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The Tribeca Festival is combining its games and immersive verticals and promoting Casey Baltes to oversee the merged entity. The upping of Baltes follows the departure of longtime Tribeca Immersive curator and VP Loren Hammonds. The two arenas, which have had a home at Tribeca over the past decade, are part of the…

The Tribeca Festival, a longtime mid-spring event whose 20th edition this year took place in June due to Covid-19 complications, will stick with the later timeframe in 2022. Organizers announced the fest will run from June 8 to 19 next year. Through its first two decades, the festival had always been in April…

Two decades in, the mission of the Tribeca Film Festival has come full circle. Launched just months after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the newly rechristened Tribeca Festival kicks off its 20th edition Wednesday with New York City and the film world navigating extreme existential challenges. Normally held in…

An ad directed by Contagion screenwriter Scott Burns will kick off New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's statewide “Roll Up Your Sleeves” public service campaign encouraging New Yorkers, especially those from neighborhoods where Covid has been most devastating, to get vaccinated. The spots, shot at New York City’s Columbia…

The 2021 Tribeca Film Festival will have in-person screenings, something no North American fest has done since the start of Covid-19. A 12-day series of outdoor screenings will highlight the event, which will be the 20th anniversary of the first Tribeca held months after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The festival will…

Tribeca Film’s Jane Rosenthal and Berry Welsh, whose recent work includes The Irishman and When They See Us, have teamed up with sports producer Colin Barnicle and Nick Barnicle for a Netflix art heist docuseries This Is A Robbery. Directed by Colin Barnicle, the four-part Netflix original chronicles the world’s…

NY PopsUp, a months-long festival starting February 20 that is billed by organizers as a model for how live performances can return amid Covid-19, has set details for its high-profile inaugural edition. Last month, Gov. Andrew Cuomo first revealed the initiative, which will run through Labor Day via a public-private…

Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal, co-founders of the Tribeca Film Festival, joined an online roundtable conversation Thursday about the future of the festival circuit as organizers navigate through COVID-19. The duo, along with YouTube chief business officer Robert Kyncl and fest officials from Toronto, Tokyo…

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…

Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman will bring together the triumvirate of Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci with its New York film festival premiere this Friday September 27, and one person who can’t wait for that event is producer Jane Rosenthal. We can also expect a rather different offering from Scorsese this…

A controlling stake in Tribeca Enterprises, Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal’s festival parent, has been taken by James Murdoch’s Lupa Systems and Attention Capital, whose CEO is former Fox executive Joe Marchese. The stake used to be held by the Madison Square Garden Company, which paid $22.5 million for a 50%…

EXCLUSIVE: Tammie Rosen, a longtime Tribeca Enterprises executive who helped Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal build its centerpiece festival and several complementary businesses, is resigning her post. After stepping down as EVP, Communications and Programming, Rosen later this summer will take on several consulting…