The Tribeca 798 Film Festival featured special screenings of Planet B-Boy - a powerful documentary about the vibrant global resurgence of break dancing, which premiered at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival.

"Planet B-boy originally started as a concept in the Tribeca Film Institute All Access program at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2005," said the film's director Benson Lee. "Never in my wildest dreams could I have predicted that two years later we would be showing the film at the Tribeca Film Festival to an audience of 7,000 at an outdoor screening outside of the World Trade Center, let alone at another outdoor screening on the other side of the world in Beijing."

The event, designed to give Beijing a small taste of the essence of the Tribeca Film Festival, opened with a reception and included free community outdoor film screenings. A block party hosted on the opening night to promote independent US and Chinese films, while bringing to Beijing a film event that embraces local audiences.

"We'd like to strengthen the ties between the Chinese film community and the Tribeca Film Festival," said Jon Patricof, chief operating officer of Tribeca Enterprises. This partnership helps further their mission of bringing independent film to broader audiences while providing artists with unique platforms to reach these audiences, Patricof said.

"With films from China having played a major role in the Tribeca Film Festival's first six years - some winning our major awards - we're happy to begin this new international collaboration," said the festival's artistic director Peter Scarlet .

Tribeca has screened 18 feature-length and short films from Chinese filmmakers since 2002, four of which scooped festival awards. The Chinese film Lost in Beijing has received honorable mention for its screenplay this May at the sixth annual Tribeca Film Festival.