Mar 21, 2016

Patrick Osborne, director of "Feast," to premiere his new short film "Pearl" at Tribeca.

The Tribeca Film Festival, which runs April 13-24, 2016, has announced its full lineup of films. Although animation does not play a major role in its program, the festival will feature the world premiere of one animated feature and out-of-competition screenings of 12 animated short films. Why they are not showing animation in competition like Sundance, SXSW, or Cannes is anyone's guess...

The feature debut is "Nerdland," the R-rated directorial debut of Titmouse founder Chris Prinoski.

On the short film side, the premiere of Patrick Osborne's new short "Pearl" (pictured above and below), directed by the director of Disney's Oscar-winning short "Feast," will be a notable one. Osborn created "Pearl" for Google's Spotlight Stories, but like other shorts created for interactive shorts, such as Glen Keane's "Duet," "Pearl" has a non-interactive festival version.

Osborne's six-minute CG film depicts the journey of a father and daughter who "follow a father struggling to succeed as a musician and a parent and his journey of youth and music to fulfillment. The film will debut in Tribeca's music-driven shorts program "Rock and a Hard Place."

Most of the other animated shorts will be screened as part of a program called "Whoopi's Shorts," curated by actress/talk show host (and noted animation fan) Whoopi Goldberg. Films in her program include:

The remaining animated shorts are distributed among the festival's other short film programs: