And when a successful Cage finally emerged for air, he quipped, "I'd like to see Spider-Man do that!" Al Gore Opens Tribeca Film Festival.... Former Us Vice President Al Gore opened the TriBeCa Film Festival in New York last night (25Apr07), where he helped raise awareness about the connection between filmmakers and the issues of global warming.The festival was founded by actor Robert De Niro in 2002 following the 11 September (01) attacks on the World Trade Center to promote the city as a centre for filmmaking.The event now includes a mission to raise awareness about climate change and opened with an array of global warming-themed films.Gore, who narrated the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, thinks artists play a role in getting climate change messages across.He says, "Art, music, film, dance, poetry - all the arts - have long been our greatest tools to explore the regions of imagination that defy our efforts to think rationally about subjects that our emotions tell us are too painful to contemplate."Somehow, we do have to penetrate that shell of denial."

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