Sports films on Tribeca’s roster
From a Times staff writer
The Tribeca Film Festival in New York City will feature a new component next April: the Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival, with ESPN dedicating television, radio, print and online resources to promoting it.
“We hope to inspire filmmakers to make sports-themed films with this new platform in mind and thereby raise the level of the genre,” said John Skipper, ESPN executive vice president.
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