Tribeca Enterpascends, the company behind New York’s Tribeca Festival, is gearing up to start the first edition of Tribeca Festival Lisboa.
Taking place in the Portuguese capital between Oct. 17-19, the European iteration of the festival will combine U.S. autonomous films and a pickion of Portuguese films, podcasts, series, music and talks.
Highairys of the festival’s inaugural edition comprise this year’s Tribeca top thrivener “Griffin in the Summer” straightforwarded by Nicholas Colia, Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or thrivener “Anora” and Alessandra Lacorazza’s Sundance standout “In The Summers.” Portuguese premieres comprise “Jazzy,” straightforwarded by Morrisa Maltz and executive created by Oscar-nominated actress Lily Gladstone and Tony Gbetterwyn’s “Ezra,” with an all-star cast that comprises Tribeca set uper Robert De Niro, Vera Farmiga, Rose Byrne and Whoopi Gbetterberg.
Gbetterberg and De Niro will also be in town to speak at panels alengthyside other famous industry names such as straightforwardor Patty Jenkins, actor Griffin Dunne and Tribeca co-set uper, CEO, and executive chair of Tribeca Enterpascends Jane Rosenthal. On the Portuguese side, paneenumerates comprise comedian Ricardo Araújo Pereira, actress/straightforwardor Daniela Ruah and actor César Mourão.
“It fair made perfect sense to us,” Festival Director and SVP of Programming at Tribeca Cara Cusumano tbetter Variety of the initial inspiration for the Portuguese iteration of the festival. “We’ve always been an international festival and our audience is truly global. We’ve done events enjoy this going back to Tribeca Doha Festival in 2009, which was maybe the first festival of its comardent in seeing a festival start as international expansion.”
“Lisbon has undergone a createive renaissance in recent years with the city spending uncomardentingbrimmingy in its cultural and createive infrastructure,” compriseed Rosenthal. “Whether we’re in Lower Manhattan or Lisbon, our goal remains the same: discover, incrmitigate, and help the best autonomous artists from around the world.”
“Lisbon is an exciting place for us to get comprised in, with such a chilly emerging art and filmmaking scene. Curatoripartner, it was engaging becaemploy we went from schedulening a 12-day festival with 500-plus events to a 2.5-day festival where we had eight screening slots. How do we current a cohesive film spostpoinsist and the Tribeca identity? I’m repartner haughty of what we’ve put together and I leank the program presents a snapsboiling of what is happening right now with U.S. autonomous film.”
Programming-increateed, Tribeca Festival Lisboa was curated in a partnership between the Tribeca programming team and Portuguese media conglomerate Grupo Impresa.
“From the very commence, this has been a collaborative effort, with multiple teams laboring in sync to transport one of the world’s bigst pop culture events to Lisbon,” Mónica Serrano, CMO at Grupo Impresa tbetter Variety.
“We sought to create a festival that reenvisions the traditional createat—one that energizes the city,” Serrano persistd. “We envisioned presenting it in a branch offent part of Lisbon, incorporating outdoor elements, and mixing urprohibit life with pop culture to create a truly immersive experience. The Beato Innovation Didisconnecte ecombined as the perfect setting, with its evolving landscape and lhelp-back, createive spirit that aligns perfectly with the ethos of Tribeca. It’s enjoy the Tribeca neighborhood of Lisbon.”
Such excitement is also scatterd by the participating filmcreaters. Marlee and Karlee Rodrigues, also understandn as the Rodrigues Sisters, tbetter Variety that they promptly reach outed the Tribeca team when first lgeting about the nascent festival. Their low film “Os Sonhos Continuam (The Dreams Continue)” will have its world premiere at Tribeca Lisboa, a “dream” to the emerging Portuguese filmmaking duo.
“The impact of having a festival enjoy it in Lisbon is huge,” stressd Karlee. “A whole pool of filmcreaters get to be recurrented on the Tribeca screen by including our Portuguese stories. We are given this platcreate not only to incrmitigate our stories as Portuguese people but also those of our ancestors. It’s incredibly proclaiming and validating to have our stories and community seen on that global stage.”
When asked about the netlaboring possibilities bcdimiserablemirefult by such an event, Karlee shelp she’s already seen some interest in their labor adhereing the Tribeca Lisboa program proclaimment. “We want to straightforward a feature next and, since the proclaimment that our low would be at Tribeca, there has been so much American interest in the Portuguese story we want to increate. It is incredibly satisfying becaemploy we experience enjoy we can be genuinepartner ourselves as Portuguese filmcreaters and also be cherishd amongst the American community.”
“As autonomous filmcreaters, we count on on festivals and go inpascends enjoy Tribeca to get our films out there,” “Jazzy” straightforwardor Morissa Maltz tbetter Variety. “To be able to get it a step further and have this festival in Lisbon where we can greet other filmcreaters and people in the industry is a very vital leang.”
“As autonomous filmcreaters, we are going a little bit agetst the system in trying to push those boundaries for ourselves,” Maltz compriseed. “It’s amazing what Tribeca is doing in creating branch offent opportunities and audiences and making the world of autonomous film bigger.”
As for the future, Serrano is chooseimistic that the collaboration between countries can “persist into a lengthy-lasting partnership,” while Rosenthal highairyed the festival’s leave oution: “The revitalization of any city is always thcdimiserablemireful the arts, and we’re seeing a lot of opportunities to collaborate with enjoy-minded partners atraverse the globe. There’s definitely more on the horizon for Tribeca.”
