{"success":true,"data":{"pressRelease":{"id":"65084","rtpr_id":"nACSxY9LTa","ticker":"DLPN","exchange":"NASDAQ","all_tickers":["DLPN"],"title":"Dolphin Subsidiary 42West's 25th Tribeca Film Festival Slate Delivered a Standout Film Slate Featuring 16 Film and TV Titles","author":"ACCESSWIRE","published_at":"2026-06-16T13:00:00.843Z","article_body":"Activities Included Appearances by Clients Martin Scorsese, Rebecca Miller,\nMarc Maron; Films by Sean Ono Lennon, Andrew Neel, Sam Pollard, Sophia Takal;\nWorld Premiere of Prime Video Series 'Every Year After,' and Much More\n\nNEW YORK CITY, NY / ACCESS Newswire (https://www.accessnewswire.com/) / June\n16, 2026 / Dolphin (https://pr.report/mmrp) (NASDAQ:DLPN), a leading\nentertainment marketing and content production company, today announced the\nprominence of its subsidiary 42West at the recent 25th Tribeca Film Festival\nin New York City.\n\n42West has been a leader in film festival PR campaigns throughout its 21-year\nhistory, also representing countless both internationally and domestically at\nAnnecy, Berlin, Cannes, New York, Sundance, Telluride, Toronto and Venice.\nThis year, the company delivered marquee talent and an impressive slate of\nsixteen film and television titles to Tribeca's silver anniversary edition\n\nKey highlights included the 50th Anniversary Screening of Martin Scorsese's\nlandmark masterpiece \"Taxi Driver.\" Longtime 42West client Scorsese joined\nRobert De Niro, Jodie Foster, and Paul Schrader for a panel discussion\nmoderated by W. Kamau Bell on the enduring legacy of the film, followed by a\nscreening before a sellout crowd.\n\nAdditionally,42West client Madison Wells executive produced two-time Academy\nAward winner Ben Proudfoot and Stephen Curry's documentary short \"The Baddest\nSpeechwriter of All,\" which won a Special Jury Mention prize. Madison Wells'\nGigi Pritzker and Elizabeth Goodstein were in attendance for the film's\npremiere.\n\nPhiphen, a production and financing company had two documentaries and one\nfeature at the festival. This includes the world premiere of \"Katy Perry: The\nLifetimes Tour - Live from Paris,\" which is the full-length concert film from\nPerry's 2025 tour. They associate produced the world premiere of \"Frampton\",\nthe documentary marking the 50th anniversary of the arena-shaking Frampton\nComes Alive tour and chronicling the last tour of the rock icon. Finally,\nPhiphen financed the Al Pacino starring film, \"Killing Castro,\" a political\nthriller that reimagines Fidel Castro's 1960 Harlem stay as a charged\nencounter between surveillance and solidarity. As converging forces close in,\na young translator is pulled into a tightening web of power and proximity.\nAdditionally, clients Bryn Mooser (Co-Founder & CEO, Asteria Film Co.) and\nSimon Horsman (Co-Founder & CEO, Quilty) participated in a panel on AI\nStorytelling at the Tribeca Storytelling Summit.\n\nThe Prime Video series Every Year After, based on the best-selling novel\n\"Every Summer After\" by Carley Fortune, also had its world premiere at the\nfestival, ahead of being #1 on Prime Video Worldwide the weekend after its\nstreaming debut.\n\nIn addition, filmmaker Rebecca Miller continued the award-winning run of her\nApple TV series Mr. Scorsese with multiple panel appearances, including a\n\"Tribeca Talks\" conversation with director Josh Safdie.\n\nMarc Maron garnered acclaim for his first big-screen starring role in\nfilmmaker Rob Burnett's \"In Memoriam,\" also starring Michael McKean, Lily\nGladstone, Judy Greer, Talia Ryder, Sharon Stone and Justin Long. Another\n42West talent client, Max Cortezi, attended the premiere of his film \"The\nRevisionist.\"\n\nAdditional projects represented by 42West during the festival include:\n\nDOCUMENTARY FEATURES\n\nHOW TO FEED A DICTATOR - World Premiere- Spotlight Documentary - Acquisition\n\nDirected by Andrew Neel\n\nSynopsis: HOW TO FEED A DICTATOR follows five chefs who once cooked for Saddam\nHussein, Idi Amin, Pol Pot, Augusto Pinochet, and Kim Jong-il - drawn in by\npoverty, necessity, fear, or ambition, and sustained by a willful blindness to\nthe atrocities unfolding just beyond the kitchen door. Shot across seven\ncountries and based on the acclaimed book by Witold Szabłowski, director\nAndrew Neel blends intimate testimony, rare archival material, and lush\ncinematic food imagery to create a film as visually seductive as it is morally\nunsparing.\n\nKIDS LIKE ME - World Premiere - Documentary Competition - Acquisition\n\nDirected and produced by Cynthia Lowen and Jon Cohrs\n\nSynopsis: Meet Oliver, a 12-year-old murder-mystery enthusiast with a vivid\nimagination and a rare genetic condition. Inspired by his love of the genre,\nOliver sets out to bring his own mystery to the big screen - with a little\nhelp from his friends. The script is written, the cast is set, and Oliver is\nready to call \"action\" on his most ambitious venture yet. What unfolds is more\nthan a creative project-it's a powerful testament to friendship, resilience,\nand the magic that happens when a community comes together.\n\nSARA BAREILLES: GOOD GRIEF - World Premiere - Gala - Acquisition\n\nDirected & Written by Josh Alexander\n\nSynopsis: For the first time in seven years, Grammy winning singer-songwriter\nSara Bareilles returns to the studio with dear friends to begin recording her\nmost intimate album yet, born of profound personal loss and grief.\nInternationally known for pop anthems like \"Love Song\" and \"Brave\", this\ncinematic portrait observes the most private corners of Sara's creative\nprocess as well as her personal life. What unfolds in front of the camera is\nthe incredibly raw experience of mining one's own pain to create art, and the\nhope that carries an artist forward: that sharing what is broken in oneself\nmight ultimately bring us closer to healing and repair.\n\nTHE HAUNTING OF PENNHURST - World Premiere - Escape From Tribeca - Acquisition\n\nDirected by Mike Attie, Nathan Stenberg, Katarina Poljak\n\nSynopsis: For over seventy years, Pennhurst State School & Hospital was called\na place of care. What happened inside killed over half its population. It\nclosed in 1987, leaving behind unmarked graves and an unresolved history.\nToday, on those same grounds, disabled performers - many living with the same\nconditions that once sent people to Pennhurst - put on their makeup, pull on\ntheir costumes, and prepare to scare people for a living.\n\nTHE LORRAINE - World Premiere - Spotlight Documentary - Acquisition\n\nDirected by Sam Pollard\n\nSynopsis: In the heart of Memphis, Walter and Loree Bailey's Lorraine Hotel\nwas both a thriving hub of Black entrepreneurship and a destination for the\ngreatest musicians of the 20th century - a place where Civil Rights\ndemonstrations were planned, musical hits were written, and Black and white\nartists created history together. A rare, black-owned establishment, The\nLorraine served as a safe haven and sanctuary for Black travelers during the\nJim Crow era. Then, on April 4, 1968, the assassination of Martin Luther King\nJr. outside Room 306 cleaved that history in two, and the world forgot\neverything else.\n\nthreeASFOUR: FULL CIRCLE - World Premiere - Spotlight Documentary -\nAcquisition\n\nDirected by Sean Ono Lennon\n\nCo-Directed by Brian C. Gonzalez\n\nSynopsis: For more than 25 years, the avant-garde New York fashion collective\nthreeASFOUR - Gabi Asfour, Angela Donhauser, and Adi Gil - have created\nclothing with uncompromising vision. Drawing inspiration from natural forms\nand pioneering techniques, they have continually pushed the boundaries of what\nfashion can be. Shaped by their childhood experiences dictated by\nconflict-Gabi with roots in Palestine, Adi with roots in Israel, and Angela\nwith roots in Germany-the trio infuse their work with a shared philosophy of\npeace allowing diverse cultural perspectives to meet in creative dialogue.\n\nIX XI - World Premiere - Spotlight Documentary - Acquisition\n\nDirected by Sean Wilsey\n\nSynopsis: With a quarter century's perspective, the documentary IX XI takes a\nnew look at 9/11. The film tells a dozen personal stories through deeply\nintimate conversations with New Yorkers from multiple facets of the city. Each\nvividly recounts their own story at the instant of being pulled together by a\nworld historical event. These interviews are complimented by previously unseen\narchival material, and film footage that evokes interviewees' internal states,\nand makes reference to the image bank we all draw from as a cinematic culture.\n\nNARRATIVE FEATURES\n\nACT ONE - World Premiere - Spotlight Narrative - Acquisition\n\nDirected & Written by Sophia Takal\n\nStarring Ella Beatty, Ari Graynor, Nate Mann, Elizabeth Reaser, Sinclair\nDaniel, Robert Sean Leonard, Tavi Gevinson\n\nSynopsis: Hannah Packer, an innocent and sheltered seventeen-year-old, lives\nfor the stage. But when she's not cast in her high school play, her dreams of\nbecoming an actress seem impossible. Until she discovers Act One Studios.\n\nDEEPFAKE - World Premiere - Viewpoints - Acquisition\n\nDirected & Written by Matt Eames\n\nStarring Jessica DiGiovanni, Sophia Lucia Parola, Jocelyn Weisman\n\nSynopsis: Reeling from a breakup and alienated by her social circle, Jane\nKittering turns to the one place she can find solace: the Internet. It's\nthere, in the depths of a doomscrolling binge, that she stumbles upon an app\nfor a best-friend delivery service. She orders up Zoe, a real live human who\nquickly becomes a trusted confidant, therapist, and motivational speaker all\nrolled into one.\n\nLUCY SCHULMAN - World Premiere - U.S. Narrative Competition - Acquisition\n\nDirected & Written by Ellie Sachs\n\nStarring Ellie Sachs, David Cross, Hasan Minhaj, Thomas Mann, Annabelle\nAttanasio, Sandrine Holt, Chelsea Frei, and Olivia Luccardi\n\nSynopsis: Lucy Schulman has always taken the men in her life very seriously.\nMaybe too seriously. After a crushing breakup, Lucy moves back in with her\neccentric single dad, played brilliantly by David Cross, and begins the messy,\nfunny, deeply human work of rebuilding her life. Between bad dates, a dead-end\njob, and the loving antics of her father, Lucy slowly discovers that the\nhardest relationship to fix is the one with yourself.\n\nPONDEROSA - World Premiere - Feature Narrative - Acquisition\n\nDirected & Written by Rob Rice\n\nStarring Jack Dylan Grazer, Bill Camp, Alexis Bledel\n\nSynopsis: When the buffet where Zeke's mom works closes down, he's forced to\nentertain the wild advances of a rich regular who is weirdly and vehemently\nobsessed with becoming his father.\n\nTV / SHORTS\n\nChikaBOOM! - World Premiere - Whoopi's Wonderful World of Animation -\nAcquisition\n\nDirected & Written by c. Craig Patterson\n\nStarring Yara Shahidi, Daveed Diggs, Natasha Lyonne, Roy Wood, Tika Sumpter\n\nSynopsis: Chika Batstone is an aspiring young magician whose curiosity\naccidentally unleashes Kaboom, a chaotic magical creature, into the heart of\nNew York City. With her world-famous magician father, The Amazin' Arnie,\nperforming nearby, Chika must contain the mayhem before it's too late.\nFeaturing the voice cast of Yara Shahidi, Daveed Diggs, Natasha Lyonne, Roy\nWood Jr. and Tika Sumpter.\n\nEVERY YEAR AFTER - World Premiere - Tribeca TV - Prime Video\n\nBook Author Carley Fortune\n\nShowrunner Amy B. Harris\n\nStarring Sadie Soverall, Matt Cornett, Michael Bradway, Aurora Perrineau,\nAbigail Cowen,\n\nJoseph Chiu, Elisha Cuthbert\n\nSynopsis: For six summers, Barry's Bay was a magical place full of firsts for\nPercy Fraser, including first love-and first heartbreak. Ten years later, an\nunexpected tragedy brings Percy back to Barry's Bay, where she has to face the\npeople, memories, and mistakes she thought she'd left behind, especially the\none boy who changed her life forever-Sam Florek.\n\nGENERAL ADMISSION - World Premiere - Shorts: Love Fictionally - Acquisition\n\nDirected by Kaily Morgan Smith\n\nStarring Nina Dobrev, Cedric Yarbrough, Adam Shapiro, Sarah Baker, Henderson\nWade, Bunny Gibson Klein, Geo Lee, Aris Alvarado, Connor Dugard, Kesia Brooke,\nDan Hillaker, Alex Cassidy, Michael Merton, Marita De Lara, Jack Seavor\nMcDonald\n\nSynopsis: Determined to finally move on from her cheating, narcissistic ex, a\nwoman arrives at a support group convinced this is the first step toward a\nhealthier, more evolved version of herself. She promises she will be calm,\nmeasured, and just vulnerable enough to seem emotionally mature without\nrevealing anything too embarrassing. She will absolutely not overshare...\nWithin seconds, she overshares.\n\nHOLO - World Premiere - Shorts: The Dark Web - Acquisition\n\nDirected by Alexander DeSouza\n\nStarring Shane West, Zelda Williams, Morgan Kohan, and Beth Hornby\n\nSynopsis: When her abusive partner dies, Claire contacts Looking Glass, a\ncompany specializing in artificial encounters by means of an actor and facial\ntechnology to confront him and gain closure.\n\nSWITCH - World Premiere - 2026 Indie TV Narrative Showcase - Acquisition\n\nDirected by Isabelle Platt, Sofya Levitsky-Weitz, Jean Liu, & Jaki Bradley\n\nStarring Pauline Chalamet, Coral Peña, Adam Shaukat, Benjamin Holtz, & Nikki\nSnipper\n\nSynopsis: It's the classic boy meets girl, except girl meets girl...meets boy,\nthen boy, then boy. Maxine's never been in a relationship. Lena's never been\nin a relationship with another woman. When Maxine asks her to be her\ngirlfriend, Lena's all in with one concern: she doesn't see herself having sex\nwith one person for the rest of her life. So they make a pact to find a man to\nhave a threesome with. It'll be easy, right? Guys are so simple. Turns out\nit's not as simple as they think. With each uniquely crazy experience, they\nget closer to sealing the deal, but only if they can figure out what they\nreally want - and how to find it with each other.\n\nABOUT 42WEST\n\n42West, a subsidiary of Dolphin Entertainment, is one of the entertainment\nindustry's leading full-service public-relations firms. With offices in New\nYork and Los Angeles, 42West features four divisions: Talent, Strategic\nCommunications, Entertainment Marketing, and Fandoms & Franchises, the\naward-winning firm's gaming, consumer products and publishing practice. The\nagency has developed and executed impactful marketing and publicity strategies\nfor hundreds of film and television series, as well as a diverse roster of\nactors, filmmakers, recording artists, content creators, personalities, and\nauthors. In addition, 42West provides strategic counsel to a wide variety of\nhigh-profile individuals and corporate clients-ranging from movie and pop\nstars to major studios and streamers, charitable organizations, and media\nconglomerates looking to raise, reposition, or rehabilitate their public\nprofiles.\n\nABOUT DOLPHIN\n\nDolphin (NASDAQ:DLPN) is where cultural creation meets marketing execution.\nFounded in 1996 by Bill O'Dowd, Dolphin operates as both a venture\nstudio-developing and investing in breakthrough content, products, and\nexperiences-and a marketing consortium, featuring leading agencies across\nevery communications discipline.\n\nAt its core, the venture studio creates, produces, finances, markets, and\npromotes new businesses and cultural ideas - ranging from acclaimed film,\ntelevision, and digital content to consumer goods, live events and\npartnerships that define entertainment and lifestyle. Surrounding this\nentrepreneurial engine, Dolphin's marketing prowess brings together\nbest-in-class firms including 42West, The Door, Shore Fire Media, Elle\nCommunications, Special Projects and The Digital Dept. Together, this\ncollective delivers unmatched cross-marketing expertise and relationships\nacross every vertical of pop culture - from film, television, music,\ninfluencers, sports, hospitality, and fashion to consumer brands and\npurpose-driven initiatives. Dolphin marketing has been the recipient of many\naccolades, including #1 Agency of the Year on the Observer PR Power List in\n2025, The PR Net 100, and the PR News Elite 120.\n\nFollow us on Instagram here (https://pr.report/mmrq).\n\nContact:\nJames Carbonara\nHAYDEN IR\n(646)-755-7412\njames@haydenir.com\n\nSOURCE: Dolphin Entertainment\nView the original press release\n(https://www.accessnewswire.com/newsroom/en/publishing-and-media/dolphin-subsidiary-42wests-25th-tribeca-film-festival-slate-delivered-a-stando-1177891)\non ACCESS Newswire\n\n\nCopyright 2026 ACCESS Newswire. All Rights Reserved.","article_body_html":"","raw_payload":{"data":{"id":"nACSxY9LTa","title":"Dolphin Subsidiary 42West's 25th Tribeca Film Festival Slate Delivered a Standout Film Slate Featuring 16 Film and TV Titles","author":"ACCESSWIRE","ticker":"DLPN","created":"2026-06-16T13:00:00.843Z","tickers":["DLPN"],"exchange":"NASDAQ","article_body":"Activities Included Appearances by Clients Martin Scorsese, Rebecca Miller,\nMarc Maron; Films by Sean Ono Lennon, Andrew Neel, Sam Pollard, Sophia Takal;\nWorld Premiere of Prime Video Series 'Every Year After,' and Much More\n\nNEW YORK CITY, NY / ACCESS Newswire (https://www.accessnewswire.com/) / June\n16, 2026 / Dolphin (https://pr.report/mmrp) (NASDAQ:DLPN), a leading\nentertainment marketing and content production company, today announced the\nprominence of its subsidiary 42West at the recent 25th Tribeca Film Festival\nin New York City.\n\n42West has been a leader in film festival PR campaigns throughout its 21-year\nhistory, also representing countless both internationally and domestically at\nAnnecy, Berlin, Cannes, New York, Sundance, Telluride, Toronto and Venice.\nThis year, the company delivered marquee talent and an impressive slate of\nsixteen film and television titles to Tribeca's silver anniversary edition\n\nKey highlights included the 50th Anniversary Screening of Martin Scorsese's\nlandmark masterpiece \"Taxi Driver.\" Longtime 42West client Scorsese joined\nRobert De Niro, Jodie Foster, and Paul Schrader for a panel discussion\nmoderated by W. Kamau Bell on the enduring legacy of the film, followed by a\nscreening before a sellout crowd.\n\nAdditionally,42West client Madison Wells executive produced two-time Academy\nAward winner Ben Proudfoot and Stephen Curry's documentary short \"The Baddest\nSpeechwriter of All,\" which won a Special Jury Mention prize. Madison Wells'\nGigi Pritzker and Elizabeth Goodstein were in attendance for the film's\npremiere.\n\nPhiphen, a production and financing company had two documentaries and one\nfeature at the festival. This includes the world premiere of \"Katy Perry: The\nLifetimes Tour - Live from Paris,\" which is the full-length concert film from\nPerry's 2025 tour. They associate produced the world premiere of \"Frampton\",\nthe documentary marking the 50th anniversary of the arena-shaking Frampton\nComes Alive tour and chronicling the last tour of the rock icon. Finally,\nPhiphen financed the Al Pacino starring film, \"Killing Castro,\" a political\nthriller that reimagines Fidel Castro's 1960 Harlem stay as a charged\nencounter between surveillance and solidarity. As converging forces close in,\na young translator is pulled into a tightening web of power and proximity.\nAdditionally, clients Bryn Mooser (Co-Founder & CEO, Asteria Film Co.) and\nSimon Horsman (Co-Founder & CEO, Quilty) participated in a panel on AI\nStorytelling at the Tribeca Storytelling Summit.\n\nThe Prime Video series Every Year After, based on the best-selling novel\n\"Every Summer After\" by Carley Fortune, also had its world premiere at the\nfestival, ahead of being #1 on Prime Video Worldwide the weekend after its\nstreaming debut.\n\nIn addition, filmmaker Rebecca Miller continued the award-winning run of her\nApple TV series Mr. Scorsese with multiple panel appearances, including a\n\"Tribeca Talks\" conversation with director Josh Safdie.\n\nMarc Maron garnered acclaim for his first big-screen starring role in\nfilmmaker Rob Burnett's \"In Memoriam,\" also starring Michael McKean, Lily\nGladstone, Judy Greer, Talia Ryder, Sharon Stone and Justin Long. Another\n42West talent client, Max Cortezi, attended the premiere of his film \"The\nRevisionist.\"\n\nAdditional projects represented by 42West during the festival include:\n\nDOCUMENTARY FEATURES\n\nHOW TO FEED A DICTATOR - World Premiere- Spotlight Documentary - Acquisition\n\nDirected by Andrew Neel\n\nSynopsis: HOW TO FEED A DICTATOR follows five chefs who once cooked for Saddam\nHussein, Idi Amin, Pol Pot, Augusto Pinochet, and Kim Jong-il - drawn in by\npoverty, necessity, fear, or ambition, and sustained by a willful blindness to\nthe atrocities unfolding just beyond the kitchen door. Shot across seven\ncountries and based on the acclaimed book by Witold Szabłowski, director\nAndrew Neel blends intimate testimony, rare archival material, and lush\ncinematic food imagery to create a film as visually seductive as it is morally\nunsparing.\n\nKIDS LIKE ME - World Premiere - Documentary Competition - Acquisition\n\nDirected and produced by Cynthia Lowen and Jon Cohrs\n\nSynopsis: Meet Oliver, a 12-year-old murder-mystery enthusiast with a vivid\nimagination and a rare genetic condition. Inspired by his love of the genre,\nOliver sets out to bring his own mystery to the big screen - with a little\nhelp from his friends. The script is written, the cast is set, and Oliver is\nready to call \"action\" on his most ambitious venture yet. What unfolds is more\nthan a creative project-it's a powerful testament to friendship, resilience,\nand the magic that happens when a community comes together.\n\nSARA BAREILLES: GOOD GRIEF - World Premiere - Gala - Acquisition\n\nDirected & Written by Josh Alexander\n\nSynopsis: For the first time in seven years, Grammy winning singer-songwriter\nSara Bareilles returns to the studio with dear friends to begin recording her\nmost intimate album yet, born of profound personal loss and grief.\nInternationally known for pop anthems like \"Love Song\" and \"Brave\", this\ncinematic portrait observes the most private corners of Sara's creative\nprocess as well as her personal life. What unfolds in front of the camera is\nthe incredibly raw experience of mining one's own pain to create art, and the\nhope that carries an artist forward: that sharing what is broken in oneself\nmight ultimately bring us closer to healing and repair.\n\nTHE HAUNTING OF PENNHURST - World Premiere - Escape From Tribeca - Acquisition\n\nDirected by Mike Attie, Nathan Stenberg, Katarina Poljak\n\nSynopsis: For over seventy years, Pennhurst State School & Hospital was called\na place of care. What happened inside killed over half its population. It\nclosed in 1987, leaving behind unmarked graves and an unresolved history.\nToday, on those same grounds, disabled performers - many living with the same\nconditions that once sent people to Pennhurst - put on their makeup, pull on\ntheir costumes, and prepare to scare people for a living.\n\nTHE LORRAINE - World Premiere - Spotlight Documentary - Acquisition\n\nDirected by Sam Pollard\n\nSynopsis: In the heart of Memphis, Walter and Loree Bailey's Lorraine Hotel\nwas both a thriving hub of Black entrepreneurship and a destination for the\ngreatest musicians of the 20th century - a place where Civil Rights\ndemonstrations were planned, musical hits were written, and Black and white\nartists created history together. A rare, black-owned establishment, The\nLorraine served as a safe haven and sanctuary for Black travelers during the\nJim Crow era. Then, on April 4, 1968, the assassination of Martin Luther King\nJr. outside Room 306 cleaved that history in two, and the world forgot\neverything else.\n\nthreeASFOUR: FULL CIRCLE - World Premiere - Spotlight Documentary -\nAcquisition\n\nDirected by Sean Ono Lennon\n\nCo-Directed by Brian C. Gonzalez\n\nSynopsis: For more than 25 years, the avant-garde New York fashion collective\nthreeASFOUR - Gabi Asfour, Angela Donhauser, and Adi Gil - have created\nclothing with uncompromising vision. Drawing inspiration from natural forms\nand pioneering techniques, they have continually pushed the boundaries of what\nfashion can be. Shaped by their childhood experiences dictated by\nconflict-Gabi with roots in Palestine, Adi with roots in Israel, and Angela\nwith roots in Germany-the trio infuse their work with a shared philosophy of\npeace allowing diverse cultural perspectives to meet in creative dialogue.\n\nIX XI - World Premiere - Spotlight Documentary - Acquisition\n\nDirected by Sean Wilsey\n\nSynopsis: With a quarter century's perspective, the documentary IX XI takes a\nnew look at 9/11. The film tells a dozen personal stories through deeply\nintimate conversations with New Yorkers from multiple facets of the city. Each\nvividly recounts their own story at the instant of being pulled together by a\nworld historical event. These interviews are complimented by previously unseen\narchival material, and film footage that evokes interviewees' internal states,\nand makes reference to the image bank we all draw from as a cinematic culture.\n\nNARRATIVE FEATURES\n\nACT ONE - World Premiere - Spotlight Narrative - Acquisition\n\nDirected & Written by Sophia Takal\n\nStarring Ella Beatty, Ari Graynor, Nate Mann, Elizabeth Reaser, Sinclair\nDaniel, Robert Sean Leonard, Tavi Gevinson\n\nSynopsis: Hannah Packer, an innocent and sheltered seventeen-year-old, lives\nfor the stage. But when she's not cast in her high school play, her dreams of\nbecoming an actress seem impossible. Until she discovers Act One Studios.\n\nDEEPFAKE - World Premiere - Viewpoints - Acquisition\n\nDirected & Written by Matt Eames\n\nStarring Jessica DiGiovanni, Sophia Lucia Parola, Jocelyn Weisman\n\nSynopsis: Reeling from a breakup and alienated by her social circle, Jane\nKittering turns to the one place she can find solace: the Internet. It's\nthere, in the depths of a doomscrolling binge, that she stumbles upon an app\nfor a best-friend delivery service. She orders up Zoe, a real live human who\nquickly becomes a trusted confidant, therapist, and motivational speaker all\nrolled into one.\n\nLUCY SCHULMAN - World Premiere - U.S. Narrative Competition - Acquisition\n\nDirected & Written by Ellie Sachs\n\nStarring Ellie Sachs, David Cross, Hasan Minhaj, Thomas Mann, Annabelle\nAttanasio, Sandrine Holt, Chelsea Frei, and Olivia Luccardi\n\nSynopsis: Lucy Schulman has always taken the men in her life very seriously.\nMaybe too seriously. After a crushing breakup, Lucy moves back in with her\neccentric single dad, played brilliantly by David Cross, and begins the messy,\nfunny, deeply human work of rebuilding her life. Between bad dates, a dead-end\njob, and the loving antics of her father, Lucy slowly discovers that the\nhardest relationship to fix is the one with yourself.\n\nPONDEROSA - World Premiere - Feature Narrative - Acquisition\n\nDirected & Written by Rob Rice\n\nStarring Jack Dylan Grazer, Bill Camp, Alexis Bledel\n\nSynopsis: When the buffet where Zeke's mom works closes down, he's forced to\nentertain the wild advances of a rich regular who is weirdly and vehemently\nobsessed with becoming his father.\n\nTV / SHORTS\n\nChikaBOOM! - World Premiere - Whoopi's Wonderful World of Animation -\nAcquisition\n\nDirected & Written by c. Craig Patterson\n\nStarring Yara Shahidi, Daveed Diggs, Natasha Lyonne, Roy Wood, Tika Sumpter\n\nSynopsis: Chika Batstone is an aspiring young magician whose curiosity\naccidentally unleashes Kaboom, a chaotic magical creature, into the heart of\nNew York City. With her world-famous magician father, The Amazin' Arnie,\nperforming nearby, Chika must contain the mayhem before it's too late.\nFeaturing the voice cast of Yara Shahidi, Daveed Diggs, Natasha Lyonne, Roy\nWood Jr. and Tika Sumpter.\n\nEVERY YEAR AFTER - World Premiere - Tribeca TV - Prime Video\n\nBook Author Carley Fortune\n\nShowrunner Amy B. Harris\n\nStarring Sadie Soverall, Matt Cornett, Michael Bradway, Aurora Perrineau,\nAbigail Cowen,\n\nJoseph Chiu, Elisha Cuthbert\n\nSynopsis: For six summers, Barry's Bay was a magical place full of firsts for\nPercy Fraser, including first love-and first heartbreak. Ten years later, an\nunexpected tragedy brings Percy back to Barry's Bay, where she has to face the\npeople, memories, and mistakes she thought she'd left behind, especially the\none boy who changed her life forever-Sam Florek.\n\nGENERAL ADMISSION - World Premiere - Shorts: Love Fictionally - Acquisition\n\nDirected by Kaily Morgan Smith\n\nStarring Nina Dobrev, Cedric Yarbrough, Adam Shapiro, Sarah Baker, Henderson\nWade, Bunny Gibson Klein, Geo Lee, Aris Alvarado, Connor Dugard, Kesia Brooke,\nDan Hillaker, Alex Cassidy, Michael Merton, Marita De Lara, Jack Seavor\nMcDonald\n\nSynopsis: Determined to finally move on from her cheating, narcissistic ex, a\nwoman arrives at a support group convinced this is the first step toward a\nhealthier, more evolved version of herself. She promises she will be calm,\nmeasured, and just vulnerable enough to seem emotionally mature without\nrevealing anything too embarrassing. She will absolutely not overshare...\nWithin seconds, she overshares.\n\nHOLO - World Premiere - Shorts: The Dark Web - Acquisition\n\nDirected by Alexander DeSouza\n\nStarring Shane West, Zelda Williams, Morgan Kohan, and Beth Hornby\n\nSynopsis: When her abusive partner dies, Claire contacts Looking Glass, a\ncompany specializing in artificial encounters by means of an actor and facial\ntechnology to confront him and gain closure.\n\nSWITCH - World Premiere - 2026 Indie TV Narrative Showcase - Acquisition\n\nDirected by Isabelle Platt, Sofya Levitsky-Weitz, Jean Liu, & Jaki Bradley\n\nStarring Pauline Chalamet, Coral Peña, Adam Shaukat, Benjamin Holtz, & Nikki\nSnipper\n\nSynopsis: It's the classic boy meets girl, except girl meets girl...meets boy,\nthen boy, then boy. Maxine's never been in a relationship. Lena's never been\nin a relationship with another woman. When Maxine asks her to be her\ngirlfriend, Lena's all in with one concern: she doesn't see herself having sex\nwith one person for the rest of her life. So they make a pact to find a man to\nhave a threesome with. It'll be easy, right? Guys are so simple. Turns out\nit's not as simple as they think. With each uniquely crazy experience, they\nget closer to sealing the deal, but only if they can figure out what they\nreally want - and how to find it with each other.\n\nABOUT 42WEST\n\n42West, a subsidiary of Dolphin Entertainment, is one of the entertainment\nindustry's leading full-service public-relations firms. With offices in New\nYork and Los Angeles, 42West features four divisions: Talent, Strategic\nCommunications, Entertainment Marketing, and Fandoms & Franchises, the\naward-winning firm's gaming, consumer products and publishing practice. The\nagency has developed and executed impactful marketing and publicity strategies\nfor hundreds of film and television series, as well as a diverse roster of\nactors, filmmakers, recording artists, content creators, personalities, and\nauthors. In addition, 42West provides strategic counsel to a wide variety of\nhigh-profile individuals and corporate clients-ranging from movie and pop\nstars to major studios and streamers, charitable organizations, and media\nconglomerates looking to raise, reposition, or rehabilitate their public\nprofiles.\n\nABOUT DOLPHIN\n\nDolphin (NASDAQ:DLPN) is where cultural creation meets marketing execution.\nFounded in 1996 by Bill O'Dowd, Dolphin operates as both a venture\nstudio-developing and investing in breakthrough content, products, and\nexperiences-and a marketing consortium, featuring leading agencies across\nevery communications discipline.\n\nAt its core, the venture studio creates, produces, finances, markets, and\npromotes new businesses and cultural ideas - ranging from acclaimed film,\ntelevision, and digital content to consumer goods, live events and\npartnerships that define entertainment and lifestyle. Surrounding this\nentrepreneurial engine, Dolphin's marketing prowess brings together\nbest-in-class firms including 42West, The Door, Shore Fire Media, Elle\nCommunications, Special Projects and The Digital Dept. Together, this\ncollective delivers unmatched cross-marketing expertise and relationships\nacross every vertical of pop culture - from film, television, music,\ninfluencers, sports, hospitality, and fashion to consumer brands and\npurpose-driven initiatives. Dolphin marketing has been the recipient of many\naccolades, including #1 Agency of the Year on the Observer PR Power List in\n2025, The PR Net 100, and the PR News Elite 120.\n\nFollow us on Instagram here (https://pr.report/mmrq).\n\nContact:\nJames Carbonara\nHAYDEN IR\n(646)-755-7412\njames@haydenir.com\n\nSOURCE: Dolphin Entertainment\nView the original press release\n(https://www.accessnewswire.com/newsroom/en/publishing-and-media/dolphin-subsidiary-42wests-25th-tribeca-film-festival-slate-delivered-a-stando-1177891)\non ACCESS Newswire\n\n\nCopyright 2026 ACCESS Newswire. 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