{"id":473085,"date":"2026-06-12T03:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T03:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/473085\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T03:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T03:26:09","slug":"tribeca-25-documentary-in-the-works-from-director-matt-tyrnauer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/473085\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Tribeca 25’ Documentary in the Works From Director Matt Tyrnauer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tTribeca<\/a> Studios will look back at the history of the film festival with a new documentary, \u201cTribeca 25,\u201d from \u201cValentino: The Last Emperor\u201d and \u201cStudio 54\u201d director Matt Tyrnauer<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe film will cover the festival\u2019s first 25 years, which include its dramatic founding in the wake of 9\/11 by Robert De Niro<\/a> and Academy Award-nominated producer Jane Rosenthal. Tribeca was launched in an effort to help revitalize Lower Manhattan, but has since grown into a major celebration of the arts and media.<\/p>\n

\n\tReflecting on the inspiration behind founding the Tribeca Festival, De Niro shared: \u201cIn 1989, Jane [Rosenthal] and I started the Tribeca Film Center. If you look left out my office window, you could see the Towers. They were always there \u2014 which means after a while, you stop noticing them. And then\u2026 they were gone. People needed to come together. And that\u2019s what art does. It unites us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRosenthal added: \u201cAt our \u2018Dinner Downtown\u2019 series after 9\/11, there was a Con-Ed worker who had lost his son sitting next to Bob [De Niro] at a Chinese restaurant. He said he felt like it was finally okay to leave the house, to do something besides mourn. That was in November of 2001. That was when we realized \u2014 how do we bring people out, and give them a reason to live again?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film traces the origins of the Tribeca Festival, revisiting the success of its inaugural edition, a five-day showcase featuring 150 films selected from 13,000 submissions. In its first year, Tribeca drew more than 150,000 attendees back to downtown Manhattan and generated more than $10 million worth of economic activity for New York City. Tyrnauer also plans to use Tribeca Festival\u2019s history to spark a larger conversation about cities, art, and the need for connection, examining how De Niro and Rosenthal harnessed cinema as a form of civic architecture and activism.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cTribeca 25\u201d will include interviews with De Niro and Rosenthal, as well as Martin Scorsese, Bono, Whoopi Goldberg, Nas, Jon M. Chu, Nia DaCosta, Denis Leary and Julian Schnabel. It will also include the reflections of former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former HBO and MTV executive Sheila Nevins.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201c\u2019Tribeca 25\u2032 is a film about reinvention. It traces how Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal\u2019s grit and determination to bring people back downtown after 9\/11 evolved into one of the world\u2019s most influential cultural festivals,\u201d said Tyrnauer. \u201cI wanted to make a film about a city and a moment. Through cin\u00e9ma v\u00e9rit\u00e9 scenes, archival footage, and interviews, the film explores the relationship between art and civic life \u2014 how storytelling can help restore a sense of community after profound tragedy. Inspired visually by the great street photography of New York, it is, in many ways, a love letter to the city and to the movies \u2014to the belief that storytelling is one of humanity\u2019s oldest and most powerful acts, a way of making meaning, building community, and imagining what comes next. Ultimately, it\u2019s a story about resilience, activism, creativity and the enduring human need to gather, connect and find meaning in moments of upheaval.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film also examines Tribeca\u2019s role as a platform for discovering new talent and showcasing independent storytelling. Tribeca is notable for premiering early career works of Chu, who debuted \u201cWhen the Kids are Away\u201d there in 2002 and returned with \u201cIn the Heights\u201d in 2021, and DaCosta, who premiered \u201cLittle Woods\u201d at the 2018 edition. Oscar winners Ryan Coogler and Damien Chazelle have also appeared at the festival; with Coogler\u2019s \u201cLocks\u201d and Chazelle\u2019s \u201cGuy and Madeline on a Park Bench\u201d both screening at Tribeca.<\/p>\n

\n\tProducers include Tyrnauer, Jenny Ewig and Dan Crane. Berry Welsh is the executive producer and Keelin Ryan is the co-executive producer. Tribeca Studios and Tyrnauer Media serve as production companies on \u201cTribeca 25.\u201d Ryan Rothmaier edited the film and Bill Winters served as its director of photography.<\/p>\n

\n\tTyrnauer\u2019s credits also include \u201cScotty and the Secret History of Hollywood,\u201d \u201cWhere\u2019s My Roy Cohn?\u201d and the Showtime four-part series \u201cThe Reagans.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tribeca Studios will look back at the history of the film festival with a new documentary, \u201cTribeca 25,\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,238775,409,111,139,69,59125,59515],"class_list":["post-473085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-matt-tyrnauer","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-robert-de-niro","tag-tribeca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}