Tribeca may have been the first big in-person film event of 2021, but it wasn’t clear what it told us about the year ahead.
From anticipated premieres to lower-profile films, ambiguity loomed large.The 20th edition launched June 9 with the world premiere in all five boroughs of Jon M.
Chu’s movie of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical “In the Heights,” from relaxed lawn chairs on the Oval in Battery Park to the mask-free 91-year-old United Palace in Washington Heights.
Mostly, outdoor venues at The Battery and a reopened Pier 76 at the Hudson River Park were the main attractions during the festival, which offered 56 world premieres out of 66 feature titles.
Many of them were also available online, along with shorts, VR offerings, podcasts, and conversations with the likes of Gina Prince-Bythewood and Bradley Cooper and his “Nightmare Alley” director Guillermo del Toro.Needless to say, movies were only part of the equation,
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