The Tribeca Film Festival (TFF), presented by American Express, today announced its feature film selections in the Spotlight and Cinemania sections, as well as Special Screenings and the Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival lineup. The 11th edition of the Festival will take place from April 18 to April 29 in New York City.

The 2012 Tribeca Film Festival has announced the first half of its line-up today, beginning with the 46 films in the World Narrative and World Documentary Competition as well as the non-competition Viewpoints titles. This year's Tribeca Film Festival runs from April 18 to 29 in various venues around New York City.

These days, horror seems to be coming in twos. Behind the camera that is. From the Butcher brothers to the Strause and Spierig siblings, we're seeing more genre films arriving on the scene with two directors at the helm. Now welcome the Vicious brothers, Stuart Ortiz and Colin Minihan, the men behind Grave Encounters, which takes its cue from televised ghost hunting programs and injects heavy duty frights.

John Michael McDonagh, director of The Guard, tells ComingSoon.net about a couple other projects he has in the works, including Cavalry, a film about a priest in a small community to be played by Brendan Gleeson, and War on Everyone, a dark comedy set in the Deep South.

ComingSoon.net sits down with actor Joshua Leonard at the Tribeca Film Festival to talk about his roles in Treatment and Vera Farmiga's Higher Ground, as well as other things.

Haddonfield. Crystal Lake. Springwood. Woodsboro. What do they all have in common? These quaint little havens were terrorized by a slasher instantly removing them from any tourist destination guide. And unfortunately, you might have to add Amsterdam to that list (sorry four-twenty, fiends) because St. Nicholas is coming to town in the Dutch horror film Saint and he's ready to carve up the community with a lethal, golden staff and his army of decayed, armed assistants (Black Peters).

Grave Encounters, the supernatural thriller debuting at the Tribeca Film Festival, couldn't come at a better time. The latest "found footage" offering to hit the genre scene, the film takes its cue from the myriad "ghost hunter" television shows that are competing against one another and asks the question: What if a team of paranormal investigators - who are not unfamiliar with fabricating the events they document - are up against a real malevolent force?

Playing to Tribeca Film Festival audiences this year, Panos Cosmatos' Beyond the Black Rainbow is a surreal journey that - on a visual level - recalls the works of Stanley Kubrick or Ken Russell's Altered States and injects it with a bold, synth-fueled akin to Tangerine Dream. And it's not "check your brain at the door" genre fodder, by any means.

ComingSoon.net sits down with director Paula van der Oest (Zus & zo) and actress Carice van Houten (Black Book) to talk about Black Butterflies, which tells the story of South African poet Ingrid Jonker and her turbulent final years in a relationship with author Jack Cope (Liam Cunningham) and in conflict with her racist father (Rutger Hauer).

We don't often cover short films here on ComingSoon.net, but once in a while one comes along that's so special, we can't ignore it, and it certainly doesn't hurt that David Darg's Sun City Picture House has a couple of name actresses as its executive producers - Maria Bello and Olivia Wilde. The film documents the building of a makeshift movie theater in a refugee camp in quake-stricken Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and it's a beautiful film that's really something to be proud of.