Billy Joel: And So It Goes will make its world premiere on opening night at 2025 Tribeca Festival, organizers announced Sunday. The HBO original two-part documentary kicks off on June 4 at New York’s Beacon Theatre. The documentary traverses the musician’s life, including the “love, loss, and personal struggles that …
Read More »Ani DiFranco Leads a Feminist Folk-Punk Revolution in '1-800-ON-HER-OWN' Doc Trailer
Ani DiFranco carves out a career all her own in the new trailer for 1-800-ON-HER-OWN, a new documentary about the feminist punk-folk pioneer and Righteous Babe Records founder. The clip offers a condensed but compelling look at the film, starting with a barrage of archival clips that show how DiFranco …
Read More »'All Things Metal,' Doc About Forging Metal Work With Heavy Metal, to Premiere at 2024 Tribeca Film Festival
All Things Metal, a documentary about a family of metal workers forging their craft with their love of heavy metal, will premiere at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival on June 6 after being acquired as part of a partnership between Rolling Stone Films and streaming platform Documentary+. “Three brothers run …
Read More »Linda Perry Opens Up About Self-Abuse, Nonstop Hustle in 'Let It Die Here' Trailer
Linda Perry is ready to share an inside look at her far-from-ideal journey. On Thursday, Mercury Studios released the official trailer for Linda Perry: Let It Die Here, a documentary about the 4 Non Blondes’ singer and hitmaker for others, including Christina Aguilera and Pink. The film traverses her life …
Read More »Tribeca Film Fest to Screen Movies Featuring Jenna Ortega, Lily Gladstone, and Jelly Roll
Films featuring Lily Gladstone and Jenna Ortega and music documentaries about the changing country scene and singer-songwriter Linda Perry will all premiere this spring at Tribeca Film Festival. The annual New York City event will take place from June 5 – 16 all over the city. Jazzy, by filmmaker Morrisa …
Read More »'America Is Queer' and Drag Icon Taylor Mac Is Preaching the Gospel
As the clock struck noon on Saturday, October 8th, 2016, Taylor Mac walked on to the stage of St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn. The band of almost two-dozen musicians and backup singers led by musical director Matt Ray were already there, waiting for him. His outfit consisted of a tower …
Read More »Legendary Concert Promoter Ron Delsener Looks Back on 60 Years of Live Music Madness
Long before Live Nation, Clear Channel, Ticketmaster, Stubhub, service fees, gold-circle seats, and anything that even resembles the live music industry as we know it today, there was Ron Delsener. The 87-year-old concert promoter has been booking shows in New York City going all the way back to the summer …
Read More »Alden Ehrenreich's Behind-the-Scenes Photo Diary of the Tribeca Film Festival
When Rolling Stone asked me to take photos of my experience at the Tribeca Film Festival, where I was releasing my directorial debut Shadow Brother Sunday, I expected to come back to them with lots of behind-the-scenes shots from the point of view of a filmmaker in the middle of …
Read More »French Montana on His New Documentary: 'A Lot of Immigrants Are Going to See Themselves in This Story'
A rapper escaping difficult circumstances to triumph as an artist is a deeply American story and a hip-hop archetype. French Montana is expanding that dynamic with For Khadija, a documentary about his family’s 1996 emigration from Morocco to the Bronx. The documentary, debuting at the Tribeca Film Festival tonight, chronicles …
Read More »The Trailblazing Black Astronauts Hidden by History
On June 12th, the Nat Geo documentary The Space Race will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival before dropping later this year on Disney+. Directed by Emmy winner Diego Hurtado de Mendoza and Lisa Cortés (Little Richard: I Am Everything), the doc explores the contributions Black people made to NASA …
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