Tribeca Festival, which kicks off Wednesday, will be thumping to music from its opening moments.<\/p>\n
The 25th\u00a0edition of the festival in Lower Manhattan debuts with the world premiere of\u00a0Earth, Wind & Fire: To Be Celestial vs. That\u2019s the Weight of the World, the latest documentary from Oscar winner Ahmir \u201cQuestlove\u201d Thompson. It closes June 14 with the premiere of another music documentary,\u00a0Alicia Keys: Girl From Hell\u2019s Kitchen, about the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter.<\/p>\n
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In between, Tribeca will pulse with documentaries on Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles, guitarist Peter Frampton, Israeli singer Noga Erez, rap trio The Lox, drummer Travis Barker, and concert docs with Katy Perry and Mumford & Sons.<\/p>\n
On the new edition of Deadline\u2019s Doc Talk podcast, Tribeca Festival director Cara Cusumano joins us to preview the festival\u2019s nonfiction lineup. There\u2019s much more than simply music-themed films, of course. Cusumano tells us about\u00a0How to Feed a Dictator, an intriguing documentary about chefs tasked with tending to the alimentary needs of all-powerful political leaders.\u00a0Mario, meanwhile, profiles the late governor of New York, Mario Cuomo, with appearances by all of Mario\u2019s children, including his son Andrew, who served two terms as governor of New York himself (and a bit of a third before scandal forced him to resign).<\/p>\n
Cusumano explores\u00a0Miss Representation: Rise Up, a documentary directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, California\u2019s \u201cfirst partner.\u201d She\u2019s married to Gov. Gavin Newsom, an expected Democratic presidential candidate in 2028. Speaking of presidents,\u00a0Playing POTUS, directed by Josh Greenbaum (Will & Harper), explores comedians who have had a field day sending up U.S. presidents, a group that includes Will Ferrell, Chevy Chase, Alec Baldwin, Keegan-Michael Key, Dana Carvey and Maya Rudolph (who played presidential hopeful Kamala Harris on SNL) among others. That film is based on a book by Peter Funt, son of\u00a0Candid Camera\u00a0creator Allen Funt.<\/p>\n
Cusumano explains why Ferrell, who memorably portrayed President George W. Bush (remember \u201cstrategery\u201d?), has some second thoughts now about his satirical take.<\/p>\n
We also get into films about late artist Jean-Michael Basquiat and the couple who owned the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN, where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968 (it\u2019s now a museum).<\/p>\n
That\u2019s on the new episode of Doc Talk hosted by John Ridley (12 Years a Slave,\u00a0Shirley) and Matt Carey, Deadline\u2019s senior documentary editor. The pod is a production of Deadline and Ridley\u2019s N\u014d Studios.<\/p>\n
Listen to the episode above or on major podcast platforms including\u00a0Spotify<\/a>,\u00a0iHeart<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Apple<\/a>.<\/p>\n Best of Deadline<\/p>\n Sign up for Deadline’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tribeca Festival, which kicks off Wednesday, will be thumping to music from its opening moments. The 25th\u00a0edition of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[98687,98689,75,84,83,12310,9,24,63,98688,79436,98690,71225],"class_list":["post-252906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-cara-cusumano","tag-cusumano","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-mario-cuomo","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-peter-frampton","tag-sara-bareilles","tag-travis-barker","tag-tribeca-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}