (MAIN CREDIT): Leslie Greif, Jenny Daly, Elaine Frontain Bryant, Brad Abramson

PRODUCER: Tony Yates, D.J. Viola

SCREENWRITER: D.J. Viola

CINEMATOGRAPHER: Andrew Zeiderman

EDITOR: Alexander Myrvold, Daniel Strange

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Brad Abramson, Leslie Grief, Jenny Daly

CAST: Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Ace Frehley, Peter Criss, Dave Grohl, Tom Morello, Doc McGhee, Eddie Kramer, Bob Ezrin, Matt Pinfield, Tommy Thayer, Eric Singer

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Elijah Wood on No Man of God at the 2021 Tribeca Festival

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NOIAFT’s Chief Entertainment Critic Giò Crisafulli spoke with Elijah Wood at the 2021 Tribeca Festival premiere of No Man of God.

Interview shot by Melissa Batista.

No Man of God Synopsis: It was a radical new approach to criminal investigations: “profiling.” Through one-on-one discussions with serial offenders, FBI researchers could go much more in-depth. FBI analyst Bill Hagmaier (Elijah Wood), emboldened by this new philosophy, sat down with famed serial killer Ted Bundy (Luke Kirby) for several interviews from 1984-1989 inside Florida State Prison, in hopes of figuring out why Bundy murdered more than 20 victims. What started out as a straightforward informational assignment gradually turned personal for Hagmaier, whose feelings about his charismatic subject grew more complicated with each conversation. Is it possible to empathize with evil?

CAST & CREDITS:

DIRECTOR: Amber Sealey (an award-winning filmmaker whose films include No Man of God, No Light & No Land Anywhere, How Does it Start, How to Cheat, and A Plus D.

PRODUCER: Daniel Noah, Lisa Whalen, Elijah Wood, Kim Sherman

SCREENWRITER: Kit Lesser

CINEMATOGRAPHER: Karina Silva

COMPOSER: Clarice Jensen

EDITOR: Patrick Nelson Barnes

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Stacy Jorgensen, Elisa Lleras, Mark Ward, Jonas Katzenstein, Maximilian Leo

CASTING BY: Danielle Aufiero, CSA, Amber Horn, CSA

SUPERVISING SOUND EDITOR: Brent Kiser

PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Michael Fitzgerald

COSTUME DESIGNER: Emily Batson

CAST: Elijah Wood, Luke Kirby, Aleksa Palladino, Robert Patrick

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JR on His Documentary, Paper & Glue, at the 2021 Tribeca Festival

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World renowned visual artist JR speaks with NOIAFT founder Taylor Taglianetti at the 2021 Tribeca Festival premiere of his new documentary, Paper & Glue.

About JR: One of TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in 2018, JR is a visual artist who exhibits freely in the streets of the world, pasting huge portraits of anonymous people in unexpected places. His work is about raising questions and seeking an encounter between the subject and the passer-by.

About The Film: For French visual artist JR, the world is his canvas. Taking on the moniker of a photograffeur (French for a photographer/graffiti artist), JR’s large-scale mural portraiture has adorned streets from Paris to Rio, and was memorably captured in his 2017 Academy Award®-nominated collaboration with French New Wave icon Agnes Varda, Faces Places.

With his follow up Paper and Glue, JR turns the camera on his own work, as he undertakes massive installation efforts on the US-Mexico border, inside the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, on the courtyard of a supermax prison, and more. In each location, JR captures images of residents of these unique communities and memorializes them in striking, massive, black-and-white photo installations, in the process turning some of the most provocative spaces of the world into eye-catching immersive art that challenges perspectives and unites communities.

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Luke Kirby on No Man of God at the 2021 Tribeca Festival

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NOIAFT’s Chief Entertainment Critic Giò Crisafulli spoke with Luke Kirby (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) at the 2021 Tribeca Festival premiere of No Man of God.

Interview shot by Melissa Batista.

No Man of God Synopsis: It was a radical new approach to criminal investigations: “profiling.” Through one-on-one discussions with serial offenders, FBI researchers could go much more in-depth. FBI analyst Bill Hagmaier (Elijah Wood), emboldened by this new philosophy, sat down with famed serial killer Ted Bundy (Luke Kirby) for several interviews from 1984-1989 inside Florida State Prison, in hopes of figuring out why Bundy murdered more than 20 victims. What started out as a straightforward informational assignment gradually turned personal for Hagmaier, whose feelings about his charismatic subject grew more complicated with each conversation. Is it possible to empathize with evil?

CAST & CREDITS:

DIRECTOR: Amber Sealey (an award-winning filmmaker whose films include No Man of God, No Light & No Land Anywhere, How Does it Start, How to Cheat, and A Plus D.

PRODUCER: Daniel Noah, Lisa Whalen, Elijah Wood, Kim Sherman

SCREENWRITER: Kit Lesser

CINEMATOGRAPHER: Karina Silva

COMPOSER: Clarice Jensen

EDITOR: Patrick Nelson Barnes

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Stacy Jorgensen, Elisa Lleras, Mark Ward, Jonas Katzenstein, Maximilian Leo

CASTING BY: Danielle Aufiero, CSA, Amber Horn, CSA

SUPERVISING SOUND EDITOR: Brent Kiser

PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Michael Fitzgerald

COSTUME DESIGNER: Emily Batson

CAST: Elijah Wood, Luke Kirby, Aleksa Palladino, Robert Patrick

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Aleksa Palladino on No Man of God at the 2021 Tribeca Festival

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NOIAFT’s Chief Entertainment Critic Giò Crisafulli spoke with Aleksa Palladino (Boardwalk Empire) at the 2021 Tribeca Festival premiere of No Man of God.

Interview shot by Melissa Batista.

No Man of God Synopsis: It was a radical new approach to criminal investigations: “profiling.” Through one-on-one discussions with serial offenders, FBI researchers could go much more in-depth. FBI analyst Bill Hagmaier (Elijah Wood), emboldened by this new philosophy, sat down with famed serial killer Ted Bundy (Luke Kirby) for several interviews from 1984-1989 inside Florida State Prison, in hopes of figuring out why Bundy murdered more than 20 victims. What started out as a straightforward informational assignment gradually turned personal for Hagmaier, whose feelings about his charismatic subject grew more complicated with each conversation. Is it possible to empathize with evil?

CAST & CREDITS:

DIRECTOR: Amber Sealey (an award-winning filmmaker whose films include No Man of God, No Light & No Land Anywhere, How Does it Start, How to Cheat, and A Plus D.

PRODUCER: Daniel Noah, Lisa Whalen, Elijah Wood, Kim Sherman

SCREENWRITER: Kit Lesser

CINEMATOGRAPHER: Karina Silva

COMPOSER: Clarice Jensen

EDITOR: Patrick Nelson Barnes

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Stacy Jorgensen, Elisa Lleras, Mark Ward, Jonas Katzenstein, Maximilian Leo

CASTING BY: Danielle Aufiero, CSA, Amber Horn, CSA

SUPERVISING SOUND EDITOR: Brent Kiser

PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Michael Fitzgerald

COSTUME DESIGNER: Emily Batson

CAST: Elijah Wood, Luke Kirby, Aleksa Palladino, Robert Patrick

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Director Amber Sealey on No Man of God at the 2021 Tribeca Festival

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NOIAFT’s Chief Entertainment Critic Giò Crisafulli spoke with director Amber Sealey at the 2021 Tribeca Festival premiere of No Man of God.

Interview shot by Melissa Batista.

No Man of God Synopsis: It was a radical new approach to criminal investigations: “profiling.” Through one-on-one discussions with serial offenders, FBI researchers could go much more in-depth. FBI analyst Bill Hagmaier (Elijah Wood), emboldened by this new philosophy, sat down with famed serial killer Ted Bundy (Luke Kirby) for several interviews from 1984-1989 inside Florida State Prison, in hopes of figuring out why Bundy murdered more than 20 victims. What started out as a straightforward informational assignment gradually turned personal for Hagmaier, whose feelings about his charismatic subject grew more complicated with each conversation. Is it possible to empathize with evil?

CAST & CREDITS:

DIRECTOR: Amber Sealey (an award-winning filmmaker whose films include No Man of God, No Light & No Land Anywhere, How Does it Start, How to Cheat, and A Plus D.

PRODUCER: Daniel Noah, Lisa Whalen, Elijah Wood, Kim Sherman

SCREENWRITER: Kit Lesser

CINEMATOGRAPHER: Karina Silva

COMPOSER: Clarice Jensen

EDITOR: Patrick Nelson Barnes

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Stacy Jorgensen, Elisa Lleras, Mark Ward, Jonas Katzenstein, Maximilian Leo

CASTING BY: Danielle Aufiero, CSA, Amber Horn, CSA

SUPERVISING SOUND EDITOR: Brent Kiser

PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Michael Fitzgerald

COSTUME DESIGNER: Emily Batson

CAST: Elijah Wood, Luke Kirby, Aleksa Palladino, Robert Patrick

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Allison Baver on No Man of God at the 2021 Tribeca Festival

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NOIAFT’s Chief Entertainment Critic Giò Crisafulli spoke with Olympian and actress/executive producer Allison Baver at the 2021 Tribeca Festival premiere of No Man of God.

Interview shot by Melissa Batista.

No Man of God Synopsis: It was a radical new approach to criminal investigations: “profiling.” Through one-on-one discussions with serial offenders, FBI researchers could go much more in-depth. FBI analyst Bill Hagmaier (Elijah Wood), emboldened by this new philosophy, sat down with famed serial killer Ted Bundy (Luke Kirby) for several interviews from 1984-1989 inside Florida State Prison, in hopes of figuring out why Bundy murdered more than 20 victims. What started out as a straightforward informational assignment gradually turned personal for Hagmaier, whose feelings about his charismatic subject grew more complicated with each conversation. Is it possible to empathize with evil?

CAST & CREDITS:

DIRECTOR: Amber Sealey (an award-winning filmmaker whose films include No Man of God, No Light & No Land Anywhere, How Does it Start, How to Cheat, and A Plus D.

PRODUCER: Daniel Noah, Lisa Whalen, Elijah Wood, Kim Sherman

SCREENWRITER: Kit Lesser

CINEMATOGRAPHER: Karina Silva

COMPOSER: Clarice Jensen

EDITOR: Patrick Nelson Barnes

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Stacy Jorgensen, Elisa Lleras, Mark Ward, Jonas Katzenstein, Maximilian Leo

CASTING BY: Danielle Aufiero, CSA, Amber Horn, CSA

SUPERVISING SOUND EDITOR: Brent Kiser

PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Michael Fitzgerald

COSTUME DESIGNER: Emily Batson

CAST: Elijah Wood, Luke Kirby, Aleksa Palladino, Robert Patrick

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Adam Leon on Italian Studies at the 2021 Tribeca Festival

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NOIAFT’s Chief Entertainment Critic Giò Crisafulli spoke with writer/director Adam Leon at the 2021 Tribeca Festival premiere of Italian Studies.

Interview shot by Melissa Batista.

Italian Studies Synopsis: New York City-based auteur Adam Leon (Gimme The Loot, Tramps) skillfully drops the audience into this neorealist wonder of a film that finds a mysterious woman (Academy Award® nominee Vanessa Kirby) wandering the streets of Manhattan in confusion, seemingly unsure of who she is or where she’s meant to be. Finding herself inexplicably drawn to a charismatic teenager, she embarks on an adventure with him through the cityscape and into the unknown. As the night progresses, she approaches something intangible on the journey back to herself.

A lucid dream of a film, Italian Studies simmers with a mesmerizing renegade energy. Writer-director Leon plays with form and narrative, crafting a delicate mystery that resists simple answers. Kirby’s brilliant performance keeps the film anchored and alive, as she moves through the city with an assured sense of person, if not self. The ethereal atmosphere is intensified by cinematographer Brett Jutkiewicz’s warm palette and surveilling camerawork. The film is an unintentional time-capsule, delivering a fever dream of a pre-pandemic New York City that we all yearn for now. Never has a casual meetup in Gray’s Papaya looked so enticing. Italian Studies is a bravura feat of unconventional storytelling, an exploration of character in the absence of identity.

CAST & CREDITS:

DIRECTOR: Adam Leon was born and raised in New York. His debut directorial effort, Gimme the Loot, won the Grand Jury Prize at SXSW and was an official selection at Cannes. Leon’s follow up, Tramps, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Italian Studies is his third feature.

PRODUCER: Brad Becker-Parton, Joshua Astrachan, Jamund Washington, Andrea Roa, Jason Reif

SCREENWRITER: Adam Leon

CINEMATOGRAPHER: Brett Jutkiewicz

COMPOSER: Nicholas Britell

EDITOR: Sara Shaw, Erin DeWitt, Kristan Sprague, Betsy Kagen

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Vanessa Kirby, Lia Buman, Tim Headington, Ryan Heller, Michael Bloom, Maria Zuckerman, Frederick W. Green

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Claire Edelman, Ana Leocha, Max Silva, Talia Cohen

CO-PRODUCER: Gabby Green, Fred Hechinger

CAST: Vanessa Kirby, Simon Brickner, Annika Wahlsten, Annabel Hoffman, Maya Hawke

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