The Eight-Day Week

Juror Welcome Lunch - 2013 Tribeca Film Festival

The Eight-Day Week: Tribeca Film Festival Edition

As the co-founders of the Tribeca Film Festival, we are thrilled to share our plans and recommendations for the coming week. This year’s TFF will display the enormous creativity of filmmakers, storytellers and artists from around the city and the world. As the late Roger Ebert would have said, we’ll see you at the movies. Read More

Work It Out! High-Profile Ladies Bond and Sweat Together

There’s nothing like gallons of sweat to bring people closer, and so Allure magazine editor Linda Wells, film producer Jane Rosenthal, Fox 5 news anchor Rosanna Scotto and NBC CEO Jeff Zucker’s wife, Caryn, spin together at trendy Upper West Side gym Soul Cycle, which offers classes with names like Soul Survivor and Soul Burn. Read More

Tribeca’s 7-Year Itch

There will be 120 feature films screening at the Tribeca Film Festival between April 23 and May 4, among them the documentary Run for Your Life, about the origins of the New York City Marathon and its founder, Fred Lebow. “[The marathon] was about trying to bring everybody, all five boroughs, together,” said Jane Rosenthal, Read More

Cineaste City

I’m a nervous wreck,” said Kevin Connolly, a mere four days before Gardener of Eden, his directorial debut, was to premiere at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival. The 33-year-old Entourage actor—he plays Eric, Vince’s good-boy manager—was chatting via cell phone from Los Angeles while driving back from church (truly). A comedic and moody genre-bending romp, Read More

Will 2004 Be the Year Tribeca Sells a Film?

It was only four days before the opening of the behemoth nine-day Tribeca Film Festival, and executive director Peter Scarlet confessed that he had only gotten three hours of sleep. Perched on the edge of a U-shaped booth at a downtown coffee shop right around the corner from the festival’s headquarters, Mr. Scarlet was almost Read More

Manhattan Movie Makeover

Post-9/11 lower Manhattan may end up looking more like Hollywood than Wall Street.

Though many financial firms have scattered uptown or to New Jersey in the wake of the terrorist attacks, at least three local filmmaking concerns-including Robert De Niro’s Tribeca Film Center-are investigating how they can make New York’s movie business synonymous with lower Read More

Jane and Silent Bob Strike Back

If Hollywood is high school with money, Tribeca’s film industry is Dalton downtown: sophisticated, selective and a little spoiled. For over a decade, Jane Rosenthal, co-founder of Tribeca Productions, has been the head Heather of that extremely ambitious clique. She’s class president, student-council chief and head cheerleader of New York’s downtown movie business. But her Read More