The Tribeca Festival is this year launching a festival within a festival, adding a Storytelling Summit in which emerging and mid-career creators can engage with entertainment industry leaders like Nia DaCosta, David Leitch, Leslye Headland and Lucy Liu.
The 11-day event, running June 5-15 at Spring Studios, will feature talks, workshops, case studies and networking events in the form of six thematic tracks.
Luminaries sessions will consist of in-depth talks with artists like DaCosta, talking about her career trajectory including Candyman and The Marvels; married producing partners Leitch and Kelly McCormick, who will discuss their advocacy for stunt design as a storytelling too and their upcoming Nobody 2 sequel and Problemista and Fantasmas‘ Julio Torres on his prolific creativity. There will also be talks with Steve Buscemi, Tribeca co-founder Jane Rosenthal and Jeremy O. Harris.
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Industry Now sessions will feature guidance on producing, financing and distribution including choosing stories and mediums from Headland and documentary filmmaker Michèle Stephenson.
The summit will also include case studios on Tribeca Festival projects including a conversation with the team behind 2025 selection Rosemead: actress-producer Liu, director Eric Lin and castmember Lawrence Shou.
There will also be networking opportunities with talent reps, buyers, funders and more; a “Distributors Ask Me (Almost) Anything” with execs from Focus Features and Searchlight; and the chance to explore — sometimes with quick, expert takes — the future of storytelling in gaming, AI, podcasting and immersive media.
And each day concludes with a casual mixer for creators to meet and continue conversations.
“Building on Tribeca’s 24 year legacy of supporting independent filmmakers, our inaugural Storytelling Summit opens the doors even wider to the festival’s unrivaled creative community and catalytic networking ecosystem for everyone with a story to tell,” Tribeca Festival director and senior vp, programming, Cara Cusumano, said in a statement. “As our industry continues to face unprecedented headwinds, Tribeca remains a steadfast homebase for independent voices to connect, uplift, and inspire one another.”
More information about the Storytelling Summit is available here.
The 2025 Tribeca Festival runs from June 4-15 in New York.
