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 Maltz, focuses on a girl named Jazzy (Jasmine Bearkiller Shangreaux) who is growing up on an Oglala Lakota reservation in South Dakota where she experiences happy moments and heartbreaks with her peers. Gladstone, who won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Oscar for her role in Killers of the Flower Moon, is one of the film’s stars. Jazzy follows up Maltz’s 2022 film, The Unknown Country, which also starred Gladstone.
Jenna Ortega appears opposite Percy Hynes White (The Gifted) in Winter Spring Summer or Fall, about what seems like a fated relationship when the two stars’ characters meet during their senior year of high school. Ortega’s character is Harvard bound and described as a genius while White’s is more laid-back. Tiffany Paulsen, who co-wrote the screenplay to two Emma Roberts movies, Nancy Drew and About Fate, will make her feature length directorial debut with the picture.
Documentarian Francis Whately, who directed David Bowie: Five Years and Rock ‘n’ Roll Guns for Hire: The Story of the Sidemen, will premiere his new Rebel Country. The film looks at how the genre is becoming more inclusive and features appearances by Blanco Brown, Jelly Roll, Lainey Wilson, and Breland. Breland will also perform after the premiere.
Full ticketing details are available on the fest’s website. More than 100 feature films, including 86 premieres, will be shown during the event.
There are also films starring Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn (Daddio); Michael Cera, Kristen Stewart, and Mayra Erskine (Sacramento); and Margaret Cho and Jesse Tyler Ferguson (All That We Love). The documentary They All Came Out to Montreux will look at the Swiss town’s connection to Prince, Sting, Carlos Santana, Aretha Franklin, and Keith Richards, and probably Deep Purple.
Other notable premieres include Linda Perry: Let It Die Here, which looks at the career of the singer-songwriter, who’ll also perform at the event; Brats, which finds actor Andrew McCarthy reuniting with Rob Lowe, Ally Sheedy, Emilio Estevez, and other members of the Brat Pack; and Desire: The Carl Craig Story, which traces the techno producer’s relationship to Detroit. There are also documentaries about Harry Belafonte (Following Harry), queer comedy (Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution), designer Diane von Furstenberg (Diane von Furstenberg: Woman in Charge), and actress Renée Elise Goldsberry (Satisfied) as she rose to fame with Hamilton.