The 15th edition of the Tribeca Film Festival, taking
place from April 13 - 24 in New York City, announced
additions to an extensive lineup of experiential programming that will be featured during the 2016 Festival, including the world premiere of the bomb, a
groundbreaking, multimedia installation created by
Smriti Keshari and Eric Schlosser that immerses the
audience in the strange, compelling, and unsettling
reality of today’s nuclear threat. The bomb will be
the closing event of the interactive and experiential
portion of the Festival, on Saturday, April 23, and
Sunday, April 24, at Gotham Hall with two shows
each evening. It will be preceded by a panel with the
creators of the bomb, along with Michael Douglas,
the Oscar-winning actor, producer, & advocate of
nuclear non-proliferation.
They announced additional speakers for Bloomberg
Philanthropies’ Imagination Day powered by The
Hatchery, an all-day summit on April 19 that asks:
what happens when our wildest dreams become reality and what will that reality be in our not-so-distant
future? Newly announced speakers include Meredith Perry, inventor of uBeam who will speak about
a world without wires; Bryan Johnson, founder of OS
Fund, who will make a statement about reorienting
humanity’s identity and aspirations; James Canton,
Ph.D., a leading global futurist, social scientist, entrepreneur, author, and sought-after business advisor, who will speak about the future of medicine;
and Jon Iwata, Senior Vice President, Marketing and
Communications, IBM, who will talk about artificial
intelligence in film and the real world. It was also announced that VR directors Félix Lajeunesse and Paul
The Festival also announced five additional VR proj- Raphaël of Felix & Paul Studios will offer an immersive
ects in the Virtual Arcade housed in Tribeca Experi- experience by giving their talk entirely in VR with the
ential, and a roster of tech thought leaders who will audience all wearing virtual reality headsets.
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