Hello and welcome to this special tribeca Film Festival edition of Talking Movies. In todays programme, with sections on gaming, television and Virtual Reality, is tribeca moving away from just being a Film Festival . We will always be about film, there is no question. That is in our dna. It was a festival in which the wonders of Virtual Reality were fully on display. If you sit in a Movie Theatre and the character turns and looks at the camera, they call at breaking the fourth wall. But in vr there are no walls. Plus, tribeca had movies from around the world. A drama set in china, and the story of womens emancipation in switzerland in the 1970s. Bexley had these arguments in the 1970s. They were, like, if women do politics it is apocalypse. Then there were tribecas political films, apocalypse. Then there were tribecas politicalfilms, the politically charged confusing times. We are living in a surreal time, i just dont know what to make of it. And a feature on people for whom the environment make them ill. All that and more in the special tribeca Film Festival edition of Talking Movies. New yorks landmark Radio City Music Hall is home to the World Famous Synchronised Dance is known as the rockettes. But this year it has also played host to launch of a rather different kind of showbiz robert de niros tribeca Film Festival. Different kind of showbiz robert de niros tribeca Film Festivallj different kind of showbiz robert de niros tribeca Film Festival. I have learned through the years that clive really has a weakness for artists. Documentary profile of legendary american musical executive clive davis opened the festival, a man who has influenced the careers of such artists as barry mallow, bruce springsteen, aretha franklin, patti smith and many more. But he is still going strong at age 85, impressed festival co Founder Robert de niro. Iam not festival co Founder Robert de niro. I am not post to his aid, but i am getting there. So i have. He is an inspiration. The longer he keeps going, the better it is for me. This two power documentary was put together by a filmmaker who has packed a lot into it. Everything. 55 to 58 interviews, Something Like that. Just an unbelievable amount of music and art and artists and executives, it is just a Blizzard Music and art and artists and executives, it isjust a blizzard of stars and things that people have relationships with. You know, it is the history of popular music, 50 yea rs. Every the history of popular music, 50 years. Every so on somebody turned out to be a big hit. There is much to admire in clive davis. His ability to stop spot and nurture talent, his tenacity, but the film is not a warts and all exposure. Talent, his tenacity, but the film is not a warts and all exposurem is not a warts and all Exposurem Isa is not a warts and all exposurem is a puff piece in that it only tells his side of the story, and there is nothing in it that makes him look at all negative. It was kind of typicalfor a him look at all negative. It was kind of typical for a tribeca opening night, where often you have got a big gala event organised around a very Important Media figure. And so they show a documentary that is fairly common entry to that person in order to tie in the sort of celebrations, in this case a big concert with lots of people. Tribecas 12 day festival isnt designed with the Highbrow Cineaste in mind. There are lots to choose from, everything from tom hanks and emma watson to a political satire setting india, the issue related documentaries, the porter at the late actor heath ledger. No wonderjust a Film Festival, tribeca also unveiled tv shows, Virtual Reality project and gaming. As technology has changed, as the Weight Distribution has changed, we are about storytelling. And good storytelling, whether or not it is in gaming oramazing storytelling, whether or not it is in gaming or amazing documentaries, short films, and great narratives. This is the first tribeca festival since donald trump became president. These are politically charged times, Giving Tribeca Films which touch on politics a special resonance. One looking back is the reagan show, examining president Ronald Reagan and how the administration of the long time hollywood actor use television to its advantage. The film is made up entirely of archival footage from the time. A business that i used to be instead save something for the third act. And we will. The images suggest that the Reagan Administration governed by relying on what social commentators have turned post truth politics. Post truth politics is a world in which politics is more about the spectacle and the Entertainment Value of the event, rather than any kind of real world, verifiable fa cts , kind of real world, verifiable facts, evidence, truth. So if the Reagan Administration planted the seed is of post truth politics, then the Trump Administration has really been harvesting that crop. Tribeca is closing with screenings of the godfather and godfather part two. Robert de niro thinks that they connected with audiences because at a time when the social fabric in america appeared to be fraying at present a Strong Quarter of a family. People felt more enacted to that than they did to the dissolution and the cynicism and suspicion of the government, and so on suspicion of the government, and so on portrait. I think that that just. Iam on portrait. I think that that just. I am oversimplifying it, on portrait. I think that that just. Iam oversimplifying it, but that had a lot to do with it, in some way. Too many new yorkers, tribeca is a Welcome Hodgepodge of movies and affiliated activities, often proves very engaging. At the festival is yet to launch a truly memorable picture that comes to define it. During festival time, there was much talk about a sideshow that could become the main show in yea rs that could become the main show in years to come. Virtual reality. All told, some 30 different Virtual Reality projects were on display. Each attracting a lot of interest. Tristan daley went along to investigate. On the fifth floor of the tribeca festival hub, participants with headsets covering their eyes walk around waving their hands in the air, interacting with a world only they can see. Tribeca is one of several Film Festivals across the world to be demonstrating burgeoning Virtual Reality technology, with a number of different installations, in a time when the market for this gadgetry is rapidly expanding. But tribeca specially designed their Exhibition Space to bring the most out of their Virtual Reality experiences. These installations are not in your living room, so when you go into one of these pieces you are notjust putting the headset on. You are actually entering the inflation that has been built specifically for the space, so it is actually a bespoke experience. And it is actually a very. It is like a collective experience, because people talk about vr being very lonely but what i love about this as we are figuring out ways to bring people into spaces and actually have them be part of something that feels collective. They are very excited about the cutting edge nature of these projects, claiming creators are pushing the possibilities of Virtual Reality to its limits. Tree hug wawo na reality to its limits. Tree hug wawona is a project in which the dissidents creep up the trunk of a tree and are able to see it produce oxygen. Creators wanted to immerse the audience not only in the sights and sounds but also the actual smell of the tree. We have got sent release system, so that adds. When you push ahead through the bar, through the sap, to the internals of tree, the sound changes and the scent changes. The more you are pushed into that world, with your senses, the more Reel Thatjourney feels. So we are always pushing the limits of that and we have got that sculptural elements, and your touch aligns with the virtual feed. Unlike traditional Motion Picture formats, Virtual Reality thrust viewers into a virtual 3 d space in which most times you can see 360 degrees around you. Some veteran phil magas like Steven Spielberg are daunted by the new technology, saying it takes control away from the storytellers, giving the audience more choice on where to look. The advent of Virtual Reality has given filmmakers a new storytelling vocabulary, that is distinct from cinema. The director of the Madagascar Animation Franchise brought rainbow crowed to tribeca this year. It is a retelling ofa tribeca this year. It is a retelling of a native american hotel. To him, Virtual Reality as a medium in its own right. Coming from the storm world, i have directed a number of films, and i thought easy, this is going to be no big deal, ive done this for 25 years but i got humble really quick when i got into vr and realised that it is just not the same. Itjust realised that it is just not the same. It just feels different, realised that it is just not the same. Itjust feels different, it looks different. Audiences respond to it in different ways. You know, if you said in a Movie Theatre and a character turns the camera, i dont really feel like they are looking at me. You know, they call it raking the fourth wall, but in vr, there are no walls. And that is a Pretty Amazing experience for audiences. This whole space is in such a period of flux. And what is so interesting about all this technology is every time you get your hands around one thing and you figure out how it works, like, tribeca next is going to look completely different. It just keeps. Many challenges lie ahead for this medium, such as how best to harness Virtual Reality to tell original stories, and how to develop mass distribution so hundreds can share the same Virtual Reality experience simultaneously. And commercially, a priority remains developing an effective Business Model so this new technology can be monetised. Now on to some tribeca films in a bit more detail. It goes without saying that tribeca is an american festival. After all, it ta kes pla ce american festival. After all, it takes place on american soil. But this year, films from some 31 Different Countries were shown. Among them, king of the king, set and shot in china. Basically it is a father son relationship drama, but it is also an ode to cinema, as our correspondent reports. Set in china in1998, king of correspondent reports. Set in china in 1998, king of the king is a layered comedy about a projectionist whose love for movies, and even greater love for his son. The story is about a father who is a projectionist. He has got a son who works with him in business, which as they travel around china, or rural parts of china, and they scream movies for villagers. And his project catches fire. And they have two start finding new ways to work together. The ex wife is putting an enormous amount of pressure on them, on the father, he has basically given them an ultimatum that unless he pays x amount of money he is basically not going to have custody of his child any more. And that is why he goes to the great expense of bootlegging movies in order to keep his son. He even rolls himself up with film to smuggle them to the basement where he makes his dvds. According to voters, the digital age phenomenally transformed cinema in china. It was really only when dvds entered the market, in the 1990s, and vcds, different types of video discs, that these movies were able to enter the home and be consumed by people who beforehand didnt have access to these type of stories. And sam voutas says an easy way to get your hands on a dvd copy of your favourite movie was from but later on the street. He got the idea from the story when one of his previous films, also set in china, was bootlegged in real life. It was sort ofa bootlegged in real life. It was sort of a spark that got me writing. So our previous film, within a week it was on the streets of beijing, and rather than get angry, i was actually very impressed with the creativity that the bootleggers had. They had done their own artwork, they had done their own credit is, really interesting stuff. So i realise that there was a creative element to the bootlegging. And that is how it started. It is more of a sort of. I guess you could say it isa sort of. I guess you could say it is a celebration of the creativity of that. Of that world. Is a celebration of the creativity of that. Of that world. King of the king is sam voutass first film to premiere at the tribeca Film Festival. Support doesnt guarantee him widescale success, but he hopes that the exposure from this festival will bring a wide audience from those who only saw his last film on bootlegged. While making movie about the bootlegging industry in china is clever and a bit tongue in cheek, for the producer of the film, it all comes back to one thing. A tale of a father and his son. It is a love letter, father to son and son to father, as well as of other to cinema, and to his passions in life. The real heart of the film is about love. People whose lives are destabilised by products like house paint, perfume, even mobile phones. These are the individuals scrutinised in the tribeca documentary The Sensitives. The subjects of this powerful new documentary, The Sensitives, live day to day in a unique ligament. The new disorder that the mainstream medical community recognises as real but has not yet developed any treatment or medication for. It has a name. Multiple chemical sensitivity. But because the symptoms vary dramatically, many suffer to even struggle to even define their illness. He started having trouble at work with his colleagues, their personal hygiene, their shampoo, things like that. What they have in common is they developed these debilitating reactions to commonplace things in the environment, things we take for granted, like Garden Pesticides or house paint, perfume and cologne and even cellphones, wireless router is and things like that. The degree to which it of those things affects them varies and the kinds of things, them varies and the kinds of things, the way it manifests, has variation. What they share in common is the things that most of us are unaffected by in small amounts affects them immensely. This radio is on at home way to figure out if any electrical appliances are spewing out electromagnetic fields. In order to function with any normalcy the subjects must dramatically rearrange their lives. Some move to promote areas where there are fewer man made chemicals and electronics, others create Safe Spacesin and electronics, others create safe spaces in their homes and where a mask any time they leave. Even documenting their lives was a unique challenge for the filmmakers, since the cameras and microphones needed to capture these stories, often making the subjects physically sick. They are unsure of the effects of the camera because they normally avoid things like that at all costs, but they signed up to be part of this project because they feel like their story is being told and that could help other people like them feel less lonely and marginalised. Like they are not the only ones. So there were many moments where i have to stop shooting because the subjects were feeling uncomfortable with what was going on. Most of the film, i keep a healthy distance between the subject and myself. This isa between the subject and myself. This is a story that could have been told ina is a story that could have been told in a variety of ways. Filmmakers could have done a conventional talking head style documentary with members of the medical community, they could have focused on the companies that create these chemicals and electronics. Instead The Sensitives looks at its subjects toa The Sensitives looks at its subjects to a personal lens, examining how this unique illness impacts their relationships. We really protected him against this chemical sensitivity. The story of the caregivers wasjust as sensitivity. The story of the caregivers was just as important as those who were afflicted with them. Imean, those who were afflicted with them. I mean, its the other half of the story, its what grounds their identity. Are their loved one sticking by and keeping them in contact with the world . And 96 year old grandmother who delivers mailand 96 year old grandmother who delivers mail and supplies and tries to bring some kind of levity to their lives every day. Ora wife who tries to keep her husband saying by thinking and interacting with his grandchildren through all this. So those stories to me were just as compelling as those who were sick and also served as a really important bridge to everyone who would watch this film. When you are that impaired it can really make you feel like dirt. For instance, go into the store each day, people usually notice that you are not acting like everyone else, but they dont really know whats going on. Whenever we are confronted with an illness we dont understand, we almost always put the blame on the person who is it. Multiple sclerosis, before we understood how it works, you were an hysterical woman, thats why you felt that way. Ptsd was, you are a man with a weak constitution. Man up. Aid was, you are gay. Thats why this is coming upon you. Aids was. Said before we knew what was going on we phrased it in such a way that it will blame on the person who was sick. Its your fault. You why your own worst enemy. I think these people suffered the same kind of treatment, being that people were saying it was in the ahead, its all your fault. That people were saying it was in the ahead, its all yourfault. I would like this film to encourage discussion and get us past that and break that pattern. When you are already not feeling well, you begin to feel like you are the scum of the earth. When i was scrutinising the tribeca lineup this year for films that Talking Movies could possibly cover, i was startled by the right upper one of them which mentioned the women in switzerland did get the right to vote until very late, 1971. The Tribeca Film Of Divine Order looked at the story of one womans emancipation in that time. In the film the protagonist is a wife who without complaints tends to the needs of her husband, father and two children. But she wants more. She wants to work. At that time in switzerland women couldnt work without permission from their husbands. She is just without permission from their husbands. She isjust a regular person in the village, very busy with her kids and she finds out when her husband forbid to the work that she is actually really affected by these discriminatory laws in switzerland and also that she cant vote, she starts to be angry about it and she starts to become a rebel and fight for it. As the divine order makes clear, womens rights in early 1970s switzerland were minimal. 1971, its 46 years ago. Nothing. And they have no right, no right to go to work, no right to open upa right to go to work, no right to open up a bank account. They couldnt sign a contract without the wheel of a man. Couldnt sign a contract without the wheel ofa man. Couldnt sign a contract without the wheel of a man. The will. Having women involved in the political process was seen as being against gods law, against the divine order. The film doesnt directly address why switzerland commonly thought of as quite a modern country was so late in granting women the right to vote. There are several possible explanations. Right to vote. There are several possible explanationslj right to vote. There are several possible explanations. I think the big reason is that switzerland is a deeply conservative country and very opposed to change. Switzerland has a lwa ys opposed to change. Switzerland has always been kind of well, like after the Second World War the world was in shreds, but switzerland was still a cave. So they didnt be the necessity. But we are fine everything is fine, we shouldnt change it. In the film one of the most visible local opponents in granting women the right to vote is a woman at smack the head of the anti politicisation of womens action committee. Many women were opposed to universal suffrage. Action committee. Many women were opposed to universal suffragelj opposed to universal suffrage. thought that was a very intriguing antagonist because it is so surprising that its a woman. I read a whole dissertation on them. I thought thats more interesting. I think patriarch in the end affects everybody, Men And Women, and i wa nted everybody, Men And Women, and i wanted to break up that strict line between Men And Women because it is not between Men And Women. I deeply believe the quality is good for Men And Women. The film has already openedin and women. The film has already opened in switzerland. It is a Story Of Female Empowerment which really resonated with the picture arriving in cinemas at the time of the worldwide womens march in the wake of President Trumps inauguration. think with the current political atmosphere, i think the film has become more timely than we anticipated one year ago. Because the film is also about courage, about standing up and voicing your opinion, about fighting for justice and equality. This story of swiss womens emancipation is quite good cinema. The lead actor is convincing in the central role and the divine order very effectively paints a picture of an inward looking community, sealed off from the rest of the world, that threatens to suffocate its inhabitants. That brings this special tribeca Film Festival edition of Talking Movies to a close. We hope youve enjoyed the programme. Remember, you can enjoyed the programme. Remember, you ca n always enjoyed the programme. Remember, you can always reach us online and you can always reach us online and you can find us on facebook too. From me tom brook and the rest of the Talking Movies production crew in new york, its goodbye. We leave you with a clip from a Virtual Reality project called life of us, the story of evolution on earth. The Bank Holiday Weekend is upon us. Lets see what the weather is up to. It is looking a bit mixed. A little breezy, but reasonably warm for most of us and there is some rain on the way, but not everybody will get the rain. This is the weather map in the short term. Weather fronts are fairly close to the uk, but far enough to give us a dry start to the day. This is what it looks like around 4 5 in the morning. Lots of clear spells around. Temperatures in towns and cities around 6 9 celsius, so not an especially chilly start to the day. Saturday morning dawns on a bright if not sunny note for most of us. There will be a bit of cloud here and there, but it breaks up through the morning and the best of the sunshine on saturday is expected across the southern half of the uk, especially the south coast. So looking out to sea, might be clear blue skies. Temperatures at lunchtime 15 degrees in london. For most of us, around 12 13 degrees and just maybe one or two light showers around, but thats pretty much it. Nice enough in inverness as well, about 12 degrees with sunshine. The afternoon wont change much. It will turn breezy across some of these western areas. Maybe even later in the day in northern ireland, around the coast, it could touch gale force. Compared to the rest of europe on saturday, fairly similar. 17 in paris. We are doing better than madrid. Madrid about 14 degrees. Rome will be sunny 22. The real heat at the moment in greece. Into the 30s. Back to the uk, saturday and into sunday, low pressure still out in the atlantic. Starting to push Weather Fronts ever closer. So already on sunday the weather will be going downhill across south Western Parts of the uk. Quite strong winds as well. Notjust in the south west but also in these sunnier spots. Along the north sea coasts, really blustery winds. Ahead of this Weather Front and the rain it could get up to 18 in london and possibly up into the mid or high teens in scotland as well. Through the course of the evening, this is sunday, the rain will push further north and east. By the time we get to monday you can see the Weather Front in the north and the chance of catching some showers across southern areas. So a bit of a mix. Certainly the best day of the weekend looks as if will be sunday, with dry weather across the uk. This is what the average temperature is this time of year. 16 in the south and 14 in the north. So thats roughly what we will be getting. This is bbc news, our top stories defiance as north korea test fires another ballistic missile. 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