Tribeca Festival Brings Fest to NYC Boroughs with Free Community Screenings

The Tribeca Festival will bring the Festival directly to neighborhoods around New York City with its new Borough to Borough screening series.

In partnership with Bloomberg Philanthropies, free community screenings in the Bronx, Queens, and Brooklyn, will use traveling 40-foot state-of-the-art LED cinemas, the first mobile HD screens in the country, to connect local residents to the festival experience in their own backyard. With the addition of the Borough to Borough program, Tribeca is extending its 20th anniversary Festival celebration to all five boroughs of NYC. The Festival is taking place from June 9-20.

Reminiscent of summertime block parties, the in-person screenings of new premieres, family-friendly films, Black classic retrospectives, and more are designed for people to safely gather picnic-style and experience great movies with family and friends. The Festival is working in concert with the New York State Department of Health to ensure all public gatherings are in full compliance with following required COVID-19 protocols.

“Our founding mission is even more relevant today and we wanted to ensure that we could reach all corners of New York,” said Tribeca Enterprises and Tribeca Festival Co-Founder and CEO Jane Rosenthal. “Tribeca was started to bring people together, and that’s what we aim to do again this year, to connect communities across all five boroughs and share our festival experience, safely, while supporting local businesses.”

“We’re thrilled to be able to bring Tribeca to the Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn in tribute to storytelling and the cultural richness of every part of New York,” said Paula Weinstein, Chief Content Officer of Tribeca Enterprises.

“The Tribeca Film Festival was born out of tragedy, helping our city recover from the attacks of 9/11,” said Michael R. Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg Philanthropies and 108th mayor of New York City. “This year, the Festival is once again sharing the joy and creativity of the movies as we rebound from a difficult time. At Bloomberg Philanthropies, we’re excited to help bring the Festival to even more people through a series of free movie screenings in neighborhoods across New York. We hope you’ll join us – and enjoy the show!”

“As our numbers continue to decline and more and more New Yorkers get vaccinated, we can begin to turn the page on COVID and look forward to getting back to a new normal,” Governor Cuomo said. “Events, venues and businesses all across New York State are reimaging how they operate for a post-pandemic world, and the Tribeca Festival is no exception. This year the Tribeca Festival will offer new, exciting ways for New Yorkers and visitors to screen the year’s best films and enjoy the many events and experiences that will take place, culminating with a fully vaccinated audience at 100% capacity at the historic Radio City Music Hall. This is a huge step forward in our state and our nation’s reopening that will let the rest of the world know New York is back and better than ever.”

Through the Borough to Borough program, the Tribeca Festival is also highlighting Puerto Rican films to celebrate the community’s art, culture, and long standing imprint in the city and will partner with the National Puerto Rican Day Parade to screen two shorts – Cucarachita Martina’s Musical Adventure and Takeover. In addition to the Black Cinema Revival and Community Favorite selections, the Borough to Borough programming will also feature three Director’s Series participants, Love & Basketball (Sanaa Lathan), Edge of Tomorrow (Doug Liman) and Sixth Sense (M. Night Shyamalan).

2021 BOROUGH TO BOROUGH PROGRAMMING

Tribeca Festival Official Selections (Festival Information & Guide)
Tribeca Festival premiere programming including feature narratives, documentaries, shorts and series from the 2020 and 2021 lineups.

Animated Shorts Curated by Whoopi G (2020)
Choose Your Battles Shorts Program (2020)
The Conductor (2021)
In the Heights (2021)
Indeed: Rising Voices (2021)
Kiss the Ground (2020)
Landfall (2020)
La Madrina (2020)
NOW Showcase B: Lost & Found (2020)
NOW Special Screening: Incarceration Nations: A Global Docuseries (2021)
The Outside Story (2020)
Pacified (2020)
Perfume de Gardenias (2021)
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It (2021)
Stateless (2020)
Takeover (2021)
Update Required Shorts Program (2020)

Puerto Rican Cinema
The featured Puerto Rican films explore themes ranging from community resilience and social activism to embracing an artistic-driven sense of purpose and creative fulfillment – no matter what stage in life.

Landfall (2020)
Takeover (2021)
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It (2021)
Perfume de Gardenias (2021)
Cucarachita Martina’s Musical Adventure (2021)

Black Cinema Revival
Our Black Cinema revival features popular and well-loved favorites spanning the spectrum of the Black American experience.

Daughters of the Dust
Dead Presidents
He Got Game
Just Another Girl on the IRT
The Last Dragon
Selma
Shaft

Community Favorites
Fan-favorites and modern classics with an emphasis on family programming, crowd pleasers, and films directed by Tribeca’s 2021 Directors Series participants.

Belly *co-hosted by the Rockaway Film Festival
Bill & Ted Face the Music
The Edge of Tomorrow
The Host
Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of James and the Giant Peach (A Disney+ release)
Johnny Mnemonic *co-hosted by the Rockaway Film Festival
Love and Basketball
Love and Monsters
Celebrating the 5th Anniversary of Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Moana (A Disney+ release)
Raising Victor Vargas
The Sixth Sense
The Witches

BOROUGH TO BOROUGH LOCATIONS:
Flushing Meadows, Queens

Wednesday, June 9 – In the Heights, 7:00pm
Friday, June 18 – 2020 Animated Shorts Curated by Whoopi G, 6:00pm
Friday, June 18 – The Sixth Sense, 8:00pm

Rockaway Beach 30th Street Playground, Queens

Thursday, June 10 – Belly, 5:30pm *co-hosted by the Rockaway Film Festival
Thursday, June 10 – Raising Victor Vargas, 8:00pm
Friday, June 11 – Johnny Mnemonic, 6:00pm *co-hosted by the Rockaway Film Festival
Friday, June 11 – Kiss the Ground, 8:00pm
Saturday, June 12 – Moana, 2:30pm *Disney+
Saturday, June 12 – Stateless, 5:30pm
Saturday, June 12 – The Host, 8:00pm
Sunday, June 13 – Perfume de Gardenias, 4:00pm
Sunday, June 13 – Landfall, 6:30pm

Van Cortlandt Park, Bronx

Wednesday, June 9th – In the Heights, 7:00pm
Thursday, June 10th – Love and Monsters, 5:30pm
Thursday, June 10th – La Madrina, 8:00pm
Friday, June 11th – Bill & Ted Face the Music, 6:00pm
Friday, June 11th – The Edge of Tomorrow, 8:00pm

Soundview, Bronx

Saturday, June 12th – Pacified, 3:00pm
Saturday, June 12th – 2020 NOW Showcase B: Lost & Found, 6:00pm
Sunday, June 13th – Cucarachita Martina’s Musical Adventure & Takeover, 4:00pm
Sunday, June 13th – Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It, 6:00pm

Marine Park, Brooklyn

Thursday, June 17th – 2020 Shorts: Update Required, 5:30pm
Thursday, June 17th – NOW Special Screening: Incarceration Nations: A Global Docuseries, 8:00pm
Friday, June 18th – The Conductor, 6:00pm
Friday, June 18th – The Outside Story, 8:30pm

Astoria Park, Queens