Back at Stern Again for Year 3... or is it year 4??????

1. BACKGROUND ON TRIBECA FF - HOW AND WHY WAS IT FORMED, EVOLVED

Why?

Original Goal:  Bring People Back Downtown, Start the Healing Process

Business Plan? (Yeah Right)  A Leap of Faith

2. TFF GOALS IN THE US and Beyond

Create a Global Media Company-- year-round/global/24/7

Expansion:  Ambition or Necessity?

12 day event in New York doesn't work

is independent film model  broken?  needs tweaking or a whole new mind?

The world has changed:

What is the purpose and job to be done?

Disrutpive Innovation Theory

Google  Professor Clayton Christensen

Read Innovator's Dilemma

Triangle Below Canada

3. TFF GOALS INTERNATIONALLY - QATAR

Cultural Diplomacy

Why Doha?  Why Not.

4. WHY THE REALTIONSHIP WITH STERN

We love community and education

5. STUDENT PROJECTS

Filmanthropy

Founded by Aaron Kinnari

•          NYU Undergraduate Senior & President, Stern Cares

•          Stern Cares: Sponsoring Organization

•          Enrolled & excelled in Al Lieberman’s Tribeca Film Festival Class last Spring

§  The idea for “Filmanthropy” was born out of Aaron’s positive experience at TFF ‘09

§  The strength of the Tribeca brand in the education space

•          Active in CGI

6. GEOFF GILMORE MOVING TO TFF

Changed the Landscape

7. FILM FESTIVALS IN GENERAL

New Distribution Model

8. POLITICAL- SOCIAL- ECONOMIC AGENDA

We're here from Tribeca and we came to help, really.

Can there be a civic minded media company that is for profit yet philanthropic, and creates a meaningful brand?

9. THE FESTIVAL ITSELF - STRUCTURE, BOARD

For Profit/ Not For profit

Walnut Hill became an outside investor

10. ANYTHING CRAIG WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ABOUT

Disrutptive Innovation

Open Source

Cathedral and the Bazaar

Palindrome