Tribeca Festival unveils a lineup filled with stars turned directors

FILMS directed by performers such as Chelsea Peretti, Michael Shannon and Randall Park will be a focus of the 2023 Tribeca Festival, organisers said on Tuesday (Apr 18), as they announced the event lineup.

Also on the schedule will be the premiere of a Marvel documentary about iconic comic book writer Stan Lee.

This year’s festival, which will run in lower Manhattan from Jun 7 to 18, features 109 films from 127 filmmakers across 36 countries. Among those filmmakers will be 43 first-timers.

For the first time, more than half of feature films in competition (68 per cent) are directed by women, while 41 per cent (45) of all feature films are directed by women.

“The Tribeca Festival is a celebratory event that honours artists and uplifts attendees, and this year’s is no exception,” festival co-founder Jane Rosenthal said in a statement. She added that the event will offer “storytelling as a powerful tool of democracy, activism and social awareness”.

Peretti, an actor perhaps best known for her work on sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine, will bring to Tribeca the world premiere of First Time Female Director, a comedy she also wrote about a woman filmmaker struggling to fill the shoes of her male predecessor.

Two-time Academy Award nominee Shannon went behind the camera for Eric LaRue, a world-premiere drama in which parents grappling with the fallout of their son’s shocking crime seek solace in rival religious congregations.

And Park, whose acting career took off after he landed a starring role in the television sitcom Fresh Off the Boat, will take Shortcomings to Tribeca after it screened earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival.

Also in the lineup will be the world premieres of Maggie Moore(s) by John Slattery, Fresh Kills by Jennifer Esposito, and the North American premiere of The Listener by Steve Buscemi.

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The Marvel documentary, Stan Lee, from director David Gelb, will be among the 53 non-fiction features at the festival.

The festival is known for its live events. Several are scheduled for the 2023 edition. Sara Bareilles will perform after the world premiere of Waitress, the Musical – Live on Broadway!, which features her music and lyrics. Gloria Gaynor will perform following the world premiere of the documentary Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive. And a conversation with Dan Rather and the director Frank Marshall will take place after the world premiere of the film, Rather. NYTIMES