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Hip-hop got its start in the economic warzone of the South Bronx in the 70’s and 80’s, where from absolutely nothing, a creative and vital musical source grew. White Lines & the Fever: The Death of DJ Junebug, directed by Travis Senger, is an incredible story not only about a forgotten musician who was taken too soon, but how hip-hop came from its roots to became a multi-million dollar industry. - This year at the Tribeca Film Festival showcases short films in six different "thematic" programs. Wishful Thinking is a package dominated by characters making hard decisions, while Between the Lines examines subject matter that isn’t always what it seems at first. The package Flashback, made up of six documentary shorts, explore politics, music, race, and popular culture, and give a fascinating diversity in telling these stories. I’ve selected the best in my opinion that you should look out for,...

This year at the Tribeca Film Festival showcases short films in six different "thematic" programs. Wishful Thinking is a package dominated by characters making hard decisions, while Between the Lines examines subject matter that isn’t always what it seems at first. The package Flashback, made up of six documentary shorts, explore politics, music, race, and popular culture, and give a fascinating diversity in telling these stories. I’ve selected the best in my opinion that you should look out for, should you ever come across the film or its directors. James Cromwell is best known as an actor, particularly from Babe and The Green Mile, but he has been a lifelong activist for human rights. In the 1960s, he provided a safe house for affiliates with the Black Panthers, risking the ire of the police and his own social standing as a young white man in dangerous times. A .45 at 50th,...

Joshua Bell TribecaFilm.com: So tell us about your film. Joshua Bell [director]: A .45 at 50th is about activist and Academy Award-nominated actor James Cromwell and his involvement with the Black Panther Party when he was in his late thirties [which] would have been in the late '60s... Once he got out of college, he really got quite involved in various political and social causes that were happening, and one of the things he became involved with was something called the Committee to Defend the Black Panthers, which was a legal defense fund set up for the Black Panther Party to help get the Black Panthers out of jail once they were incarcerated. Typically in jail or in prison, they would be killed, more often than not by operatives from the CIA and the FBI and that sort of thing, so that's why the Committee to Defend the Black Panthers...