Tribeca Online Film Festival - 2012

If you're in NYC right about now hopefully you're taking advantage of the Tribeca Film Festival which runs from April 18-29. But if you're no where near the east coast you can still participate. Tribeca has been a leader in exposing their festival to the internet. This year is no exception as they continue the tradition of the Tribeca Online Film Festival (TOFF).

I discovered that amongst their offerings they have included  CatCam my favorite short of SXSW (followed closely by Tumbleweed!). It's completely free, though you do need to go through a brief registration process. But it's a documentary about an engineer who strapped a camera to his adopted outside cat to see what they got up to. It's fascinating, and beautiful. Follow this link before you change your mind. Seriously, DO IT!



OK, back? - great. As you've likely discovered by now Tribeca Online Film Festival has a number of this year's other shorts and even a few feature films (spaced over time) available to watch. They'll be adding films as the festival progresses making TOFF worthy of bookmarking.

In addition to the free material four of the 2012 festival's films are available through a variety of Video on Demand Channels. The pictures include (with links to Amazon Instant Video)

• The Giant Mechanical Man
• Death of a Superhero
• Sleepless Night
• Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story (after April 2th)

A great initiative by Tribeca, and one I hope other festivals will build on over time.