Jordan's Queen Noor, left, and Tribeca Film Festival co-founder Jane Rosenthal attend the launch of the King Hussein Foundation Media and Humanity Program during the Tribeca Film Festival in New York on May 5, 2007.
Award Winners
Tribeca Film Festival co-founder Robert De Niro presents the co-founders award for best narrative feature onstage at the Tribeca Film Festival awards show and wrap party held at Jing Fong in New York on May 3, 2007. The sixth annual film festival founded by DeNiro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff, ended on May 6.
Co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival Robert De Niro, left, presents the co-founders award for best narrative feature to director David Volach for "My Father My Lord" onstage at the festival awards show and wrap party held at Jing Fong in New York on May 3, 2007. The film follows an Orthodox Jewish rabbi struggling to keep his faith and family.
Actress Emmy Rossum presents the award for Best Documentary Short to "A Son's Sacrifice," directed by Yoni Brook of the U.S., onstage at the Tribeca Film Festival awards show and wrap party held in New York's Chinatown on May 3, 2007. This year's festival included 157 features and 88 short films from 47 countries.
Actress Elizabeth Banks presents the award for Best Narrative Short onstage at the Tribeca Film Festival awards show and wrap party, held at Jing Fong in New York on May 3, 2007. The award went to "The Last Dog in Rwanda," directed by Jens Assur of Sweden.
Director David Volach accepts the co-founders award for best narrative feature for "My Father My Lord" onstage at the Tribeca Film Festival awards show and wrap party in New York on May 3, 2007.
Actress and festival juror Edie Falco, left, and Nancy Smith, vice president of American Express Global Media, present the award for Best New Narrative Filmmaker at the Tribeca Film Festival awards show and wrap party held at Jing Fong in New York on May 3, 2007. Mexico's Enrique Begne was honored for his film "Two Embraces."
"Two Embraces" director Enrique Begne, left, accepts the award for Best New Narrative Filmmaker from actress Edie Falco onstage at the Tribeca Film Festival awards show and wrap party held at Jing Fong in New York's Chinatown on May 3, 2007.
Actor Mario Cantone, left, and Lynn Hoy of Cadillac present the Cadillac Award onstage at Tribeca Film Festival awards show in New York on May 3, 2007. The winner, determined by audience vote, was "We Are Together," directed by Paul Taylor, which chronicles the lives and journeys of the children from the Agape Orphanage in South Africa as they form a choir and bring joy across the globe.
Actor and writer Eric Bogosian presents the "NY Loves Film" Documentary Award onstage at the Tribeca Film Festival awards show and wrap party in New York on May 3, 2007. The award went to "A Walk into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory," a film directed by Esther Robinson.
Producer/director Alex Gibney arrives at the Tribeca Film Festival awards show and wrap party in New York on May 3, 2007. Gibney's film, "Taxi to the Dark Side," a documentary detailing the Bush administration's policies on prison torture, won best documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Tunisian director Nouri Bouzid accepts an award for his film "Making Of" at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival in New York. The film, which won for best screenplay and best actor stars Lofti Edbelli as a break dancer who falls in with a fundamentalist group that intends to make him a terrorist.
Co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival Robert De Niro stands onstage at the festival awards show and wrap party held in New York's Chinatown on May 3, 2007. The sixth annual film festival ran for 12 days and featured hundreds of films from around the world.
More Premieres: "The Gates"
Project director Jonita Davenport, left, artist Jeanne-Claude and chief engineer Vince Davenport attend the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of "The Gates" in New York on May 5, 2007. In 2005, Jeanne-Claude and her partner Christo transformed Central Park with a massive public art installation, a series of 7,500 16-foot-high orange gates with saffron fabric suspended from them along 23 miles of the park's footpaths.
"Towards Darkness"
Director Antonio Negret, right, actress America Ferrera and actor Roberto Urbina attend the premiere of "Towards Darkness" at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York on May 4,2007.
"Ugly Betty" star America Ferrera attends the premiere of her new film, "Towards Darkness," at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York on May 4, 2007.
"In The Land Of Merry Misfits
Actress Maria Menounos and the Merry Misfits attend the premiere of "In The Land Of Merry Misfits" at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York on May 2, 2007. Menounos is one of the producers of the comedy/fantasy about a young college graduate who takes a wrong turn and lands in a colorful realm of seriously twisted fairytales and wacky ne'er-do-wells on noble quests.
"Our City, My Story"
Actress/comedian Whoopi Goldberg speaks during the school screening of "Our City, My Story" on May 3, 2007, during the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. The program of New York City-made youth media highlights the vision, artistry and excellence of the city's young filmmakers during the Tribeca Film Festival.
"Nobel Son"
Composer Mark Adler, actor Shawn Hatosy, actress Mary Steenburgen and director Randall Miller attend the screening of "Nobel Son" at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York on May 2, 2007.
"Watching The Detectives"
Actress Lucy Liu attends the premiere of "Watching The Detectives" at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York on May 1, 2007. Liu stars with Cillian Murphy in the romantic comedy directed by Paul Soter.