The Tribeca Film Festival kicked off on April 14 with the opening night premiere of Justin Tipping’s Kicks, an ambitious coming-of-age film set in an inner city enclave in Northern California. Though it’s Tipping’s feature debut, he’s far

Ngabo Eric is a disabled young man who cannot hear or talk. To add onto that his sister is lame, his mother is in a coma at the hospital and his father is in prison. The bank wants to take their home because of an unpaid loan. Ngabo decides to become an athlete in order to save his family.

US in Progress is a biannual event held in June during the Champs-Elysées Film Festival in Paris and in October during the American Film Festival in Wroclaw. It’s a five-year-old industry event that aims to strengthen transatlantic film