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Published online 9 May 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070508-5
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Coming soon... more movies set to tackle science
Tribeca Film Festival showcases upcoming sci-fi and biopics.
New York's Tribeca Film Festival wrapped up last weekend, after providing an eyeful of science-based films coming soon (maybe) to a theatre near you; and an earful of how Hollywood sees the role of science changing in the movies.
The Tribeca fest — named after the neighbourhood where it is held (short for 'Triangle Below Canal Street', that famous avenue where a fake Rolex watch will cost you ten bucks and the jostling is free) — is the creation of actor Robert De Niro and producer Jane Rosenthal, started as a mechanism to bring vitality back to lower Manhattan after the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001.
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