'Electra Woman & Dyna Girl' to sneak peek at Tribeca Fest's new digital program
As Tribeca Film Festival ramps up its commitment to the digital space, they'll get a couple of special visitors: Electra Woman & Dyna Girl.
Episodes featuring the Dyna-mic duo, who are being rebooted by Grace Helbig and Hannah Hart for Fullscreen and Legendary Entertainment, will get a special sneak peek during Tribeca's inaugural Digital Creators Market and Special Screenings program, designed to help digital creators connect with industry players including buyers, producers and agents.
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The daylong Market program, which will take place April 21, will also run parallel to a line-up of special screenings (open to the public) from digital studios including YouTube Red, StyleHaul, Fullscreen, Indigenous Media, New Form Digital and Maker Studios.
In addition to the network opportunities, the event will also host a conversation with Josh Hutcherson (The Hunger Games) and Jake Avnet about their new filmmaker mentorship initiative, Indigenous Media’s Film Incubator, powered by The Black List. The concept was developed alongside Creative Artists Agency (CAA), which has long been representing digital influencers.
Expected Market attendees include David Milchard and Matt Clarke (Convos with My 2-Year Old), John Cozart (Paint), Gaby Dunn (Just Between Us), Tim Pool (Timcast), The Gregory Brothers, Matt Bellasai (Whine About It), Allison Raskin (Just Between Us), Gregory Bayne and Christian Lybrook (Zero Point), Ingrid Nilsen, Joe Penna (MysteryGuitarMan), Meghan Tonjes (singer-songwriter, #bootyrevolution), Jordan Fish, Mikey Murphy, Tony Valenzuela (Creator of BlackBoxTV) and more.
For the third year in a row, TFF will also include Tribeca N.O.W. (New Online Work), "an online showcase that recognizes and celebrates the next generation of storytellers who choose to create and share their work online." This year the program features 11 creators.
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The Tribeca Film Festival, now in its 15th year, has long been known to filmmakers for embracing innovation. In 2005, before YouTube launched, Tribeca partnered with Amazon on a digital film contest. The first film shot on a cell phone premiered at the festival in 2007.
More recently, it partnered with Snapchat for Tribeca Snapchat Shorts, a program encouraging filmmakers to tell big stories on small screens.
Here's a list of the special screenings that will debut alongside the Tribeca Digital Creators Market.
Vlogumentary
The documentary, which will make its premiere at the film festival after years in production, is directed by Matthew Testa and produced by Shay Carl Butler, Morgan Spurlock, Corey Vidal, Jeremy Chilnick and Julie "Bob" Lombardi.
It follows the story of a handful of YouTube vloggers "examining how they work, what they have to say and why their fans prefer videos of real life over traditional entertainment."
Electra Woman & Dyna Girl
Legendary Entertainment and Fullscreen's highly anticipated reboot of the 1970s TV series starring Helbig and Hart.
Party Girl
A comedy series -- starring Lisa Schwartz aka LisBug -- from Maker Studios and New Form Digital.
The show, created by Schwartz, was announced at Maker's New Front presentation in 2015.
It follows an "overachieving superstar who is forced to take a humiliating low-wage job and learns that it ain’t easy to make an honest living."
Relationship Status
Available on go90 later this spring, the show — which Milo Ventimiglia (Gilmore Girls) executive produced with James Frey — follows an "interweaving cast of 20-to-30 somethings in New York and Los Angeles as they navigate love and friendships all told through the lens of social storytelling optimized for mobile consumption."
Ventimiglia also stars alongside a handful of other celebrities including Shawn Ashmore, (X-Men: Days of Future Past), Emma Bell (The Walking Dead) and Brant Daugherty (Pretty Little Liars. The StyleHaul series was announced at the Consumer Electronic Show earlier this year.
Sing It!
Created by Benny & Rafi Fine (The Fine Bros.) in conjunction with film and television production company Mandeville Films, the show "pays homage to the singing competition genre with a unique twist, taking us behind the scenes in a scripted comedy format."
Stars -- including Missi Pyle (Gone Girl), Debby Ryan (Disney Channel’s Jessie), and YouTube star Sam Tsui -- come from both the traditional and digital spaces.
It is part of YouTube Originals' 2016 slate, and expected to come later this spring.
Correction: This post has been updated to reflect the correct spelling of Corey Vidal.
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Saba was a Los Angeles-based reporter who covers all things digital entertainment, including YouTube, streaming services and digital influencers. Prior to that, she spent two years at the Los Angeles Times covering entertainment for the Calendar and Company Town sections. Saba grew up in Santa Monica and graduated from Boston University with a B.S. in journalism and B.A. in political science. When not reporting, she is usually binge watching shows online or looking for new coffee shops to frequent.
