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“I think of us as being very creator-driven and very discovery-driven, and we don’t want to box ourselves in,” said Cusumano. Where festivals such as Toronto, Sundance or South by Southwest have developed a recognizable identity in programming, from the prestige drama to dysfunctional family stories to out-there comedies, what makes for a Tribeca film has never been easy to pin down. And then for the virtual, we kind of thought about it the other way: How do we make this feel like a festival at home? How do we bring people that experience so it doesn’t feel like renting a movie, it feels like having something approaching the in-person festival experience.”ĭue to its new dates this year, the festival will be running on June 19 for the first time, so there will be curated Juneteenth programming from across the African diaspora, including Sol Guy’s “The Death of My Two Fathers,” CJ Hunt’s “The Neutral Ground,” Giselle Bailey and Nneka Onuorah’s “The Legend of the Underground,” Sacha Jenkins’ “Bitchin’: The Sound and Fury of Rick James,” Jamila Wignot’s “Ailey” and Andre Gaines’ “The One and Only Dick Gregory.” “So we had to kind of come up with this idea to turn the city itself into the theater, into the multiplex, with these open-air venues and these incredible LED screens that we have.

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“And we wanted that to look as much like being at a movie as possible,” she added. So even though it looks very, very different, I think it’s maybe more the same than it’s ever been.” “We actually found ourselves coming back to a lot of that founding mythology and the reason that the festival existed in the first place, which was in a post-9/11 moment using film and that communal experience of seeing a movie as a path for healing for New York, and that has become really relevant again. “This year is uniquely unique,” said Cara Cusumano, festival director and vice president of programming. Still maintaining a virtual presence, the festival’s online hub will feature premieres as well as encore presentations of films that first screened as in-person events.

(That’s down from more than 100 in pre-pandemic 2019.) Tribeca, which went virtual last year, is the first major film festival in North America to launch after widespread vaccinations and is placing a renewed emphasis on in-person events.

Now for its 20th anniversary the festival again finds itself tasked with revitalizing the city following the extreme events of the pandemic.īeginning Wednesday, the festival runs for 12 days with events in all five of New York City’s boroughs, showcasing around 70 features. New York City’s Tribeca Festival began in the aftermath of 9/11 as an effort to reinvigorate a traumatized city.