The Tribeca Film Festival today announced the jury members who will select winners in the film and immersive sections of its upcoming 18th gathering. The jurors will award work in ten categories.

This year's jury features award-winning filmmakers, actors, producers, and cultural leaders, including Angela Bassett, Rebec…

Tribeca has announced details for its second annual TV Festival, which will feature premieres of shows like Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, Law & Order: SVU and Ray Donovan as well as a new showcase for indie TV pilots.

In 2017, Tribeca launched its fall TV extension as public fascination with the medium and the cross…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has acquired Quincy, the documentary about legendary composer/producer Quincy Jones that was directed by his daughter Rashida Jones and Alan Hicks. Netflix has set a global release for September 21, and will give the film a limited theatrical release as well. The film is produced by Paula DuPré…

Typically Tribeca Film Festival press luncheons preview their annual lineup, with a reminder of the event’s social and economic impact to downtown New York in the years post-9/11. However, Tribeca co-boss and two-time Oscar winner Robert De Niro kicked off this year’s 17th annual event at Thalassa Restaurant by…

The 2018 Tribeca Film Festival will open April 18 with the world premiere of Love, Gilda, a CNN Films documentary about comedian Gilda Radner.

The film is the directing debut of Lisa D'Apolito, who got support from Radner’s estate. It emphasizes Radner’s words and voice by weaving together audiotapes, home movies and d…

In an interview on UK talk show The Russell Howard Hour, John Oliver expressed regret over the outcome of his “failed” confrontation with Dustin Hoffman during a Wag the Dog Q&A session in New York this month.

“It didn’t really go anywhere constructive, so the whole thing made me feel sad,” Oliver said. When Howard, wh…

In a striking and raw demonstration of the angst that has accumulated over Hollywood’s sexual harassment scandals, HBO host John Oliver sparred with Dustin Hoffman during an awkward 45-minute Q&A intended as a prologue to a 20th-anniversary screening of the film Wag the Dog. (Check out the video of the exchange below…

Andrew Essex is leaving his role as CEO of Tribeca Enterprises after just 18 months and will be transitioning into an advisory role through the end of the year. Tribeca Executive Chair and co-founder Jane Rosenthal is set to step in as interim CEO.

The news was sent out to the Tribeca team today via memo from Rosenthal…

The Tribeca troika of festival founders Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Paula Weinstein took brief turns at the podium during a lunch for journalists in town to cover the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival. Created in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center towers, the festival has grown in…

One of this year’s Tribeca Film Festival standouts is Katie Holmes’ directorial debut All We Had, in which the former Dawson’s Creek actress directs herself as a homeless mother struggling with drug and alcohol addiction. As Rita Carmichael, Holmes’ character lives out of a car, suffers a bad streak with men, all with…

The Tribeca Film Festival (TFF) today announced members of juries in 11 competitive categories for its upcoming 15th stand. The group includes actors, filmmakers, writers, entrepreneurs, artists and cultural leaders. The jury will be divided among eleven competitive Festival categories. Winning films, filmmakers…

Tribeca Film Festival founders Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal and Tribeca Enterprises Exec VP Paula Weinstein held a press luncheon today to kick off the 14th annual event and addressed the changing indie filmmaking landscape, as well as how TFF has evolved.

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