1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.BZ 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.BZ 3 00:00:12,640 --> 00:00:13,891 [REPORTER] Nice sunny day. 4 00:00:13,891 --> 00:00:16,852 And the only chance of a shower for the rest of the workweek 5 00:00:16,978 --> 00:00:19,439 might be late Thursday or Thursday night. 6 00:00:19,439 --> 00:00:22,401 [REPORTER] Get ready for the second coming of Air Jordan. 7 00:00:22,401 --> 00:00:25,446 [REPORTER] Primary day in the polls are open in New York City. 8 00:00:25,446 --> 00:00:28,408 Black voters are deciding among about 250 candidates. 9 00:00:28,408 --> 00:00:30,452 [MUSIC PLAYING] 10 00:00:30,452 --> 00:00:33,122 [MAN ON RADIO] John and I hung out with him one night 11 00:00:33,122 --> 00:00:36,835 for a couple of hours, and I just [INAUDIBLE]-- 12 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:39,212 [ANNOUNCER] [INAUDIBLE] 13 00:00:39,212 --> 00:00:41,172 [REPORTER] Giants lose their opener 14 00:00:41,172 --> 00:00:43,050 in Monday Night Football in Denver. 15 00:00:43,175 --> 00:00:45,511 Yankees and Red Sox washed out in the Bronx. 16 00:00:45,636 --> 00:00:46,971 [MAN] How many sugar? 17 00:00:46,971 --> 00:00:49,057 [REPORTER] Good morning. 64 degrees. 18 00:00:49,057 --> 00:00:49,891 It's Tuesday, September 11. 19 00:00:50,017 --> 00:00:51,852 I'm Lee Harris. 20 00:00:51,852 --> 00:00:54,314 Here's what's happening [INAUDIBLE]. 21 00:00:54,314 --> 00:00:54,772 [BANG] 22 00:00:54,772 --> 00:00:58,192 [MUFFLED SPEECH] 23 00:01:05,909 --> 00:01:08,455 [SIREN WAILING] 24 00:01:13,002 --> 00:01:16,172 [REPORTER] It's 8:52 here in New York. 25 00:01:16,172 --> 00:01:18,007 We understand that there has been 26 00:01:18,007 --> 00:01:20,260 a plane crash on the Southern tip of Manhattan. 27 00:01:20,385 --> 00:01:22,763 You're looking at the World Trade Center. 28 00:01:22,888 --> 00:01:24,474 [SIREN WAILING] 29 00:01:34,485 --> 00:01:36,738 [SCREAMS] 30 00:02:10,318 --> 00:02:13,114 {\an8}[ROBERT DE NIRO] I was just about to go away out 31 00:02:13,114 --> 00:02:19,496 {\an8}of town for that day, and my flight was canceled. 32 00:02:19,496 --> 00:02:24,669 I went back downtown and already checkpoints 33 00:02:24,794 --> 00:02:27,004 had been set up in Canal Street and so on. 34 00:02:27,004 --> 00:02:29,966 I went through and got home and my-- 35 00:02:29,966 --> 00:02:33,929 I lived about nine blocks north 36 00:02:33,929 --> 00:02:37,392 of the World Trade Center. 37 00:02:38,643 --> 00:02:42,189 {\an8}I had my television, big screen television to my left, 38 00:02:42,315 --> 00:02:43,024 {\an8}and I had the big picture window. 39 00:02:43,149 --> 00:02:46,235 {\an8}[MUSIC PLAYING] 40 00:02:48,613 --> 00:02:51,742 [MAN] When I saw the South Tower start to go down, 41 00:02:51,742 --> 00:02:55,038 I had to look at the television to confirm what I was seeing out 42 00:02:55,038 --> 00:02:56,998 my window with my own eyes. 43 00:02:56,998 --> 00:02:58,624 [MAN] It was unreal. 44 00:02:58,624 --> 00:02:59,584 It was surreal. 45 00:02:59,584 --> 00:03:01,503 [MUSIC PLAYING] 46 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:34,375 It collapsed. 47 00:03:34,500 --> 00:03:38,380 The top floors collapsed down. 48 00:03:38,380 --> 00:03:41,508 I saw it blow and then ran like hell. 49 00:03:41,508 --> 00:03:42,927 Thank God. 50 00:03:42,927 --> 00:03:44,804 I'm 69, but I can still run. 51 00:03:44,804 --> 00:03:47,223 [MUSIC PLAYING] 52 00:03:59,362 --> 00:04:03,075 You didn't know what the future would be. 53 00:04:03,075 --> 00:04:05,202 It was so bad that you couldn't even 54 00:04:05,202 --> 00:04:10,458 comprehend the enormity of it. 55 00:04:10,458 --> 00:04:12,169 That's not the right word, I guess. 56 00:04:12,169 --> 00:04:12,962 It was just-- 57 00:04:13,087 --> 00:04:16,424 [MUSIC PLAYING] 58 00:04:22,889 --> 00:04:25,768 {\an8}[JANE ROSENTHAL] Tribeca was one of those neighborhoods that 59 00:04:25,893 --> 00:04:31,150 {\an8}was sealed off, which meant no one was coming back 60 00:04:31,275 --> 00:04:34,570 {\an8}anytime soon, if ever. 61 00:04:36,948 --> 00:04:38,158 Businesses closed 62 00:04:38,158 --> 00:04:41,244 the streets emptied 63 00:04:42,121 --> 00:04:43,622 people scattered. 64 00:04:44,331 --> 00:04:47,126 The air was toxic. 65 00:04:47,251 --> 00:04:49,337 And it would take years to understand 66 00:04:49,337 --> 00:04:52,841 what it was doing to people. 67 00:04:52,966 --> 00:04:58,348 It wasn't just the grief for the nearly 3,000 who died that day. 68 00:04:58,348 --> 00:05:03,187 It was a rupture in the geography of the city. 69 00:05:03,187 --> 00:05:07,984 People were afraid to come downtown. 70 00:05:08,109 --> 00:05:10,320 Bob and I wanted to help. 71 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:13,115 We knew we had to do something. 72 00:05:13,115 --> 00:05:15,785 [MUSIC PLAYING] 73 00:05:45,486 --> 00:05:50,200 It's crazy thinking it was 25 years ago. 74 00:05:50,325 --> 00:05:52,828 The towers were in our neighborhood. 75 00:05:52,828 --> 00:05:56,541 {\an8}So at that moment, we were human beings 76 00:05:56,666 --> 00:06:01,964 {\an8}with hearts broken and our community torn apart, 77 00:06:03,799 --> 00:06:07,303 {\an8}and a huge hole in the ground left by terrorists. 78 00:06:07,303 --> 00:06:11,057 {\an8}What the hell could we do to fight back? 79 00:06:11,182 --> 00:06:13,936 {\an8}And what the hell could we do 80 00:06:14,061 --> 00:06:15,187 {\an8}to say we're still here. 81 00:06:15,187 --> 00:06:16,522 {\an8}Screw you. 82 00:06:16,522 --> 00:06:18,734 And we're going to show you stories, 83 00:06:18,734 --> 00:06:21,862 and we're going to do something. And we are loud and proud. 84 00:06:21,862 --> 00:06:22,904 We just did it. 85 00:06:23,030 --> 00:06:23,822 And I think. 86 00:06:25,366 --> 00:06:27,994 more of us have to. 87 00:06:29,203 --> 00:06:30,372 do. 88 00:06:31,290 --> 00:06:33,917 [MUSIC PLAYING] 89 00:06:46,516 --> 00:06:51,229 [ROBERT DE NIRO] In 1989, Jane and I started the Tribeca Film Center 90 00:06:54,108 --> 00:06:56,736 If you look left out of my office window, 91 00:06:56,736 --> 00:06:57,988 you could see the towers. 92 00:06:58,113 --> 00:07:01,700 They were always there, which means after a while, 93 00:07:01,700 --> 00:07:05,705 you just stop noticing them. 94 00:07:05,705 --> 00:07:08,374 And then one day, they were gone. 95 00:07:08,499 --> 00:07:10,836 [MUSIC PLAYING] 96 00:07:14,756 --> 00:07:17,719 People needed to come together. 97 00:07:17,844 --> 00:07:19,763 And that's what art does. 98 00:07:19,888 --> 00:07:21,806 It unites us. 99 00:07:21,806 --> 00:07:22,767 It pushes back against the things 100 00:07:22,767 --> 00:07:25,436 that try to tear us apart. 101 00:07:28,190 --> 00:07:33,069 [BONO] When freedom is under such attack, 102 00:07:33,195 --> 00:07:37,658 storytellers need to gather in response. 103 00:07:37,784 --> 00:07:39,077 It's creating an environment where 104 00:07:39,202 --> 00:07:44,458 people feel safe to tell their story, whatever their story is. 105 00:07:49,798 --> 00:07:52,092 {\an8}[ANNOUNCER] Attention, please. 106 00:07:52,218 --> 00:07:57,014 {\an8}New York Central railroad's 20th century [INAUDIBLE]. 107 00:07:57,014 --> 00:08:00,018 {\an8}[WOMAN] I fell in love with New York to the movies, 108 00:08:00,018 --> 00:08:03,480 {\an8}and now New York needed the movies to recover. 109 00:08:06,984 --> 00:08:11,448 The fuck are you smiling about. 110 00:08:11,573 --> 00:08:14,493 [ROBERT DE NIRO] To me, New York is the most cinematic city 111 00:08:14,618 --> 00:08:16,162 in the world. 112 00:08:17,539 --> 00:08:23,754 It can be romantic, gritty, lonely, desperate 113 00:08:23,754 --> 00:08:25,339 or ready to explode. 114 00:08:25,881 --> 00:08:28,343 [GLASSES RATTLING] 115 00:08:28,343 --> 00:08:34,767 The city's famous for the big stuff, the skyline, the bridges, 116 00:08:34,767 --> 00:08:36,978 the landmarks everybody recognizes. 117 00:08:37,478 --> 00:08:39,105 But I always thought the places that 118 00:08:39,230 --> 00:08:42,901 got the least attention were the most interesting. 119 00:08:42,901 --> 00:08:44,862 I'm walking here. 120 00:08:44,862 --> 00:08:46,781 Well lit, George. 121 00:08:46,781 --> 00:08:48,450 You hear that, New York? 122 00:08:48,575 --> 00:08:49,659 We don't quit. 123 00:08:49,784 --> 00:08:51,494 Now, how do you like that? 124 00:08:51,494 --> 00:08:54,790 Two and a half miles is as wide as this cacophony gets. 125 00:08:54,915 --> 00:08:58,795 [ROBERT DE NIRO] You see the world through someone else's eyes 126 00:08:58,920 --> 00:08:59,963 start to understand 127 00:08:59,963 --> 00:09:01,923 how other people see things. 128 00:09:01,923 --> 00:09:03,800 I'm as mad as hell. 129 00:09:03,926 --> 00:09:05,303 Am I going to take this anymore. 130 00:09:05,428 --> 00:09:09,182 [ROBERT DE NIRO] And somewhere in there, your perspective shifts. 131 00:09:09,307 --> 00:09:10,684 I personally figured I was watching something 132 00:09:10,809 --> 00:09:14,188 that somebody else would never see again in the world. 133 00:09:14,188 --> 00:09:16,149 But it was once in a lifetime. 134 00:09:17,275 --> 00:09:18,860 [ROBERT DE NIRO] And no matter what the city does to us, 135 00:09:18,985 --> 00:09:21,613 we always come back to it. 136 00:09:21,613 --> 00:09:23,407 I love this town. 137 00:09:31,750 --> 00:09:35,254 {\an8}[REPORTER] The site selected for the Trade Center 138 00:09:35,254 --> 00:09:38,299 {\an8}was an old section of Manhattan's lower west side. 139 00:09:38,299 --> 00:09:41,553 {\an8}The area housed a great number of small businesses, 140 00:09:41,678 --> 00:09:44,306 {\an8}but the predominance of electronic stores doors 141 00:09:44,431 --> 00:09:46,810 {\an8}caused it to be known as Radio Row. 142 00:09:46,810 --> 00:09:50,522 In 1966, the demolition began. 143 00:09:50,647 --> 00:09:53,692 In all, 164 buildings had to be torn down 144 00:09:53,692 --> 00:09:58,782 and generations of power, telephone, gas, steam, and water 145 00:09:58,782 --> 00:10:01,034 lines had to be rerouted. 146 00:10:02,285 --> 00:10:05,873 {\an8}More than 250,000 people live here, 147 00:10:05,998 --> 00:10:07,917 {\an8}in the neighborhoods that surround the site 148 00:10:08,042 --> 00:10:10,045 {\an8}where the Twin Towers once stood. 149 00:10:11,463 --> 00:10:14,550 [REPORTER] This area is a ghost town, totally closed to the public. 150 00:10:14,675 --> 00:10:17,011 There isn't even electricity in many of these buildings right now. 151 00:10:17,011 --> 00:10:18,847 I wish things were normal just so we 152 00:10:18,847 --> 00:10:21,266 didn't have to think about it. 153 00:10:21,391 --> 00:10:24,228 {\an8}I wish we could just go to a movie theater and watch movies, 154 00:10:24,228 --> 00:10:26,981 {\an8}but none are open, I wish, you know, it's hard. 155 00:10:28,024 --> 00:10:31,570 {\an8}[DENIS LEARY] It was devastation downtown 156 00:10:31,695 --> 00:10:35,074 {\an8}in terms of the restaurants and the businesses. 157 00:10:35,074 --> 00:10:38,035 {\an8}We had a lot of friends that worked as waiters 158 00:10:38,035 --> 00:10:40,080 {\an8}and people that ran clubs. 159 00:10:40,205 --> 00:10:41,957 {\an8}I mean, it was just terrible down there. 160 00:10:42,082 --> 00:10:43,750 It was dying. 161 00:10:43,876 --> 00:10:47,589 [ROBERT DE NIRO] We started organizing these events called 162 00:10:47,714 --> 00:10:50,383 dinner downtown. 163 00:10:50,383 --> 00:10:53,846 [JANE ROSENTHAL] I had this idea of inviting people 164 00:10:53,846 --> 00:10:57,266 to come to these dinners. 165 00:10:57,266 --> 00:11:00,145 My goal was have a meal, save a job. 166 00:11:00,270 --> 00:11:02,272 They kept growing in size. 167 00:11:02,397 --> 00:11:05,234 [ROBERT DE NIRO] So you got a sign with four other celebrities 168 00:11:05,234 --> 00:11:06,986 to go to a restaurant, and you're 169 00:11:07,111 --> 00:11:09,238 going to have dinner in one restaurant 170 00:11:09,363 --> 00:11:11,450 and then go to another place to have dessert. 171 00:11:11,575 --> 00:11:13,202 It was like 30 teams or some crazy thing. 172 00:11:14,495 --> 00:11:17,373 It put smiles on people's faces. 173 00:11:17,373 --> 00:11:20,001 You can't underestimate the power of that. 174 00:11:20,126 --> 00:11:22,087 Not only to rejuvenate the neighborhood, 175 00:11:22,213 --> 00:11:25,841 but to lift people's spirits in a genuine way. 176 00:11:25,966 --> 00:11:28,470 [MUSIC PLAYING] 177 00:11:31,473 --> 00:11:34,143 At one dinner downtown, there was this Con Ed worker 178 00:11:34,268 --> 00:11:37,480 who had lost his son sitting next to me. 179 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:39,983 He said he felt like it was finally OK to leave the house 180 00:11:40,108 --> 00:11:42,569 to do something besides mourn. 181 00:11:43,028 --> 00:11:45,155 That was in November 2001. 182 00:11:45,155 --> 00:11:46,449 [REPORTER] Dozens of New York notables 183 00:11:46,449 --> 00:11:49,953 are trying to jumpstart the tourism industry with a $40 184 00:11:49,953 --> 00:11:51,621 million advertising campaign. 185 00:11:51,621 --> 00:11:54,375 If it's not such a big deal, why don't you be the turkey? 186 00:11:54,375 --> 00:11:56,794 - You want me to be the turkey? - Yeah, come on. 187 00:11:56,794 --> 00:11:59,548 [DE NIRO] We were doing everything we could think of 188 00:11:59,673 --> 00:12:01,216 to get New York to feel like New York again. 189 00:12:01,216 --> 00:12:05,221 [JANE ROSENTHAL] We thought, how do we give our community 190 00:12:05,221 --> 00:12:08,057 something to look forward to? 191 00:12:08,182 --> 00:12:12,563 Could we give our neighbors a new memory? 192 00:12:12,563 --> 00:12:16,859 Bob and I talked about doing a film festival, 193 00:12:16,859 --> 00:12:20,155 but this felt like the right time. 194 00:12:20,155 --> 00:12:22,616 [MUSIC PLAYING] 195 00:12:28,080 --> 00:12:30,542 {\an8}Tribeca Film Festival is a unique opportunity for people 196 00:12:30,667 --> 00:12:34,421 {\an8}to join together in the Downtown community to share their love for cinema. 197 00:12:34,421 --> 00:12:36,341 {\an8}And if anybody could do this, it's 198 00:12:36,341 --> 00:12:38,134 {\an8}Bob De Niro, and Jane Rosenthal. 199 00:12:38,134 --> 00:12:41,429 {\an8}[MARTIN SCORSESE] I thought it was a great idea. They had a vision. 200 00:12:41,554 --> 00:12:43,724 {\an8}You don't go into a battle without having 201 00:12:43,724 --> 00:12:45,768 {\an8}a strategy or a plan. And they had that. 202 00:12:45,893 --> 00:12:47,394 And I've seen a lot of things start and just crumbled. 203 00:12:47,520 --> 00:12:49,314 This did not. 204 00:12:49,314 --> 00:12:51,107 This is the time to do it. 205 00:12:51,233 --> 00:12:54,237 It's very important for many reasons, many obvious reasons. 206 00:12:54,237 --> 00:12:55,363 And so let's do it. 207 00:12:55,363 --> 00:12:56,739 [APPLAUSE] 208 00:12:56,739 --> 00:13:00,953 [ROBERT DE NIRO] The festival was an act of defiance. 209 00:13:00,953 --> 00:13:06,084 We had 120 days, 1,300 volunteers, no money, 210 00:13:06,084 --> 00:13:09,420 no blueprint, just an idea in a neighborhood that needed people 211 00:13:09,420 --> 00:13:10,421 back in it. 212 00:13:10,421 --> 00:13:12,967 This wasn't just about movies. 213 00:13:12,967 --> 00:13:15,928 It was about whether downtown was coming back. 214 00:13:15,928 --> 00:13:17,304 [JANE ROSENTHAL] Some of the toughest things 215 00:13:17,304 --> 00:13:23,562 were figuring out what movie theaters we could go into. 216 00:13:23,562 --> 00:13:26,941 We had to go in wearing hazmat suits. 217 00:13:26,941 --> 00:13:29,402 [ROBERT DE NIRO] We had to get the city on board, 218 00:13:29,402 --> 00:13:32,114 business leaders, politicians. 219 00:13:32,114 --> 00:13:34,491 Mike Bloomberg showed up first just as a supporter, 220 00:13:34,491 --> 00:13:36,452 then as the mayor. 221 00:13:36,452 --> 00:13:38,955 Nobody slept much. 222 00:13:38,955 --> 00:13:43,294 You looked out the window, it was still smoking. 223 00:13:43,419 --> 00:13:45,963 That kept things in perspective. 224 00:13:45,963 --> 00:13:49,634 [JANE ROSENTHAL] Our city had been attacked. 225 00:13:49,759 --> 00:13:53,847 It felt like this is what you had to do. 226 00:13:53,847 --> 00:13:57,477 There was this mantra that we had, 227 00:13:57,602 --> 00:14:00,856 whenever people would get upset about something 228 00:14:00,981 --> 00:14:04,359 or complaining about something or whatever it was, we'd say, 229 00:14:04,359 --> 00:14:07,572 look left. 230 00:14:07,572 --> 00:14:09,616 That's what we're doing. 231 00:14:09,616 --> 00:14:12,203 [MUSIC PLAYING] 232 00:14:14,747 --> 00:14:17,666 {\an8}[CHOIR SINGING] Trouble don't last always 233 00:14:17,791 --> 00:14:20,504 {\an8}We all know it won't last 234 00:14:20,629 --> 00:14:22,464 {\an8}Trouble don't last always 235 00:14:22,464 --> 00:14:23,966 [DE NIRO] We weren't sure how 236 00:14:23,966 --> 00:14:26,552 it would feel to go from a recovery operation 237 00:14:26,677 --> 00:14:29,639 in Lower Manhattan to suddenly screening movies. 238 00:14:29,639 --> 00:14:33,393 We invited Nelson Mandela to open the first festival. 239 00:14:33,393 --> 00:14:34,478 [APPLAUSE] 240 00:14:34,478 --> 00:14:37,690 It really gave us a way forward. 241 00:14:37,816 --> 00:14:41,152 [NELSON MANDELA] I know that your media will continue 242 00:14:41,152 --> 00:14:44,990 to bring the world closer together, allowing 243 00:14:44,990 --> 00:14:50,247 us to share in the lives and cultures of others. 244 00:14:50,372 --> 00:14:51,248 I thank you. 245 00:14:51,248 --> 00:14:53,083 [APPLAUSE] 246 00:14:53,083 --> 00:14:56,337 Our goal was to celebrate the power of filmmaking, 247 00:14:56,337 --> 00:14:59,423 but more importantly, to revitalize our neighborhood that 248 00:14:59,549 --> 00:15:02,219 was devastated on September 11. 249 00:15:02,344 --> 00:15:05,222 [JANE ROSENTHAL] The mission of the Film Festival is simple, 250 00:15:05,347 --> 00:15:08,768 to bring 50,000 people to Lower Manhattan over the next four 251 00:15:08,768 --> 00:15:12,606 days, to use the power of filmmaking not only 252 00:15:12,731 --> 00:15:16,944 to entertain, but also to rebuild our city. 253 00:15:16,944 --> 00:15:20,949 We invite everyone to come and join us. 254 00:15:20,949 --> 00:15:23,034 {\an8}This neighborhood in particular is 255 00:15:23,160 --> 00:15:26,747 {\an8}even before September, was just being born, 256 00:15:26,873 --> 00:15:28,624 {\an8}and now it needs all this healing. 257 00:15:28,624 --> 00:15:31,628 {\an8}So I think it's a perfect thing they've done. 258 00:15:31,628 --> 00:15:34,548 {\an8}Now, the great thing about the movie business is that it draws crowds. 259 00:15:34,673 --> 00:15:37,093 {\an8}So when you have a film festival, 260 00:15:37,218 --> 00:15:39,721 {\an8}you're going to have people down in the neighborhood 261 00:15:39,721 --> 00:15:40,763 {\an8}and that's going to help all of the 262 00:15:40,889 --> 00:15:43,642 {\an8}restaurants and all of the smaller businesses. 263 00:15:43,642 --> 00:15:45,060 We live down here. 264 00:15:45,060 --> 00:15:48,398 I saw firsthand just how devastated the neighborhood was. 265 00:15:48,398 --> 00:15:51,151 So when Jane and Bob called about the festival, 266 00:15:51,151 --> 00:15:52,569 it was a no brainer to jump in and do 267 00:15:52,569 --> 00:15:54,906 whatever they asked me to do. 268 00:15:54,906 --> 00:15:56,908 And that's what our community needed 269 00:15:56,908 --> 00:16:00,662 to be in a room laughing and crying together. 270 00:16:00,662 --> 00:16:02,039 {\an8}[JANE ROSENTHAL] That first year, it 271 00:16:02,039 --> 00:16:06,794 {\an8}was important to have a comedy because you wanted to laugh. 272 00:16:06,794 --> 00:16:08,546 {\an8}If you laughed, your endorphins come out 273 00:16:08,546 --> 00:16:11,174 {\an8}and then you feel better. 274 00:16:11,299 --> 00:16:11,758 {\an8}You just go. 275 00:16:11,758 --> 00:16:13,677 OK. But I'll be back. 276 00:16:13,677 --> 00:16:15,804 I'm really scared. 277 00:16:15,930 --> 00:16:17,806 I've been to a lot of film festivals. 278 00:16:17,806 --> 00:16:18,808 I love them and I believe in them. 279 00:16:18,808 --> 00:16:20,518 {\an8}And I've seen it firsthand time and time 280 00:16:20,644 --> 00:16:25,775 {\an8}again what a fabulous vitamin B12 injection to the buttock 281 00:16:25,900 --> 00:16:29,988 {\an8}they can be to any area, any city, any town. 282 00:16:30,113 --> 00:16:32,658 Now, obviously, the neighbors really rejuvenated. 283 00:16:32,783 --> 00:16:34,827 More people are walking up and down the street 284 00:16:34,952 --> 00:16:36,162 than I've ever seen in months. 285 00:16:36,162 --> 00:16:38,706 People seem to be having a good time, talking about movies 286 00:16:38,832 --> 00:16:43,337 thinking about the neighborhood, which is really the whole point of it. 287 00:16:43,462 --> 00:16:45,464 {\an8}[WHOOPI GOLDBERG] The thing that Bob and Jane really 288 00:16:45,589 --> 00:16:50,554 {\an8}did was to say to people, listen, yes, this happened. 289 00:16:50,679 --> 00:16:52,722 {\an8}We're not afraid. 290 00:16:52,722 --> 00:16:56,561 {\an8}Downtown will not just be revitalized, 291 00:16:56,561 --> 00:17:00,440 {\an8}but it will be reinvigorated. 292 00:17:00,566 --> 00:17:04,736 Part of the responsibility that Bob and Jane took on 293 00:17:04,736 --> 00:17:07,740 was saying, quite loudly, we are not 294 00:17:07,740 --> 00:17:10,743 going to take this lying down. 295 00:17:10,743 --> 00:17:11,744 We're going to bring downtown back. 296 00:17:11,871 --> 00:17:15,207 [MUSIC PLAYING] 297 00:17:20,964 --> 00:17:23,758 [GARYDON CARTER] I live downtown. 298 00:17:23,758 --> 00:17:27,179 We had started work on a documentary about 9/11, 299 00:17:27,179 --> 00:17:30,726 and I wanted Bob, who is the unofficial mayor of Tribeca, 300 00:17:30,851 --> 00:17:33,395 to be the front person for it. 301 00:17:33,395 --> 00:17:35,899 It's hard to weigh what happened on September 11. 302 00:17:35,899 --> 00:17:37,942 [GARYDON CARTER] But then he and Jane 303 00:17:37,942 --> 00:17:39,611 came up with the idea of doing a film festival downtown. 304 00:17:39,611 --> 00:17:43,782 And I don't know anybody who could say no to Bob De Niro. 305 00:17:43,782 --> 00:17:45,451 [JANE ROSENTHAL] Graydon Carter had 306 00:17:45,451 --> 00:17:49,956 the idea of doing a Vanity Fair party at the courthouse. 307 00:17:49,956 --> 00:17:51,833 And that's where the festival felt real, like, 308 00:17:51,833 --> 00:17:53,668 oh my God, we've really done something. 309 00:17:53,668 --> 00:17:58,216 Look, it's real. 310 00:17:58,216 --> 00:18:00,344 [GARYDON CARTER] At the event, if anybody 311 00:18:00,469 --> 00:18:03,138 needed to know where the bathrooms were, 312 00:18:03,138 --> 00:18:05,474 they'd ask any nearby billionaire 313 00:18:05,599 --> 00:18:08,311 because the billionaires had all had trials in the building 314 00:18:08,311 --> 00:18:10,647 and knew exactly where the men's rooms were. 315 00:18:11,439 --> 00:18:12,650 In the Tribeca Film Festival, that 316 00:18:12,775 --> 00:18:17,906 was the beginning of putting the city back together. 317 00:18:18,031 --> 00:18:22,244 Now it's part of the cultural schedule of the city. 318 00:18:22,244 --> 00:18:26,123 {\an8}[BONO] The festival started as a reaction to 9/11, 319 00:18:26,249 --> 00:18:30,963 {\an8}but it was also the birth of something very special. 320 00:18:30,963 --> 00:18:33,590 {\an8}What can we do to keep our neighborhood 321 00:18:33,590 --> 00:18:35,175 {\an8}alive and moving forward? 322 00:18:40,431 --> 00:18:42,852 [PETER SCARLET] We all had different visions of cinema. 323 00:18:42,852 --> 00:18:44,436 Jane had a vision. 324 00:18:44,436 --> 00:18:45,437 Bob had a vision. 325 00:18:45,437 --> 00:18:46,855 I had a vision. 326 00:18:46,855 --> 00:18:49,109 {\an8}Marty Scorsese was involved at the beginning. 327 00:18:49,109 --> 00:18:51,152 {\an8}In fact, Marty began supplying films 328 00:18:51,278 --> 00:18:54,323 {\an8}for retrospectives and the idea that a film festival 329 00:18:54,448 --> 00:18:58,744 {\an8}would be new films, but also classic films, silent films, 330 00:18:58,744 --> 00:19:01,290 {\an8}be all kinds of cinema. 331 00:19:01,290 --> 00:19:04,543 This was part of what a film festival is supposed to be, 332 00:19:04,668 --> 00:19:05,753 and what Tribeca became. 333 00:19:05,879 --> 00:19:08,381 [APPLAUSE, MUSIC PLAYING] 334 00:19:12,261 --> 00:19:17,349 {\an8}For me, this Manhattan is the universe, 335 00:19:17,349 --> 00:19:21,479 {\an8}and so everything I see is, and everything I react to, 336 00:19:21,479 --> 00:19:26,068 {\an8}is filtered through my experience in the city. 337 00:19:26,068 --> 00:19:29,071 {\an8}Bob you know that when we were downtown because we knew 338 00:19:29,071 --> 00:19:30,782 {\an8}each other I think we were 16. 339 00:19:30,908 --> 00:19:33,243 Where did you hang out? 340 00:19:33,243 --> 00:19:36,581 Two blocks South of where you were-- 341 00:19:36,706 --> 00:19:38,917 right where we shot, actually, at Kenmare Street, 342 00:19:38,917 --> 00:19:40,710 Mulberry Street, that area. 343 00:19:40,835 --> 00:19:45,049 {\an8}[MARTIN SCORSESE] No matter what the immigrant group is, 344 00:19:45,174 --> 00:19:47,635 {\an8}the immigrant experience, I think, it's 345 00:19:47,761 --> 00:19:50,764 {\an8}generally the same pattern of who are we in this country. 346 00:19:50,889 --> 00:19:54,894 What are we? 347 00:19:54,894 --> 00:19:55,853 It's a great experiment. 348 00:19:55,853 --> 00:19:56,938 Will it continue? 349 00:19:57,063 --> 00:19:59,900 Can we make it continue? 350 00:19:59,900 --> 00:20:03,404 [LOUD EXPLOSION, MUSIC PLAYING] 351 00:20:13,749 --> 00:20:15,376 [SIDE CONVERSATION] 352 00:20:20,298 --> 00:20:25,804 You've seen the pictures of me and Fellini and Sergio Leone. 353 00:20:25,804 --> 00:20:29,768 Oh, my God, that's great. 354 00:20:29,768 --> 00:20:32,020 My parents, at a certain point had 355 00:20:32,020 --> 00:20:33,230 to be moved from Elizabeth Street 356 00:20:33,356 --> 00:20:35,524 because they couldn't go up and down the stairs anymore. 357 00:20:35,650 --> 00:20:42,449 So they got them an apartment in an elevator building. 358 00:20:42,574 --> 00:20:43,367 Yeah, on Third Avenue? 359 00:20:43,367 --> 00:20:45,495 On 13th Street and Third Avenue, remember? 360 00:20:45,620 --> 00:20:48,623 The first time I visited the apartment Sergio was with me. 361 00:20:48,623 --> 00:20:50,166 I said, this is a grand occasion 362 00:20:50,166 --> 00:20:53,128 the first time you're visiting the apartment. And 363 00:20:53,128 --> 00:20:55,255 my mother made all this food for him. 364 00:20:55,255 --> 00:20:57,592 She liked him. She he was a very good eater. 365 00:20:57,717 --> 00:21:00,512 [LAUGHTER] 366 00:21:00,512 --> 00:21:03,933 But at that time, this place, the only excellent restaurant, 367 00:21:04,058 --> 00:21:06,936 for example, in place was the Odeon. 368 00:21:06,936 --> 00:21:10,107 Everything else was dead empty. 369 00:21:10,232 --> 00:21:13,151 There was nothing here except the Odeon. 370 00:21:13,276 --> 00:21:15,279 He stayed here for quite a while. 371 00:21:15,279 --> 00:21:18,449 And as we did, it became more lively. 372 00:21:18,574 --> 00:21:19,325 Places opened. 373 00:21:19,325 --> 00:21:21,829 People started to move down here. 374 00:21:21,829 --> 00:21:24,665 So the place started to come together. 375 00:21:24,665 --> 00:21:26,960 I was here at the time of-- 376 00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:31,297 where it was just the very, very beginning 377 00:21:31,297 --> 00:21:34,301 of the development of the place, put it that way, 378 00:21:34,427 --> 00:21:37,888 where people actually started to be encouraged to come here 379 00:21:38,013 --> 00:21:39,516 and also to create it. 380 00:21:44,479 --> 00:21:46,983 {\an8}[JANE ROSENTHAL] When I first moved here, 381 00:21:47,108 --> 00:21:49,652 {\an8}and I would say I was living in Tribeca 382 00:21:49,777 --> 00:21:52,990 {\an8}and people would say to me, I thought you moved to New York. 383 00:21:53,115 --> 00:21:55,492 And I'd say, I have moved to New York. 384 00:21:55,617 --> 00:21:57,162 It's Tribeca. 385 00:21:57,162 --> 00:21:58,872 It's the triangle below Canal Street. 386 00:21:58,997 --> 00:22:02,668 [MUSIC PLAYING] 387 00:22:05,087 --> 00:22:07,423 [DE NIRO] If you look at a map of Lower Manhattan 388 00:22:07,548 --> 00:22:12,054 in the early 1800s, this place was mostly open fields right 389 00:22:12,179 --> 00:22:14,640 at the edge of the city. 390 00:22:14,766 --> 00:22:18,061 {\an8}[PAUL GOLDBERGER] The closeness to the water, the accessibility 391 00:22:18,061 --> 00:22:21,982 {\an8}of all the piers, the wholesale food market, 392 00:22:22,107 --> 00:22:28,198 {\an8}all those things drove Tribeca to become what it was. 393 00:22:28,198 --> 00:22:30,825 {\an8}And this area became a rather beautiful 394 00:22:30,825 --> 00:22:35,539 {\an8}little industrial village. 395 00:22:35,539 --> 00:22:39,211 {\an8}In the '70s, there was still a certain amount of industry, 396 00:22:39,336 --> 00:22:43,965 {\an8}but not enough to really keep 397 00:22:44,091 --> 00:22:47,595 {\an8}it going as artists began to be 398 00:22:47,595 --> 00:22:49,263 {\an8}priced out of Soho. 399 00:22:49,263 --> 00:22:52,768 {\an8}They trickled down below Canal Street 400 00:22:52,893 --> 00:22:59,359 {\an8}and into this industrial area that was weirdly off the radar. 401 00:22:59,359 --> 00:23:02,112 {\an8}[JULIAN SCHANBEL] There were very few people. 402 00:23:02,237 --> 00:23:05,241 {\an8}I mean, it was bleak. 403 00:23:05,241 --> 00:23:11,790 {\an8}If you think of Marty's film After Hours, it was like that. 404 00:23:11,915 --> 00:23:13,458 But there was a lot of freedom. 405 00:23:13,458 --> 00:23:17,713 And you can hang yourself with it, or you can find it to be liberating. 406 00:23:17,839 --> 00:23:18,881 [MUSIC PLAYING] 407 00:23:18,881 --> 00:23:21,301 [DE NIRO] Tribeca became a place 408 00:23:21,301 --> 00:23:24,138 where you could live and work in the same room, 409 00:23:24,263 --> 00:23:27,642 where young families moved into former factories. 410 00:23:27,767 --> 00:23:31,730 Like so much in New York, it wasn't designed that way. 411 00:23:31,730 --> 00:23:32,732 It just worked. 412 00:23:32,857 --> 00:23:35,192 [MUSIC PLAYING] 413 00:23:36,235 --> 00:23:40,073 The space that I remember, particularly during the day, 414 00:23:40,073 --> 00:23:41,575 was all trucking. 415 00:23:41,575 --> 00:23:42,909 Trucks everywhere. Then at night, it was dead. 416 00:23:43,034 --> 00:23:45,329 Empty. 417 00:23:45,455 --> 00:23:50,961 It was really good for stealing hubcaps or any kind of sex 418 00:23:51,086 --> 00:23:54,465 that you wanted or drugs. 419 00:23:54,590 --> 00:23:56,968 Nobody could see anything. I'm talking about before or after hours. 420 00:23:57,093 --> 00:24:00,847 So Tribeca, all of a sudden, now is like the Elysian Fields. 421 00:24:00,847 --> 00:24:04,268 [LAUGHTER] 422 00:24:04,393 --> 00:24:05,936 I said, I knew guys used to steal hubcaps, 423 00:24:05,936 --> 00:24:06,937 take cars from here. 424 00:24:06,937 --> 00:24:09,941 [laughter] 425 00:24:09,941 --> 00:24:11,818 Not that I did. I'm just saying. 426 00:24:16,866 --> 00:24:19,619 {\an8}[REPORTER] In this corner of New York City, between the Wall 427 00:24:19,744 --> 00:24:21,997 {\an8}Street traders and the Soho Art Galleries, 428 00:24:21,997 --> 00:24:24,208 {\an8}De Niro is building a film community, 429 00:24:24,208 --> 00:24:26,251 {\an8}a place for ideas, talent and money 430 00:24:26,376 --> 00:24:27,962 {\an8}can get together outside of Hollywood. 431 00:24:27,962 --> 00:24:30,465 When I saw this building, I said 432 00:24:30,465 --> 00:24:33,302 it'd be nice to have a place that would have everything 433 00:24:33,302 --> 00:24:36,263 like a restaurant, a screening room, especially this one, which 434 00:24:36,388 --> 00:24:38,057 is a state of the art screening room. 435 00:24:38,057 --> 00:24:42,062 Don't ask me all the details, but I know it is, where a lot of people 436 00:24:42,062 --> 00:24:44,398 would be brought together in film. 437 00:24:44,398 --> 00:24:47,568 Creative people who just by being together, 438 00:24:47,568 --> 00:24:49,570 things would-- ideas would come up 439 00:24:49,696 --> 00:24:51,949 and projects and so on that we don't even 440 00:24:52,074 --> 00:24:53,826 know what they would be. 441 00:24:53,826 --> 00:24:55,994 I mean, the whole thing will take on a life of its own. 442 00:24:56,120 --> 00:24:59,499 [MUSIC PLAYING] 443 00:25:05,589 --> 00:25:08,593 Jane and I started working together. 444 00:25:08,593 --> 00:25:11,346 I saw this building and I thought, oh, gee, it'd 445 00:25:11,346 --> 00:25:13,932 be great if we could do something. 446 00:25:14,057 --> 00:25:16,102 It was my dream. 447 00:25:16,102 --> 00:25:19,939 And we actually got it done. 448 00:25:20,064 --> 00:25:23,819 [ROBERT DE NIRO] I grew up in the village a few blocks North. 449 00:25:23,819 --> 00:25:26,071 {\an8}In the late '70s, I was looking around for gym space to train 450 00:25:26,196 --> 00:25:28,533 {\an8}for Raging Bull. 451 00:25:28,533 --> 00:25:31,369 {\an8}That's when I fell for the neighborhood. 452 00:25:36,167 --> 00:25:39,963 [JANE ROSENTHAL] The neighborhood was the mercantile and butter 453 00:25:40,088 --> 00:25:42,549 and egg district. 454 00:25:42,549 --> 00:25:46,137 This building was the former Martinson Coffee and Tetley 455 00:25:46,262 --> 00:25:48,181 Tea building. 456 00:25:48,306 --> 00:25:50,934 If you walked by this block, it really 457 00:25:50,934 --> 00:25:54,146 did smell of coffee roasting. 458 00:25:54,146 --> 00:25:56,148 If you walked a little further South, 459 00:25:56,148 --> 00:25:59,110 you got to the Nutt district. 460 00:25:59,110 --> 00:26:01,404 [DE NIRO] The whole point was 461 00:26:01,404 --> 00:26:04,325 to build a place for independent film in New York. 462 00:26:04,325 --> 00:26:06,285 People from LA always said New 463 00:26:06,285 --> 00:26:07,787 York's a nice place to visit, 464 00:26:07,787 --> 00:26:10,290 I wouldn't want to live there. Well, that was how it went for me. 465 00:26:10,415 --> 00:26:14,252 LA is a nice place to visit. I wouldn't want to live there. 466 00:26:14,252 --> 00:26:15,004 We want it to be down here. 467 00:26:15,004 --> 00:26:19,175 It was more unique, special. 468 00:26:19,175 --> 00:26:21,845 This building seemed perfect. 469 00:26:21,970 --> 00:26:24,598 [JANE ROSENTHAL] What we did is take a manufacturing 470 00:26:24,723 --> 00:26:26,935 building that was actually for physical manufacturing 471 00:26:26,935 --> 00:26:33,192 and turn it into a place of creating and manufacturing 472 00:26:33,317 --> 00:26:35,194 stories and creativity. 473 00:26:35,319 --> 00:26:38,698 [MUSIC PLAYING] 474 00:26:56,260 --> 00:27:00,890 The first festival was only four days. 475 00:27:00,890 --> 00:27:03,060 And then we had to immediately start the second festival. 476 00:27:03,185 --> 00:27:06,147 [MUSIC PLAYING] 477 00:27:07,064 --> 00:27:11,987 It is my pleasure to announce the second annual Tribeca 478 00:27:11,987 --> 00:27:16,909 Film Festival will be returning to Lower Manhattan this spring. 479 00:27:17,034 --> 00:27:21,915 {\an8}[SHEILA NEVINS] Slowly, it began to craft a celebrity aura to it. 480 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:26,754 {\an8}It went from this emotional 9/11 experience to becoming a very 481 00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:28,131 {\an8}valid festival. 482 00:27:28,131 --> 00:27:29,674 {\an8}[MUSIC PLAYING] 483 00:27:29,674 --> 00:27:34,472 {\an8}Tribeca helped give respect to documentaries. 484 00:27:34,597 --> 00:27:37,892 {\an8}It became part of the business. 485 00:27:38,017 --> 00:27:38,643 {\an8}Find out who made it. 486 00:27:38,643 --> 00:27:40,562 {\an8}Find out what else they've done. 487 00:27:40,562 --> 00:27:42,856 {\an8}Here's a name you never heard of before. 488 00:27:42,981 --> 00:27:46,778 {\an8}[REPORTER] Virunga it's a story about a British oil company that 489 00:27:46,778 --> 00:27:50,031 {\an8}was illegally exploring for oil within a national park. 490 00:27:50,031 --> 00:27:53,911 There was a lot of people that didn't want this film 491 00:27:54,036 --> 00:27:54,953 to see the light of day. 492 00:27:55,079 --> 00:27:59,042 A year after the film launched at Tribeca, 493 00:27:59,042 --> 00:28:02,379 SOCO international formally withdrew from the Virunga National Park. 494 00:28:02,379 --> 00:28:06,884 And then people started talking about the film as an awards contender. 495 00:28:06,884 --> 00:28:09,930 {\an8}[PETER SCARLET] There's a contingent of filmmakers you know 496 00:28:10,055 --> 00:28:11,556 {\an8}will show up at Tribeca. 497 00:28:11,681 --> 00:28:14,352 {\an8}They're the cream of the crop of Film Festival talent. 498 00:28:14,352 --> 00:28:18,481 {\an8}Taxi to the Dark Side, it had the premiere at Tribeca, 499 00:28:18,606 --> 00:28:20,359 {\an8}went on to win the Oscars. 500 00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:23,028 {\an8}[MUSIC PLAYING] 501 00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:29,077 Just thought that this would be a helpful time for us all 502 00:28:29,202 --> 00:28:33,374 to now that the first screenings are up to actually 503 00:28:33,499 --> 00:28:35,501 look at it day by day. 504 00:28:35,501 --> 00:28:38,713 Are we front loading things that we think are impactful? 505 00:28:38,713 --> 00:28:40,799 Does every day have a good balance? 506 00:28:40,799 --> 00:28:42,592 [CARA CUSUMANO] I think we've really 507 00:28:42,592 --> 00:28:45,805 become a discovery festival. 508 00:28:45,930 --> 00:28:48,724 {\an8}It's the part of the job that I think is the most exciting 509 00:28:48,850 --> 00:28:52,563 {\an8}is that we could potentially be changing 510 00:28:52,563 --> 00:28:56,776 {\an8}someone's life, changing culture, putting fingerprints 511 00:28:56,776 --> 00:29:00,738 {\an8}on what the film culture in this country looks like. 512 00:29:00,738 --> 00:29:03,492 {\an8}Voice of the Rainbow, Mouthful of Gold, The Long Haul, 513 00:29:03,492 --> 00:29:06,120 {\an8}those are the ones I see on this list that could 514 00:29:06,245 --> 00:29:08,665 {\an8}go into a 250 to 350 size. 515 00:29:08,665 --> 00:29:11,334 {\an8}An iconoclast could fill one of those Sunday slots. 516 00:29:11,460 --> 00:29:12,711 {\an8}Hi. My name is Damien Chazelle. 517 00:29:12,836 --> 00:29:16,466 {\an8}I'm the writer and director of Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench 518 00:29:16,591 --> 00:29:19,010 {\an8}and this is my first Tribeca Film Festival. 519 00:29:19,135 --> 00:29:20,178 {\an8}One of my first years 520 00:29:20,178 --> 00:29:22,306 {\an8}we saw Damien Chazelle's first film, Guy and Madeline 521 00:29:22,306 --> 00:29:24,808 {\an8}on a Park Bench. 522 00:29:24,808 --> 00:29:28,188 {\an8}He's gone on to such incredible success since then. 523 00:29:28,188 --> 00:29:30,190 {\an8}[LIZA DOMNITZ] Mind boggling. 524 00:29:30,315 --> 00:29:33,986 {\an8}There's a whole lot of filmmakers that have started here. 525 00:29:33,986 --> 00:29:37,823 {\an8}Ryan Coogler had his first short here, which was called Locks. 526 00:29:37,823 --> 00:29:41,411 {\an8}We chose writer director Nia DaCosta's Little Woods. 527 00:29:41,411 --> 00:29:43,997 {\an8}Nia DaCosta, she's 528 00:29:43,997 --> 00:29:47,835 {\an8}a wonderful filmmaker that has since completely blown up. 529 00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:49,170 {\an8}Oh, wow. 530 00:29:49,170 --> 00:29:51,256 {\an8}[NIA DACOSTA] Winning something like that on your first film 531 00:29:51,381 --> 00:29:55,427 {\an8}is so impactful. 532 00:29:55,427 --> 00:29:57,597 {\an8}It makes people pay attention. 533 00:29:57,722 --> 00:30:00,016 {\an8}It's one of the things I really love about Tribeca 534 00:30:00,016 --> 00:30:03,729 {\an8}is that they genuinely are focused in expanding 535 00:30:03,729 --> 00:30:05,940 {\an8}the kinds of films that we get to see 536 00:30:05,940 --> 00:30:08,235 {\an8}and from different kinds of people. 537 00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:11,822 My career was made there because that's where I sold my film, 538 00:30:11,947 --> 00:30:15,660 and that really changed my trajectory. 539 00:30:15,785 --> 00:30:18,621 [ROBERT DE NIRO] We just kept doing what we set out to do, 540 00:30:18,621 --> 00:30:21,250 finding new voices, new ways to tell 541 00:30:21,375 --> 00:30:26,130 stories, different perspectives, people with something to say. 542 00:30:26,256 --> 00:30:26,548 [MUSIC PLAYING] 543 00:30:26,548 --> 00:30:29,634 [APPLAUSE] 544 00:30:29,634 --> 00:30:31,553 We'd like to present the Founders Award 545 00:30:31,553 --> 00:30:33,514 for best narrative feature. 546 00:30:33,639 --> 00:30:38,645 The winner will receive 25,000, as well as an art award valued at $50,000. 547 00:30:39,938 --> 00:30:42,149 {\an8}[NANCY LEFKOWITZ] The art awards program is something 548 00:30:42,149 --> 00:30:44,777 {\an8}that Jane conceived of in the very early days 549 00:30:44,777 --> 00:30:47,321 {\an8}because we are a competitive festival. 550 00:30:47,447 --> 00:30:49,991 {\an8}[MUSIC PLAYING] 551 00:30:51,535 --> 00:30:53,328 {\an8}Every year, approximately 10 artists 552 00:30:53,453 --> 00:30:57,625 {\an8}contribute original artwork from their collection or something 553 00:30:57,625 --> 00:30:59,669 {\an8}that they make for the festival, and it 554 00:30:59,669 --> 00:31:02,088 {\an8}serves as a filmmaker prize. 555 00:31:02,214 --> 00:31:05,801 {\an8}It's really one art form celebrating another. 556 00:31:05,926 --> 00:31:08,012 {\an8}[JULIAN SCHANBEL] Viable piece of art, 557 00:31:08,012 --> 00:31:10,515 {\an8}it's a nice thing to give to somebody. 558 00:31:10,515 --> 00:31:13,185 {\an8}It grows with them. 559 00:31:13,185 --> 00:31:15,897 {\an8}I never had a sense of community in my life. 560 00:31:16,022 --> 00:31:18,941 {\an8}To be a part of the Tribeca Film Festival, 561 00:31:18,941 --> 00:31:21,945 {\an8}and to be a part of what it did for other people, 562 00:31:21,945 --> 00:31:23,947 {\an8}I was very proud to be part of that. 563 00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:39,883 {\an8}- How's it going? - How are you doing? 564 00:31:40,008 --> 00:31:41,676 {\an8}[BEN THOMPSON] When I first started at the festival, 565 00:31:41,676 --> 00:31:47,767 {\an8}most of the films we showed were on 35 or 16 millimeter. 566 00:31:47,892 --> 00:31:50,854 {\an8}When digital came along, that opened up 567 00:31:50,854 --> 00:31:53,398 {\an8}the ability to make films for so many more people. 568 00:31:53,524 --> 00:31:56,903 {\an8}[MUSIC PLAYING] 569 00:31:59,447 --> 00:32:03,702 The more people who are making films, [INAUDIBLE] stories that 570 00:32:03,828 --> 00:32:07,373 are being told, the more different types of stories 571 00:32:07,373 --> 00:32:07,998 you're going to get. 572 00:32:08,125 --> 00:32:09,668 [MUSIC PLAYING] 573 00:32:11,002 --> 00:32:12,379 [WOMAN] Part of what a festival does 574 00:32:12,504 --> 00:32:16,551 is bring people together to watch all kinds of films 575 00:32:16,676 --> 00:32:18,678 and have discussions afterwards and hear 576 00:32:18,678 --> 00:32:23,058 what a filmmaker was thinking and engage 577 00:32:23,058 --> 00:32:27,021 in some real interesting conversations. 578 00:32:27,021 --> 00:32:32,611 {\an8}That night, I was the happiest moment of my life. 579 00:32:32,736 --> 00:32:35,239 {\an8}[ANNOUNCER] Ladies and gentlemen, please give it up 580 00:32:35,239 --> 00:32:40,620 {\an8}for the director and cast of The Godfather and The Godfather Part two. 581 00:32:40,620 --> 00:32:43,165 {\an8}I've been asked by big shots, how 582 00:32:43,290 --> 00:32:47,545 {\an8}do you make a film that is successful financially and also 583 00:32:47,545 --> 00:32:48,504 {\an8}artistically? 584 00:32:48,629 --> 00:32:51,341 {\an8}And I said to him, risk. 585 00:32:51,341 --> 00:32:53,719 {\an8}[MUSIC PLAYING] 586 00:32:54,595 --> 00:32:56,472 {\an8}Michael, Michael. 587 00:32:56,598 --> 00:32:59,976 {\an8}[MUSIC PLAYING] 588 00:33:03,564 --> 00:33:06,400 [HECKLING] 589 00:33:25,672 --> 00:33:31,262 Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the 25th Tribeca festival. 590 00:33:31,262 --> 00:33:32,932 [APPLAUSE] 591 00:33:32,932 --> 00:33:35,726 It's hard to believe that it's been half a century 592 00:33:35,851 --> 00:33:38,688 since the brilliant Martin Scorsese delivered us 593 00:33:38,688 --> 00:33:42,526 Taxi Driver, starring our very own Robert De Niro. 594 00:33:42,526 --> 00:33:45,196 [APPLAUSE] 595 00:33:46,572 --> 00:33:51,370 They are joined here tonight by other incredible artists 596 00:33:51,495 --> 00:33:55,541 at the heart of Taxi Driver, Jodie Foster and Paul Schrader. 597 00:33:55,541 --> 00:33:57,877 [APPLAUSE] 598 00:33:59,128 --> 00:34:02,299 {\an8}Jody was only 12 years old when she starred in Taxi 599 00:34:02,299 --> 00:34:06,053 {\an8}Driver and Paul, the extraordinary screenwriter 600 00:34:06,053 --> 00:34:08,640 {\an8}who brought Taxi Driver to life in a singular 601 00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:11,393 {\an8}force of American cinema. 602 00:34:11,393 --> 00:34:14,730 Please join me in welcoming Martin Scorsese, Robert De 603 00:34:14,856 --> 00:34:20,070 Niro, Jodie Foster, Paul Schrader, and W. Kamau Bell. 604 00:34:20,070 --> 00:34:22,322 [APPLAUSE] 605 00:34:24,324 --> 00:34:27,745 Taxi Driver is about a disaffected young man 606 00:34:27,871 --> 00:34:29,080 who has problems connecting romantically 607 00:34:29,205 --> 00:34:34,420 with women and hyperfocuses on politicians in the wrong ways 608 00:34:34,545 --> 00:34:36,714 and wants to be the hero in his own story. 609 00:34:36,839 --> 00:34:39,092 {\an8}Why do you think this is relevant today? 610 00:34:39,092 --> 00:34:41,094 {\an8}[LAUGHTER] 611 00:34:41,094 --> 00:34:43,805 {\an8}There's something absolutely 100% true 612 00:34:43,805 --> 00:34:48,769 {\an8}and authentic about the character's disaffection and 613 00:34:48,769 --> 00:34:52,941 {\an8}loneliness that I didn't really understand but that I knew was really true. 614 00:34:52,941 --> 00:34:54,943 Mr. Scorsese, what do you think? 615 00:34:55,068 --> 00:34:55,987 Why is this film endured? 616 00:34:56,112 --> 00:34:58,948 When I saw the cab, I began to realize 617 00:34:58,948 --> 00:35:02,328 that it's that arc of despair. 618 00:35:02,328 --> 00:35:05,539 New York in the summer has got great steam. 619 00:35:05,539 --> 00:35:07,291 [LAUGHTER] 620 00:35:07,291 --> 00:35:09,085 The steam comes up and the cab came through. 621 00:35:09,211 --> 00:35:13,131 I said, oh my God, look at that. And somebody said, oh, it's supposed 622 00:35:13,256 --> 00:35:15,885 to be the hell metaphor. I wasn't making a metaphor. 623 00:35:16,010 --> 00:35:19,305 It's the cab coming through the steam. [LAUGHTER] 624 00:35:19,430 --> 00:35:20,474 Really it was. 625 00:35:20,474 --> 00:35:23,143 Can we spare some words for that era of New York City, 626 00:35:23,268 --> 00:35:25,312 and what it was like to film in that era? 627 00:35:25,312 --> 00:35:28,107 There was something in the shoot of the film, 628 00:35:28,107 --> 00:35:31,402 and you could feel in the temperature, 629 00:35:31,528 --> 00:35:35,074 you could feel a violence all around you, 630 00:35:35,074 --> 00:35:36,826 and you could taste it in a way. 631 00:35:36,826 --> 00:35:38,453 And it was the city. 632 00:35:38,578 --> 00:35:40,747 It was falling apart. 633 00:35:40,747 --> 00:35:42,207 {\an8}Really was falling apart. 634 00:35:42,207 --> 00:35:44,335 {\an8}I was sitting there in the village saying, 635 00:35:44,335 --> 00:35:45,670 {\an8}this is the greatest fucking place on Earth. 636 00:35:45,670 --> 00:35:48,673 {\an8}[LAUGHTER] 637 00:35:48,798 --> 00:35:49,674 {\an8}It really was. 638 00:35:49,674 --> 00:35:51,093 [LAUGHTER, APPLAUSE] 639 00:35:51,218 --> 00:35:53,512 So I'm not going to be able to leave here alive if I 640 00:35:53,512 --> 00:35:56,599 don't ask about one scene in particular from Taxi Driver. 641 00:35:56,599 --> 00:35:57,475 Do you remember? 642 00:35:57,600 --> 00:35:58,476 I think so. 643 00:35:58,476 --> 00:35:59,894 [LAUGHTER] 644 00:35:59,894 --> 00:36:02,857 Would you happen to remember what the famous line from that scene is? 645 00:36:02,982 --> 00:36:04,608 Yes, I know it. 646 00:36:04,608 --> 00:36:07,111 [LAUGHTER] 647 00:36:07,946 --> 00:36:09,197 Are you talking to me? 648 00:36:09,197 --> 00:36:11,533 [LAUGHTER] 649 00:36:14,912 --> 00:36:18,499 I'll add one more thing. 650 00:36:18,624 --> 00:36:18,916 I'm the only one here. 651 00:36:18,916 --> 00:36:19,792 [LAUGHTER] 652 00:36:19,918 --> 00:36:20,878 That's the point. 653 00:36:21,003 --> 00:36:23,547 That was the point. You're right. 654 00:36:23,547 --> 00:36:27,051 [APPLAUSE, CHEERING] 655 00:36:32,641 --> 00:36:34,977 [ROBERT DE NIRO] It didn't matter how much we expanded or grew. 656 00:36:34,977 --> 00:36:37,605 We never forgot where we came from. 657 00:36:37,730 --> 00:36:40,233 {\an8}[REPORTER] You're opening up the festival this year 658 00:36:40,233 --> 00:36:43,486 {\an8}with a movie, United 93, which, of course, tells 659 00:36:43,486 --> 00:36:46,324 {\an8}the story of the flight that crashed in Pennsylvania. 660 00:36:46,449 --> 00:36:49,035 {\an8}You couldn't think of not opening 661 00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:52,915 {\an8}the festival with the movie, let's put it that way. 662 00:36:53,540 --> 00:36:55,709 {\an8}[JANE ROSENTHAL] We invited all the families 663 00:36:55,834 --> 00:36:58,463 {\an8}to come to the festival. 664 00:36:58,463 --> 00:37:00,798 They never felt part of the national grief. 665 00:37:00,798 --> 00:37:03,844 That was for the Pentagon. 666 00:37:03,844 --> 00:37:04,845 It was for New York. 667 00:37:04,845 --> 00:37:08,516 They didn't talk about United 93. 668 00:37:08,642 --> 00:37:12,771 This is a movie to see, to be strong, to be strong. 669 00:37:12,771 --> 00:37:14,607 Not to be afraid of nobody. 670 00:37:14,732 --> 00:37:16,984 [MUSIC PLAYING] 671 00:37:18,277 --> 00:37:21,782 {\an8}[NANCY LEFKOWITZ] There were sobs in that theater. 672 00:37:21,907 --> 00:37:25,035 {\an8}It was people grieving. 673 00:37:25,035 --> 00:37:26,871 {\an8}We were there for each other. 674 00:37:26,871 --> 00:37:32,253 {\an8}Collectively, singularly. 675 00:37:32,378 --> 00:37:34,964 Harkens back to why we built the festival in the first place. 676 00:37:35,089 --> 00:37:37,633 [MUSIC PLAYING] 677 00:37:42,097 --> 00:37:45,268 Tribeca is not actually a triangle. 678 00:37:45,393 --> 00:37:50,274 It's a quadrilateral that speaks to exactly what Tribeca is. 679 00:37:50,399 --> 00:37:54,027 It's just little tilted, a little quirky, a little 680 00:37:54,027 --> 00:37:55,947 surprising, unexpected. 681 00:37:56,072 --> 00:37:59,659 It isn't just borders on a map. 682 00:37:59,784 --> 00:38:00,118 It's a feeling. 683 00:38:00,118 --> 00:38:02,830 It's a vibe. 684 00:38:02,955 --> 00:38:07,251 At the heart, we are about a community, and bringing people together. 685 00:38:07,251 --> 00:38:09,754 And there's nothing like a New York audience 686 00:38:09,754 --> 00:38:13,843 because it's as diverse as every point of view that can exist in the world. 687 00:38:13,968 --> 00:38:15,678 It's here in New York. 688 00:38:15,678 --> 00:38:18,097 [WOMAN] I feel like we're an audience festival. 689 00:38:18,097 --> 00:38:19,140 [JANE ROSENTHAL] First festival, it 690 00:38:19,265 --> 00:38:22,603 was about how many people we could bring downtown. 691 00:38:22,603 --> 00:38:24,938 That first year, David Bowie played. 692 00:38:24,938 --> 00:38:27,400 {\an8}[MUSIC PLAYING] 693 00:38:30,153 --> 00:38:31,112 {\an8}How you doing. 694 00:38:31,112 --> 00:38:33,490 {\an8}Having a good time? 695 00:38:33,616 --> 00:38:36,243 {\an8}[JANE ROSENTHAL] Music became part of the festival going 696 00:38:36,243 --> 00:38:40,290 {\an8}forward because it was a way to celebrate, 697 00:38:40,290 --> 00:38:43,001 {\an8}and we needed to start to feel good again. 698 00:38:43,126 --> 00:38:45,713 {\an8}[CARA CUSUMANO] Elton John performed, 699 00:38:45,838 --> 00:38:49,383 {\an8}and he played your song and dedicated it to New York City. 700 00:38:49,383 --> 00:38:51,053 {\an8}This one's for you with my love. 701 00:38:51,178 --> 00:38:52,804 [PIANO PLAYING] 702 00:38:52,804 --> 00:38:55,515 And now we have Taylor Swift and Miley Cyrus coming. 703 00:38:55,515 --> 00:39:00,521 And we had Nas come with his Time Is Illmatic film. 704 00:39:00,647 --> 00:39:02,149 Nas is New York. 705 00:39:02,149 --> 00:39:03,651 Hip hop is New York. 706 00:39:03,651 --> 00:39:04,985 [APPLAUSE] 707 00:39:05,110 --> 00:39:07,363 {\an8}[NAS] Opening the Tribeca Film Festival, 708 00:39:07,363 --> 00:39:11,492 {\an8}Robert De Niro comes out and introduces the film. 709 00:39:11,618 --> 00:39:14,330 {\an8}This film tells the story of the making of an artist 710 00:39:14,330 --> 00:39:16,749 {\an8}and the making of an album here in our hometown. 711 00:39:17,750 --> 00:39:20,212 {\an8}[NAS] It was a surreal moment, to say the least. 712 00:39:20,337 --> 00:39:22,297 {\an8}I want to thank Robert De Niro. 713 00:39:22,297 --> 00:39:23,966 {\an8}He plays me in all his movies. 714 00:39:23,966 --> 00:39:26,552 {\an8}[LAUGHTER] 715 00:39:26,552 --> 00:39:30,891 {\an8}[NAS] Artists in the city were born with this obligation 716 00:39:31,016 --> 00:39:33,977 {\an8}to represent New York. 717 00:39:33,977 --> 00:39:37,565 {\an8}You have to express it in your art. 718 00:39:37,690 --> 00:39:38,650 {\an8}I love you guys. 719 00:39:38,650 --> 00:39:39,984 {\an8}[APPLAUSE] 720 00:39:39,984 --> 00:39:43,447 {\an8}[MUSIC PLAYING] 721 00:39:49,704 --> 00:39:52,874 {\an8}[REPORTER] Governor Cuomo just announced the first confirmed 722 00:39:52,874 --> 00:39:54,377 {\an8}case in New York City. 723 00:39:54,502 --> 00:39:56,879 [REPORTER] The number of cases has climbed to 5,000. 724 00:39:57,004 --> 00:39:58,965 [REPORTER] Coronavirus crisis in the nation's largest city 725 00:39:58,965 --> 00:40:01,426 is exploding. 726 00:40:01,552 --> 00:40:04,513 [REPORTER] Bars, restaurants, entertainment venues shut down 727 00:40:04,513 --> 00:40:07,934 in an attempt to slow the rapidly spreading virus. 728 00:40:08,059 --> 00:40:14,024 [ROBERT DE NIRO] In March of 2020, everything stopped. 729 00:40:14,150 --> 00:40:18,363 New York shut down almost overnight. 730 00:40:18,363 --> 00:40:23,410 Theaters went dark, streets were empty. 731 00:40:23,535 --> 00:40:26,205 [JANE ROSENTHAL] We were one of the first festivals that 732 00:40:26,205 --> 00:40:27,915 had to pause during COVID. 733 00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:34,798 I was struck by the fact that we started the festival 734 00:40:34,923 --> 00:40:36,467 to bring people together. 735 00:40:36,467 --> 00:40:41,347 In COVID, we couldn't touch each other. 736 00:40:41,347 --> 00:40:44,268 {\an8}Tribeca is now helping New 737 00:40:44,268 --> 00:40:48,982 {\an8}York rejuvenate post-COVID. 738 00:40:49,107 --> 00:40:52,944 {\an8}We've been through a grueling year, and it's been devastating, frustrating, 739 00:40:52,944 --> 00:40:54,614 {\an8}at times frightening. 740 00:40:54,739 --> 00:40:57,617 Today, we're thrilled to be able to bring the Tribeca Film 741 00:40:57,742 --> 00:41:00,120 Festival to all five boroughs as a tribute 742 00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:05,919 to storytelling and cultural richness of every part of New York. 743 00:41:05,919 --> 00:41:07,378 [CHEERING] 744 00:41:07,378 --> 00:41:10,089 {\an8}[REPORTER] Tribeca will be the first in-person film festival 745 00:41:10,089 --> 00:41:14,428 {\an8}to take place in all of North America since the pandemic began over a year ago. 746 00:41:14,428 --> 00:41:16,972 {\an8}[REPORTER] Well, first of all, congratulations. 747 00:41:17,097 --> 00:41:18,475 {\an8}Thank you. Thank you so much. 748 00:41:18,475 --> 00:41:22,520 {\an8}Jon Chu had one of his early short films here at Tribeca. 749 00:41:22,646 --> 00:41:24,649 {\an8}[JON CHU] This is where we started. 750 00:41:24,774 --> 00:41:26,776 {\an8}When we came here for the first time, 751 00:41:26,776 --> 00:41:31,657 {\an8}we were wide-eyed and innocent within the heights being there. 752 00:41:31,657 --> 00:41:34,701 {\an8}It couldn't have been more full circle for us. 753 00:41:34,826 --> 00:41:37,121 We were back, and it was this community 754 00:41:37,247 --> 00:41:39,999 in Washington Heights where we premiered it, 755 00:41:40,124 --> 00:41:41,668 where we shot the movie. 756 00:41:41,668 --> 00:41:45,339 So to come back there after being locked down 757 00:41:45,339 --> 00:41:50,720 to be outside just felt like a return to not just home, 758 00:41:50,845 --> 00:41:52,222 but to normalcy. 759 00:41:52,222 --> 00:41:54,350 It was like breathing air again. 760 00:41:55,643 --> 00:41:57,228 {\an8}[PETE TORRES] You just saw people come back and just 761 00:41:57,228 --> 00:42:01,191 {\an8}for an hour or two, they were able to forget everything going on in the world 762 00:42:01,191 --> 00:42:03,152 {\an8}and in their lives. 763 00:42:03,152 --> 00:42:05,737 We brought them entertainment. 764 00:42:05,737 --> 00:42:08,700 That was originally what Tribeca was all about. 765 00:42:08,825 --> 00:42:13,831 It was amazing to see just New Yorkers being New Yorkers again. 766 00:42:13,831 --> 00:42:16,333 [MUSIC PLAYING] 767 00:42:19,629 --> 00:42:21,506 [ROBERT DE NIRO] Film has the ability 768 00:42:21,506 --> 00:42:25,428 to take people out of the world they live in 769 00:42:25,428 --> 00:42:27,388 and show them other things. 770 00:42:27,388 --> 00:42:31,435 {\an8}That's, for me, the beauty of the arts. 771 00:42:31,560 --> 00:42:33,395 {\an8}You are able to share. 772 00:42:33,395 --> 00:42:36,774 {\an8}This is what I think and this is who I am. 773 00:42:36,900 --> 00:42:37,400 {\an8}What am I doing? 774 00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:39,068 I never come downtown? 775 00:42:39,194 --> 00:42:41,404 I hate downtown. 776 00:42:41,404 --> 00:42:44,241 Artists reveal certain truths that some people are afraid to face, and 777 00:42:44,241 --> 00:42:47,453 that's why they're artists. 778 00:42:47,578 --> 00:42:52,209 At the end of the day, artists are just trying to point out what's going on. 779 00:42:52,209 --> 00:42:53,627 {\an8}Art is inclusive. 780 00:42:53,752 --> 00:42:56,881 {\an8}It brings people together, like tonight. 781 00:42:57,006 --> 00:43:00,302 {\an8}Art looks for truth, art embraces diversity. 782 00:43:00,427 --> 00:43:03,722 And that's why art is a threat. 783 00:43:03,722 --> 00:43:09,646 That's why we are a threat to autocrats and fascists. 784 00:43:09,771 --> 00:43:15,486 And this isn't just an American problem, it's a global one. 785 00:43:15,611 --> 00:43:19,407 Unlike a film, we can't just all sit back and watch. 786 00:43:19,407 --> 00:43:23,620 We have to act, and we have to act now. 787 00:43:23,620 --> 00:43:27,041 {\an8}[REPORTER] Another suspected explosive was found in the mail. 788 00:43:27,041 --> 00:43:31,463 {\an8}That package sent to the Tribeca offices of actor Robert De Niro. 789 00:43:31,588 --> 00:43:34,466 {\an8}[JULIAN SCHANBEL] Bob is really fearless in what 790 00:43:34,591 --> 00:43:36,469 {\an8}he's willing to take on. 791 00:43:36,594 --> 00:43:39,973 {\an8}I feel betrayed by my country. 792 00:43:39,973 --> 00:43:43,519 It doesn't have to be perfect, but it does need to return to the 793 00:43:43,644 --> 00:43:46,105 values that gave us our strength, and humanity. 794 00:43:46,105 --> 00:43:48,149 [APPLAUSE] 795 00:43:48,149 --> 00:43:53,530 [JULIAN SCHANBEL] I'm particularly proud of him and his voice as 796 00:43:53,655 --> 00:43:58,244 an independent, free person, speaking about the situation that we're living in. 797 00:43:58,244 --> 00:44:02,624 [JANE ROSENTHAL] Someone like Bob, when he uses his words, 798 00:44:02,624 --> 00:44:06,754 can bring people's attention to certain issues. 799 00:44:06,754 --> 00:44:09,799 [REPORTER] You're always about lifting up everybody around you? 800 00:44:09,799 --> 00:44:12,261 - [DE NIRO] Yeah, of course. - Why is that? 801 00:44:12,261 --> 00:44:14,930 [MUSIC PLAYING] 802 00:44:16,432 --> 00:44:17,349 You have to. 803 00:44:17,767 --> 00:44:19,311 You have to lift people up. 804 00:44:19,311 --> 00:44:20,520 [REPORTER] Why? 805 00:44:20,520 --> 00:44:23,941 You have to bring them together. Period. 806 00:44:23,941 --> 00:44:25,359 [MUSIC PLAYING] 807 00:44:25,359 --> 00:44:27,612 You can't divide people. 808 00:44:27,612 --> 00:44:28,279 You can't win that way. 809 00:44:28,279 --> 00:44:31,700 [MUSIC PLAYING] 810 00:44:36,289 --> 00:44:37,916 It's a no win situation. 811 00:44:38,041 --> 00:44:40,294 [MUSIC PLAYING] 812 00:44:42,713 --> 00:44:46,843 [JANE ROSENTHAL] We give out an award that the late Paula Weinstein started 813 00:44:46,968 --> 00:44:50,513 in honor of Harry Belafonte for artists and activism. 814 00:44:50,513 --> 00:44:53,392 Artists are the gatekeepers of truth. 815 00:44:53,392 --> 00:44:58,773 [JANE ROSENTHAL] This year, we're giving Belafonte Award to Bruce Springsteen. 816 00:44:58,773 --> 00:45:03,779 He's not afraid to fight back with his words, his music, 817 00:45:03,779 --> 00:45:06,657 and about what's been going on in this country. 818 00:45:06,782 --> 00:45:09,995 {\an8}This past winter, federal troops 819 00:45:10,120 --> 00:45:15,293 {\an8}brought death and terror to the streets of Minneapolis. 820 00:45:15,293 --> 00:45:18,421 {\an8}[BONO] Bruce is exactly the right person to write that lament, 821 00:45:18,421 --> 00:45:22,426 {\an8}"Streets of Minneapolis," right at the moment when we all needed to hear. 822 00:45:22,426 --> 00:45:25,929 [MUSIC PLAYING] 823 00:45:27,056 --> 00:45:30,894 [BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN] Through the winter's ice and cold 824 00:45:30,894 --> 00:45:36,025 America tells its story in cinema. 825 00:45:36,150 --> 00:45:37,526 Cinema is where the American dream was 826 00:45:37,526 --> 00:45:41,531 encoded before it was exported. 827 00:45:41,531 --> 00:45:42,574 And what followed? 828 00:45:42,699 --> 00:45:45,118 American music. 829 00:45:45,244 --> 00:45:48,539 Johnny Cash was America, Aretha Franklin was America, 830 00:45:48,539 --> 00:45:51,543 Harry Belafonte was America. 831 00:45:51,543 --> 00:45:54,213 Bruce Springsteen is America. 832 00:45:54,213 --> 00:45:56,715 [APPLAUSE] 833 00:45:57,759 --> 00:46:03,056 Some songs managed to change, not just the room 834 00:46:03,181 --> 00:46:04,642 that they recorded in, or they can change 835 00:46:04,642 --> 00:46:08,104 the atmosphere of a time. 836 00:46:08,104 --> 00:46:12,901 And we know how serious you feel, 837 00:46:12,901 --> 00:46:15,571 what you're feeling for your country. 838 00:46:15,571 --> 00:46:17,240 I always work for me inside out. 839 00:46:17,365 --> 00:46:21,620 So you're sitting around, and I'm just pissed off. 840 00:46:21,620 --> 00:46:26,417 And if you-- art has the chance to shape culture. 841 00:46:26,542 --> 00:46:28,586 Culture shapes politics. 842 00:46:28,586 --> 00:46:31,131 Culture and politics shape the nation. 843 00:46:31,131 --> 00:46:33,634 And that's the business we're in. 844 00:46:33,634 --> 00:46:36,262 Bruce Springsteen. 845 00:46:36,387 --> 00:46:37,430 [APPLAUSE] 846 00:46:37,430 --> 00:46:38,597 As if you didn't know. 847 00:46:38,723 --> 00:46:40,934 [APPLAUSE] 848 00:46:48,234 --> 00:46:50,528 {\an8}[MARTIN SCORSESE] If you look through history, the town is destroyed. 849 00:46:50,528 --> 00:46:52,531 {\an8}People leave it. 850 00:46:52,740 --> 00:46:54,617 {\an8}They'll go to another place. 851 00:46:54,617 --> 00:46:56,118 {\an8}They didn't leave. 852 00:46:56,118 --> 00:46:58,747 {\an8}Instead, put back in and resurrected, 853 00:46:58,747 --> 00:46:59,664 {\an8}really the spirit of the city. 854 00:46:59,789 --> 00:47:02,334 {\an8}[MUSIC PLAYING] 855 00:47:02,334 --> 00:47:04,837 {\an8}We had done a film, Gangs of New York at the time, 856 00:47:04,962 --> 00:47:06,839 {\an8}and the draft riots took place right here. 857 00:47:06,839 --> 00:47:10,594 {\an8}And that was one of the worst riots in American history. 858 00:47:10,594 --> 00:47:14,723 {\an8}So these cataclysms occur. 859 00:47:14,723 --> 00:47:17,769 {\an8}But it didn't stop the evolution. 860 00:47:19,729 --> 00:47:20,855 {\an8}[PETER SCARLET] Tribeca has become 861 00:47:20,855 --> 00:47:23,525 {\an8}a festival you have to be thinking about in the festival 862 00:47:23,651 --> 00:47:25,694 {\an8}world, wherever you are. 863 00:47:25,694 --> 00:47:27,656 {\an8}There's an energy downtown. 864 00:47:27,656 --> 00:47:30,659 {\an8}It's things going on in the streets. 865 00:47:30,659 --> 00:47:33,621 {\an8}[SHEILA NEVINS] It was a celebration, 866 00:47:33,621 --> 00:47:34,664 {\an8}and it really said life goes on. 867 00:47:34,789 --> 00:47:38,793 {\an8}And it really said film is important. 868 00:47:38,793 --> 00:47:41,880 {\an8}It's like Coney Island for the soul. 869 00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:44,049 {\an8}That's what the festival is. 870 00:47:44,174 --> 00:47:47,595 {\an8}And for me, it's always shiny that way. 871 00:47:47,720 --> 00:47:51,266 {\an8}[JULIAN SCHANBEL] It's super important to have these film festivals, where 872 00:47:51,266 --> 00:47:54,645 {\an8}people can actually commune, communicate, 873 00:47:54,645 --> 00:47:56,647 {\an8}and have a dialogue. 874 00:47:56,647 --> 00:47:58,983 {\an8}That's what it's about really. 875 00:47:58,983 --> 00:48:02,320 [JANE ROSENTHAL] At film festivals, you're not arguing, 876 00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:03,364 you're listening. 877 00:48:03,364 --> 00:48:06,701 And I think listening is becoming a lost skill. 878 00:48:06,826 --> 00:48:08,703 [APPLAUSE] 879 00:48:08,828 --> 00:48:11,748 The pillars that we've put in place 880 00:48:11,873 --> 00:48:15,336 in terms of artists and activism, 881 00:48:15,336 --> 00:48:19,590 hopefully that's something that can bring people together 882 00:48:19,716 --> 00:48:21,677 for another 25 years. 883 00:48:21,677 --> 00:48:25,139 [MUSIC PLAYING] 884 00:48:31,980 --> 00:48:37,403 There are so many of our new colleagues here that 885 00:48:37,528 --> 00:48:39,197 don't remember 9/11. 886 00:48:39,197 --> 00:48:45,079 Some of you weren't even born on 9/11, 2001. 887 00:48:45,204 --> 00:48:49,751 I want to invite all of you to the 9/11 Museum and Memorial. 888 00:48:49,751 --> 00:48:51,628 We'll have a tour. 889 00:48:51,754 --> 00:48:55,758 I've been a part of the museum since the beginning. 890 00:48:55,758 --> 00:48:58,386 And I'm excited about showing it to you. 891 00:48:58,386 --> 00:49:01,431 [MUSIC PLAYING] 892 00:49:01,431 --> 00:49:03,768 [MAN] Two square memorial pools, the waterfalls, right? 893 00:49:03,768 --> 00:49:05,811 That's where the towers once stood. 894 00:49:05,936 --> 00:49:08,814 [MUSIC PLAYING] 895 00:49:08,939 --> 00:49:10,776 This is foundation hall, and foundation hall 896 00:49:10,901 --> 00:49:14,946 is an archeological site. 897 00:49:14,946 --> 00:49:17,492 So that wall has a lot of importance. 898 00:49:17,617 --> 00:49:19,077 [MUSIC PLAYING] 899 00:49:19,202 --> 00:49:22,414 The slurry wall served as a symbol of resilience after 900 00:49:22,414 --> 00:49:22,915 the 9/11 attacks. 901 00:49:22,915 --> 00:49:26,502 [MUSIC PLAYING] 902 00:49:26,502 --> 00:49:29,297 [JANE ROSENTHAL] We're going through the story of 9/11, 903 00:49:29,422 --> 00:49:35,638 but just as important is also what happened on 9/12. 904 00:49:35,638 --> 00:49:37,473 People came together. 905 00:49:37,473 --> 00:49:39,810 You suddenly got to know who your neighbors were. 906 00:49:39,935 --> 00:49:42,854 That brought the festival together 907 00:49:42,854 --> 00:49:43,855 and the community together. 908 00:49:43,980 --> 00:49:47,318 [MUSIC PLAYING] 909 00:49:57,288 --> 00:49:59,541 [DE NIRO] New Yorkers and the rest of this country 910 00:49:59,666 --> 00:50:01,751 proved that it wasn't about rebuilding the steel and glass. 911 00:50:01,751 --> 00:50:05,006 [MUSIC PLAYING] 912 00:50:05,006 --> 00:50:09,511 It was about showing the world what we represent, 913 00:50:09,511 --> 00:50:13,849 that we're here for each other and that we will continue 914 00:50:13,849 --> 00:50:16,894 to go on no matter what. 915 00:50:17,019 --> 00:50:19,522 [MUSIC PLAYING] 916 00:50:29,034 --> 00:50:31,995 Patti Smith. 917 00:50:31,995 --> 00:50:33,831 {\an8}(SINGING) There were desserts 918 00:50:33,831 --> 00:50:35,791 {\an8}I saw the fountains 919 00:50:35,791 --> 00:50:37,918 {\an8}And like cream 920 00:50:38,044 --> 00:50:40,255 {\an8}The waters rise 921 00:50:40,255 --> 00:50:44,051 {\an8}And we strolled there together 922 00:50:44,051 --> 00:50:48,431 We learned to laugh or criticize 923 00:50:48,556 --> 00:50:49,974 I was dreaming 924 00:50:50,099 --> 00:50:52,102 In my dreaming 925 00:50:52,227 --> 00:50:56,065 God knows a pure view 926 00:50:56,065 --> 00:51:00,612 As I surrender into my sleeping 927 00:51:00,737 --> 00:51:02,530 I commit 928 00:51:02,530 --> 00:51:04,617 My dream to you 929 00:51:04,617 --> 00:51:06,118 (SPEAKING) Come on 930 00:51:06,243 --> 00:51:07,870 (SINGING) People have the power 931 00:51:07,870 --> 00:51:10,749 To dream 932 00:51:10,749 --> 00:51:12,793 People have the power 933 00:51:12,793 --> 00:51:14,753 To vote 934 00:51:14,878 --> 00:51:17,382 People have the power 935 00:51:17,382 --> 00:51:17,965 To match 936 00:51:18,091 --> 00:51:21,387 People have the power 937 00:51:21,512 --> 00:51:22,846 To love 938 00:51:22,846 --> 00:51:25,599 Power to dream 939 00:51:25,599 --> 00:51:27,310 To rule 940 00:51:27,435 --> 00:51:30,855 To wrestle the world from fools 941 00:51:30,855 --> 00:51:33,818 It's decreed 942 00:51:33,943 --> 00:51:34,819 The people rule 943 00:51:34,819 --> 00:51:37,571 Well, it's decreed 944 00:51:37,571 --> 00:51:39,741 The people rule 945 00:51:39,741 --> 00:51:40,617 Listen, 946 00:51:40,742 --> 00:51:43,954 I believe everything we dream 947 00:51:43,954 --> 00:51:49,085 Can come to pass through our union 948 00:51:49,085 --> 00:51:53,006 We can turn the world around 949 00:51:53,006 --> 00:51:56,885 We can turn the Earth's revolution 950 00:51:56,885 --> 00:51:59,973 We have the power 951 00:51:59,973 --> 00:52:03,853 People have the power 952 00:52:03,978 --> 00:52:05,730 Don't forget it 953 00:52:05,730 --> 00:52:08,774 Use your voice. 954 00:52:08,774 --> 00:52:11,486 [APPLAUSE, CHEERING]