Green Hat ( Chinese : 绿帽子 ; pinyin : lǜ màozǐ ) (also known as The Green Hat ) is a Chinese film from 2003 and the debut of screenwriter Liu Fendou . Starring Li Congxi , Liao Fan , and Dong Lifan , the film tells the story of two men, one a bank robber, and one a police officer and their shared problem of unfaithful partners. In China, the phrase "wearing a green hat", refers to a cuckold . The film features full-frontal male nudity.
22-469: The film was well received by both critics and festival audiences, notably at the 2004 Tribeca Film Festival where it won a prize for Best Narrative Feature. Wang Yao ( Liao Fan ) is a criminal. Along with two friends, he prepares one last heist with the plan that he will head to the United States afterward for a reunion with a girlfriend he has not seen in two years. After the successful robbery of
44-406: A bank, Wang stops at a small grocery store to call his girlfriend, who ceremoniously dumps him. Distraught, Wang takes the grocery store's proprietor hostage when she demands payment for the long-distance phone call. When the police arrives, one of their number ( Li Congxi ) offers to take the place of the hostage. Wang agrees, and then promptly commits suicide after asking the shocked officer, "What
66-607: A cinema. Viewers usually sit on camping chairs or blankets. Some Hollywood world premieres were screened in outdoor cinemas – sometimes with the stars in attendance. Most screenings are free with some raising money for charities. As projector prices have decreased, guerrilla style outdoor cinemas have become more common. These are run on a very small budget by groups of amateurs. The events commonly are organised online; participants then meet in parks, empty parking lots, or other public places. Guerrilla outdoor cinemas are very basic, often needing to be completely set up and dismantled in
88-556: A dedicated video games category beginning with the 2021 event. Games nominated are presented in online presentations during the Festival, similar to film screenings. That year, the festival dropped "Film" from its name. The Tribeca Festival also presents the Artist Awards, an annual program that selects contemporary artists to offer works to winning creators at the Festival; it is currently sponsored by CHANEL . Its 2024 cohort
110-650: A digital or analog movie projector , scaffolded construction or inflatable movie screen , and sound system. In the summer of 1900, in Syntagma square , Athens , films were projected outdoors, in the cafés. Around 1916, outdoor cinemas first arrived in Berlin, Germany. During the 1920s, many "rooftop theatres " converted to cinema use. One example of this was the Loew's New York, located on Times Square. In 1951, National Theater (Manhattan) rooftop theatre re-opened as
132-601: A diverse selection of film, episodic, talks, music, games, art, and immersive programming. The festival was founded by Robert De Niro , Jane Rosenthal , and Craig Hatkoff in 2002 to spur the economic and cultural revitalization of Lower Manhattan following the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center. Until 2020, the festival was known as the Tribeca Film Festival . Each year,
154-556: A family festival, sports activities, and outdoor movie screenings along the Hudson River . The family festival featured children's movie screenings, storytelling , family panels, workshops, and interactive games culminating in a daylong street fair that drew a crowd estimated at 250,000 people. At the end of 2003, De Niro purchased the theater at 54 Varick Street which had housed the recently closed Screening Room, an art house that had shown independent films nightly, renaming it
176-585: A single night. Sheets, portable screens, or existing walls are used as a screen for the projected image. Power is obtained from generators or car batteries. These kind of cinemas are very popular in Greece during the summer. At its peak in the 1960s, the city hosted more than 600 outdoor cinemas. The world's oldest outdoor cinema, still in operation, is Sun Picture Gardens in Broome, Western Australia . Athens has 65 outdoor cinemas. Other outdoor cinemas include
198-487: Is love?" The film then shifts its attention to the police officer, who now begins to face the fact that his wife ( Li Mei ) has been carrying on an affair with a swimming coach ( Hai Yitian ). Struggling from sexual inadequacy and humiliation, the officer decides to confront his wife and her lover. Green Hat was screened at numerous international film festivals including Tribeca , Seattle , and Thessaloniki . Western critics were generally positive in their reaction to
220-608: The Clones - made independently, About A Boy , the American remake of Insomnia , Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood , and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen . The 2003 festival brought more than 300,000 people. The festival showcased an expanded group of independent features, documentaries and short films from around the world, coupled with studio premieres, panel discussions, music and comedy concerts,
242-794: The Festival brought films to the Rome Film Festival . As part of the celebrations in Rome, Tribeca was awarded the first-ever "Steps and Stars" award, presented on the Spanish Steps . A total of 169 feature films and 99 shorts were selected from 4,100 film submissions, including 1,950 feature submissions—three times the total submissions from the first festival in 2002. The festival featured 90 world premieres, nine international premieres, 31 North American premieres, 6 U.S. premieres, and 28 New York City premieres. In 2009, Rosenthal, Hatkoff and De Niro were named number 14 on Barron's list of
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#1732780120775264-738: The Outdoor Cinema Food Fest in California, Oshkosh's Fly-In theater, Screen on the Green (Atlanta) or Sunset Cinema in Australia. More and more often prestigious film festivals add outdoor movies to their regular screenings. Some of the most important outdoor movie events were the world premiere of Shark Tale on St. Mark's Square at Venice Film Festival (2004) and outdoor at Dubai International Film Festival (2011). Also, more private outdoor cinemas operate, sometimes as
286-533: The Tribeca Cinema. It became one of the venues of the festival. In an effort to serve its mission of bringing independent film to the widest possible audience, in 2006, the festival expanded its reach in New York City and internationally. In New York City, Tribeca hosted screenings throughout Manhattan as the festival's 1,000-plus screening schedule outgrew the capacity downtown. Internationally,
308-662: The festival hosts over 600 screenings with approximately 150,000 attendees, and awards independent artists in 23 juried competitive categories. The Tribeca Film Festival was founded in 2002 by Jane Rosenthal , Robert De Niro , and Craig Hatkoff , in response to the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the consequent loss of vitality in the Tribeca neighborhood in Lower Manhattan . The inaugural festival launched after 120 days of planning with
330-642: The film, with the film winning a Best Narrative Feature from Tribeca, and FIPRESCI awarding a best film award to it at the Thessaloniki Film Festival, These critics, such as Variety's Derek Elley, found the film to be a strong debut by Liu and praised the film's visual compositions and unusual sexual frankness. Tribeca Film Festival The Tribeca Festival is an annual film festival organized by Tribeca Productions . It takes place each spring in New York City , showcasing
352-755: The first large scale pop-up drive-in series across the country to provide audiences with entertainment in a safe, socially-distanced environment. Screenings took place at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, CA, Dallas Cowboys AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, Orchard Beach in the Bronx neighborhood of New York and Nickerson Beach in Nassau County, New York . The series employed local production staff and partnered with small food businesses who had been impacted by
374-513: The global pandemic, Tribeca organized We Are One in partnership with YouTube , a free 10-day digital festival that provided entertainment and connection for audiences at home and raised international COVID-19 relief funds. The program was co-curated by 21 of the top international film festivals including Cannes , Sundance , TIFF and Venice and showcased over 100 hours of shorts, features, talks and music to an audience of 1.9 million people in 179 countries. In July 2020, Tribeca launched one of
396-496: The help of more than 1,300 volunteers. It was attended by more than 150,000 people and featured several up-and-coming filmmakers. The festival included juried narrative, documentary and short film competitions; a restored classics series; a best of New York series curated by Martin Scorsese ; 13 major panel discussions; an all-day family festival; and the premieres of independent and studio films Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of
418-448: The lockdown. On August 7, 2020, organizers announced that the 20th anniversary edition of the festival was to be held from June 9 to June 20, 2021, with a dedicated space to celebrate films whose premieres were not able to take place in the festival that was cancelled in 2020. In a first for the festival, Tribeca also hosted community screenings — in both indoor and outdoor venues — in all five New York City boroughs. The festival added
440-493: The world's top 25 philanthropists for their role in regenerating TriBeCa's economy after September 11. In 2011, L.A. Noire became the first video game to be recognized by the Tribeca Film Festival. In 2013, Beyond: Two Souls , featuring Elliot Page and Willem Dafoe , became only the second game to be premiered at the festival. The 19th Tribeca Film Festival, originally scheduled for April 15–26, 2020,
462-498: Was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic . In the weeks and months that followed, Tribeca launched several digital offerings to highlight filmmakers and creators who had hoped to premiere their latest works at the spring gathering. It provided a secure digital platform for 2020 Festival films seeking distribution to be viewed by press and industry and hosted a virtual gathering space for Tribeca N.O.W. Creators Market. In response to
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#1732780120775484-792: Was curated by Racquel Chevremont , who also curated the Tribeca Festival Artist Awards in 2022 and 2023. Best Cinematography Vieopoints is dedicated to disovering the most boundary-pushing, rule-breaking new voices in independent film. Starting in 2024, film selected in the Viewpoints section were presented in competition. In 2022, Tribecca added an audio storytelling awards category. The Tribeca Games Award honors an unreleased video game, "recognizing its potential for excellence in art and storytelling through design, artistic mastery and highly immersive worlds." Outdoor cinema An outdoor cinema consists of
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