NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- The Tribeca Festival kicked off Wednesday night with "Kiss The Future," a Ben Affleck/Matt Damon-produced documentary set in Sarajevo during the Bosnian war which culminates with a U2 concert in the capital.
"As you're about to see, this is a great choice to open the festival, and because it's so much about, as (festival cofounder) Jane (Rosenthal) says, art and music as an act of resistance and defiance and that's really what kicked this whole festival off," Damon told the audience at the BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center.
In a nod to the festival being created in response to the economic devastation 9/11 had on Lower Manhattan, Rosenthal said, "We feel a special kinship with Sarajevo as we both started festivals as a response to an act of war ... activism is as much in our DNA as art is."
"Kiss The Future" follows an aid worker who connects with the beseiged capital's undergound music scene, and how he subsequently connects with U2, which performs there in 1997.
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