From April 23 to May 4, the seventh annual Tribeca Film Festival took over New York City with hundreds of films and events. The Tribeca Film Festival was created by Robert DeNiro, Jane Rosenthal, and Craig Hatkoff after 9/11 in an attempt to rejuvenate lower Manhattan culturally and economically.
The festival aims to provide a platform for filmmakers, to showcase the importance of the cinema for the international film community and for the general public, and to build New York up as a major filmmking city.
The festival, with its large variety of independent narratives, documentaries, and shorts, as well as international films, panel discussions, and family-friendly events, has certainly done its part to help New York's economy. In fact, originally founded to revitalize lower Manhattan, the festival has been enormously beneficially to all parts of New York City, perhaps because festival films are shown throughout the city and not just in Tribeca.
In just seven years, the Tribeca Film Festival has brought over two million visitors to New York from across the country and the world and has created more than $425 million in economic activity for the city.
Here's a timeline I created showing some of the most popular films that have premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival over the past seven years:
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