Tribeca Film Festival Closes the Curtain Consolidating its Commitment to Inclusive Cinema – NBC New York (47)

The Tribeca Festival in New York came to an end this Sunday, consolidating its commitment to a more inclusive cinema that was reflected in the outstanding female character of the main jury awards.

In front of and behind the screen, the names of artists such as the director Sarah Elizabeth Mintz, the actress and screenwriter Elizabeth Rodriguez and also the actress Rain Spencer shined with their own light, taking the awards in their respective categories.

The film “Good Girl Jane“, directed by Mintz and which tells the story of a lonely high school student who is expelled from her school, won best film at the festival.

The life of three New York sisters of Puerto Rican origin told in the film “Allswell” took, meanwhile, the award for best screenplay, written by Rodríguez and the film’s director, Ben Snyder.

The acting award also went to women, which went to Rain Spencer for her role in “Good Girl Jane“, the best cinematography, for which Azuli Anderson was recognized for her work on the film”Next Exit” and the jury’s special mention to Liz Carbel Sierra, for her performance in “God’s Time“, a black comedy about two friends in New York recovering from their drug addiction.

In the international section, it won the best foreign feature film “Janvaris“, by the Latvian director Viesturs Kairiss, and the award for best screenplay went to Martín Boulocq and Rodrigo Hasbún for the Bolivian film “The Visitor“.

The festival, which kicked off on June 9 with a gala featuring singer Jennifer Lopez and her Netflix documentary, “Halftime“, which reveals the ins and outs of his life and career from the backstage of his famous 2020 SuperBowl performance, also brought together Al Pacino and Robert de Niro in the same room.

The veteran actors gathered on Friday for the presentation of the 4K version of the crime film “Heat“, shot by both in 1995 and they remembered that this film gave them the opportunity to act opposite each other after having starred in “The Godfather II“, where they did not get to share the scene.

The 50th anniversary of the premiere of “The Godfather” were also celebrated during the Tribeca Film Festival, with a special screening of Francis Ford Coppola’s trilogy.

This year’s edition of the New York festival presented 111 films -88 world premieres- made by filmmakers from 40 countries, more than half of them women, “non-white” people or those who identify with the LGBTQ community, a diversity of filmmakers whose objective it is “being a reflection of the community,” according to the organization.

As part of its commitment to inclusivity, the festival highlighted three sections within the general overview: one dedicated to film noir and called Juneteenth, the name of the holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in the United States; another to Latin American productions and a third focused on the LGTBI community.

In addition to the projections, Tribeca was decorated with numerous round tables around the seventh art and immersive experiences and also dedicated a space for video games.

Although the festival closes the curtain today, it will leave the television screen on for another week and through its website some of the films screened during the past ten days can be seen on demand and until next Sunday, including several of the award-winning .

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