Tribeca Film Fest bigger than ever

April 24, 2007 A successful film producer who set out to help her Sept. 11-torn neighborhood, she helped launch the Tribeca Film Festival with husband Craig Hatkoff and her living legend business partner Robert De Niro in 2002. Now in its sixth year, Tribeca, which runs Wednesday through May 6, has become not just one of the biggest film festivals in the country -- but an increasingly important venue for acquisitions. Perhaps the event's biggest new venture is the Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival (which runs throughout the festival), a 14-premiere feature collection of competition-themed films with subjects ranging from video gaming (Picturehouse's "The King of Kong") to poker (the hot acquisition prospect "The Grand").

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