The Tribeca Film Festival today announced that Al Gore will host the fest's opening night gala on April 25, which will also feature seven SOS short films. SOS (Save Our Selves) is the organisation set up by Gore and Kevin Wall (the worldwide executive producer of the Live 8 concerts) to "trigger a mass-scale movement to combat our climate crisis," and which is organizing Live Earth concerts around the globe on 07/07/07.

The seven shorts which will be shown are part of the SOS Short Films Program. The program has commissioned 60 prominent filmmakers, from documentarians to animators, to create thought-provoking films on global warming which will be shown at the Live Earth concerts in July. The participating filmmakers announced so far are Aardman Animation (Wallace and Gromit), Amy Berg (Deliver Us From Evil), Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady (Jesus Camp), Abel Ferrera (King of New York), Jonathan Glazer (Sexy Beast), Kevin MacDonald (Last King of Scotland), and Ari Sandel (West Bank Story). More names will be announced in the near future.

# posted by Nick Dawson @ 4/05/2007 03:11:00 PM

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