Netflix Premieres 'Tribeca 25' on Sept. 11 as Documentary Revisits Festival's Post-9/11 Revival
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Updated · CBS New York · Sep 6
Netflix Premieres 'Tribeca 25' on Sept. 11 as Documentary Revisits Festival's Post-9/11 Revival
2 articles · Updated · CBS New York · Sep 6
Summary
Sept. 11 marks the Netflix debut of “Tribeca 25,” a documentary tracing how Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal turned the Tribeca Film Festival into a symbol of Lower Manhattan’s recovery after 9/11.
Eight months after the attacks, the first festival opened in May 2002 and drew more than 150,000 people, giving a devastated neighborhood what the founders described as a needed sign of life and hope.
De Niro recalls watching the towers fall from Lower Manhattan and seeing the area blanketed in toxic dust, experiences that pushed the long-discussed festival idea into urgent action.
Nearly 25 years on, the festival has brought thousands of films and millions of dollars downtown, while helping launch filmmakers including Ryan Coogler and Damien Chazelle.
De Niro and Rosenthal say the festival still sees art as a response to national trauma, with De Niro casting it as an ongoing act of defiance against the Trump administration.