The Tribeca Film Institute (TFI) is a non-profit arts organization based in New York founded in 2003 by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, and Craig Hatkoff.^[1]

TFI targets filmmakers from "systemically excluded communities", and awards them funding, professional development or mentorship, to allow them to further or begin their careers in film.^[2]

As of September 2020, TFI suspended operations due to "uncertainties surrounding our new reality", regarding the COVID-19 pandemic.^[3]

Youth programming

TFI worked with the City of New York Department of Education on the filmmaking component of the DOE's Summer Arts Institute.^[4] TFI was the primary partner to develop the DOE's Blueprint for the Teaching and Learning of the Moving Image.^[5] Released in October 2009, the Blueprint is a curriculum guide for the study of film, television, and animation from grades K – 12 and sets benchmarks for a citywide standard for teaching media arts.^[6]

TFI runs multiple youth programs in New York City, including Tribeca Teaches: Films in Motion,^[7] an in-school and after-school filmmaking residency; the Tribeca Youth Screening Series, which aims integrate film into the classroom curricula; Tribeca Film Fellows,^[8] which brings NYC high-school students behind-the-scenes of the Tribeca Film Festival; the Summer Arts Institute; and Our City, My Story,^[8] an annual showcase of youth-made films.

Board of directors

The Tribeca Film Institute Board of Directors^[9] is composed of Robert De Niro, Co-chair, Jane Rosenthal, Co-chair, Alberta Arthurs, Vice Chair, Serena Altschul, Martin Edelman, Eli Evans, Craig Hatkoff, Lisa Hsia, Jennifer Maguire Isham, Sheila Nevins, Norman Pearlstine, Sam Pollard, Laurie Racine, Scott Rechler, John G. Roche, Martin Scorsese, Judy Tabb, Jonathan Tisch, Todd Wagner, and Jeffrey Wright.

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