The 2008 Tribeca Film Festival will take place April 23 - May 4, 2008 in Lower Manhattan - the schedule for Trucker is as follows:

Thursday, April 24, 9:00 pm, VEC-01
Village East Cinemas (VEC)
181 Second Avenue (at 12th Street)
Seats 370

Friday, April 25, 3:30 pm, A19-03
AMC 19th Street East (A19)
890 Broadway (at 19th Street)
Seats 230

Sunday, April 27, 6:00 pm, A19-02
AMC 19th Street East (A19)
890 Broadway (at 19th Street)
Seats 377

Thursday, May 1, 9:45 pm, A19-03
AMC 19th Street East (A19)
890 Broadway (at 19th Street)
Seats 230

Saturday, May 3, 8:00 pm, AV7-01
AMC Village VII (AV7)
66 Third Avenue (at 11th Street)
Seats 293

The 2008 Tribeca Film Festival taking place April 23 — May 4, 2008 in Lower Manhattan has announced its line-up for its World Narrative and World Documentary Feature Film Competitions.

122 feature films from 31 different countries, including 55 World Premieres, ten International Premieres, 26 North American Premieres, eight U.S. Premieres and 18 New York City Premieres were selected from 2,329 submissions.

Trucker will be one of twelve features in the Best New Narrative competition and along with twelve entries in Documentary Filmmakers will compete for cash prizes totalling $100,000. Trucker will compete for Best New Narrative Film, Best New Narrative Filmmaker and Best Actor and Actress and the Audience Award.

• Trucker Schedule for Tribeca Film Festival

Twelve narrative and 12 docu competition features competing for $100,000 in cash prizes were announced Tuesday, along with 21 Encounters features. More hefty lineup announcements are forthcoming. The 122-feature slate has a bit of star power, with films ranging from docus featuring Madonna, Richard Gere and Meryl Streep to fictional features with Sissy Spacek, Dave Matthews and Michelle Monaghan in competition and Spotlight sections

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Up-and-coming producers Plum Pictures scored three fest entries: James Mottern’s dramatic competition entry “Trucker” starring Monaghan, Benjamin Bratt and Joey Lauren Adams and two spotlight entries: Brian Heckler’s comedy “Bart Got a Room” starring Cheryl Hines and William H. Macy and Tracey Hecht’s drama “Life in Flight” starring Patrick Wilson and Amy Smart.

The awards will be for best narrative feature, best new narrative filmmaker (for first- or second-time feature directors), best actress and actor in a narrative film, best documentary feature and best new documentary filmmaker (for first- or second-time feature directors).

• Full Article: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/…

The Tribeca Film Festival was founded in 2001 by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff. The Festival’s mission focuses on assisting filmmakers to reach a broad audience and to promote New York City as a major filmmaking center.

The festival has attracted over two million attendees since it was founded. The 2008 Tribeca Film Festival will commence on the 23rd of April and conclude on the 4th of May.

Trucker, directed and written by James Mottern. (USA) - World Premiere.

Michelle Monaghan is riveting as a tough-talking, devil-may-care truck driver who is faced with raising her estranged 11-year-old son after his father (Benjamin Bratt) is hospitalized. This eloquent and uplifting story also features Joey Lauren Adams and Nathan Fillion (Waitress).

• Tribeca Film Festival Website

…IONCINEMA.com headquarters like to guestimate the films that have fabulous chances at preeming at the event [Sundance Film Festival]. Keeping track on all U.S indie developments is the name of our game, so without much further ado – here is a potential list of 20 films comprised of long shots, low probabilities and a couple of no-brainer picks (including a clumping of docu projects) that should be clamoring for attention….

11. Trucker

This one has got Sundance angel dust all over it – plus it’s got Joey Lauren Adams who looks great in a tuque in Park City. Trucker is James Mottern’s directorial debut and sees Monaghan play a female truck driver who lives a careless life with no responsibility until she has to take in her estranged 11-year-old son after his father (Bratt) is hospitalized.

• Full Article: http://www.ioncinema.com/news.php?nid=2278