The Apple Store celebrates the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival with an event series featuring the amazing talent behind many of the festival favorites. Subscribe to the podcast to hear behind-the-scenes stories and insights from these fantastic filmmakers and actors.

The Apple Store celebrates the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival with an event series featuring the amazing talent behind many of the festival favorites. Subscribe to the podcast to hear behind-the-scenes stories and insights from these fantastic filmmakers and actors.

Filmmaker Lou Howe, producers Ben Howe and Luca Borghese, and actor Rory Culkin discuss their film Gabriel. First-time writer-director Lou Howe’s drama focuses on a vulnerable and confused young man who longs for stability and happiness.

Director Andrew Disney, writer Bradley Jackson, and actors Jake Lacy, Brian McElhaney, Nick Kocher, Kate McKinnon, Jay Pharaoh, Beck Bennett, and Nikki Reed discuss their film Intramural. The movie is a hilarious sendup of inspirational sports movies, focusing on a hapless intramural football team that reunites for one final showdown.

Director David Mackenzie and actor Jack O’Connell discuss their film Starred Up. This tense and unpredictable drama explores the life of a young offender so violent and volatile that he is “starred up” — prematurely moved to an adult prison.

Director Louie Psihoyos, producer Fisher Stevens, and subjects Travis Threlkel, Shawn Heinrichs, and Leilani Münter discuss their gripping environmental documentary 6. The film utilizes state-of-the-art equipment to show never-before-seen images that will change the way we understand the issues of endangered species and mass extinction.

Catch the latest action from the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival starting on April 22. Get a peek behind the scenes from some of the film industry's leading actors, writers, and directors. Hear what they're up to and learn how they brought their stories to the big screen. Also enjoy talks from the 2007 and 2008 series, included here as well.

First-time director Gia Coppola and actors Emma Roberts and Nat Wolff discuss their film Palo Alto. This vibrant and cinematic immersion in the high school experience follows overlapping stories of teens and the adults around them in the titular town.

Filmmaker Ryan Piers Williams, actor-producer America Ferrera, actor Jon Paul Phillips, and Producer Kwesi Collisson discuss their film X/Y. The character-driven drama centers on the shifting sexual and romantic relationships among four restless New Yorkers searching for a sense of intimacy and self-identity.

Get a glimpse of the work by some of this year's filmmakers, including the documentary films Ballet 422 (director Jody Lee Lipes) and An Honest Liar (director Justin Weinstein). Also showing in the Sneak Peek are the narrative features Below Dreams (writer/director Garrett Bradley), Summer of Blood (writer/director Onur Tukel), and Match (writer/director Stephen Belber).

WNYC is partnering with the Tribeca Film Festival for the second year in a row to bring exclusive recordings of panels, discussions and interviews straight to your podcast feed. Hear conversations about the festival’s selected films, as well as the entertainment industry at large, with such luminary voices as George Lucas, Courtney Love, and Christopher Nolan. Find the full selection of talks here, along with 2014’s panels, and subscribe to the podcast to hear them all.

Filmmakers Marshall Curry and Matthew VanDyke discuss their riveting documentary Point and Shoot. The film follows the true story of a young man from Baltimore whose wanderlust leads him to Libya, where he joins the rebel army in its effort to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi.

Writer/director/star Jon Favreau discusses his culinary adventure Chef. The film follows a talented chef who has a social media-fueled meltdown, then hits the road with his son and sous chef to launch a food truck business.

Join filmmaker and actor Ed Burns as he discusses his new film, Newlyweds. Referred toas a “companion piece of sorts” to his previous work, Sidewalks of New York, which followed the interwoven lives and lovesof six New Yorkers, Newlyweds takes place entirely in the Tribeca neighborhood of New York City.

Writer-director Angus MacLachlan and actors Paul Schneider, Melanie Lynskey, and Audrey Scott discuss their film Goodbye To All That. The story follows a recently divorced man who is thrust into the uncharted territory of single fatherhood, and—even more frightening—getting back into the rather unpredictable dating pool.

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Director John Butler and actors Hugh O’Conor and Peter McDonald discuss their slapstick comedy The Bachelor Weekend. In the film, a foppish groom-to-be on a bachelor camping weekend discovers that he and his genteel friends are no match for his future brother-in-law, an uncouth bully.

Actor Eva Mendes and writer-director Massy Tadjedin discuss their provocative romantic drama, “Last Night”. The story follows a married couple who, apart for one night, are faced with a temptation that may decide the fate of their marriage.

Join filmmaker Gaukur Úlfarsson and Icelandic comedian Jon Gnarr as they discuss their documentary, “Gnarr”. Following his country’s economic meltdown, Gnarr formed a punk political party and ran for mayor of Reykjavik. When support for Gnarr’s mayoral bid snowballs, what began as a joke quickly captures the imagination of a nation desperate for a change.

Join actor Will Ferrell and filmmaker Dan Rush as they discuss their new drama, Everything Must Go. After losing his wife and job, Nick Halsey (Ferrell) holds a yard sale on the front lawn, and with the help of a neighbor, begins to start over.

Join the talented director as he discusses his film Flowers of Evil. Set in Paris, this experimental drama organically incorporates YouTube documentation of Iran’s 2009 post-election demonstrations and the government’s brutal reprisals into a tender love story between an Algerian-French hotel bellman and an Iranian student.

Join filmmaker James Westby and the lead cast of the new black comedy, “Rid of Me”. After being dumped by her husband, Meris (Katie O’Grady) takes a job as a candy store clerk, opening unexpected worlds into Portland’s underground punk scene and putting her on a bumpy road toward self-discovery.

Join the directors and actors of the comedy “A Good Old Fashioned Orgy”. Jason Sudeikis plays Eric, a thirtysomething party animal who,along with his longtime friends, throws an orgy at his father’s Hamptons beach house before it’s sold.

The renowned comic book writer and illustrator discusses his first film, The Bleeding House, which he wrote and directed. In the film, a stranger with mysterious intentions comes to stay the night at a secluded country home, where he meets a family torn apart by a violent past and a deadly secret.

The director Deborah Chow, acclaimed actor and his co-star Isabelle Blais discuss their new drama, “The High Cost of Living”. One night, Henry’s (Braff) and Nathalie’s (Blais) lives tragically collide, forcing them both to confront loss, love, and life—and to decide whether the high cost of living is worth the price.

This director discusses his film “Talihina Sky: The Story of Kings of Leon”. One of the world’s biggest rock bands, Kings of Leon returns to Talihina, Oklahoma, for their annual family reunion. The documentary examines the band’s roots and explores how a strict Pentecostal upbringing preceded their unlikely transformation.

Join filmmaker Steven Silver, photographer and author Greg Marinovich and actor Taylor Kitsch as they discuss this gripping drama based on the nonfiction book by Greg Marinovich. The film follows four young combat photographers who risk their lives and use their cameras to tell the world of the violence associated with the first free elections in post-apartheid South Africa.

The talented actor and filmmaker discusses his documentary film “Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels ofA Tribe Called Quest” together with band member Phife. The film documents the inner workings and backstage drama of the band A Tribe Called Quest, and explores what’s next for these pioneers of alternative rap.