Tribeca Film Festival by The Numbers: Day 0

# of films seen: 0

# of Red Carpets: 0

# of Green Carpets: 1

# of World Premieres (so far): 1

# of bowls of Ippudo consumed: 2

# of PR people already dreading the coming fest: 3

# of Shrek films made (so far, god help me): 4.5

# of films screening tomorrow (P&I): 19

# of films screening tomorrow (gen.): 20

# of upcoming panels that discuss whether or not the film industry needs to re-evaluate itself by having panels discussing distribution by utilizing synergy, self-marketing, social media and mentoring new formats of social median synergastic distribution in order to facilitate the eventual return of film distribution to a mass market audience masquerading as independent film in order to keep this run-on sentence relevant for the next few film festivals and then have a panel discussion on that: …looks like just two.