As the 2023 Tribeca Festival winds down its in-person screenings and events in New York City on Sunday, the festival will continue with presentations of many festival programs via streaming platforms from June 19 through July 2.
A scene from"Maestra," a documentary about La Maestra orchestra conductor competition in Paris. The podium of an orchestra conductor has been a predominantly male realm. Even today, the community of female conductors is small, fiercely trying to make a living in a notoriously sexist profession. Winning La Maestra conducting competition in Paris, which is confined to female candidates, is, therefore, an achievement beyond excellence — it's a statement of valuation.
Director Maggie Contreras' intimate documentary closely follows five women competing at the 2022 La Maestra: Mélisse, a French-born music teacher in Iowa, whose return to Paris, where she was once sexually abused, stirs feelings of PTSD; Zoe, a Greek conductor once fired for being pregnant, and whose far-flung travels for conducting gigs separate her from her small children; Tamara, an Atlanta native who fears starting a family might block her career; Ustina, a Ukrainian torn about...
While absorbing and filled with exquisite musicianship, Contreras' film presents the competition itself almost as a sidebar to her real purpose: exposing the ambitions, talents, personal struggles and very real sense of sisterhood felt among the women. It is invigorating, and at times disheartening, as even a competition that professes to honor women isn't immune from sexism . Produced by David Letterman's Worldwide Pants. 88 mins. In English and Greek with English subtitles.
Michael Selditch's affectionate portrait is a happy hour-and-a-half spent with the fashion trailblazer and her friends, colleagues and devoted fans, who remember the drama at Field's New York boutiques; the public's fascination with Carrie Bradshaw's attire; and the ever-changing demands of fashion — and one woman's stalwart predilection to go beyond cutting edge. 100 mins. Defiance in the face of extreme violence is not just a coping mechanism.
Director David Gutnik and his colleagues also turn the camera and microphone onto themselves, as they describe wielding the tools of cinema in defensive measures. A valuable addition to the pool of documentary films telling the horrific truths of the war for Ukraine's survival. Executive producer: Liev Schreiber. In English, Ukrainian and Russian with English subtitles. 76 mins.
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