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Tribeca Festival 2024 has revealed the participants for this year’s Tribeca Festival Creators Market, which features a curated selection of creatives pitching feature, episodic, audio and immersive projects to a group of industry leaders. Companies in attendance for the pitch market include Sony Pictures Classics, Neon, Cinetic Media, Paramount+, Max, IFC Films and the Sundance Institute.

The 2024 Tribeca Festival Creators Market program includes narrative projects from Tallie Medel (“Everything Everywhere All At Once”) who will pitch her feature film “Ketchikan;” Lauren Minnerath, who will pitch her feature “Clare,” executive produced by Nia DaCosta (“The Marvels”); as well as Oliver Edwin, who will present his narrative feature “Situation #64.” Tisha Robinson-Daly and Jonathan Mason, who previously participated in the Creators Market and in Tribeca’s Epic Games Writing in Unreal program, will pitch their feature in production, “High.”

The documentary selection includes “Rebel Without a Pause,” directed by Maya Cueva and produced...

Teenage years are marred with rampant hormones, previously unknown desires, experimentation and trying to find a sense of self, all of which are present in Melina Valdez’s short Weapons and Their Names. A story amalgamated from her own experiences, sometimes overwhelming emotions and testing her boundaries as a filmmaker, her short reverberates with the energy of youth whilst being weighed down by swathes of adulthood as she navigates grief and loss. Shot on 16mm film to reflect the hazy paths of our memory with lucid scenes injected with magic realism offering up those surreal feelings we all experience as teenagers Weapons and Their Names manages to delicately broach a wide range of themes all as we sit in the claustrophobia of youth. After premiering the film at Sundance and touring festivals, Weapons and Their Names premieres on the pages of Dn today alongside our interview with Valdez where we...