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The TriBeCa Film Festival was founded in 2002 by Jane Rosenthal and Robert De Niro in a response to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the consequent loss of vitality in the TriBeCa neighborhood in Manhattan.The mission of the film festival is "to enable the international film community and the general public to experience the power of film by redefining the film festival experience." The Tribeca Film Festival was founded to celebrate New York City as a major filmmaking center and to contribute to the long-term recovery of lower Manhattan.
With over 250 films and 1,000+ screenings in both 2006 and 2007, the Tribeca Film Festival has become one of the most prominent film festivals in the world. The Festival\'s program line-up offers moviegoers a wide variety of independent films including documentaries, narrative features and shorts, as well as a program of family-friendly films. The Festival also features panel discussions with personalities in the entertainment world and a music lounge produced with ASCAP to showcase up and coming artists. One of the more distinctive components of the Festival is its Artists Awards program where emerging and renowned artists celebrate filmmakers by providing original works of art that are given to the filmmakers competition winners. Past artists of the Artists Awards program have included Chuck Close, Alex Katz, and Julian Schnabel.
Critics of the festival complain that it\'s merely a launching pad for big Hollywood movies and vanity projects directed by celebrities, while actually doing nothing to help filmmakers or the New York independent community.
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The inaugural Festival was successfully launched after only 120 days of planning and with the help of more than 1,300 volunteers; the inaugural Festival became a critical and popular success. It was attended by more than 150,000 people, generated more than $10.4 million in revenues for local Tribeca merchants, and featured several up-and-coming filmmakers. The festival included juried narrative, documentary and short film competitions; a Restored Classics series; a Best of New York series curated by Martin Scorsese; 13 major panel discussions; an all-day Family Festival; and the premieres of studio films Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, About A Boy, the American remake of Insomnia, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood and A League of Ordinary Gentlemen.
The second annual Tribeca Film Festival brought more than 300,000 people downtown and in excess of $50 million to the local economy. The May 2003 Festival showcased an expanded grouping of independent features, documentaries and short films from around the world, coupled with studio premieres, panel discussions, music and comedy concerts, a family festival, sports activities, and outdoor "drive-in" movie screenings along the Hudson River. The two-weekend family festival was an extravaganza of children\'s movie screenings, storytelling, family panels, workshops, and interactive games culminating in a daylong street fair that drew a crowd estimated at 250,000 people.
The festival\'s website contains a disclosure that it is now run as a business by Tribeca Enterprises. [1]
In an effort to serve its mission of bringing independent film to the widest possible audience, in 2006, the Festival expanded its reach in New York City and internationally. In New York City, Tribeca hosted screenings throughout Manhattan as the Festival\'s 1,000+ screening schedule outgrew the capacity downtown. Internationally, the Festival brought Festival films to the first-ever Rome Film Fest. As part of the celebrations in Rome, Tribeca was awarded the first ever Steps and Stars awarded presented on the Spanish Steps.
In 2007, the Tribeca Film Festival raised its basic ticket price to $18, a move necessary for the sustainability of such an ambitious program, but disappointed many of its biggest fans.
In 2006, the Festival highlighted 15 feature-length screenings and four shorts programs and expanded to more screening locations in association with AMC Loews Theatres. A total of 169 feature films and 99 shorts were selected from 4,100 film submissions, including 1,950 feature submissions—three times the total submissions from the first festival in 2002. The festival featured 90 world premieres, nine international premieres, 31 North American Premieres, 6 U.S. Premieres, and 28 New York City premieres.
Two highly anticipated films included the world premiere of United 93 on April 26, directed by Paul Greengrass. On May 3, Mission Impossible III, directed by J.J. Abrams and starring Tom Cruise, had its U.S. premiere. Cruise\'s arrival to the premiere simulated a Hollywood-style chase scene from midtown Manhattan to Tribeca—over two miles away—using a series of train rides, motorcycles, helicopters, cars and taxis.
Jesus Camp was awarded the Special Documentary Jury Prize. "The makers of Jesus Camp turn their cameras on an evangelical Christian camp of rare devotion. With unprecedented access, the children and parents show how their faith dictates everything from their daily lives to politics. This fascinating doc about a rarely seen world where faith trumps everything else is sure to provoke debate." TFF Site
The Family Festival highlights included Over the Hedge, a comedy from DreamWorks Animation featuring the voices of Bruce Willis, Steve Carell, William Shatner; Keeping Up With The Steins, Scott Marshall’s feature directorial debut, starring Jeremy Piven, Doris Roberts and father Garry Marshall; and RV, directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and starring Robin Williams
The avant-garde section of the Festival contained notable performances by mainstream celebrities Brad Pitt and Isabelle Hupert who appeared in shorts produced by LAB HD.
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