Tribeca Festival
It was at 2002 when Robert de Niro, who, next to Jane Rosenthal y Craig hatkoff, founded El Tribeca Film Festival in response to the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
Today, the beginning of the sixth edition of the festival will take place, which will last until May 6, during this time 159 feature films and 85 shorts from 41 different countries will be screened. The topics to be discussed will be current, with issues such as the problem of global warming or the war in Iraq and Afghanistan taking on relevance.
However, although the screenings focus on current issues, as in previous years, there will also be a space for commercial cinema. Last year the Festival witnessed the premiere of Mission Impossible 3, this year the Tribeca Festival It will premiere nationwide Spiderman 3, a film that has already outpaced previous parts of the adventure in advance ticket sales.
The main objective of the Festival is to achieve the economic recovery and revitalization of the city of New York, therefore the money raised is destined for this purpose. To date, it has managed to attract more than a million and a half people assuming a collection of 325 million dollars.
You can get more information at http://www.tribecafilmfestival.org