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The Tribeca Film Festival will launch a juried podcast category at its next edition in June of 2021. The festival Thursday announced Tribeca Podcasts, a new vertical dedicated to audio storytelling timed to its 20th anniversary to run June 9-20. The new section will include world premieres and previews of upcoming…

After having to scrub its annual spring edition this year as New York City endured the onslaught of COVID-19, the Tribeca Film Festival has confirmed it 2021 edition, which will mark its 20th anniversary. Shifting from the festival’s usual late-April/early-May timing, organizers said the 2021 event will be held June…

Tribeca Enterprises Monday announced 30 films and performances for its annual Tribeca Drive-In series that will be going national this year with partners AT&T and Imax, with help from the NFL to expand the event to stadiums in Dallas. Miami and Seattle. The Tribeca Drive-In has been a signature feature of the Tribeca F…

EXCLUSIVE: It took almost four years — and the death of George Floyd and ensuing protests — for NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to acknowledge how badly football fumbled a chance to support the concerns of its players of color over police brutality, poverty and economic disparity in America, when QB Colin Kaepernick…

EXCLUSIVE: For all intents and purposes, the Tribeca Film Festival wrapped last week with the announcement of winners in various categories. Of course there was no live Tribeca this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, but the festival went ahead as virtually as it could by creating an Extranet where some of the…

This evening, Tribeca Film Festival revealed the Jury-selected winning titles from the 19th annual confab, which was forced to postpone its originally scheduled April gathering in response to the global health crisis. Top honors went to Alice Wu’s Netflix coming-of-age dramedy The Half of It, which picked up The…

“I'm not going to lie I cried, I sobbed. And I sort of hate to admit it, because it's not about me. But we worked so hard for, you know, a couple of years on this movie. And it felt like there were times when we weren't sure if it was even ever going to get made or anything. And then to have it lined up, this is how…

The postponed Tribeca Film Festival will roll out elements online this month with films, juries, awards and a virtual hub to streamline it all, trying to keep the filmmaking community connected in the midst of a global pandemic that's halted most of the entertainment industry. The 19th annual festival, a sprawling…

Participant Media is the production company behind a number of important issue-oriented films both narrative and documentary, including Oscar winners like Green Book, An Inconvenient Truth and its sequel, RBG, Spotlight, Citizenfour, and the all-too-prescient Contagion among many others. Its latest film, now hitting…

EXCLUSIVE: Sources close to the Tribeca Film Festival inform us that the 19th edition has been postponed. The fest was to take place from April 15-26. The news follows just as New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has issued a statewide ban of gatherings of more than 500 people. That ruling forced 31 Broadway productions…

EXCLUSIVE: Vertical Entertainment and DirecTV have acquired North American rights to Inheritance, the thriller starring Lily Collins and Simon Pegg. The news comes ahead of the film’s premiere at next month’s Tribeca Film Festival. Under terms of the deal, the Vaughn Stein-directed film will bow on DirecTV in April, a…

The Tribeca Film Festival announced its 2020 Shorts Program lineup Thursday including the world premiere of DreamWorks Animation's To Gerard and projects with Benedict Cumberbatch, Dennis Quaid and Ruth Bader Ginsberg. As cancellations and postponements rock the entertainment landscape, Tribeca said it’s still a go…