2009 Tribeca Film Festival

New York Supreme Court Building held Vanity Fair Party for the Tribeca Film Festival                 AP Photo/Evan Agostini

2009 Tribeca Jurors ~ 2009 Tribeca Film Festival ~ April 22 - May 3 ~ Festival Report

Hilary Duff (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)

There are many film festivals all year long all across the country, and most of them have a long history.  The Tribeca Film Festival in  New York, however, does not, (yet).  It was founded in 2002 by Jane Rosenthal and Robert De Niro, in a response to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the consequent loss of vitality in the TriBeCa neighborhood in Manhattan.  (Tribeca Film Festival beginnings)

De Niro  (AP Photo/Peter Kramer)

 New York's Tribeca Film Festival in full swing!

The mission of the Tribeca Film Festival is "to enable the international film community and the general public to experience the power of film by redefining the film festival experience." The Tribeca Film Festival was founded to celebrate New York City as a major filmmaking center and to contribute to the long-term recovery of lower Manhattan.

One of the more distinctive components of the Festival is its Artists Awards program where emerging and renowned artists celebrate filmmakers by providing original works of art that are given to the filmmakers competition winners. Past artists of the Artists Awards program have included Chuck Close, Alex Katz, and Julian Schnabel.

Tribeca Film Festival attendees, so far, have been many, such as - co-founders Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal, Uma Thurman, Meg Ryan, Matthew Broderick, Sarah Jessica Parker, Debra Messing, Hilary Duff, Woddy Allen, Jamie Foxx (Best Biopics & The Soloist)...

Among the many talent - actors, directors, producers and writers, some also double as Jurors for the event.  The seven categories to be entered and voted upon are:  1) World Narrative Feature  2) World Documentary Feature  3) Best New York Narrative  4) Best New York Documentary 5) Shorts in Competition: Narrative  6)  Shorts in Competition: Documentary and Student  7)  Tribeca All Access

Meg Ryan (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)

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