Yesterday’s announcement of the full line-up for the Tribeca Film Festival ‘09 includes City Island, which features Emily Mortimer in a small but significant supporting role. It will have its world premiere in the “Encounters” section.

Sponsored by L’Oreal Paris, this collection of world premieres includes ten engaging narrative features and documentaries, with a mixture of dark comedies and lighter fare.

City Island
Vinnie’s been secretly taking acting classes, his daughter’s moonlighting as a stripper, his son’s got a weighty fetish, and mom’s eye is wandering… the Rizzos might get along a lot better if they weren’t keeping so many secrets. Andy Garcia, Julianna Margulies, Emily Mortimer, and Alan Arkin star in this smart and poignant dysfunctional-family comedy, set in unassuming City Island.

The festival runs April 22 - May 3. To find out about screening times and Q&A panels with cast (hopefully Emily will attend) and crew be sure to regularly check the official movie blog.

Last summer Emily Mortimer shot a movie called “City Island“. According to the movie’s offical blog, there were two screenings for potential buyers in LA and New York during the last week of January. In both cases the audience reaction was really good. Also, the premiere will take place this spring at a major film festival - name to be revealed. Isn’t all this fabulous news?!

Read the latest entry about Emily Mortimer over at the official movie blog for “City Island” by its director Raymond de Felitta. There are also 2 Outtakes clips!

Her “Molly”–her character in “City Island”–is so lovingly drawn, so original and so effortlessly tossed off as to make me feel that I overwrote, overthought and overthunk the whole thing: Emily showed up and showed me how it should be done and who this woman truly was. Oddly we only worked together for about five days–yet now that I’ve got the whole movie assembled it feels like she’s in at least half of it. Somebody wrote me in the comments section askiing about screentime for the actors: both Emily and Julianna share the same amount of screen time. But for whatever reason, Emily’s shoot days were concentrated into just a few and Julianna stuck out the run of the show. It felt to me like Emily was doing a cameo–but not at all; she is a major and majorly important piece of the puzzle that is “City Island”.

Be sure to read the full blog entry & watch the outtake clips here.

It was reported on July 22 that Emily Mortimer together with Julianna Margulies, Alan Arkin, Andy Garcia and Steven Strait have signed up for the indie family comedy ‘City Island‘. In fact they’re all very busy filming already:

Garcia plays Vince Rizzo, a Bronx prison official who realizes that an inmate (Strait) is his secret love child. His efforts to become his guardian lead to comic complications. Margulies plays Rizzo’s wife, Arkin plays a teacher in his acting class, and Mortimer plays a fellow student he befriends.

Garcia’s daughter Dominik Garcia-Lorido plays his onscreen daughter, and Ezra Miller also stars.

Raymond De Felitta’s Medici Entertainment, Garcia’s CineSon, Lucky Monkey Pictures’ Lauren Versel and Zachary Matz will produce “City,” which began shooting this week on location in the eponymous Bronx fishing neighborhood where the story is set.

De Felitta directed “The Thing About My Folks” and the sleeper period indie “Two Family House.”

Paradigm Motion Picture Finance Group packaged the project and is repping domestic sales.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter