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The Tribeca Festival announced Roku CEO Anthony Wood along with Walmart CEO Doug McMillon and Procter & Gamble chief brand officer Marc Pritchard will lead Tribeca X, a day-long festival event for marketers and filmmakers on June 18. The Tribeca X Award, which celebrates the best brand and filmmaker collaborations…

EXCLUSIVE: Cargo Film & Releasing has acquired sales rights to The Conductor and Father of the Cyborgs, a pair of documentary features premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival in June. Directed by Bernadette Wegenstein, and produced by Annette Porter of Nylon Films, The Conductor tells the overdue story of…

EXCLUSIVE: Magnolia Pictures International has acquired worldwide and U.S. sales rights to the comedic feature, Queen of Glory, which will make its world premiere at the 20th Tribeca Film Festival in June. Marking the feature debut of writer-director-actress Nana Mensah (Farewell Amor, Netflix’s Bonding, Amanda Peet’s…

EXCLUSIVE: Memento International has boarded international sales rights to Tribeca Film Festival thriller Catch The Fair One, Oscar-nominated producer Mollye Asher’s follow-up to Nomadland. The movie, about a former champion boxer who embarks on the fight of her life when she goes in search of her missing sister…

The Tribeca Film Festival on Tuesday revealed its 2021 lineup, with 66 films spanning three competition sections as well as the annual event’s Viewpoints, Spotlight, Midnight, Movies Plus, and Tribeca Critics' Week sections. The festival will run June 9-20 with a mix of live in-person events at outdoor venues across…

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…