The Sundance Insider
The Tribe was featured in the Sundance Reporter on the opening day of the festival. Link here and scroll down til you see Barbie.

DVD Talk Review
The Tribe (Short) - A jazz-like riff on the history of Barbie, the history of Jews, and Jewish Identity, The Tribe is an extremely entertaining and insightful film. Narrated expertly by Peter Coyote, The Tribe makes spiderweb-like connections between Barbie, the dolls inventor Ruth Handler (who was Jewish) and Jewish culture and identity. Both humorous and thought provoking, The Tribe successfully tackles an entire history of the Jewish culture in 18 minutes and poses the question "What does really it mean to be a member of a tribe?" Short films typically give you a glance into the talent and capabilities of a filmmaker, and based on The Tribe, I'd say Director Tiffany Shlain is definitely one to watch.

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FOOTAGE

From Sundance....
Sundance selected The Tribe as the subject of a mini-documentary called, “Follow The Filmmaker.” To watch our experience at the festival click here. A film strip will appear and you will see Tiffany with red lipstick and a black hat. If you click on this frame, it will say, "Follow a filmmaker." Double click on this and you watch Sundance's film on Tiffany and The Tribe.

MTV News attended one of our fireside chats and did a wonderful piece that can be found online at MTV Overdrive, its broadband channel. To view, go to www.mtv.com.
Then to "On TV" on the horizontal navigation bar.
Then to "On TV on Overdrive" on the drop down menu.
Then to "Movies" Then you'll see The Tribe segment about the 5th one down.
Then MTV News: All Up in Sundance

OUR EXPERIENCE

Sundance Tango, Highlights & Dedication

The past two weeks at Sundance were fantastic but sadly ended on a tragic note.

It was an whirlwind of sold out screenings, packed fireside chats/screenings at our Tribe House where we served hot mazto ball soup, hot chocolate, discussion and spoken word performances daily. Followed by interest in the film for acquisition, wonderful reviews in The NYTimes, the official newspaper, The Sundance Insider, and a beautiful, enthusiastic response to the film. The whole crew and cast from the Tribe was there, staying in a funky house on the hill that hosted many parties, screenings and conversations about identity, faith and America. We saw some fantastic films and talked with some of our filmmaking heroes like Wem Wenders, Robert Redford, Alexander Payne and Todd Haynes. The Sundance programmers and staff were wonderful. It was all a dream come true....

And then on Tuesday last week, I was notified that Andrea Bronfman, a major funder and supporter of the film, was tragically hit by a car and died in New York. She was an amazing, bold, intelligent and generous woman in spirit and soul who believed in this project from early on. We have lost a woman who made a difference. Not only was she a mother, grandmother and leader, she provided fertile soil for risky projects to happen and I am forever grateful. Her spirit lives on through all the conversations and projects she supported... xo,

Tifany

ps. If you want to read the reviews or check out the behind-the-scenes films made about our experience by Sundance or MTV News, you can go to www.tribethefilm.com and click on Sundance Highlights.

Below are some snapshots...

TRIBE FIRESIDE CHATS & DISCUSSION
We rented a great house right near the festival with a circular open fireplace and expansive kitchen. Each day, the people who either couldn't get a ticket to our screening, or who had seen the film but wanted to discuss it would pack into our house on the snowy days for soup, screening and discussion. Amee Evans made a scrumtous mazto ball soup, Ken, professor extraordinaire, moderated the discussion, the talented Vanessa Hidary performed her arresting piece, Hebrew Mamita, and McSweenys and Reboot offered up other fine delectables for people to digest the new DVD magazine, Wholphin and the new journal, Guilt & Pleasure. These packed gatherings of talk and soup were insightful and delicious.

SNAPSHOTS:
200 filmmakers and film goers dancing in our house at 4am
Roberta Munroe's beautiful film introduction
Peter & Stephanie Coyote eating Matzo Ball soup and pontificating on Identity in America
A row of 17 year old boys at on of our screenings who said the Tribe spoke about them.
A man from Kentucky who said "I am not Jewish, and this film made me feel things and understand things in a whole new way."
Taking the whole crew to a midnight screening of "Destricted." Mathew Barney, Larry Clark and others make films on Porn. Racy, and awkward with moments of brilliance.

AWARD: En route to Sundance, we found out The Tribe won the Director's Choice Award from the prestigious Black Maria Film Festival. This festival travels to 70 museums, theaters, colleges, libraries, film societies and community organizations across the country. They recently received a grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation to expand the festivals tour. Hopefully Tribe will travel near you soon.

FILMS WE LOVED:
Features: Michael Gondry's Science of Sleep & Terry Zwigoff Art School Confidential
Shorts: Max & Josh directed by Kathryn Ann Busby, Transactions by Jacque Thelemaque, Ha Ha America directed by Jon Daniel Ligon

Films that I didn't get to see that had a buzz: American Hardcore, Kinky Boots, Thank you for Smoking

I am still dusting off the sundance snow....

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