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The film festival that Robert De Niro helped to build shortly after the devastating 9/11 terrorist attacks – The Tribeca Film Festival – is making plans to roil back to a more familiar in-person model just in time for their 20th anniversary according to The Hollywood Reporter.
With the Big Apple slowly stirring from its self-imposed hibernation due to the worldwide pandemic, so too are some of its vaunted and rightly celebrated institutions such as the 2002 founded Tribeca Film Festival. Accordingly, and in recognition of its two decades in existence, an in-person outdoor Festival will take place across each of NYC’s five boroughs this coming June. This news means that Tribeca will be the very first major film festival to return to an in-person model since COVID hit last year.
Aware that we’re not out of the woods quite yet, Tribeca Film Festival organizers have announced that they are planning safe, outdoor viewings of the newest crop of films across the five boroughs of the city which will include Brooklyn at The MetroTech Commons, Staten Island at the celebrated Empire Outlets and in Manhattan at none other than the Brookfield Place New York, the Pier 57 Rooftop and The Battery and Hudson Yards.
To ensure that all safety precautions are in proper place, the festival is partnering with the New York state Department of Health.
Legendary actor Robert De Niro issued a press release today, saying that “The Tribeca Film Festival was born out of our mission to bring people together in the aftermath of 9/11. We’re still doing it. And as New York emerges from the shadow of Covid-19, it seems just right to bring people together again in-person for our 20th anniversary festival.”
De Niro’s fellow Tribeca Film Festival founder Jane Rosenthal chimed in to add that “Tribeca is a community of the most resilient and talented storytellers on the planet. In 20 years, our community of creators and partners have become a family. This summer we are excited to reunite as Tribeca becomes a centerpiece of live entertainment in neighborhoods across New York City.”
The news of the Tribeca Film Festival resuming an in-person event comes just a couple of days after the San Diego Comic-Con announcing that they would be holding their own in-person convention this November. Rays of light are beginning to slowly break through the cracks of COVID-19; here’s hoping 1940s crooner Vaughn Monroe will soon be bellowing out his rendition of When the Lights Go On Again. I know I’ll join in on a chorus or two myself.
